Nathan Scofield Kimball
20 DEC 1807 in ,Canada
to
29 NOV 1847
Waiilatpu Mission, Walla Walla now, WA,
Killed in MassacreMuch of this information on this family is taken from the records on line by: Warren Forsythe and much of it from cross referencing various documents and census by: D. C. West.
Nathan Kimball - Through land and school records of LaPorte County, we definitely find Nathan
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1. SELLING LAND AND LOANING MONEY ON SECTION OF SCHOOL LANDS IN La Porte County, 1833-1842 (no author named)
Kimbal, Nathan S. 3/1/1837 appointed school trustee for T35 N R 2 W
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2. Index to La Porte County Tract Book, by Fern Eddy Schultz, La Porte County (IN) Historian
Name Date of Transaction Sec. Twp. Range Page
KIMBALL, N. S. … 16 35N 2W 27
==================================================================================3. SCHOOL LAND PURCHASES (Section 16 in each township was school land)
Date of purchase # of certificate Name of purchaser Township Balance due after first payment
April 22, 1839 117 Nathan S. Kimball T35 N. R. 2W $120.00
Nine payments of $7.20 each. (Interest in advance)
One payment of $8.40
Note in last column would indicate that this went to Thomas Ewbank, Jan. 4, 1847.
This may have occurred when he was getting ready to leave La Porte County to go West (spring of 1847 as noted in write-up).
==================================================================================4. La Porte County Enumeration of School Children, 1844, 1845 & 1846
Kimball, N. S., 1845-4; 1846, Biron, 6; Nathan, 10; Omar, 12; Susy, 14.
==================================================================================Through various family accounts written in the mid to late 19th century, I feel there is enough evidence that the following story has ancestors that for a period of time, mid 1830's to 1840's lived in La Porte County. Indiana. The surname being spelled as Kimble <sic> 1840 Federal Census, La Porte Co., IN. He and his wife are between the ages of 30 and 40 in the report and there are several children listed.
per John Dutton - - My great x3 grandfather Nathan Kimball left LaPorte in the spring of 1847 lost two children on the trip west (one in Nebraska and one in Idaho) and was then killed during the Whitman Massacre near Walla Walla Washington. He is buried in the Great Grave next to Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. His wife and children survived. -Nathan Scofield Kimball, bachelor, of Sutton, Que., and Harriet Sanborn, both stating they are from Sutton, were married Feb. 23, 1830 in St. Armand; West Anglican Church . (St. Armand West church was in Philipsburg) Witnesses to this event were Nelson Rinter ? and Sophia Sanborn. Then in the same year on November 11, 1830, Harriet and Nathan were witnesses for the marriage of Sophia and Nelson. Rinter name spelled in other studies as Nelson Ruiter. (Note, Philipsburg, Canada in Quebec is just a few miles from the Vermont state in USA.
Harriet later married John Jewett on 16 April 1848 after Nathan was killed in the Waiilatpu massacre. From common knowledge of their family, the children of Nathan and Harriet stated in later census that their father, Nathan, was born Canadian (Eng) and Harriet from Vermont other children state Canada. Harriett died March 1, 1892 (per family study) in Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon.
Harriet Sanborn, through much cross referencing, appears to be the daughter of Josiah Sanborn born 1761 in New Hampshire and his wife, Sarah (Sheperd) Sanborn born 1770 in New Hampshire. Study also states that Harriet was born in lower Canda in 1807.Nathan S. & Harriet (Sanborn) Kimball Children:
Susan M Kimball - 1. Susan M. KIMBALL, b. 21 Sep 1831 New York (age 16 at time of massacre); married by 1850, August C. WIRT, born about 1822 Pennsylvania, said to have come across the plains in 1844. Family on the 1850 Clatsop Co. Census sheet 49, transcribed as "A. C. WEST." "Mrs." West was age 19 born New York, and matches available data for Susan. He had three children from a previous marriage, ages 8, 7, and 3 (this last born in Missouri if the census was correct, indicating he either came by himself in 1844 and returned east for his family, or had already been married at least twice). This would also explain the presence of Nathan Kimball Jr., enumerated in this household as well as in his mother's.
Omar J. Kimball Birth: 27 AUG 1833
Death: 26 SEP 1847 in Payette maybe,,ID,"on the snake River
Nathan M. Kimball -
born 7 Aug 1835 La Porte County, IN - wed Lucinda Niles in Washington 7 Aug 1861. His death is unknown but he last appears in 1900 Census in Seaside, Clatsop Co., Oregon as a widower.
