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Killmer (Kilmer, Killner), Jonas

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4 July 1819

“Jonas Killmer,” Old Bayview Cemetery, Corpus Cristi, Nueces Co., TX, Memorial ID 44080270, Find a Grave, accessed 15 May 2025; Kilmer, History of the Kilmer Family in America, 189. Possibly born 14 July 1820. (Vosburgh, Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 150; Daughters of the American Revolution, Bible, Family, and Miscellaneous Records from New York State, vol. 58, p. 140, microfilm 862,778, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)

Comprehensive Works Cited

Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com.

Kilmer, C. H., ed. History of the Kilmer Family in America. Elmira, NY: Advertiser Association, 1897.

Vosburgh, Royden Woodward, ed. Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Manorton, in the town of Livingston, Columbia County, N. Y. New York: No publisher, 1915. Microfilm copy available at FHL.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

–1 Jan. 1858.

“Died,” Nueces Valley Weekly (Corpus Christi, TX), 2 Jan. 1858, [3].

Comprehensive Works Cited

Nueces Valley Weekly. Corpus Christi, TX. 1849–?

Farmer.

1850 U.S. Census, Bexar Co., TX, 322.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Possibly born in Massachusetts.

1850 U.S. Census, Bexar Co., TX, 322. Baptismal records suggest Killmer could have been born in New York, and Killmer’s son remembers his father’s birthplace as Cumberland, New Jersey. (Vosburgh, Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 150; Kilmer, History of the Kilmer Family in America, 189.)

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Kilmer, C. H., ed. History of the Kilmer Family in America. Elmira, NY: Advertiser Association, 1897.

Son of Adam J. Kilmer and Eva.

Vosburgh, Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 150; Kilmer, History of the Kilmer Family in America, 189.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Kilmer, C. H., ed. History of the Kilmer Family in America. Elmira, NY: Advertiser Association, 1897.

Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by 1841.

Record of Members in Nauvoo, in General Church Recorder, Far West and Nauvoo Elders’ Certificates, CHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

General Church Recorder. Far West and Nauvoo Elders’ Certificates, 1837–1838, 1840–1846, 1862. CHL. CR 100 402.

Signed Memorial to United States Senate and House of Representatives, Nov. 1843.

Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 28 Nov. 1843.

Entered complaint to JS against Robert D. Foster, May 1844.

Introduction to City of Nauvoo v. R. D. Foster–B, City of Nauvoo v. R. D. Foster–C, and State of Illinois v. R. D. Foster.

Married Caroline S. King, 23 Apr. 1845, in Johnson Co., Iowa Territory.

Johnson Co., IA, Marriage Records, 1839–1910, Register of Marriages, vol. 2, p. 58, 23 Apr. 1845, microfilm 986,009, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Settled with Lyman Wight’s colony in Texas.

Johnson, Polygamy on the Pedernales, 83; 1850 U.S. Census, Bexar Co., TX, 322.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Johnson, Melvin C. Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845–1858. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2006.

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Died in Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., Texas.

“Died,” Nueces Valley Weekly (Corpus Christi, TX), 2 Jan. 1858, 3.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Nueces Valley Weekly. Corpus Christi, TX. 1849–?

Killmer (Kilmer, Killner), Jonas

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