The Three Wives of Peter Kinney 1804-1884

Introduction

In this study of Peter Kinney and his descendants, there are no cases where any Kinneys choked and died on a cork but there are several tragic endings involving planes, ships, railroads, highways and other forms of transportation.

Causes of Death: Peter Kinney died of old age as did many of his descendants. Other causes of death were acts of war, disease such as typhoid and polio, and accidents (mostly involving modes of transportation). Many of Peter Kinney’s descendants (men and women) had sudden heart problems which ended their life. The Kinney’s also had quite the reputation for dramatic train wrecks.

Female descendants sometimes died in childbirth. This could have been the cause of death for Mary Chaple, the first wife of Peter as she died quite young. Other descendants died of cancer and other chronic diseases. However many lived to old age as did Dillie Coble Breedlove Kinney Henry Woodell. Peter was her second husband and she had two more husbands after him. Peter’s second wife Sophia disappeared after the 1860 census. Her cause of death is unknown.

Places they lived:

Peter Kinney lived in the southern area of Alamance County (Patterson Township and Graham). In his last decade of life he lived in northern Randolph in Liberty Township. Many of his descendants lived in Alamance County (Boone Station, Burlington, Gibsonville, Elon College, Graham, and Faucette Township). Others lived in the bordering counties of Guilford, Randolph, and Davidson. Larger towns such as Greensboro, Durham, and Raleigh drew some of them in. The counties of Halifax, Cumberland, and Brunswick also attracted Peter’s descendants. Virginia and South Carolina were the home of a few of the descendants. And even fewer migrated to Massachusetts, California, Colorado, Florida, and Texas.

Occupations: Peter Kinney was a hard scrabble farmer who never appears to have owned the farm he worked on. Not many of his descendants followed the farmer’s footsteps. A few farmed but they were more likely to have worked in the growing textile industry. A few ancestors were acute businessmen or skilled craftsman. A few were physicians. Some were preachers and some were police. Some of his descendants were involved in politics. They were mayors, aldermen, coroners, and Judges. Many were involved in the military. Peter had descendants who were Confederate Soldiers, World War I Veterans, World War II Veterans, Korean War Veterans, Viet Nam Veterans, and Desert Storm Veterans. None of his Confederate kinsmen appear to have owned slaves. Their motivation to join the Confederacy may have come from their view of the Union being similar to the Crown of England in being a tyrannical government who was trying to enforce a different way of life on them. Alamance County was the center of the “Regulator” movement in 1771 where residents fought to “regulate” their own affairs without intervention from wealthy English officials in Eastern North Carolina.

Most of the Kinney female descendants were domestics, but some were business women, teachers, librarians, textile workers, and soldiers, serving their country during peace and wartime.

The Life and Times of Peter Kinney 1804-1884

Early Life:

Peter Kinney was most likely born in what was then Orange County, North Carolina in 1804. From all indications, it appears that Peter Kinney lived in the part of Orange County which became Alamance County in 1849. The Robert Florentine Kinney Bible indicates that he was born October 16, 1804.

Peter Kinney was born on the eve of the second election of the third President, Thomas Jefferson in November of 1804. The ensuing advertisement dated September 10, 1804 from A. Gilchrist solicits “your suffrages” as an elector who promises to vote for Thomas Jefferson, Esquire as President, “deviating from my general principles as a Federalist,” acknowledging “that the Administration of Jefferson in general been satisfactory to me.”

The second advertisement from March 6, 1804 is for the services of the stud horse “Burrampooter” of Orange County. Augustine Willis advertised the services of Burrampooter. The horse is a “rising five years old, a fine Bay, upwards of sixteen hands high, elegantly formed, lengthy, strong boned and said by the best of Judges to be as fine a cold as his Sire Dare-Devil is a horse, being like him in every part, shape, and size. His pedigree will shew him to be as fine a blooded Colt as any in America.” The cost of the services of Burampooter are five Dollars for the first time, ten Dollars for the season, and for the insurance of a foal, twenty Dollars.

There is indirect evidence that David Kinney and his wife Susannah Cortner could have been Peter Kinney’s mother and father.

• The ages of David and Peter work out. David and Susannah were married in 1802. Peter was born in 1804.
• They lived close together Orange County, Southern Alamance, Northern Randolph County.
• Descendants of Peter share DNA with David’s known descendants.

