If you are a DNA match to me and are related to Christoph Friedrich Kimball (Kümpel) and Anna Elizabeth Kremmer I very much want to talk to you: View his family tree on the FamilySearch Family Tree. They had the following children:

  • Ernest Kimball, b. 6 June 1836, married Emily, had sons WIllie (b. 1862), Fred (b. 1863) and Charles (b. 1865)
  • Christopher G Kimball, b. 1837, married Margaret Goetz and had George (b. 1865), Elia Elizabeth (b. 30 April 1870), Edward A (b. 23 May 1873), Lewis E (b. May 1878), Katherine K (b. 28 December 1879), Mabel E (b. September 1882) and Fern M (b. 19 November 1887)
  • Charles Kimball, b. 1838, married Jane Dizard, had Frank C (b. AUgust 1868) and Lulu May (b. 22 JAnuary 1878)
  • Infant Kimball, b. 1840, d. ????
  • Fredrick Kimball, b. 1842, married Laura, had Augusta (b. 1876), Fred (b. 1878) and Emily (b. April 1880)
  • Augusta Kimball, b. 1845, married Joseph F. Cloucheek, had Henry W (B. 1877)
  • Anna Irene Kimball, b. 10 December 1846, married Fred C. Voss, had Louise (b 1868), Ernest (b. 1870) and Frank (b. 1874)

I believe that this family left Wernshausen, German in 1847 with a large group of families (see ‘View The List of Emigrants’ on my Kümpell (Kimball) page ). According to the obituary for Christopher F Kimball (Michigan City News, 3 May 1893):

“Christian F. Kimball was born on January 6, 1811 at Wernshausen, Sax., Meiningen, Germany, and was consequently 82 years of age last January. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Kimbal. On January 26th, 1835, Mr. Kimball was married to Miss Annie Elizabeth Kremmer, who at the age of 73 years, survives him. To this union were born seven children, all but one of which are still living. In 1847, Mr. Kimball brought his family to America, locating at Kenosha, Wis., on June 6th of that year. He engaged in farming near Kenosha for a couple of years, coming to Michigan City in September, 1849.”

I am trying to prove a connection between them and my great grandfather David Kimball (b. 1801) – who does NOT appear to be the ‘David Kimbal mentioned in the obituary above – who settled with his family in Walworth County in Southern Wisconsin in 1847.