Biographical Sketch of Andrew Kinkade

Ben Dixon's book, “Our Book:  Our Ancestors, Ourselves, and Our Children”, p. 15, says:

Andrew Kinkade, son of David Kinkade and Rebecca Osborn, was born in Green County, Pa., May 12, 1802. He died near Marr, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1881, and was interred in the Pioneer Cemetery at Marr.

When a young man he left Pennsylvania and started farming near Woodsfield, Ohio He attended the gala festivities accompanying the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 at Lockport, N.Y. There he met Nancy Tingley, the charming daughter of Lemuel Tingley, a Veteran of the Revolutionary War. True to the traditions of his Scotch wit, he called her Ann "for short," and she was ever after known as Ann Tingley to the Ohio Kinkades. The following year, 1826, Ann Tingley and her brother John, a veteran of the War of 1812, left Lockport for Woodsfield, Ohio, where she and Andrew Kinkade were married. It is thought that she willingly lost herself in the Ohio Wilderness, and never saw her family again. But she kept in heart the thoughts of her family, by bestowing Tingley names upon three of her sons: Ebenezer, the first born, Araunah, and Benjamin Kinkade. Her grave, without a marker, is in the Barber Cemetery, near Woodsfield, Ohio. [Submitter's Note: the author referred to the city as Woodfield in the article.]

Andrew Kinkade desired very much to possess a Kinkade estate of considerable extent somewhere in Virginia. Its location, or to whom it originally belonged is not known to the writer. In the remembrance of C.A. Kinkade (P. 124) he made a trip to Virginia to investigate the land's status; then offered each of the ten heirs $30.00 for a quit-claim. But they held out for $300, and he gave it up as too expensive.  "Aunt Elisabeth told me [Charles Andrew Kinkade, p 124] that according to Uncle Secrest the land was in Culpeper County, Va. It was a large mountain place, away from market."

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