Transcription:

State of North Carolina Orange County

Know All Men by these Presents, That We David Kiney & Nathan Horneday are held and firmly bound unto the Governor, or his Successors in Office, in the full Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, current Money to be paid to the said Governor, his Successors or Assignees, for the which Payments well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our Seals and dated this 15^th day of Sept Anno Domini 1802. 

The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That whereas the above bounden David Kiney hath made Application for a License for a Marriage to be celebrated between him and Susannah Cortner of the County aforesaid:  Now in case it shall not appear hereafter, that there is any lawful cause or Impediment to obstruct the said Marriage, then the above Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in Full Force and Virtue.

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in the Presence of

Jno Taylor                                                                              David Kinney his mark X Seal                                 Nathan Horneday     Seal

The will of Rosannah Cortner dated December 22, 1825 and proved in February 1826 Court of Orange County wills unto Susannah Kinney 50 cents. This will makes Rosannah Unknown and David Cortner 1755-1810 a candidate for Susannah Cortner Kinney’s parents or some of her relatives.

Transcription:

In the name of God Amen! I Rosannah Cotner of the County of Orange of the State of North Carolina being very weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling and mind the ­­­­­­­­­_____ of my body knowing that it is appointed for all men one time to die do make and constitute this my last will and testament, first after my just debts are paid and any final expenses, I will and bequeath unto Barbary Hunt fifty cents, I will unto Eve ____ fifty cents.  I will unto Mary Alexander fifty cents.  I will unto Peter Cotner fifty cents.  I will unto Susannah Kinney fifty cents.  I will unto my grandson Aaron Cotner my horse.  I will and bequeath unto Lewis Cotner, Grace Cotner  & Roseannah Gifford all the rest of my property.  My will is that my Family shall sell the property to the highest bidder in twelve months and collect the money that is owing me and divide the _______ equally amongst the said three children and my will is that Isiah Hornaday, Samuel Horner be my executors this 22^nd day of December 1825.   

                                                                                                                                Roseannah Cortner Her Mark

Witness

Micajah Thompsons

Job Evans

The execution of the forgoing last will and testament of Rosannah Cotner was duly proved in court by the oath of Micajah Thompson ………………

Will obtained from State Archives also abstracted in Abstracts of Wills, Orange County 1752-1850 Compiled by Ruth Herndon Shields, Chairman Genealogical Records Committee Davie Popular Chapter, NSDAR Chapel Hill, North Carolina, E107.   

The 1820 census lists seven sons and one daughter for David Kinney. 

The sibling candidates that I have identified from DNA matches include:

• Peter Kinney 1804-1884
• Daniel Kinney 1807-1856
• Isaac Kinney 1815-1885
• George Henry Kinney 1818-1863
• Simpson Kinney 1820-1865
• Matilda Kinney Lineberry 1822-1907
• William Kinney 1828-after 1870

All of these have descendants who have DNA matches in Ancestry to a direct descendant of Peter Kinney.

Peter Kinney was married to Mary Chaple in Orange County on May 25, 1822.

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Transcription:

State of North Carolina,  We the undersigned, do hereby acknowledge ourselves indebted to his Excellency, Gabriel Holmes, Esquire, Governor, and his successors in office, in the sum of five hundred pounds; but to be void on condition that there is no lawful cause to obstruct a marriage between Peters Kiney and Mary Chapel for whom a license now issues.  In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 25 day of May A.D. 1822.

Witness                                                                                                       By Petters Kiney his mark

D Patterson                                                                                                 George Curtner his mark

Sabrey “Silva, Sibbie” Kinney was born to this couple on June 6, 1823. Mary Chapel may have died in childbirth as there is no record for her after she married Peter in May of 1822.

After Mary Chaple died, Peter Kinney married Sophia Unknown and they had a son in 1827. In the 1830 census, Peter is living with Sophia and son George Wesley Kinney. No record is found for Sabrey. After her mother’s death, she may have been cared for by a member of her mother’s family.

 Brother Daniel Kinney married Susan Burnette sometime before 1826 and their oldest son Mebane Kinney was born in 1826.

