Passing of a Pioneer

Matilda Kinnison was the daughter of Theophilus and Elisabeth Cook, and was born April 3rd, 1824, in Jefferson Co., where she grew to womanhood.

On July 1, 1847, she was united in marriage with Richard S. Kinnison.

All her life, with the exception of about two years, has been spent in Jefferson county. She was the mother of eight children, five girls and three boys. Wm. W. died Feb. 17, 1884; Feriba C.died June 17, 1892; R.S., the husband, died June 28, 1900.

She has been a great sufferer; in 1866 she was hooked by a cow and nearly killed; on July 18, 1868, she was thrown from a horse and her arm and five ribs were broken, and for months was a great sufferer. On January 2, 1898, she fell and broke her right limb, and for nine months, was lifted on a stretcher, and from then has never been able to sit up all day.

She was converted when a child 11 years old, at an old fashioned Methodist camp meeting, and united with the M.E. church and hasremained a member of same for 68 years, and in her afflictions and trials always found her religion sufficient to comfort her and to bear her through the hardest storm. Among the last audible words were: "I am nearly home."

The children that survive her are, R. M. Kinnison, Mrs. J. T. Orrick, and Mrs. Levi Glenn, of Dahlgren; J. C. Kinnison, Mrs. L. M. Voliva, and Mrs.S. N. Ragan of Mt. Vernon.

The body was taken to Dahlgren Friday on the 11 o’clock train and funeral was preached at 2 o’clock, and interment at the Lowry Hill cemetery.

Submitted by: Carolyn Orrick Greathouse
Relationship: 2nd great granddaughter