Alfred Kimsey Conn was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth "Betsy" Ingram Conn. He was born in the Conn's Creek area of Cherokee County which is near Ball Ground. There is still a Conn's Creek Baptist Church there. He had twelve other brothers and sisters.

On March 25, 1867, "Kimsey" Conn married Harriett Elvira Wood, daughter of William and Asenith Hymer Wood, in Dawson County, Georgia. They had six children: Alice Lee "Alee", Lula V."Luler" or "Lunie", Ida Jane "Jennie", Samuel Hardy "Doc", Elizabeth Estelle "Lizzie", and William Lamar "Will" Conn.

Kimsey Conn was a daylaborer and he worked in sawmills. He would leave his family for long periods of time. Basically, he would "run off" and then reappear again. He seemed to have "itchy feet" and a wanderlust; a real love for travel and adventure.

On March 31, 1909, in Calhoun, Gordon County, GA, Kimsey married Eva Lou Hollingsworth, daughter of John Hollingsworth of Gordon County, GA. They had one child named Alma Bell who later married a Rev. William Woody in Walker County, GA.

Around 1911, A.K. Conn worked as a security officer in a prison in Alabama. One account was that he took sick and died and another was that he "ran off" again.

After Kimsey's death or disappearance, Eva married John L. Mann in 1914 and lived in Walker County, GA.

We are not sure but family oral tradition is that he is buried in this cemetery but does not have a marker. In the family, he was known as Kimsey Conn.

These family photographs prove A.K. Conn did come around and visit his children from time to time. (His daughter, Jennie was very kind hearted and sweet.) I suspect the photo with the hat was taken around the death of Mrs. H.E. Wood Conn.

Because of his love of traveling, Alfred Kimsey Conn should have been in the military but he was too young to be in the Civil War and too old to be in the Spanish American War. His grandson, Clarence Turner had this same love of traveling and became a merchant marine and traveled all over the world. It was in Clarence's personal papers that I found the photograph (of the older Kimsey Conn with the beard) of his grandfather. (At least Alfred Kimsey Conn's photo got to travel all over the world.)

We think A.K. Conn died in Alabama around the Birmingham area. If anyone out there comes upon a tombstone or newspaper article with his name or info about him in Alabama or anywhere else, please let me know. I would really like to know where he is officially buried and to officially find out what happened to him.