Byron S. Kimball - Birth: 1839 La Porte, IN - - Death: 1899 OR
Sarah Sophia Kimball - Birth: 25 March 1841 La Porte, IN - - Death: 1917 - Warrenton, Clatsop, OR - married Joel Wilson in Washington state. Per the Munson Report, 1637 - 1887 (1-614)
Clarice Kimball - Birth: 1844, La Porte, IN - Death: 18 JUN 1847 - Gothenburg area, NE
Mina Ann Kimball - Birth: 20 DEC 1846 La Porte, IN - Death: 22 APR 1928 Portland. - Wed 1st Isaac Boggs; wed 2nd Isaac Megler.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nathan Kimball estate was probated over half century after his death. See State Archives File K-002 Clatsop Co., Oregon - 1847 Nathan S. Kimball from N.Prevost1999
1999 Nancy Prevost at Ore Hist Soc "pioneer register" for 1847 undocumented loose notes by George Himes, a long time curator of Pioneer Museum; Much Data is from M.Eells list in 29 Mar 1881 OREGONIAN which Jean Roth saw original copy in an archive probably by Peter S. Ogden; Similar Data page 106-7 WAIILATPU by Miles Cannon 1915; in Apr1998 by Stephanie Flora, webmaster:
Nathan S. Kimball, Adult, KILLED; helping Hoffman butcher the beef, was wounded and ran to mission house, later, he disguised himself as an Indian and went to the river to get water for the children. On his way back he was discovered and killed: He was survived by: Mrs. Harriet Kimball, Adult Susan M. Kimball, 16 Kimball child Byron E. Kimball, 8 Sarah S. Kimball, 6 Mina A. Kimball, 1 ;Kimball is called "of Lakeport Indiana" in 1847 diary page 5 of Peter W. Crawford - THE OVERLAND JOURNEY TO OREGON, 1997 ED BY CHAS G DAVIS , P.O. box 924 north plains or 97133; SOURCE for middle name Scofield and details of kids died bef Nov 1847 and their later life in Clatsop Co OR etc.: (including a claim that one of Mina's grandmother who lived to age 101 and the statement that they had arrived one month before massacre: and her testimony that they'd left La Porte Co. IN early spring 1847 and that their donation land claim was near West's station on S.P.&S Rail Road Oregon historical Society Vertical file INDIANS-WARS Cayuse Indians 1848: page 2 of MASSACRE STORY TOLD BY Survivors by Mrs. Megler CAUTION-in case of conflict (e.g. possible confusion between Joe Stanfield and Joe Lewis) this lady is less credible as she was only one year old at time of massacre--although more credible than most later accounts Mrs. Megler confirms the origin in La Porte Co IN and states that Nathan Scofield Kimball, was a Green Mountain boy, imbued with the pioneer spirit (possible origin of Nathan or parents in VT?);
Massacre Story Told By Survivor, Oregon Historical Society in Portland, vertical file on INDIANS-WARS Cayuse Indians 1848 etc. CAUTION contrarily to the title, these 4 pages include recollections by 2 different Kimball sisters plus a Hall sister. Page 1 concerns Sarah S.. (Kimball) Munson and Mina A. (Kimball) Megler: "It seems that these two sisters, with their mother Harriet Kimball Jewett [Mrs. Kimball, later Mrs. Jewett] in 1848, came to Clatsop county and settled in their home on the Plains, with their sister Susan, age 17, (afterward Mrs. A. C. Wirt); their brother Nathan Kimball, aged 14, and Byron S. Kimball, aged 9 years. Mrs. Munson, in rehearsing the history, said that when she was aged 7 years, and her sister now Mrs. Megler, was aged 2 years old, and their branch of the family could take advantage of the Donation Land Claim law, they settled on the section where now stands West's station on the S. P. & S. railway, and became possessed of 640 acres. [Paragraph without closing quotation mark] ' We two sisters are the only survivors of the five children of Nathan S. Kimball who was killed at Whitman's...";
Nathan S. Kimball - Daughter, Susan Kimball - wed - Augustus C. Wirt, born 22 Oct 1814, Lancaster County, PA. 1845 to Oregon Wife died in 1850. Second marriage: "15 August 1850 to Susie M. Kimball, who was born in Franklin County, Vt., September 21, 1831, and whose parents moved to Indiana when she was three years old. They took up a preemption claim in LaPorte county, lived there until the spring of 1847, and then crossed the plains to Oregon. The Kimball family were ushered into their new domain under most distressing and discouraging circumstances, for while stopping at Whitman's Station, on the Columbia river, near Walla Walla, the father was killed in the great massacre, and the balance of the family were held as prisoners by the Indians for a month. Their rescue was effected by the Hudson Bay Company, and they afterward came down the river to Oregon City, where they spent the balance of the winter. After locating on the Clatsop plains in the spring of 1848, the mother married John Jewett, and Mrs. Wirt was reared on this farm, remaining at home until her marriage. Five children were born of this second marriage: John, of Astoria; Mrs. Harriet Rieman, of Portland, Ore., , deceased; Omar B. of Skipanon, and Mrs. Olive McGuire, of Seaside, Ore." Abstract: Mr. Wirt went to California in the fall of 1848. After six months, he returned home with $3,000. In 1859, the Wirt family went to Shoalwater Bay, Wash., lived there seven years, then went to Skipanon. >From Pioneer Card File, Oregon Historical Society: Wirt, Mrs. Susan M. Kimball Born in Vermont, in Franklin County, Sept. 21, 1831 Married to Augustus C. Wirt, Aug. 15, 1850 Started to Oregon 1847, from Indiana Arrived 1847 Remarks: Mrs. Wirt is a survivor of the Whitman Massacre. Daughter of Nathan S. and Harriet S. Kimball. Children: John, b. Nov. 5, 1851 of Astoria; Mrs. Hattie Wirt Reiman, b. Dec. 18, 1852 of Portland; I one, now deceased; Omar B. Wirt, b. Aug 2, 1856 of Skipanon; and Mrs. Olive W. McGuire, b. March 12, 1862 of Seaside [Oregon].;
Additional References:
Whitman Massacre Roster - http://www.oregonpioneers.com/whitman4.htm
Whitman Massacre on November 29, 1847 - http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5192