Thanks for posting that family story. Eliza Dickerson's cousin, Margaret Watts Hays wrote in Letter 47 of the Watts Hays Letter:
"Times gets no better hear. Stealing, murdering and every thing else going on. They are takin men up ever day or two and Shooting or hanging them without trial. Last week hung and shot some four or five. In my last letter I told you of them hanging cousin Sam Kimberlain(19). Hung him in his Barn. All of the Charges they had against him was outfitting his son to go with my husband. "

Margaret also describes his death in Letter 44. (for other references to the Kimberlins see the People Index on the Watts Hays Letters website)

She mentions Cousin Sam's oldest son and I have wondered if that referred to Henry J. Kimberlin (1834-?) or the next oldest, Isaiah Jefferson Kimberlin (1838-1914). The older Kimberlin brothers served in Co. D, 2nd/12th MO Cav. which was led first by Margaret's husband, Col. Upton Hays. The sgt. of Co. D was J. Kimberlin (not Julian) and I think that was actually Henry J. But I have been unable to find Henry J. in any census after 1850 and he is not present in the photos of the Kimberlin brothers from the early 1900's on Patricia Adkins-Roquette's website or in the photos sent me by Fields Duncan, a Kimberlin descendant. But Henry J. may have died before the Civil War as he is not living with the family in Blue Springs in 1860. It makes a kind of sense that the oldest brother would be the Sgt. and his younger brothers the Pvt.s.

I'm assuming that the widow in the photograph with Gov. Aldred was Ju's 2nd wife, Eudora Josephine Dutton.

Please contact me at owl@mcn.org or through the website. I'm interested in photos for the Photo Gallery and filling out the genealogy file for Julian's descendants.

Marian