In August of 1837, both Peter Kinney and Daniel Kinney voted in the Congressional Election between Dr. William Montgomery and William A Graham.  Also elected were a Clerk of the Superior Court and a Clerk for the Pleas and Quarter Sessions.  Peter and Daniel voted at Henry Fogelman’s place in Orange County.  There William A Graham (Whig) received 96 votes and Dr. William Montgomery (Van Buren Democrat) received 61 votes. However, Dr. William Montgomery received more votes in other Orange County precincts and won the election.    Wake County gave Graham a majority of 57 votes and Orange gave native son Montgomery a majority of 118 votes so Montgomery won by 61 votes.  William Shields won Superior Court Clerk at Fogelman’s as well as the rest of Orange. John Taylor, Esquire won Clerk for Pleas and Quarter Sessions although native son Samuel Holt beat out John Taylor Esquire by 140 votes to 26 at Fogelman’s.

In August of 1839, Peter Kinney mortgages his crops, 20 heads of hogs, two cattle, one colt and his household property to David and George Patterson in Orange County, North Carolina. This can be found in Family Search at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89DD-6D2F

Transcripton: This indenture made this twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine between Peter Kiney of the first part and David Patterson jr of the second part county of Orange and State of North Carolina and George Patterson on the third part Witnesseth that whereas, the sd. Peter Kiney stands jointly indebted to the said George Patterson in the sum of sixty two dollars and seven cents due by bond bearing date 24th of August 1830 which the said Peter Kiney honestly desired to ____ and pay. In consideration thereof and in further consideration of fifty cents to him in hand paid by the said David Patterson before the signing, sealing and deliverying of these presents, the receipt whereof the said Peter Kiney doth hereby acknowledge the said David Patterson do this for himself, his heirs, and assigns, give, grant, bargain, sell and deliver, and by these presents hath given granted, bargained sold and delivered to the said David Patterson his heirs and assigns, for the purposes having been mentioned, all my growing crop of corn 20 head of hogs, two head of cattle one two year old colt household furniture, twenty bushels of wheat and one lot of oats and one lot of Hay to have and to hold the above described property and every part thereof, with all the rights and privileges thereunto belonging, free and clear from the lawful claim or claims, ir encumbrances of any person whatsoever unto him the said David Patterson or his heirs and assigns forever: In trust nevertheless that he the said Peter Kiney or his heirs, shall and may at any time after the six months sell the said property to the highest bidder for ready money, at such time and place as the said David Patterson or his heirs shall think proper: first giving 20 days by public advertisement of the time and place of sale and the money arising from said sale to apply to the discharge of the aforesaid Debt of sixty two Dollars and 7 cents due and owing to he said George Patterson or so much thereof as may remain due and unpaid and also the interest thereon together with the cost of advertisement, regarding this instrument, and all other costs arising b reason of these presents and to make and execute to the purchaser thereof and the balance thereof of the money if any to be paid to said Peter Kiney his heirs and assigns. In witness whereof we the above named have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year first above written.

Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of

Wm Patterson

Peter Kiney his mark Seal

D Patterson Seal

Geo Patterson Seal

State of North Carolina

The Execution of this deed was proved before me Clerk of Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarters Sept by the oats of William Patterson or subscribing witness thereto set it be registered

STaylor CC

to hand and registered 27th August 1839 26th Aug 1839

No record is found of Peter Kinney’s family in the 1840 census, but Father David is found in Northern Randolph county and it looks like David and Susannah have an empty nest.

No record is found of Daniel Kinney’s family (brother) in the 1840 census but Daniel and his wife have several children during this period.

• Sally 1830
• Edwin 1831
• William 1832
• Anderson 1836
• Julia 1838
• Polly 1840

George Henry Kinney (brother) married Ruth McMasters on December 28, 1839 and in the 1840 census, the couple appear to have been in Chatham County. 

Isaac Kinney (brother) married Lydia Campbell sometime prior to 1837 when son Henderson was born.  A daughter named Mary was likely born next to this couple.  In 1840, there were four members of Isaac’s family and he was living in the Northern Division of Randolph County.   No 1840 census record can be found for Simpson Kinney (brother). 

In the 1850 census, Peter Kinney is listed as a 48 year old farmer residing in the South District of Alamance County.  Alamance County was carved out of Orange County in 1849. Peter Kinney did not own any real estate. 

