John Kessinger (1778 - bef. 1818)

Born 1778 in Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before 1818 before age 40 in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Father Solomon Kissinger made the move from Pennsylvania into western Virginia in 1783, after John was born.

If he was born in 1778 (source?) he would have married at age 11, so this may not be the son of Solomon Kissinger.

John Kissinger married Sarah Middleton 14 July 1789 in Lincoln County, Kentucky.^[1]

In 1799 William Whitley of Lincoln County, Kentucky sold 133 acres to John Kissinger.^[2]

A John Kessinger is found in Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1810.^[3]

Research Notes

A biography of James H. Kissinger of Pike County, Missouri, traces his ancestry to a John Kissinger of Lincoln County, Kentucky.

"John Kissinger, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, came out of the Keystone State [i.e., Pennsylvania] into that romantic Kentucky retreat known as the Crab Orchard region. His ancestors were of the German strain and when or where they first found foothold in Pennsylvania is not definitely known. John Kissinger's wife was a Miss Middleton and they became the parents of the following children: Nancy married Lewis Hutchinson and became the mother of seventeen children; she died in Kentucky; Martha married John Bryant and died in the vicinity of Weston, Missouri; Catherine was Mrs. Edmund Bryant at the time of her demise which occurred near Ashley, Missouri; Margaret married James Buford and they both died near New London, Missouri, without issue; and Hendley married Catharine B., a daughter of Henry Middleton, whose wife was governor Ousley's sister."^[4]

When his daughter Catharine Kissinger married Edmund Bryant in 1818, her mother Saley Kissinger was named as the parent; this may be evidence that her father was dead by then.

Kessinger-88 was created by Julie Whiteside through the import of Julie's Family Tree 1_2014-03-13.ged on Mar 13, 2014.

Sources

1. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28D-N3WL : 22 July 2021), John Kipinger and Sarah Middleton, 14 Jul 1789; citing Marriage, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 192,261.
2. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/williamwhitleyho00talb/williamwhitleyho00talb_djvu.txt
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2P-4X6 : accessed 26 October 2022), John Kessinger, Lincoln, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 123, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 181,352.
4. ↑ A History of Northeast Missouri, vol. 3, ed. Walter Williams, p. 1423.