The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-05

reared families more or less numerous.
Twenty-eight grandchildren and four
teen great grandchildren are now living.
Six sons and one daughter we're with
Mrs. Kimbell during her final sickness.
ministering to every possible want, but
being in her eighty first year. she could
not longer resist the continued strain
upon her vitality. Her husband preceded
her to the better world from the same
house February Is, 1895, and the same
six grandsons, bearing the family name,
acting as pail bearers, bore the remains
of each of them to their final resting
place in Union Ridge Cemetery.
Mr.. and Mre. Kimbell were life long
and consistent Universalists, and their
descendants, profiting by their teaching
and example, are worthily striving to
fill their respective stations in life by
emulating them. During the latter part
of their lives their age and infrmities
prevented them from taking any active
part in church work, but their interest
continued undated.
The First, Second and Third Univer-
salst churches of Chicago, were all re-
cipients of their liberality in the early
days of their organization, and many of
the pioneer expounders of the liberal
faith we're frequent visitors at their
home, aud partook of their generous
hospitality. Notably among these were
the Reverends. w. E. Manley, Otis A.
Skinner, W. W. King, James FL. futile.
and others. They were among the orig
inal and constant subscribers to the
Better Covenant" afterwards the New
Covenant" and now THE UNIvERsAL1sT,
and when failing eyesight prevented
Mre. Kimbell's reading, she watched for
the weekly arrival of the paper with great
interest, and it would be read aloud to
her by some of her grandchildren with
precise regularity.
The heroism and patriotism of the
Spar an mothers of old were reproduced
10 her during the dark days of the Re-
public, when, at the breaking out of the
War of the Rebellion, she sent her three
eldest sons with her prayers and bene.
diction to battle for their country.
They served in the famous Battery
"A' Chicago Light Artillery. Her
Oldest son, Charles B.. was severely
wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and
was brought home on cot and nursed
back to health and strength by the low
ing care and attention of the mother
and sisters. The other two sons, Julius
W., and Spencer S., served till the close
of the war and returned home safely.
In addition to sending three sons to the
army Mr.. Kimbell himself spent many
months during the war on the hospital
steamers OF the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers, and in the sanitary department,
nursing and caring for the sick and
wounded. immediately after each great
battle in which the battery was en-
gagged, Mr.. Kimbell would go to the
front and assist in caring for it's
wounded and bringing them home as
soon as they could be transported.
Mrs. Kimbell's numerous descendants
and friends, while mourning her loss
here, rejoice in her emancipation
from a suffering body, and with
a true faith, happily anticipate the
blessed time when they will all be
united with her never more to part.
Her memory will ever serve as beacon
light to guide their footsteps through
life. Impressive funeral services we're
conducted at her old home, November
81, by the Rev. Robert Jardine. and
many life long friends attested their
respect to her memory by their presence
on that occasion. C.B.K