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William Henry Kinyon

Birth: 8 Oct 1819
Rome, Oneida County, New York, USA
Death: 29 Dec 1917 (aged 98)
Iowa County, Iowa, USA
Burial: Highland Township Cemetery

Churdan, Greene County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 59556118 View Source

William was born in upstate Oneida County, New York. He moved from New York stopping in Michigan on his way to northeastern Illinois as verified by his grandson W.H. Birdsell's narrative "Trails Lead West." William settled in Chemung (McHenry County) Illinois. He married Irena Russell in Chicago in 1843, a fact later verified by William in a 1915 letter he wrote to the Bureau of Pensions. Original records of that marriage were lost in the 1871 Chicago Fire.

Civil War Veteran. Enlisted in Company D, Iowa 6th Cavalry Regiment on 09 Dec 1862. Mustered out on 17 Oct 1865 at Sioux City, IA. Sources: Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion; Tombstone Records of Greene County, Iowa

William was born in upstate Oneida County, New York. He moved from New York stopping in Michigan on his way to northeastern Illinois as verified by his grandson W.H. Birdsell's narrative "Trails Lead West." William settled in Chemung (McHenry County) Illinois. He married Irena Russell in Chicago in 1843, a fact later verified by William in a 1915 letter he wrote to the Bureau of Pensions. Original records of that marriage were lost in the 1871 Chicago Fire.

Civil War Veteran. Enlisted in Company D, Iowa 6th Cavalry Regiment on 09 Dec 1862. Mustered out on 17 Oct 1865 at Sioux City, IA. Sources: Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion; Tombstone Records of Greene County, Iowa

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Israel Kinyon

1788–1848

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Irena Ambrosia Russell Kinyon

1827–1886 (m. 1843)

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Maintained by: Kenneth Dean Tyler II
Originally Created by: Marilyn A Kenyon, MS PsyD
Added: Oct 3, 2010
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