Introduction
According to the one-page Chapter IV of the 1949 book "The Genealogy of Michael Korns, Sr. of Somerset County Pennsylvania", Michael Korns, Sr's daughter Catherine was born in 1783 and married Jacob Kemerer/Knieriem and had the following children:
- Betsy, who married Jacob Uhl.
- John, born in 1805, married Amy Martin. (Another account indicates John's wife's name was Naomy Martin.)
- Rebecca, who married S. Davinport.
- Rachel, who married J. Kiefer.
- Susanna, born 1808, married D. Foltz.
- Michael, who married Nancy Davenport.
- Jacob, who married Stanza McCullough.
- Charles, who married Christine Biddle.
- Eliza, who married _______ Collins.
- Maria, who married David Gorsuch.
- Julia, who married W. Keller.
- Joseph, born 1824, married J. Silcott.
- Katherine, who married E. Jones.
A Kimerer genealogy book
There is reportedly a book written on this family that is titled "Genealogy and lineage of the Jacob Kimerer descendants: Kimerer, also known as Kemerer, Kammerer, Kemmerer, Kimerer, Cimerer, and others" by Glenn D. and Edith Terese Spiva Kimerer.
Publications reporting on the birth and baptism of Catherine Korn
According to the 1998 genealogy book "Pennsylvania Births Berks County 1781-1800" by John T. Humphrey, records from the Zion Lutheran Church (AKA Bethel Church) in Greenwich Township show a May 30, 1784 date for "Catarina Lisabetha Korn", born to Michael and Susanna.
Volume 4 of the book "Berks County Pennsylvania Births 1705-1800" by HP Publishing lists a May 30, 1784 date for "Catharina Lisabetha" at the New Bethel (Zion) Lutheran Church in Grimville, born to Michael and Susanna Korn.
According to page 265 of the family history book "A Clowes-Swanson Genealogy" by Lois Clowes Witherspoon, M.A., the March 30, 1784 Baptism record of Catherine Elizabeth Korn, daughter of Michael and Susanna Korn, with Sponsors Nicholas Kutz and Anna Lisa Bauscher, is on file at the New Bethel (AKA Corner or Rosenthal or Stone) Church, Albany Township, Berks County, PA. This March 30, 1784 baptism date is incompatible with the May 30, 1784 birth date reported in the two publications listed above, and I suspect one date or the other may be a misreading of a cursive document. Mrs. Witherspoon wrote that she suspects that the Sponsor Anna Lisa Bauscher may be a daughter of the Daniel Bauscher who is suspected of being the father of Susanna, Mrs. Michael Korn, Sr.
The following excerpt from the Washington Township, Porter County, Indiana biographical sketches portion of the 1882 book "Counties of Porter and Lake Indiana" includes the statement, "JOSEPH KIMERER was born in Wayne County, Ohio, August 2, 1824; he is one of sixteen children born to Jacob and Catherine (Korn) Kimerer, only six of whom survive; his parents were born, reared and married in Cumberland County, Penn., removing to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1814, and being among the pioneers of that county, where his father died in 1837; his mother removed to Holmes County, where she resided until her death in 1859."
I do not believe that Catherine (Korn) Kimerer was born and reared in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania because her father Michael Korn was last assessed in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1786, appears in a survey near Cumberland, Maryland in 1787, and ultimately ended up living and dying nearby in what is now Southampton Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Jacob Kimerer in early land records of Wayne County, Ohio
First entries of grants
In the "Land Entries in Clinton Township" portion of Chapter I, page 20 lists a September 14, 1815 land entry for Jacob Kimmerer regarding the 160-acre northwest quarter of Section 24 of Township 18 Range 14.
Page 21 of Chapter I lists an October 10, 1829 land entry for Jacob Kimmerer regarding the 160-acre southwest corner of Section 13 of Township 18 Range 24.
Page 22 of Chapter I lists a September 14, 1815 land entry for Jacob Kimmerer regarding the 160-acre northwest corner of Section 24 of Township 18 Range 24.
Page 22 also lists an April 15, 1822 land entry for John and Jacob Kimmerer regarding the 160-acre northeast corner of Section 24 of Township 18 Range 24.
A map of Township 18 Range 14 on page 23 of Chapter I identifies Jacob Kimmerer on the southwest corner of Section 13, identifies Jacob Kimmerer on the northwest quarter of Section 24, and identifies John and Jacob Kimmerer on the northeast quarter of section 24.
