David Kimzey was the son of Benjamin Kimzey I. He married an Elizabeth about 1782 Virginia. They had 17 children. I believe her last name was Boyd.
Several died in the White County 1817 1818 Flu epedemic. His wife also died at this time. In 1828 His son James is the guardian of Matilda his youngest daughter and signs for her marriage. so He marries in 1822 and dies before 1828. They were in Henry Co Va (Patrick now) from 1782 to abt 1790. 1790 in Abbeville SC. David had traveled for the Baptist Association to start a new church north of Abbeyville, SC.
David was too young to be in the revolution.
Later, in Livingston Co Ky the Prebyterian church was started in his home in 1812. His son James Campbell was born in South Carolina in 1790. They spent time in North Carolina and South Carolina until about 1799 when they went to Jackson Co, Ga. In 1799 David goes into court to handle his brother James estate in Jackson Co, Ga. Between 1800 and 1810 their was a piece of land that South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina all claimed. It ended in a one day war and we find that David is part of this war. It was called the Walton County War.
I cannot find David in 1810 and believe he is in Tennessee with some of his brother James' children. About 1812 we find them on the Livingston Co, Ky tax list with lots of horses and wagons which suggests he has just arrived and had the wagons and horses for traveling. Then he buys land in 1815, and moves across the Ohio River to Gallitan Co, IL, White Co and Hamilton Co. (The county lines changed here almost every year)His son, Elijah, marries in Gallatin Co to Nancy Proctor in 1816. His wife is living in the 1818 state Illinois census but is not in the 1820 US Census. There was a hugh epidemic in 1819 in White Co and It looks like he lost several children and his wife. He remarries in 1822 and dies before 1830 in Hamilton Co. The court record for his marriage reads "David Kimsey marries Mrs Nancy Kimsey the 20th day of September 1822." After his death a lot of his children move to Peoria County, Illinois. They are in Hamilton County, Illinois for the 1830 Census.
While in Southern Illinois,they only have to take a ferry across the Ohio river to visit some of his children that stayed in Livingston Co. His son David stays in Livingston Co, Ky and his son James Campbell goes from Livingston Co, Ky(now Crittenden) to Perry Co, Ill in 1830 with some of his wife's relatives.
They had 17 children, several of these did not reach maturity, Eliabeth, Thomas, Eleanor, Francis, Benjamin. They had 6 females and the 6 males who lived and had children.
In the Peoria County History book Robert B Kimzey says he was the third Child of David and Elizabeth Kimzey. He also gives the date of his birth as 1787. His tome stone says 1780. The different census records correspond more likely with the 1787 date.Just about all this generation of Davids Children could not read and write.
1796 bought land from William Wilson in Buncombe Co. NC
1796, 1798 and 1798 David Kimsey Juror
1804-1806 tax lists of Jackson Ga
David if born in 1762, would have been only 14 and 15 when the Older Kimsey’s took the oath of allegiance in 1776 and 1777, we did not find one for him.
Last child born in January 1807 which makes them. 45 . A little old to have children. They may be younger than we thought and maybe married later than 1780