B. KINION

KINION, CROCKER, ADAMSON

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/25/2009 at 12:33:35

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

B. KINION, far., S. 22; P.O. Centerville; born March 22, 1832, in Lincoln Co., Mo.; in 1853, he came to Lee Co., Iowa; in 1866, removed to Texas; in 1867, to Appanoose Co.; he rents 555 acres of land; is Township Treasurer. Enlisted in 1863 in Co. E., 19th Iowa Inf.; served to the end of the war; was at the taking of Spanish Fort, Mobile, and other engagements. Married Mrs. Susan Crocker, daughter of Joseph Adamson, in 1854; she was born Oct. 5, 1830, in Ohio; they had seven children; five living - Mary E., now a school teacher; Sarah J., John B., Laura B. and Sherman A. She has one son by a former marriage - John F. Crocker, a school teacher. Member of Odd Fellow's Lodge, No. 76, of Centerville; a member of the Encampment; a Master Mason and a Chapter member. Republicans.