 His wife is Sophia Unknown Kinney and is 45 years old.  George Wesley Kinney is 21 years old.  Nancy Clapp is also a member of the household.  She is 19 years old and her relationship to the family is unknown.  A daughter, Martha, aged eight also is in the home.  Martha had not attended school during the year.   Martha Elen Kinney is listed in the family bible as being born May 14, 1841. 

In the 1850 census, David Kinney (father) is listed as a 74 year old farmer residing in the Northern Division of Randolph County.  His wife is 73 year old Susannah Kinney.  Also in the home is Matilda Lineberry, age 28 and Eliza aged 7.  There is no strong evidence that Matilda is their daughter, as Susannah would have been 45 when she was born.  Susannah Cortner Kinney died sometime between 1850 and 1860.  However, 89 year old David Kinney is found listed in the 1860 census in the home of his son, Isaac in the Western District of Randolph County.  Matilda Lineberry married Jacob Foust and is living in his home in Eastern Randolph County with her daughter Eliza in the 1850 Census. 

In the 1850 census, Daniel Kinney is (brother) is listed  as a 43 year old farmer residing in the Upper Regiment of Chatham County.  His wife, Susan Burnette Kinney is also 43.  Children in the home are Sally (20), Edwin (18), William (16), Anderson (14), Julia (12), Polly (10), Oliver (8), Clingman (7) and Emeline (4).  Daniel Kinney did not own any real estate.  Daniel Kinney died sometime after 1856 when he was the purchaser at the estate sale of Peter Charles Smith in Guilford County.  In the 1860 census, his widow, Susan Burnette Kinney is 56 years old and is living next door to nephew George Wesley Kinney with her children Oliver (18), Clingman (16), and Emeline (14).   She has personal estate of $100.  Oliver at 18 is the breadwinner and is listed as a laborer. 

George Wesley is Peter Kinney’s second child who is now out on his own and living in Alamance County.  He is 31 years old and is listed as a laborer in the 1860 census.  His family has a personal estate of $100.  He is married to Mary Elizabeth Clapp and has the following children Martha (5), Mary Ellen (4), and Peter (2).     

In the 1850 census, Isaac Kinney (brother) is listed as a 35 year old farmer residing in the Southern Division of Randolph County.  His wife is 35 year old Lydia Campbell Kinney.  Children in the home are Henderson (14), Mary (9), Martha (7), David (5), and Marion (2).   In the 1860 census, Isaac Kinney is listed as a 44 year old Cooper residing in the Western District of Randolph County.  His wife Lydia is also listed in the home.  Isaac owns Real Estate worth $300 and a personal estate of $265.  Children in the home include Henderson Kinney who is 23 and listed as a carpenter.  He has a personal estate of $150.  Other children in the home are Mary (18), Martha (14), David (13), Peter (11), Hannah (7) and Emmaline (5).  Isaac’s 89 year old father, David is also living in the home. 

In the 1850 census, George Henry Kinney (brother) is listed as a 30  (probably 32)  year old farmer residing in the Northern Division of Randolph County.  His wife is 30 year old Ruth McMasters Kinney.  The children in the home are Caroline (9), Susannah (6), Frances (4) and Emily (1).  In 1860, George Henry is listed as a 43 year old carriage shop worker.   He is living with his wife Ruth also 43 in the Union District (New Salem) of Randolph County.  Also living in the home is Daughter Elizabeth Caroline “Sibba” Kinney (19).  She is listed as a weaver.  Daughter Susannah (14) is listed as a spinner.  Other Kinney children in the home are Frances Lane (12) and Emily (11).  Also staying in the home are Mebane Free (12), Solomon Henry Free (9), Milton Wood Free (7) and Molsey Free (4).  These children’s father had died in 1862.  The whereabouts of their mother is unknown.  George Henry and Ruth’s four youngest children are staying in the home of Nancy McDonald in Cedar Falls.  Those children are William Robert (9), Mary (7), Martitia Adalide (4) and George Henry (11 months).

