JOHN W.KINSER WAS BORN IN 1793 IN WYTHE CO., VIRGINIA TO JOHANN JACOB AND ESTHER WAMPLER KINSER. LAND RECORDS CONFIRM THAT AT THE TIME OF JOHN'S BIRTH, THE FAMILY LIVED ON OR NEAR REED CREEK, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF WYTHE CO. BY 1807, JACOB, ESTHER AND THEIR MANY CHILDREN HAD MIGRATED TO GREENE CO., TENNESSEE, JOINING OTHER GERMAN SETTLERS IN THE AREA. ACCORDING TO SOME HISTORIANS, THESE GERMAN IMMIGRANTS WERE RELIGIOUS, INDUSTRIOUS AND LAND OWNERS WHO PREFERRED TO BE SELF-CONTAINED WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY NEAR LICK CREEK.
IN 1810 JOHN MARRIED SUSANNA MESSIMER, ALSO OF GERMAN ANCESTRY. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MICHAEL AND MARY ANNA SERGEANT MESSIMER, WHO HAD ARRIVED IN GREENE CO., A FEW YEARS BEFORE THE KINSERS. JOHN AND SUSANNA EVENTUALLY OWNED APPROXIMATELY 100 ACRES OF FARMLAND BORDERING LICK CREEK AND IT WAS HERE THEIR FIRST NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN.
FOLLOWING THE MIGRATORY PATH OF OTHER KINSERS, JOHN AND HIS FAMILY TRAVELED SOUTH FROM CO.TO MONROE CO., TENNESSEE, BUYING A FARM FROM JOHN HOWARTON IN 1829. IT WAS LOCATED ON A CREEK WHICH BECAME KNOWN AS KINSER BRANCH. JOHN NOT ONLY FARMED, HE WAS A MILLER AS WELL. A LOG HOUSE WAS BUILT FOR THE YOUNG KINSER FAMILY, BUT WAS LATER REPLACED BY A LARGE, TWO-STORY PLANK STRUCTURE. THIS HOUSE WAS STILL STANDING, THOUGH UNOCCUPIED, AS LATE AS 1976.IT IS IN MONROE CO. THAT THE FINAL THREE OF THEIR CHILDREN WERE BORN.
THE KINSERS WERE DEVOUT LUTHERANS AND IT WAS JOHN WHO DONATED THE LAND FOR SAINT MARY'S CHURCH, LOCATED NEAR HIS FARM HOME.JOHN ALSO PROVIDED FOR THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH. FOR MANY YEARS A GERMAN SPEAKING MINISTER WAS REQUIRED FOR THE PARISH, AS MOST OF THE CONGREGATION DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH. SUPPOSEDLY SUSANNA NEVER LEARNED THE LOCAL LANGUAGE AND FOR MOST OF HER LIFE SUBSCRIBED TO A
GERMAN LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER.
TODAY, SAINT MARY'S IS A METHODIST CHURCH, LOCATED NOT FAR FROM THE ORIGINAL BUILDING THAT HOUSED THE LUTHERAN PARISH. THE CEMETERY BESIDE SAINT MARY'S IS THE FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR MANY KINSERS, INCLUDING JOHN AND SUSANNA.

ABSTRACT OF JOHN'S WILL.
Monroe Co., TENNESSEE Wills 1824-1945 Gen 976.8 M129
Book C page 7. Far advanced in life-------Specifies 1/3 of land and personal property goes to Susannah, his wife, and all other land to Francis Marion his son. Children not named given other considerations. wife, Susannah,Sons, John and F. M. were execu.. Will executed on May 10, 1866 and probated in August 1873. John died in July, 1873.

FOR MANY YEARS THE KINSER RESEARCH COMMUNITY HAS NOTED A LACK OF ANY PROOF OF THE PARENTAGE OF JOHN W. KINSER OF MONROE CO., TENNESSEE. THERE HAS BEEN A BODY OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT JOHANN JACOB KINSER 1756-1816 WAS HIS FATHER, BUT CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE LACKED THAT CRITICAL CERTAINTY. IN 2007 A GROUP OF KINSER RESEARCHERS CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS, MARILYN KINSER KINNE, DORIS KINSER FOUNTAIN, ROBERT C. KINSER, RON HUMPHREY AND GAYSAMPLE GREENE. DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THE USE OF A TECHNOLOGY KNOWN AS Y CHROMOSOME DNA ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE IF THERE WAS A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOHN W. KINSER AND JOHANN JACOB KINSER. THE PRINCIPLE OF THIS TECHNOLOGY IS BASED UPON THE FACT THAT GENETIC LOCI CONTAINED IN THE MALE SEX CHROMOSOME. KNOWN AS THE Y CHROMOSOME IS PASSED FROM FATHER TO SON OVER MANY GENERATIONS. THE RATIONALE IS TO FIND A LIVING, KNOWN MALE DESCENDANT FROM JOHANN AND JOHN W. AND COMPARE THEIR Y CHROMOSOME DNA LOCI. THE RESEARCH TEAM FOUND THESE INDIVIDUALS AND THEY VOLUNTEERED THEIR BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES. THE FOLLOWING IS THE CHAIN OF DESCENT FOR JOHANN JACOB 1756-1816 TO GEORGE WASHINGTON KINSER 1791-1871 TO CAPTAIN JAMES H. KINSER 1829-1892 TO THOMAS KENDRICK KINSER 1868- 1929 TO CHARLES PORTER KINSER 1897- 1973 TO RUSSELL BYRD KINSER 1920- 1992 TO LIVING KINSER. NEXT IS THE CHAIN OF DESCENT FOR JOHN W. KINSER IS JOHANN JACOB 1756- 1812 TO JOHN W. KINSER 1793- 1873 TO HENRY F. KINSER 1815-1888 TO HENRY RISE KINSER 1848-1909 TO HENRY CARROL KINSER 1872-1945 TO IRVIN FRENCH, SR. KINSER 1906-1979 TO IRVIN FRENCH JUNIOR KINSER ABT 1925 TO LIVING KINSER abt. 1950 IN THE FIRST CASE THERE ARE 6 GENERATIONS . IN THE SECOND CASE THERE ARE 7 GENERATIONS.REPRESENTED. A TWELVE MARKER DNA ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED ON EACH OF THE LIVING KINSERS. THE REPORT FROM THE LABORATORY SHOWED THAT A PERFECT MATCH WAS FOUND BETWEEN THE TWO SUBJECTS. FROM A PROBABILITY ANALYSIS IT MEANS THAT THE TWO SUBJECTS ARE WITHIN A 95% PROBABILITY OF SHARING A COMMON ANCESTOR NO FURTHER BACK THAN 29 GENERATIONS. THUS THE 2 SUBJECTS HAVE A 99.9% LIKELIHOOD OF SHARING A COMMON ANCESTOR IN THE PERSON OF JOHANN JACOB. TAKING 25 TO 30 YEARS PER GENERATION IT WOULD MEAN THAT THIS COMMON ANCESTOR WOULD BE BORN BETWEEN 1833 AND 1798. JOHANN WAS BORN IN 1756. THIS DATE FALLS WELL WITHIN THE CALCULATED DATE OF BIRTH RANGES . OUR CONCLUSION HAS BEEN THAT JOHANN JACOB KINSER IS THE FATHER OF JOHN W. KINSER.


RESOURSES:A HISTORY OF MONROE CO., VOL III, BY SARAH SANDS(COPYRIGHT, 1976).
CONTRIBUTING GENEALOGY BUFFS, DORIS KINSER FOUNTAIN, ROBERT KINSER, MARILYN KINSER KINNE,RON HUMPHREY AND GAY GREENE.