David Hain, father of Mary Jane (Hain) Kimmerle, is my great-great-great-great-grandfather on my m. grandmother's side (Grover Kimmerle's m. great-grandfather)
This is a fun shot with the names hand-written on the side, so folks are identified, if you know them! I do know that Bill Hain (my great grandfather) is the gentleman squatting with the white hat in the lower right. I also know that Charlie Kimmerle is the gentleman sitting on the ground with the dark vest showing only his right side of his face, because of a birthmark/growth on the other side (so I've been told). Ed King (of the famous Wm King & Son Organ Manufacturers) is the white bearded gentleman standing in full suit behind Bill Hain.
People in photo include: Charlie Kimmerle
Charles Kimmerle was probably the one in the family my grandma talked about who had a goiter. Not a birthmark, but overgrowth of the thyroid gland. Charles was her grandfather, and Grover, on the far left, first row, was his son; my great-grandfather. Charles Kimmerle named his son after Grover Cleveland. The handwriting is my grandmother's: Katherine, Grover's daughter. I am Lisa, Katherine's second child, Mary Jo's, daughter.
Hi Lisa. Thanks for checking these photos out. Katherine Kimmerle Follett was one of the main reasons I started researching our family. I didn't recognize her handwriting. Be sure to check out my website by pasting in your URL: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~haingenealogy/hain/WC_TOC.HTM
Charles Kimmerle, his children, their spouses and kids in Michigan circa 1929.
From (standing), left to right: Charles Kimmerle, Jr., (unknown) , Josie Sears, Martha Sears. To right of her, standing behind: Flora Hain, David Hain, Ocenia Sears, Edward King, Mary King. Crouching or sitting, from left to right: Grover Kimmerle, (unkown) , Charles H. Kimmerle, Sr., Frannie Sears, Bill Hain, Proctor Resenhouse. To left of Frannie is her mother, Ruth Sears. To her right is Frances Kimmerle, Grover's second wife. Isabel Hain is either next to Charles, Jr. (left, standing) or behind Martha and Josie.
-- Sources: Katherine Kimmerle Follett (names written), Mary Jo (Follett) Wright (Katherine's daughter), Lisa (Hawn) Johnson (Mary Jo's daughter).
People in photo include: Josie Sears, Martha Sears, Flora Hain, Ocenia Sears, Frannie Sears, and Proctor Resenhouse
Date & Place:
in Michigan United States of America
This is the patriarch of our family, David Hain born 25 March 1805 in Lincoln County, NC. He died on 26 Oct 1878 in Cass Co., Michigan. This is a charcoal drawing of David that has been in our family for years. David married Margaret Petticrew, daughter of John Finley Petticrew. For more on this family, visit:
