Biographical Sketch of Charles Andrew Kinkade

Sketch quoted from OUR BOOK: OUR ANCESTORS, OURSELVES, AND OUR CHILDREN by Ben F. Dixon, 1932: pages 214-215.

Charles Andrew Kinkade, son of Ebenezer Kinkade and Sarah Spillman,

was born near Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana, Feb. 22, 1852. He was named for his two grandfathers, Charles Spillman and Andrew Kinkade.

He married at Alexandria, MO, November 24, 1872, Cordelia Delano Atwood, daughter of Alonzo Perry Atwood and Elisabeth Coleman; Rev. E. Carlyle, Methodist Minister officiating. She was born near Picatonic, ILL., Nov. 11, 1851.

Charles Andrew Kinkade has been a wanderer on the face of the earth. At the age of 3 he started, when his father and mother removed from Shelby County, Indiana to Stark County, Ill. At 16 or 17 he followed the family to Iowa, for a winter's work on the Mississippi River Canal near Keokuk. Thence to Clark County, Mo. In 1872 he went back to Illinois, in 1874 to Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1877 to Missouri once more. In 1890 he removed his family of a wife and

five, to Illinois, and a few years later to Keokuk, Iowa, once more. He was working in Texas in 1900, and was at Galveston during the great tidal wave that wrecked the town. In 1901 he settled in Ford County, Kansas, where he resided until 1915. Thence to Idaho; on to Washington in 1916, and back to Illinois for the last trip in 1928 . . . address, present: Bentley, ILL.

The Stark County Kinkades have been a clan of stone cutters--Alva

Stickle who married Katherine Kinkade, daughter of Secrest Kinkade and Elisabeth Spillman, was a stonecutter. Pearly Nicholas Dixon who married Rachel Kinkade was a stonecutter. Ebenezer Stansberry Kinkade himself a cutter and hewer of stone when he wasn't farming or selling Oxien Remedies was the father of four stone cutters: Charles Andrew, the Doyan of the clan, Benjamin Franklin,

another wandering stonecutter, Edgar Lane (d 1930), and Ebenezer Stansberry Jr. who left the stonecutter's trade for the railway mail service.

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