In the 1850 census, Simpson Kinney (brother) is listed as a 30 year old farmer residing in the Southern Division of Randolph County.  He is living next door to Isaac Kinney.  His wife is 28 year old Nancy McMasters Kinney who is the sister of Ruth McMasters, George Henry Kinney’s wife.  Living in the home is Polly (7), Rosannah (5), Lewis M (3), and James C (1).  In the 1860 census Simpson Kinney is a 39 year old farm laborer.  His wife Nancy has died, and he was living two doors down from his brother, Isaac in the Western District of Randolph County.  His children are Mary (17), Roseanna (14), Lewis (12), Elisha (9), Oliver (7), Thomas (6), Mila Ann (5), and Jane (2).  Also living in the home are two other farm laborers who do not appear to be related to the family.  They are Ferrebee Henley (25) listed as mulatto, and Dixon Harrellson (25). 

Another potential brother is William Kinney who appears in 1850 census.  He is 22 years old and living in the Southern Division of Guilford, North Carolina and is a distiller.  His wife is Julia Ann Sheppard Kinney and she is 20.  Her father is David Martin Sheppard and her mother is Sarah “Sally” Neese.

Peter Kinney and Mary Chaple’s daughter Sabrey is found in the 1850 census.  Sabrey married widower, William Green Hutson around 1845.  He was thirteen years her senior and had three children with his first wife, Sarah Evans who died around 1841.  In the 1850 census William and Sabrey “Silva”  are found in South District of Alamance County.  Sabrey “Silva” Sabrey Kinney is 27 and her husband William Hutson is 39.  He owns $600 in real estate and is a farmer.  Children in the home are Sarah (13), Peggy J (12) and John (10).  These are Sabrey’s stepchildren.   William and Sabrey’s children are Martha (5), Henry (4) and Ellen (1).  In the 1860 census William (45) and Sabrey (32) are found in the South Division of Guilford County.  William is a farmer.  He has real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $500.  Living in the home are children Sarah (25), Martha (16) Mary (13), Emily (11), William (6), Mary ?(4), and Calvin Alexander 1 month.

In the 1860 census, Peter Kinney was listed as 60 years old.  He was a farmer and his wife Sophia was 60.  He was living in Alamance, County.  His daughter Martha was in the home and was listed as 18 years old.  He owned no real estate and had $200 in personal estate.  An orphan John Riggins was also in his home.  Several of John’s brothers and sisters were scattered in homes in the community. 

In the 1860 census, William Kinney (potential brother) (age 34) has left Randolph County and moved to Brown, Morgan, Indiana.  He was a Farm Hand.  He has possibly moved north because he does not agree with Confederate views.  Enumerated with William in the census is  his wife Julia Ann and children Sarah J (9), John C (7), Louis M (5) and William D (3) and Peter Kinney (4 months).

Civil War Era:

William Kinney appears on a list of men subject to military duty with the Union Army but I found no evidence he served with the Union forces.

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Ancestry.Com, Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 4 of 5

The Civil War brought much tragedy to the Kinney family in the South.

George Wesley Kinney, Peter Kinney’s son with wife Sophia joined the 22nd Regiment North Carolina Infantry.  He joined Captain John M Odell’s Company which were called the Randolph Hornets.  He was a 33 year old farmer, married to Mary Elizabeth Clapp and father of four when he joined on March 6, 1862.  He was six feet tall.  He served the Confederacy five months and he got sick and died at the Brigade Hospital.

Wesley Kinney

Residence: Randolph County, North Carolina

Occupation: Farmer

Enlistment Date: 6 Mar 1862

Enlistment Place: Randolph County, North Carolina

Side Served: Confederacy

State Served: North Carolina

Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 6 March 1862 at the age of 33.

Enlisted in Company M, 22nd Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 6 Mar 1862.

Died Company M, 22nd Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 7 Aug 1862.

Simpson Kinney, Peter Kinney’s brother joined Company E, 58 North Carolina Regiment on December 1, 1863.  He was a 42 year old widower who was a farm laborer.  He was a father of eight when he joined the 58th.  Simpson deserted his Company on January 10^th, 1864 but he returned on August 8, 1864.  He was captured in Orangeburg, South Carolina on February 14, 1865, confined at Newbern, North Carolina and sent to Hart’s Island, New York Harbor as a prisoner of war.   He died there 10 days after his arrival of pneumonia.

“In 1865, as the Civil War was ending, the Federal government used the Island as a prison camp for Confederate soldiers. Hart Island was a prisoner of war camp for four months in 1865. 3,413 captured Confederate soldiers were housed. 235 died. Their remains were relocated to Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn in 1941.

