Brief Life History of Augustus
When Augustus Kimball was born on 2 July 1804, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, his father, George Washington Kimball, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Keech, was 20. He married Hannah Vance on 23 April 1827. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. He died on 22 September 1863, in Glover, Orleans, Vermont, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Westlook Cemetery, Glover, Orleans, Vermont, United States.
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- Augustus Kimball, "United States Census, 1850"
- Augustus Kimball, "Find A Grave Index"
- Augustus Kimball, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1815
Oldest grave seen in the Memorials list.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Great and Little Kimble (Buckinghamshire). The placename probably derives from Old English cyne ‘royal’ + belle ‘(bell-shaped) hill’.
variant of Kimble .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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