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Martin Van Buren McKim

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Martin Van Buren McKim

Birth
Kimbolton, Guernsey County, Ohio, USA
Death
13 Mar 1915 (aged 74)
Kimbolton, Guernsey County, Ohio, USA
Burial
North Salem, Guernsey County, Ohio, USA
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Obituary -- Following a long illness from cancer M. V. McKim died at 8 o'clock Saturday evening at his home in Kimbolton. Mr. McKim was in his seventy-fifth year and had spent his entire life in Kimbolton and vicinity. He was will known to Guernsey county veterans of the Civil war, having been a frequent attendant at the various reunions in this vicinity.
During his earlier life Mr. McKim was a stone mason. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and took part in a number of battles for the preservation of the Union. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Eposcopal church at Kimbolton to which he had belonged for 50 years. The deceased was a constant reader of the Guernsey Times and for a number of years acted as a corres pondent for this paper in his home community.
Mr. McKim was married in 1864 to Miss Hannah Carnes, whose death occurred in 1884. Later he was again married to Mrs. Eleanor Snyder, who survives. He is survived also by eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, as follows; E. E. McKim, of Kimbolton; W. C., S. A., T. A., and J. A. McKim, all of Cambridge; Joseph McKim, of Derwent; Charles McKim, of Missouri; Walter McKim, of Kansas; Mrs. Emma H. Erickson and Mrs. Rachel Olmstead, residing in Iowa, and Mrs. Lizzie Boyd, of this city.
Funeral services over the remains will be held at Kimbolton at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. His death will be felt deeply by the few remaining veterans of that vicinity and by other friends.
The Guernsey Times, Wed., March 15, 1915

Obituary -- Following a long illness from cancer M. V. McKim died at 8 o'clock Saturday evening at his home in Kimbolton. Mr. McKim was in his seventy-fifth year and had spent his entire life in Kimbolton and vicinity. He was will known to Guernsey county veterans of the Civil war, having been a frequent attendant at the various reunions in this vicinity.
During his earlier life Mr. McKim was a stone mason. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and took part in a number of battles for the preservation of the Union. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Eposcopal church at Kimbolton to which he had belonged for 50 years. The deceased was a constant reader of the Guernsey Times and for a number of years acted as a corres pondent for this paper in his home community.
Mr. McKim was married in 1864 to Miss Hannah Carnes, whose death occurred in 1884. Later he was again married to Mrs. Eleanor Snyder, who survives. He is survived also by eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, as follows; E. E. McKim, of Kimbolton; W. C., S. A., T. A., and J. A. McKim, all of Cambridge; Joseph McKim, of Derwent; Charles McKim, of Missouri; Walter McKim, of Kansas; Mrs. Emma H. Erickson and Mrs. Rachel Olmstead, residing in Iowa, and Mrs. Lizzie Boyd, of this city.
Funeral services over the remains will be held at Kimbolton at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. His death will be felt deeply by the few remaining veterans of that vicinity and by other friends.
The Guernsey Times, Wed., March 15, 1915

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