Biographical Sketch of Secrist Kinkade

Ben F. Dixon's book 1932, Our Book:  Our Ancestors, Ourselves, and Our Children , Pages 223-224, says:

Secrist Kinkade, son of David Kinkade (P. 9) and Rebecca Osborn, was born Oct. 28, 1828, at Marietta, Ohio. He died July 12, 1913, at Rose Hill, Iowa, and was buried in the Wymore Cemetery at Rose Hill. He married Dec. 24, 1853, in Shelby Co., Ind., Elisabeth Spillman, daughter of Charles Frank Spillman (P. 16) and Catherine McCense. . . He removed to Toulon, Stark County, Ill. where all of his children were born. He lived there 40 years and removed in the spring of 1894, to Rose Hill, Iowa, where he resided the remainder of his life.

Page 3---In 1908, Secrist Kinkade, the youngest son of David and

Rebecca, wrote his grand-nephew, E.S. Kinkade, Jr., saying that David

Kinkade's wife was Rebecca Osborn. Since Uncle Seek's mother lived

until about 1842, fourteen years after the birth of the youngest child,

the clear statement of Secrist that his mother's maiden name was Osborn

would seem to be sufficient to resolve any further doubt along this line.

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