HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Montgomery county, Pennsylvania : Evan 

 T., of Willow Grove; Seruch T. ; Abi, wife 

 of Joseph Baldwin, of Warwick township ; 

 and Sarah J., deceased, who was wiie of 

 Harry S. Knight, of Buckingham. 



The earlier generations of the Kimble 

 family were members of the oociety of 

 Friends, but, through marriages without 

 the consent of the Meeting, most of the 

 present family have ceased to be members. 

 Abel Kimble was born and reared in the 

 faith. In politics he was a Democrat, but 

 took little interest in political affairs. His 

 wife was a native of Montgomery county. 

 She died when the subject of this sketch 

 was a child. 



Seruch T. Kimble was reared on the old 

 homestead in Buckingham. At the age of 

 twenty-two years he left home and worked 

 as a farm hand in the neighborhood. In 

 1877 he married Sallie Fell, daughter of 

 Cress Fell, of Buckingham. She died in 

 1890, and their only child died in infancy. 

 Mr. Kimble married (second) in iSgS, Ida 

 Applebach, of Lambertville. He purchased 

 in 1886 his present farm in Buckingham, 

 and has resided thereon ever since. In 

 politics he is a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Kimble have no children. 



EDWARD R. KIRK, justice of the 

 peace and a prominent business man of 

 Lower Buckingham, was born in Buck- 

 ingham, on the farm on which he now 

 resides, January 22, 1869, and is a son 

 of Amos W. and Mary H. (Mahan) 

 Kirk. The pioneer ancestor of the 

 Kirks of Buckingham was John Kirk, 

 who migrated from Alfreton, Derby- 

 shire, England, in 1687, and settled in 

 Upper Darby, Chester (now Delaware) 

 county, Pennsylvania. He married at 

 Darby Meeting, in 2 mo., 1688, Joan 

 Elliot, daughter of Peter Elliot, by 

 whom he had eleven children: Godfrey;^ 

 John; Samuel; Mary, ^narried John 

 Warner; Elizabeth, married John Twin- 

 ing; Joseph; Sarah, married Nathaniel 

 Twining; William; Isaac; Thomas, and 

 Anne. 



Isaac Kirk, tenth child of John and 

 Joan (Elliot) Kirk, was born in Darby, 

 2 mo. 23, 1703. and on arriving at man- 

 hood settled in Buckingham township, 

 Bucks counti% Pennsylvania, where he 

 made his first purchase of one hundred 

 acres of land in 1729. He subsequently 

 purchased considerable other land in 

 that township, a portion of which is now 

 in the tenure of the subject of this 

 sketch. Isaac Kirk was twice married, 

 his first wife being Elizabeth Twining, 

 daughter of Stephen and INIargaret 

 (Mitchell) Twining, the former a native 

 of New England, and the latter of Mars- 

 den Lane, Lancashire, England. Eliza- 

 beth Twining was born at Newtown, 9 

 mo. 4, 1712, and was married to Isaac 

 Kirk at Wrightstown, 10 mo. 9, 1730. 



They were the parents of six children: 

 ]\Iary, who died unmarried in 1755; 

 Isaac, who died unmarried in 175D ; 

 Stephen, who married Phebe Fell; Mar- 

 garet, who married John Scarborough; 

 William, who married Mary Malone; and 

 Joseph, who married Patience Doan. ' 

 Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk died in 1744, 

 and Isaac married 9 mo. 4, 1746, Rachel 

 (Fell) Kinsey, widow of John Kinsey, 

 of Buckingham, and daughter of Josepu 

 Fell, the pioneer ancestor of the tamily 

 by his second marriage with Elizabeth 

 Doyle. Isaac Kirk died in 1780. 



Thomas Kirk, only child of Isaac and 

 Rachel (Fell-Kinsey) Kirk, was born in 

 1748 on the old homestead in Bucking- 

 ham, a portion of which he inherited at 

 his father's death, and lived thereoli his 

 whole life, dying 4 mo. 15, 1815. He was 

 twice married, lirst in 1781 to Ocea Kin- 

 sey, who died 7 mo., 1793, and (second) 

 on March 24, 1794, to Mary Rice, daugh- 

 ter of John and Rachel (Worthington) 

 Rice, by whom he had five children. 

 Amos Kirk, only surviving child of 

 Thomas and Ocea (Kinsey) Kirk, was 

 born on the old homestead in Bucking- 

 ham, 2 mo. 10, 1782, and died 9 mo. 24. 

 1863. He married, September 29, 1803, 

 Charity Doan, who bore him six children 

 and died in 1837. 



Charles Kirk, eldest son of Amos and 

 Charity, was born 5 mo. 11, 1804, and 

 died 5 mo. 10, 1856 in Buckingham. He 

 married, 12 mo. i, 1825, Mary Walton, 

 born 9 mo. 3, 1802, in Moreland town- 

 ship, son of Amos and Cynthia (Kirk) 

 Walton, the former being a lineal de- 

 scendant of John and Joanna (Elliot) 

 Kirk, tefore mentioned, and of William 

 Walton, one of four brothers who landed 

 at New Castle in 1675, and later settled 

 in Byberry, Philadelphia county, and the 

 latter being a granddaughter of Isaac 

 and Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk, above 

 mentioned. Charles and Mary (Walton) 

 Kirk had four children: Amos Walton, 

 George D., Miranda S. and Ellen Walton 

 Kirk. 



Amos W. Kirk, father of the subject 

 of this sketch, was born in Upper Make- 

 field township, 2 mo. 2, 1827. His pa- 

 rents settled in Warwick township when 

 he was a child, and he was reared on a 

 farm in that township. When he was 

 about twenty years of age his parents 

 removed to the present residence of the 

 subject of this sketch, where Amos W. 

 has since resided. He has been twice 

 married, first on 10 mo. 19, 1859. to Jane 

 S. Worthington, who died the following 

 year, and (second) to Mary H. Mahan, 

 daughter Cornelius and Mercy (DePuy) 

 Mahan, by whom he has two children — 

 Edward R. and Anna W. residing with 

 her brother. The Kirk family have been 

 members of Wrightstown Meeting of 

 Friends for many generations, Isaac 

 Kirk having become a member of that 

 meeting on his settlement in lower 



