Biographical Sketch of Ebenezer Stansberry Kinkade

Ben Dixon's book, Our Book:  Our Ancestors, Ourselves, and Our Children, p. 18, says:

Ebenezer Stansberry Kinkade, Sr., the oldest child of Andrew Kinkade and Ann Tingley, was born near Woodfield [sic], O., July 27, 1827. He was the first to bear two given names entirely foreign to Kinkade nomenclature. His mother, Ann Tingley, bestowed upon him the name of Ebenezer, long-honored by the Tingleys. The founder of the New Jersey branch of the family was the first Ebenezer Tingley, and every generation since him has had from one to a dozen Ebenezers. When Ann Tingley cast her lot with Andrew Kinkade in the depths of the Ohio wilderness, she bestowed Tingley names upon three of her sons, and Ebenezer was the first of these. The name, we are told, means "A Stone of Succour," which, coupled with the traditional meaning of the name Kincaid, "Head of the Rock" certainly gave young Ebenezer a substantial name to start with.

His middle name, Stansberry, came from the Kinkade side of the house. Robert Kinkade, a much admired cousin of Andrew's belonging to the Virginia branch of the family married a beautiful and popular girl names Sarah Stansberry, in March before Ebenezer was born. Andrew named his first-born son Stansberry in honor of this popular member of the family. Since E.S.K., Sr., first saw the light of day, there have been many Ebenezers and Standberries [sic] among the Kinkades. In 1850, E.S. Kinkade removed to Shelby County, Ind., where he met Sarah Eleanor Spillman, the oldest daughter of Charles Frank Spillman and Catherine McCause. She was born in Indiana, Nov. 18, 1830. She died at Peakesville, Clark County, Mo., April 17, 1875. She was interred in the village cemetery at Peakesville, side-by-side with Mary Cronin, the first wife of David Kinkade, brother of Ebenezer.

E.S. Kinkade and family removed from Shelby County, Ind., to Stark County, Ill., where he farmed along the Spoon River and was near neighbor to Elisha Dixon's family. He occupied the Spoon River farm near Toulon in 1855.

In 1869 he removed to Sanduskey, Iowa, where his son James was born in 1870. After which event he moved on into Sweet Home Township, Clark County, Mo., on the Des Moines River. Here on a farm near Peakesville he resided until after the death of his wife Sarah. The following year, 1876, he removed to Waterloo, the County Seat of Clark County, where he resided until his death, April 26, 1905.

In 1876 he married Roxana Green-Lewis. She was born in 1828, and died in Warsaw, Ill., in 1910. E.S. Kinkade, Sr. and Roxana Kinkade are interred side by side in the old tumble down cemetery at Waterloo.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Three children of Ebenezer Stansberry and Sarah Kinkade who died in infancy are interred in the old Mowbey Cemetery three miles east of Toulon, Stark County, Ill. Prior to his death, P.N. Dixon made a tombstone for their grave, in our yard at Kahoka, Mo. The stone has never been erected. Last Thanksgiving time my boy, John M. Dixon and I recovered it from the mud of our chicken yard and set it on the walk outside our west door at our Kahoka home. It may be obtained there by any member of the family who will undertake to transport it to Toulon and establish it upon the site for which it was intended.

Mrs. Anna Mowbey Caverly, of Toulon, Ill., knows the correct location of every grave in the old Mowbey Cemetery, and will gladly point out the graves of the three Kinkade children to anyone who will undertake to set up the stone.

Provided by Betty Latta Kitchen -- e-mail: Betty Kitchen

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