You know I think a lot of the genealogists in the early 1900's changed some of the stories. They all liked the idea that the Kimsey's came from Scotland. But in fact we can find Kimsey's in England and not Scotland. Edith Moffit wrote a letter also that said her great grandfather was Benjamin an English Merchant and married Margaret McGregg. The genealogists in Georgia and North Carolina, knew nothing about the James in Missouri and Davids family in Illinois or the part of Benjamin and Agnes family that went on to Missouri. Only in the last 30 years have we straightened out a lot of these people, thanks to Edgar and Collette who wrote every Kimsey in America in the 1980's. I was lucky to know them. I also was able to visit with the great granddaughters of Robert B Kimzey, a son of David Kimzey, brother to Benjamin, James, Thomas. before she died at the age of 99. She and her cousin did genealogy of the family that was in Peoria area and the ones that traveled to Iowa, but missed the David that stayed in livingston Co and the James and some daughters that went to Perry Co, IL. Genelogy is never correct because every day you get a new record or piece of information that changes it.
I have just put some records on findagrave. They are also on this message board back a few years. Hard to find now.
When people couldn't read and write, they didn't know their birthdates. They didn't always celebrate like we do today.
My world connect database is
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...