The final prison established by the Union was on Hart Island in New York City and it quickly evolved into the city’s most horrible site. Located in Long Island Sound about twenty miles north of the city and just a few miles south of David’s Island, Hart Island wasn’t even used until April 1865, the month the Civil War came to an end. Within three weeks of its opening, 3,413 POWs are crammed into the post’s tiny, enclosed area Hart does not become completely cleared of prisoners until July. Within the four months of its operation, nearly 7 percent of all the camp’s POWs died, mostly from illnesses brought with them, such as chronic diarrhea and pneumonia.

It, too, was nothing more than a concentration camp. The first POWs arrived on April 7 and were immediately placed into a stockade enclosure of about four acres. “Two thousand and twenty-nine prisoners of war were received,” noted Henry W Wessells, the prison commandant. “They seem to be healthy with few exceptions, and tolerably well clothed … The guard is entirely insufficient consisting of a small detachment sent with them from City Point. Three hundred and fifty effective men are required.” …

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https://www.mycivilwar.com/pow/ny-hart-island.html

Simpson Kinney’s oldest son Lewis, Peter Kinney’s nephew also served in the Confederate Army.

Mebane Kinney, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company E, 13 North Carolina Infantry on July 27, 1861 at Camp Ruffin, Virginia.   He was a 35 year old farmer who was married to Mary Nancy Councilman.  He had two sons. He served the Confederacy for 11 months and was killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill. 

Mebane’s wife Mary Nancy Councilman Kinney did not receive all of Mebane’s soldier pay after his death.   The following letter is in his file at Fold 3.

“State of North Carolina this day come before me Geo Patterson an acting justice of the peace in the said county Mary Kinney and made oath on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God that she is he widow of Mebane Kinney deceased late or private of Capt. Cooks Company E 13^th N.C. Troops and she is therefore entitled to the arrears of pay that may be due him from the Confederate States of America, and also appeared at this time George A Foster and made oath as of one said that he knows the said Widow and knew the Husband and the facts Sworn to by her are true and he is disinterested therein October 25^th 1862.  Sworn and Subscribed before me

Geo Patterson, Jr.

   Mary Kinney Seal

                                                                                     G A Foster Seal

I certify that the witness, Geo A. Foster is of good character and that all attention should be paid to his affidavit.

October 28, 1862                                                                                                Geo Patterson

State of North Carolina

                I John Faucett, Clerk of Alamance County Court Certify that George Patterson is an Acting Magistrate in said County duly Commissioned & sworn or that all but official acts and entitled to full faith & credit as such.

                                Given under my hand & office in Graham this 4^th November 1862

                                                                                                                Jno Faucett, CCC

From Mary Nancy Councilman Kinney’s tenacity, the Confederate Bureaucracy identified that she was due $132. 

Transcription:  I certify the within Mebane Kinney a Private of Captain Thomas G Martin’s Company E of the Thirteenth Regiment of North Carolina born in Alamance County in The State of North Carolina, aged 36 years, 5 feet 8 inches, dark complexion, grey eyes, dark hair and by occupation Farming was enlisted by Capt. Thomas Ruffin at Camp Ruffin on the 27^th day of July, 1861 to serve one years, and is now dead was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill, VA, 30^th June 1862.  The said Mebane Kinney was last paid by Capt. Hill to include the 31^st day of December 1861 and has pay coming from that date to the date of his death.  There is due him $50 Confederate Bounty and $77 in wages.  Given in duplicate at Camp Orange this 7^th day of March 1864.  W.M. Anderson, Commanding Company.

Edwin Kinney, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company I, 8^th North Carolina Infantry on September 17,  1862.   He was a 35 year old farmer who was married to Amy Marshall.  He had three children. He was absent on duty because of sickness and served as a hospital guard at Peace Institute Hospital, a confederate hospital for soldiers for most of the time. 

Transcription:  Medical Examining Board General Hospital No 8 Raleigh, January 15, 1864.  We certify that we have carefully examined Private Edwin Kinney of Com 18^th NC Regiment, Clingman Brigade and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier with his company because of paraplegia following Typhoid Fever from the effects of which he has suffered for fourteen months.  We further declare as our belief, that he will not be fit for duty during the War and he is a subject for discharge, being fit for service

as a Guard in the Medical Department in Accordance with Par. F. General Orders, No. 96, A and I, G. Office 1863, we recommend him for a detail, as such to report to Surgeon Thos. Hill for assignment of duty.

