52 Ancestors - Favorite Name

Favorite Ancestor Name - I participating in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing prompt .

I have always like my Great Great Grandmother's name Kimetia  - Kimetia Brenneman Howard. It was the first name that really stood out in my beginning genealogy research. I wish I knew more about her personally.  

Kimetia was born to Henry and Artellia "Artie" Brenneman in Hancock County Illinois, 1856. Kimetia was the oldest born to this union. This was both Henry and Kimetia's 2nd marriage. They were both widowers with children from their previous marriages. Kimetia grew up in a large blended family. 

Kimetia married Willis Howard in 1873 in Hancock, Illinois. Kimetia married her mother's first husband's nephew. Kimetia step sister Sarah Brenneman also married another nephew of Kimetia's mother's first husband- Tilamen Howard. Willis Howard was a farmer. They had 5 children - 4 girls and 1 boy. In the early 1880's Kimetia and Willis settled in Cass County Iowa. In the early 1990's they packed up and moved to Letcher, South Dakota. Her son, Leroy, was also living in south Dakota with his own family around that time. She died in 1915 in Letcher, South Dakota. She is buried in Newlon's Grove in Cass County, Iowa.

Evidently census takers couldn't ever seem to get her name right

Camelia         1860

Kimetiac        1870

Climesia        1880

Comisha        1900

Karmetia        1910

However, her gravestone has her name as Kimetia.