2/11/1811 - 7/22/1886
David H. Kinsey, the father of our subject [Dr. David S. Kinsey], was a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, born near Dayton in 1811, his father, John Kinsey, being one of the pioneers of that county. David H. Kinsey was a carpenter by trade and followed that calling in Dayton for many years.
After the death of his father he bought a part of the homestead on which he lived for several years before coming to Jay County, Indiana. He then bought 240 acres of land in Greene Township, selling twenty-five acres of his land shortly after, retaining the rest for his homestead. About the year 1876, he disposed of his farm and removed to Portland, where he made his home until his death July 22, 1886, in his seventy-sixth year. His widow, whose maiden name was Margaret E. Sourbray, is still a resident of Portland. They had a family of twelve children, four sons and eight daughters. One son and two daughters died in infancy, one son, John W. Kinsey, died in his sixteenth year and a married daughter, Mrs. Salome Mayo, died January 1, 1874. Two sons, David S. and Charles T. and five daughters still survive and are residents of Jay County, with the exception of Laura V., who has been a missionary in India since September, 1882.
Biographical && Historical Record of Jay County, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1887 (from article on son, David S. Kinsey)
Transcribed by Jim Cox
Buried in Kinsey Cemetery