                                                                                                Thomas Hill

                                                                                                Senior Surgeon for Examining Board

                                                                                                E Burke Haywood Surgeon

                                                                                                Wm A Holt Surgeon

Fold 3 at https://www.fold3.com/image/33013772

Edwin Kinney was stationed at what is now Peace College but during the Civil War was a hospital for wounded Confederate Soldiers. 

William, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company I, 8^th North Carolina Infantry on September 12,  1862.   He was a 35 year old farmer who was married to Jane Holt.  He had three children at the time of his enlistment. He and his brother Edwin were stationed together at Raleigh, North Carolina.  However he was sent to Cold Harbor, Virginia where he was captured on May 31, 1864 on the first day of the battle.

William was confined at Point Lookout, Maryland as a Prisoner of War from May 31, 1864 to July 9, 1864.  According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, of the 50,000 Confederate soldiers held in the army prison camp at Lookout Point in tents, nearly 4,000 died.

On July 9, 1864, William was transferred to Elmira, New York where he was released on May 19, 1865 after he took the oath of allegiance and told his captors he wanted to stay  up north thus avoiding the cost to them of a railroad ticket home. 

William, Peter Kinney’s nephew, Oliver son of Daniel Kinney joined Company  H 15th North Carolina Infantry on  May 21, 1861.   He was wounded on December 13, 1862 at Fredericksburg, Virginia and discharged on April 22, 1864 with a discharge disability.

Clingman, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company I, 8^th North Carolina Infantry on July 12,  1861.  He was only 17.  He was taken as a  Prisoner of War by  General A. E. Burnside on Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862.  He was released on parole at Elizabeth City, N. C. on February 21, 1862.  On November 1, 1862 he went on a sick furlough.  After returning from sick furlough, he was captured at Cold Harbor March 31, 1864.  He arrived at White House, Virginia on June 11, 1864 where he was transferred to Elmira New York, July 12, 1864.  Clingman died at Elmira Prison on October 22, 1864.  Clingman was with his older brother William at Cold Harbor, Virginia; Point Look Out Maryland and at Elmira Prison in New York.  All three brothers were at Raleigh, N. C. at the beginning of the War (Edwin, William, and Clingman).

Henderson, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Isaac Kinney joined Company F, 2^nd In North Carolina Infantry on February 11, 1863.  He was 25 years old.  He was hospitalized on June 12, 1863 in Richmond at the Chimborazo Hospital 3.  He deserted on July 13, 1863 and never returned to his company. 

Latter Years

Peter Kinney’s wife Sophia and his daughter Martha died sometime after the 1860 census.  He married for the third and final time to widow Delilah Ganeitta “Dillie” Breedlove Coble.  She is the daughter of Abram “Fox” Coble and Maria Sophia Hagey Coble of Southeast Guilford area.  She lost her first husband, Daniel William Breedlove in the Civil War.  She had one daughter with Daniel Breedlove.  The child’s name was Mary Elizabeth Breedlove. 

In the 1870 census, Peter Kinney is living at Patterson Township, Alamance County with wife Dillie.  He is listed as being 60 years old and she is 28.  Also in the home is Mary Breedlove, William Henry Kinney age 5 and Robert Kinney, an infant.  Peter Kinney has $30 real estate value. 

Peter only has one surviving brother who is living (Isaac) who is living on the west side of Asheboro at Science Hill and is a Shoemaker in the 1870 census.  His personal estate is $357 and real estate value is 390.  Isaac is living with his 56 year old wife, Lydia, and children David (24), Martha (23), Peter (21), Hannah (19), Emeline (18), Elizabeth (18), and Robert (13).  The oldest son Henderson died in 1869.

In 1876, Isaac Kinney was in trouble with the Sheriff for selling whiskey.

