Pioneer woman, Augusta Kimpton, with seven small children traveled from Hopkinton, NY by train, boat on Lake Erie and covered wagon to Page County in the fall of 1876. Husband, Cornelius, and son, Charles, had built a house, planted crops and awaited their arrival. A watermelon saved for a treat made the entire family ill. Augusta and son, Fred, died.
Reported in the Iowa State Reporter, Dec. 27, 1876.
Pioneer woman, Augusta Kimpton, with seven small children traveled from Hopkinton, NY by train, boat on Lake Erie and covered wagon to Page County in the fall of 1876. Husband, Cornelius, and son, Charles, had built a house, planted crops and awaited their arrival. A watermelon saved for a treat made the entire family ill. Augusta and son, Fred, died.
Reported in the Iowa State Reporter, Dec. 27, 1876.
Inscription
OUR MOTHER
BORN
Sept. 29, 1835
DIED
NOV. 18, 1876
Gravesite Details
On Cornelius' left, right side, of Kimpton Memorial. Could not photpgraph.
Family Members
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Francis Marion "Frankie" Kimpton
1856–1858
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Charles Burton Kimpton
1857–1933
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Fred Kimpton
1861–1876
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William Alfred Kimpton
1863–1864
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Alzada F. "Allie" Kimpton Hummel
1864–1930
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Jennie May Kimpton French
1867–1941
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Edna Augusta Kimpton Gorsuch
1868–1943
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Lucia K. Kimpton Marsell
1870–1946
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Nellie Herriot Kimpton White
1874–1925
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Hettie Idel Kimpton
1876–1877
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Henry Burton French
1887–1947
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