Early Wayne County tax lists
In the "Early Tax Lists – Wayne County Area Still in Wayne County 1814-1819" portion of Chapter IV, page 100 lists Jacob Kimmerer as being taxed on the 160-acre southwest quarter of Section 13, Township 18 Range 14 from 1816 to 1820.
In the "Wayne County Tax List in Area Remaining in Wayne County - 1820" portion of Chapter IV, page 114 lists Jacob Kimmerer as being taxed on the 160-acre southwest quarter of Section 13, Township 18 Range 14.
Jacob Kimerer census records
Estate of Jacob Kimerer
The center of section thirteen, township eighteen, range fourteen is in the general vicinity of 40.70504537223824, -82.0432455334348 on or near Wells Road, between S. Elyria Road and Critchfield Road, about 1.9 air-miles generally northwest from the center of Shreve. The center of Shreve is about one mile north of the Holmes County line, and about one mile north of Ripley Township of Holmes County.
A guardian’s sale notice in the August 3, 1848 issue of the "Wooster Democrat" newspaper includes the following text:
"GUARDIAN'S SALE.
Catherine (Korns) Kimerer in the 1850 census
Catherine (Korns) Kimerer does not appear in the listing of the Joseph Kimerer household in the 1860 census.
A written account by Mary Louise Kimerer
Burial of Catherine (Korns) Kimerer?
Misc.
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The following information is based on Richard G. Smith's 1988 book "Early Land Records of Wayne County, Ohio".
Chapter I (pages 1 to 71) of Smith’s book is titled, "First Entries of Grants Made in United States Land Offices for Present Wayne Co."
Chapter IV (pages 99-124) of Smith’s book is titled, "Wayne County Tax Lists 1814-1820".
The following "Petition for Partition", which was provided by Virginia Bean, is from the January 30, 1839 issue of the "Wooster Journal and Democratic Times". The petition was filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County, Ohio on January 16, 1839, which means that Jacob Kimerer, Sr. died before January 16, 1839. At the time of the petition, three of the children of Jacob and Catherine (Korns) Kimerer were still minors: Julia, Joseph, and Catherine.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on the 19th day of August next, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M., I shall expose to sale at public vendue, and on the premises, the real estate hereinafter mentioned, situate in the county of Wayne and State of Ohio, to wit: four undivided fifths of one undivided twelfth part of the following parcels of land, first, of the south-west quarter of section thirteen, township eighteen, range fourteen, (excepting 45 acres sold to one Jacob Kimerer from the east part of said quarter section, and including the water privilege belonging to the Mill owned by Thos. McConkey; second, of the north-west quarter of section twenty-four in the same township, (excepting 35 acres sold to said McConkey from the west part of said quarter section;) third, four undivided fifths of one undivided twelfth of an undivided fourth part of the south-east quarter of section fourteen in the township aforesaid; said several parcels of land and subject to the estate and claim of dower therein of Catharine Kimerer, widow of Jacob Kimerer Sen., deceased, and being owned by Michael, John, Eli and Eve Keiffer minor children of Jacob Keiffer. Terms of sale, one third of purchase price payable at the sale, one third in one year, and the residue in two years from the sale, with interest thereon from the approval of said sale.
JACOB KEIFFER, Guardian of
Michael, John, Eli and Eve Keiffer.
HEMPHILL & TURNER, his Att'ys.
Wooster, July 14th, 1848. – n1w4."
Click here to see 66-year-old Catherine (Korns) Kimerer listed in the household of her son Joseph Kimerer in an 1850 Holmes County, Ohio census record.
The following information about Jacob and Catherine (Korns) Kimerer was written by their great-grandaughter Mary Louise (Kimmer) Rudy. It is appended to an genealogy record titled "Life History of Record of John Kimerer and Margaret Esther Wheaton" provided by Virginia Bean that pertains to John Kimerer II, grandson of Jacob and Catherine (Korns) Kimerer.
A tombstone that includes the words, "CATHERINE WIFE OF JACOB KIMERER" is located in the Ripley Cemetery, which is in Ripley Township, Holmes County, Ohio, about three air miles southwest of the center of Shreve. I couldn't read the dates on the tombstone. An internet-based memorial indicates that the individual was born in 1780 and died on November 15, 1859. This may be the burial of Catherine (Korns) Kimerer.
