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Abraham Alonzo Kimball

Abraham Alonzo Kimball

Male 1846 - 1889  (43 years)  Submit Photo / DocumentSubmit Photo / Document    Has more than 100 ancestors and 20 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Abraham Alonzo Kimball 
    Birth 6 Apr 1846  Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Initiatory (LDS) 10 Apr 1863  EHOUS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FamilySearch ID KWJS-S5H 
    Death 24 Sep 1889  Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Kanosh Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I88155  mytree
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2024 

    Father Heber Chase Kimball,   b. 14 Jun 1801, Sheldon, Franklin, Vermont, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jun 1868, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Clarissa Cutler,   b. 23 Dec 1824, Silver Creek, Chautauqua, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1852, Grasshopper Township, Atchison, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years) 
    Marriage 29 Dec 1845  Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Separation 1848 
    Family ID F19101  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Eliza Hatton,   b. 26 Mar 1849, Van Buren, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jun 1911, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 27 May 1865  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Clara Adelia Kimball,   b. 13 May 1866, Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1939, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     2. Lois Catherine Kimball,   b. 9 Jan 1869, Stine, Lincoln, Nevada, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Oct 1951, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     3. Abraham Alonzo Kimball, Jr.,   b. 24 Feb 1872, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 May 1953, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     4. Mary Vilate Kimball,   b. 1 Sep 1874, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Sep 1874, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     5. Florence Evaline Kimball,   b. 1 Sep 1876, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jan 1915, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
     6. Heber Chase Kimball,   b. 12 Nov 1879, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1897 (Age 17 years)
     7. Parley Pratt Kimball,   b. 28 Feb 1883, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jan 1966, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     8. Elvira May Kimball,   b. 26 Apr 1888, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Sep 1969 (Age 81 years)
    Family ID F29714  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 May 2024 

    Family 2 Lucy Adell Brown,   b. 15 Aug 1856, Cambria, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1904, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 3 Jan 1876  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Pearl Adell Kimball,   b. 6 Dec 1876, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1955, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     2. Flora Kimball,   b. 31 Oct 1880, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Oct 1959, Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +3. Benjamin Franklin Kimball,   b. 6 May 1882, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1960, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     4. Charles Albert Kimball,   b. 1 Jan 1884, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Oct 1972, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     5. Laura Kimball,   b. 10 Feb 1885, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Feb 1972, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     6. Brigham Young Kimball,   b. 28 Nov 1887, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Feb 1947, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    Family ID F29715  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 May 2024 

    Family 3 Laura Moody,   b. 23 May 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1885, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 25 years) 
    Marriage 11 Oct 1883  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F29716  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 May 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 6 Apr 1846 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInitiatory (LDS) - 10 Apr 1863 - EHOUS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 27 May 1865 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 3 Jan 1876 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 11 Oct 1883 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 24 Sep 1889 - Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Kanosh Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Biographical History

      Abraham Alonso Kimball was born on April 6, 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock Cou n ty, Illinois. He was the son of Heber C. Kimball and Clarissa Cutler Ki mb all. Heber C. Kimball was among the leaders of the first Mormon Pionee r s to travel to Utah. He left his family behind in Iowa in the care of h i s wife’s father. Upon the death of his mother, Abraham remained in Iow a w ith his grandparents until 1862, when he came to Utah with his uncle.

      Shortly after his arrival in Utah, he went to visit the Kimball family . H e received a very congenial welcome, and after some time he decided t o st ay. He became part of the family, working and attending school. He l ate r came to call his stepmother, Adelia, “mother”.

      Abraham was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d a y Saints on 10 April, 1863. Shortly thereafter, he was set apart as a m is sionary and was sent to Iowa to bring his brother Isaac to Utah. Isaa c wi llingly came to join the Kimball family, and was later baptized an d serve d a mission.

      After his Iowa mission, Abraham returned to Utah to work, preferring mac h inery to what he called “book learning.” He married Mary Eliza Hatton K im ball in 1866. In 1874, he entered into the practice of plural marriage , t aking Lucy Brown as a wife. He married his third wife, Laura Moody, i n 18 82. To these three marriages were born a total of fourteen children . Th e first son among these children was Abraham Alonso Kimball, Jr. H e was b orn 24 February, 1872, in Petersburg, Millard County Utah. Mary E liza wa s his mother.

      Abraham went on a second mission to Liverpool, England, departing in Ju n e 1877 with instructions from the First Presidency of the Church to b e ca reful of his health. He returned to Kanosh, Millard County, Utah, i n Jul y of 1878. In December of the same year, he was sustained as the se cond B ishop of the Kanosh ward.

      During the course of his life, Abraham worked mainly as a farmer. Whe n h e was young, he worked at a carding machine. After his mission in Eng land , he worked as a thresher until the machine that he worked with wa s irrep arably damaged, at which point he went on to work alternately a s a railro ad foreman, freighter, salesman, quarryman, and surveyor. He d id not accu mulate an extraordinary fortune, but managed to keep his fami ly provide d for and healthy.

      Beginning in 1885, being aware of his failing health, Abraham drew u p a s eries of wills that would settle his estate among his family and up date d them periodically. He died 24 September, 1889, in Kanosh, of lun g compl ications at the age of forty three.

      At the death of his father, Abraham Jr. was only seventeen years old. Bo t h of Abraham Sr.’s households (that of Mary Eliza and that of Lucy Brow n ) faced hard times for a season, as there was no grown son to assume t h e leadership of the families. But young Abraham rose to the task, and w it h the help of friends and extended family, the families survived.

      In November of 1896 at the age of twenty-four, Abraham set out to ser v e a mission in the Southern states. His journals record that he spent t h e majority of his time in Kentucky and West Virginia, but also visite d Ci ncinnati Ohio, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and Washington D. C.

      Source: Higginson, Jerry C. “Abraham Alonzo Kimball: A Nineteenth Centu r y Mormon Bishop.” Master’s Thesis, Brigham Young University, 1963.



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