| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Ninth Generation2026. David Rudy KIME was born on 14 January 1824 in Randolph Co., NC.1087 He died on 11 March 1909 at the age of 85 in Grandview Twp., Edgar Co., IL. I have seen a death date of about 1885 in Edgar Co., IL. Need to check. Came to Edgar Co., IL from Randolph Co., NC in 1845 with a wagon train. Alice Cook wrote, "He spent some time looking for the most suitable site for a home. The area to the north, now prosperous prairie farmland, was then swampy and wild. Buffalo grass grew higher than his horse, mosquitoes swarmed like clouds, deer darted in and out among the clumps of grass. Knowing that the drinking water from this area would not be good, he decided to settle on the rolling country of Big Creek, in what is now Grandview Township. It was here that he operated a large mill... David Rudy and Tempa Kime were members of the Presbyterian Church of Grandview. At his death he owned 586 acres of land in Edgar and Clark Counties." He is buried on the Kime Family Plot of the Grandview Cemetery. David Rudy KIME and Tempey Mariah CLAPP obtained a marriage license on 12 March 1850 in Edgar Co., IL.1085 Book SA, p. 108, Lic. #1679 They1085 were married on 14 March 1850 in Edgar Co., IL.1085 Married by J. Shuey, M.G., Book LA, page 218. They1085 appeared in the census in 1880 in Grandview Twp., Edgar Co., IL.1086 David KINE Self M M W 56 NC Occ: Farmer Fa: NC Mo: NC David Rudy KIME and Tempey Mariah CLAPP had the following children:
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