Family Bible

Pages from the Baldwin-Kimberly Family Bible

Transcribed by Carol Swaine-Kuzel on August 5, 2014

Copies of pages from the Baldwin-Kimberly Family Bible in the Shelburne Museum Collection,
donated in 1982 by Eleanor Pedersen Craig, granddaughter of Ellen May Kimberly Daley Chantrell and daughter of Grace Chantrell Pedersen, and shared with permission of Barbara Rathburn, Registrar, Shelburne Museum.
Many thanks to Barbara Rathburn and Eleanor P. Craig for their generosity.

[Note: Some dates in the Baldwin-Kimberly family bible differs from the material in published sources, such as The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family by Donald Lines Jacobus and The Baldwin Genealogy by Charles Candee Baldwin. In other cases dates differ from family information and vital records. The differences are highlighted with footnotes.]

Eleanor Baldwin died April 2 [or 22] 1860 aged 77 years ¹
[in a different handwriting]
Abner Baldwin died March 25th 1863 aged 82 years
Richard Hector died April 1st 1853 aged 35
Rumina died Oct. 25 1845
Tamar Abiah died Dec. 8th 1863
Emma died Feb. 10 1875
Tirzah Stow Nov. 5 1880
Miriam died July 16 1882
Abner S. died June 17 1882
Abigail H. died Jan. 15, 1884

Emma born Sep. 10, 1806
Tirzah born April 21, 1808
Abner S. born Dec. 13, 1810 ²
Tamar A. born August 2, 1813
Rumina born August 24, 1815 ³
Richard H. born July 9, 1818
Jeremiah J. born Sept. 2, 1820
Miriam born Nov. 4, 1823
Eleanor born Feb. 19, 1826 ⁴
Abigail born Feb. 20, 1828 ⁵
Children of Abner and Eleanor Baldwin


[in a different handwriting]
Gilead Kimberly was born Nov. 20 1822 ⁶
Abigail Baldwin was born Feb. 20 1828 ⁷
Gilead Kimberly and Abigail Baldwin were married Oct. 17th 1847

William Gilead was born July 24 1848
Ellen May was born Sept. 3 1850
Angeline Ruth was born June 5 1854
Martha Emma was born Jan. 16 1859 ⁸
Augusta Lines was born Sept. 13th 1863 ⁹
Abigail was born Feb. 8th 1865
[Abigail]died April 10 1865
Frederic Abner born May 18th 1867
G. Harry born April 18th 1870
[in a different handwriting]
Gilead Kimberly died June 2 1913
William Kimberly died 1927 ¹⁰
Martha Emma died Jan. 11 1928 ¹¹
Angeline Ruth died July 1931
G. Harry died June 28 1948

[in a different handwriting]
Felix Chantrell & Nellie M. Kimberly was married Nov. 16 1878 at Bridgeport Conn.
John Francis Chantrell was Born June 14, 1880 at Bridgeport Conn ¹²
Grace Kimberly Chantrell was Born July 19, 1882 at Bridgeport Conn
Felix Chantrell
Born in Plainville Conn.
August 21 1853
Ellen May Chantrell d.
April 1927 ¹³
Felix Chantrell d. April 4, 1933 ¹⁴
John Francis died June 6 1943
[in a different handwriting]
Grace Kimberly Chantrell Pedersen died Sept. 10, 1974
Grace Kimberly Chantrell m.
Nicholas L. Pedersen
June 30, 1906
Eleanor Pederson b.
April 30, 1911
Nicholas F. Pedersen b.
Feb. 19, 1914 Brooklyn

[Transcriber additions:
Nicholas L. Pedersen died February 19, 2011¹⁵
Eleanor Pedersen Craig died May 26, 2011 ¹⁶]

References:
¹Charles Candee Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 to 1881 (Cleveland, Ohio: Leader Print Co., 1888.), 144. C.C. Baldwin lists 4 February 1860 as Eleanor's death date.
²Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, 144. C.C. Baldwin lists 16 December 1810 as Abner's birth date.
³Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, 144. C.C. Baldwin lists 4 August 1815 as Rumina's birth date.
⁴Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, 144. C.C. Baldwin lists 20 February 1826 as Eleanor's birth date.
⁵Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, 144. C.C. Baldwin lists 19 February 1828 as Abigail's birth date.
⁶Donald Lines Jacobus,The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family (Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta pub. Co., 1950), 127. D.L. Jacobus lists 20 October 1822 as Gilead's birth date.
⁷Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, 198. Jacobus, The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, 127. C.C. Baldwin and D.L. Jacobus list 14 February 1828 as Abigail's birth date.
⁸Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, 198. Jacobus, The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, 128. "Ohio Deaths 1908-1953," The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, FamilySearch.org, (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 5 August 2014), death certificate image, Martha E. Fairchild, 25 January 1929, no. 2909, State of Ohio Department of Health. C.C. Baldwin and D.L. Jacobus list 16 June 1859 as Martha's birth date; Martha's death certificate states her birth date as 16 January 1860. Martha's eldest daughter Henrietta White was the informant on the death certificate.
⁹Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, 198. C.C. Baldwin lists 13 September 1862 as Augusta's birth date.
¹⁰Letter from Ruth Kimberly to Thomas Tedeschi, 11 January 2000. Ruth's letter states that William died in 1925. Ruth Kimberly was the wife of William's grandson William Gilead Kimberly.
¹¹Jacobus, The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, 128. "Ohio Deaths 1908-1953," FamilySearch.org, death certificate image, Martha E. Fairchild, 1929, no. 2909. D.L. Jacobus lists 11 January 1929 as Martha's death date; ; Martha’s death certificate states 25 January 1929.
¹²Jacobus, The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, 128. D.L. Jacobus lists 17 June 1880 as John's birth date.
¹³Jacobus, The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, 128. D.L. Jacobus lists 5 April 1927 as Ellen's death date.
¹⁴Jacobus, The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, 128. D.L. Jacobus lists 2 April 1933 as Felix's death date.
¹⁵St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida), 11 February 2011, page 8B.
¹⁶Sarasota Herald-Tribute (Sarasota, Florida), 26 May 2011, page BS06.