“ASHEBORO, MARCH 1, 1876. M. S. ROBINS, Editor. At the recent Term of our Superior Court, one Isaac Kinney was incarcerated for want of Bail to appear at the next Term of the Court, to answer charges of selling spirituous liquors by the small measure. Rumor has had it that there were some sixty or seventy true bills against him. As Kinney is a man so notoriously destitute of property that no fine or costs can possibly be collected out of him, we were unwilling to credit the rumor, till we had proof of its truth. It savored too much of the days of 1868, when R. F. Trogdon, one of the makers of the present State Constitution, last Sheriff of the county, pocketed eight hundred and fifty ($850.00) dollars of  the County taxes  of that year, and never really discovered it was not his own till the report of the Finance committee and a suit in Court, roused him to a consciousness, that it was not his own. and caused him to shell it out into the County Treasury as he did during last Court. Those times when Sheriff Trogdon and other Radicals took advantage of the indebtedness of the county, by buying  at a heavy shave the evidences of indebtedness, and turning them over to o the County Treasurer at par for payment of the county taxes, thus absorbing all the money paid by the taxpayers, so that the Treasurer never received any and so that the honest creditors of the county, who refused to submit to this iniquitous shave, had to stand out in the cold, and get nothing, and all this in utter defiance of the law forbidding such practices. We are no apologist for Isaac Kinney or anyone who violates the law against retailing spirituous liquors by the small or any other law. He or any other man who violates the law ought to be punished. But it is perfectly palpable that some half a dozen or less bills would have punished him as severely as a thousand, and that so vast a number of them as reported could have no other effect than to saddle the taxpayers of the county with heavy costs for no conceivable benefit. Upon investigation we find that in fact there were found against Kinney some sixty-five of these bills. But the strangest and saddest part of the story remains yet to be told.  The only witness against Kinney; on 6O of these 65 bills, is W. R. Ashworth the high Sheriff of the county. We admit that the Sheriff has not rendered himself liable to indictment by thus purchasing of Kinney. But what a picture of morals does it present; when the high Sheriff of a county, whose duty it is to assist in preserving the law unbroken, is not only present at, but gives his assistance to an ignorant and humble citizen, not once only but sixty times, in breaking the law that it is his duty so far as in him lies to preserve from infraction to say nothing of the evil example it presents to others.” (Randolph Regulator, Wednesday, March 1, 1876)

Matilda Lineberry, sister of Peter? Is also living.  In the 1870 census, she lives in Columbia Township with her fifty year old husband Jacob and children Elizabeth (24), Washington, (18), Susannah (15) Sarah (13), Henry (12), Isabella (8), Peter (6), Rubie (4). William Kinney (42) (potential brother who went north has moved from Indiana to Illinois.  He is enumerated in the 1870 census at Sumpter, Cumberland, Illinois. 

Living in the family is wife Julia Ann, and children Lewis W (15-, William D (13), Oliver PM (5) and Telesta (5).  Sometime after this census, William probably passed away as he is not found in the 1880 census.

In the 1880 census, Peter was 75 and disabled with rheumatism.  His wife Dillie was 39.  Sons William Henry Kinney (15) and Robert (12) were listed as laborers.  Also in the home was Annie (10) and twins Esther and Jenny (5). 

In the 1880 census, Isaac Kinney (age 64) appears to have given up selling whiskey and has become a shoemaker.  His wife Lydia is in the home as is Peter (32) Emeline (25) Martha (36) and grandchildren Cicero (14) and William Gurney (5).

Peter Kinney’s oldest daughter, Sabrey Kinney died in 1880 and is most likely buried at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church in Kimesville, Guilford County with her husband and children.

Peter Kinney  died in 1884.   No grave has been found but I believe he is most likely buried with his daughter, Sabrey at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church. This is the plaque that Dillie Coble had made to honor her three husbands (before she married Matthew Woodell).

Children of Peter Kinney and Mary Chaple

• Sabrey “Silva” “Sibbey” Kinney  1823-1880

Children of Peter Kinney and Sophia Unknown

• George Wesley Kinney 1827-1862
• Martha Elen Kinney 1841-after 1860

Children of Peter Kinney and Delilah “Dillie” Ganeitta Coble Breedlove 1840-1913

• William Henry Kinney 1864-1930
• Robert Florentine Kinney 1867-1925
• Annie Jane Kinney 1871-1951
• Esther Delina Kinney 1875-1941
• Jennie Selina Kinney 1875-1961

Peter Kinney’s children were born over a span of 52 years (Sabrey in 1823 and Esther and Jennie in 1875 and they died over a period of 99 years (Wesley 1862 and Jennie 1961).

References available at Rogers Family Tree on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/34712803/family?cfpid=18685370656

and at Family Search at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHYH-61H