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John Kimmer is the youngest but one of the family of eight children, five sons and three daughters, born to Henry and Sarah Kimmer, both of whom were natives of North Carolina, where they spent their lives. Henry Kimmer was a farmer by occupation. John Kimmer was born February 2, 1815, and was reared in his native State of North Carolina, where he received a common-school education. In the year 1836 he married Miss Esther Eford. Mrs. Kimmer was born in North Carolina in 1817, and died in Arkansas, March 3, 1888, leaving nine children, four sons and five daughters, viz.: Henry, Margaret, wife of John York; Sarah A., who married William McBride; Mary, now Mrs. William Fulbright; George W., Robert, Louisa, wife of J. B. Fulbright; Martha, now Mrs. A. D. York, and Jacob. About the year 1867 Mr. Kimmer removed with his family to Independence County, Ark., where they have since resided. He owns a fine farm of 267 acres, about sixty acres of which he has under cultivation. In politics he is a Democrat, and, as an enterprising farmer and well-to-do citizen of the township, he is most highly respected. He resides about two miles southeast of Cushman post office.