Biographical Sketch of David Kinkade

SOURCE: Ben Dixon's OUR BOOK: pp 216-217

David Kinkade, son of Andrew Kinkade and Ann Tingley, was born at Marietta, Ohio, March 16, 1830. [Another source listed his birth as March 30.]  He died July 30, 1890 at South Hutchinson, Kansas, and is buried at Hutchinson, Kansas. 

He married lst: Mary Cronin  in 1850. She died in 1860, and he married Maria Ricky in 1865 in Peaksville, Clark Co., MO. David Kinkade was a Veteran of the Civil War, serving for three years and six months with the Missouri Volunteer Calvary, Company E., 7th Missouri Calvary. He was captured by the enemy and served about six months in Andersonville Prison, when his diet was rice, and his drinking water had to be collected from horsetracks. He received a wound in the jaw in the Battle of Gettysburg.

The author remembers hearing of one escapade in which Uncle Dave participated in the Civil War. His troop was skirmishing through Southern Missouri. He and two other cavalrymen discovered a camp of sleeping rebels. Their arms were stacked, and their sentry was sleepy too. They surprised him, captured, bound and gagged him without permitting an outcry. Then the three of them crept into camp. Uncle Dave stood over the stacked arms, horse pistols trained on the sleeping rebels, while the other two awoke the camp, secured the scattering weapons they found, and duly made the southerners their prisoners.

Records from notes by: Mrs. L. A. Sorenson, Miss Grace Claybaugh, Mrs. Nettie Clark, and Mrs. R.M. Dixon.

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