Genevieve (Layman) Kinzie

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Genevieve was born on 18 September 1897 on her father's farm in Amsterdam, Botetourt County, Virginia, the third of five children and the second of four daughters of George and Mary Lydia "Lillie" Salome Moomaw Layman.

The family moved to Troutville when she was in her teens, and Genevieve graduated from Troutville High in 1915.^[1] A talented pianist, she then went to Brandon Institute in Basic City.[2](near Waynesboro), Augusta County, Virginia, and then on to the noted conservatory, Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

She returned to Southwest Virginia to teach music in White Gate, Giles County, and on 5 July 1919,.^[3]when she was twenty-one, she married Joseph Graybill Kinzie Sr. at her parents' home, "The Terrace," and they lived on one of his father's farms about three miles south of Troutville..^[4] Joseph and Genevieve joined the Cloverdale Church of the Brethren. Over the next few years Genevieve bore him three children, one son and two daughters. About a dozen years later, they had one more child, a third daughter. ( Dorothy L. Kinzie Weeks [1921-2013, Martha E. Kinzie Dillon [1922-2000, Joseph G. Kinzie, Jr. (1923-2003), Virginia M. Kinzie (1935- ). Although both Joseph and Genevieve had dark brown hair, three of their children and almost all of their grandchildren had fiery red hair, probably inherited through Genevieve's father, who had sandy red hair.

In the spring of 1939 Joseph's father was killed when a truck hit the wagon he was driving on Route 11. After his death, Joseph moved his family into his parents' large brick house about two miles south of Troutville on the west side of Route 11.

Joseph died of colon cancer.^[5]on 24 June 1977, when he was eighty-one years old. By this time, the youngest child, Virginia, had married Cornelius "Neil" Siebren Visser, a native of Holland whose family had migrated to Brooklyn when he was two years old, and Neil and Virginia had moved from Atlanta with their two daughters back to Virginia to live with Virginia's parents In Troutville, where Neil established an accounting practice. They had a third daughter in 1973.

Twenty years later, on 11 July 1993, Genevieve died at home of cardio-respiratory arrest.^[6]She is buried in Daleville Cemetery, a few miles south of Daleville in Botetourt County, Virginia.^[7]

Gravestone for Genevieve Layman Kinzie, 1897-1993

From Findagrave.com

Genevieve Layman Kinzie

Birth: 18 Sep 1897, Amsterdam, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA; Death: 11 Jul 1993 Troutville, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA; Burial: Daleville Cemetery, Daleville, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA. Memorial #: 61716192.

Bio: Roanoke Times, The (VA) - July 12, 1993. KINZIE, Genevieve Layman, 95, of Troutville, died Sunday, July 11, 1993. She was the daughter of George W. and Lillie Moomaw Layman and the widow of Joseph G. Kinzie Sr. Mrs. Kinzie was a member of the Cloverdale Church of the Brethren. Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothy K. Weeks, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Mrs. Louis (Martha) Dillon, Rialto, Calif., Mrs. Cornelius (Virginia) Visser, Troutville; son and daughter-in-law, Joseph G. Jr. and Dana Belle Kinzie, Troutville; sisters, Mrs. Pauline Prickett, Richmond and Mrs. Dorothy Cline, Roanoke; sister-in-law, Mrs. Lowell (Lucile) Sharpes, Wooster, Ohio; seventeen grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren.

Family Members: Parents: George William Layman (1862-1933), Mary Lydia Moomaw Layman (1863-1946); Spouse: Joseph Graybill Kinzie (1895-1977); Siblings: Louis Moomaw Layman (1893-1916), Marie Lucy Layman Yokeley (1895-1983), Pauline Elizabeth Layman Prickett (1899-1996), Dorothy V Layman Cline (1903-1994); Children: Joseph Graybill Kinzie (1923-2003)^[8]

Citations

1. ↑ Virginia Kinzie Visser, Email to Patricia Hickin, 11 Jan 2018, citing Troutville High School diploma.
2. ↑ Virginia Kinzie Visser Email to Patricia Hickin, 11 Jan 2018, citing Brandon Institutel diploma.
3. ↑ Virginia Kinzie Visser Email to Patricia Hickin, 11 Jan 2018.
4. ↑ Virginia Kinzie Visser Email to Patricia Hickin, 11 Jan 2018.
5. ↑ Virginia Kinzie Visser Email to Patricia Hickin, 11 Jan 2018, citing death certificate.
6. ↑ Virginia Kinzie Visser Email to Patricia Hickin, 11 Jan 2018, citing death certificate.
7. ↑ Karen (47341243), "Genevieve Layman Kinzie," Findagrave.com. Record added 16 Nov 2010, URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61716192/genevieve-kinzie. Accessed 01 January 2018.
8. ↑ Karen (47341243), "Genevieve Layman Kinzie," Findagrave.com. Record added 16 Nov 2010, URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61716192/genevieve-kinzie. Accessed 01 January 2018

Acknowledgments

• Patricia Prickett Hickin created Genevieve (Layman) Kinzie on 4 Sep 2012.

Sources

• Personal recollection, Hickin, Patricia P. 23 Aug 2012.

• Karen (47341243), "Genevieve Layman Kinzie," Findagrave.com. Record added 16 Nov 2010, URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61716192/genevieve-kinzie. Accessed 01 January 2018.

• 1910 Census -- VA-Botetourt Co., Part of Amsterdam Twp. U.S. Bureau of the Census Publication: 1910 Series T624 Roll 1622 Heritage Quest Online 8 Jul 2006.

• Email from Virginia Visser to PPH <pph929@gmail.com> Visser, Virginia Kinzie <vkvisser@comcast.net> Publication: 10 Aug 2014 -2027 Troutville, VA, to Winchester, VA 10 Aug 2014

• Virginia Kinzie Visser Email to Patricia Hickin, 11 Jan 2018.

• Weber, Richard R., email to PPH, 5 Feb 2000 including draft of his Stover Brethren.
• Source: S2537 Media: email email from Virginia Visser to PPH <pph929@gmail.com> Visser, Virginia Kinzie <vkvisser@comcast.net> Publication: 10 Aug 2014 -2027 Troutville, VA, to Winchester, VA 10 Aug 2014

• Source: S704 Media: email email to PPH, including draft of his Stover Brethren Weber, Richard R. Publication: 5 Feb 2000 10 Feb 2000

• Source: S706 Media: Census/Tax 1910 Census -- VA-Botetourt Co., Part of Amsterdam Twp. U.S. Bureau of the Census Publication: 1910 Series T624 Roll 1622 Heritage Quest Online 8 Jul 2006

• Source: S9 Media: Memory Personal recollection Hickin, Patricia P. 23 Aug 2012