Histories

Hans Jacob Kümmerlin immigrated to Philadelphia by himself on The Neptune in 1833, and Jacob Friderich Kümmerlin immigrated to Philadelphia with his wife and children in on The Osgood in 1750, and both were known in America as "Jacob Kimberling" (with other occasional spelling variations). Unfortunately, because the records of their lives in both Europe and American are ambiguous and only one death story has survived, they are routinely confused in Kimberling family ancestries and descendancies. Some researchers (or more loosely, some only trees) report them as brothers, but I know of only one account that tries (very poorly, I believe) to explicitly distinguish them. That account was written and published by Floyd Thomas Pratt, F.H.C., M.A.G.I., in the article Hans Jacob Kümmerlein and Descendants, in the Pratt Progen itor Papers #2inwas published by From Pratt Progenitor Papers, Vol 2, by Floyd Thomas Pratt, F.H.C., M.A.G.I., 3rd edition revised 2014 at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25429107M/ , and in America are suffeare not well documents, and, more problematically, their lives in America are sufficiently poorly documented that they are both that's almost all that we know to distinguish them from each other, as theirBoth took on the anglicized name "Kummberlin", Both of these men immigrated to Philadelphis - A detailed (and, from my perspective, quite flawed) analysis arguing that the Jacob Kimberling who died in the Virginia frontier in 1863 was Hans Jacob Kümmerlein, who had immigrated to Philadelphia by himself in 1833, not Jacob Friderich Kümmerlin, who had immigrated to Philadelphia with his wife and children in 1750. From Pratt Progenitor Papers, Vol 2, by Floyd Thomas Pratt, F.H.C., M.A.G.I., 3rd edition revised 2014 at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25429107M/ Covers Kimberlin, Kimberling, Komberling, Kümmerlein, and various other spellings. Hans Jacob & Mary Magdalena (RHINEHART) Kümmerlein came from Prussia on the ship Samuel in 1733 to Philadelphia. He and his family settled in Augusta County, Virginia where Indians killed him in 1756. He had a large family and his son, Peter Paulzer & Sarah (WRIGHT) Kimberling lived in Botetourt County, Virginia. Their son James & Nancy (HUMPHRIES) Kimberling moved with their children to Washington County, Missouri between 1825-1828. Nathaniel Kimberling's son William settled in Stone County, Missouri. and the town Kimberling City is named after him. The story of that town is also covered in this volume. James Kimberling's son; my 3rd GGrandfather Rinard Kimberling is covered in PPP Volume 18.