Benjamin Franklin Kilgore

HILL, KILGORE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/8/2004 at 10:33:19

B. F. Kilgore, Monroe twp., Sec. 8; P.O. Winterset; was born in Campbell Co., Kentucky, in 1823, and resided there ten years; then removed to Marion county, Indiana, in 1833, and was raised there; from there, he came to Iowa in 1844, and settled in Jones county, and came to this county in 1865; owns 125 acres of land; he married Miss Hill in 1843; she was born in Virginia in 1825; they have had twelve children, nine are now living: Herbert H., Margaret J., Mary F., Harriet A., Charles P., Bertie B., Silas H., Elmer A., Willis B., Hugh L., Cyrus R. and William A.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 558