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Individual Record for: William M. Iman (male)

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1830-50 noted as resident of South Mill Creek: William Iman

He purchased a 3600 acre tract of land between North and South Mill Creek in 1849 from the estate of Saul McMechen. The tract was distributed to James Iman, James George, Jacob Iman, Solomon Crites, and Simeon Kesner.
(Note, some of these Iman names aren't clear in the genealogy!)

There was a William Iman in Kanawha County in 1850, as well as a Jacob in addition to the Jacob and Jacob Jr. who were in Hardy.

There are birth certificates for two of William's (son of Emanuel and
Barbara) children, from the Court House in Kanawha County, WV.

Jacob IMAN was born at Tuppers CK of KanawhaÊÊ in Kanawha County and State
of West Virginia, on the 2nd day of April, 1859 and that the parents names
are as follows:
Father: William IMAN Mother: Lucinda IMAN
Sex: Male as shown by certificate of birth returned by William Iman-Father
and recorded in Birth Record No. 1 at page 65.

Isaac IMAN was born at Pocatalico, Kanawha Co. in Kanawha County and State
of West Virginia, on the 10th day of April 1857 and that the parents names
are as follows:
Father: William IMAN Mother: Lucinda IMAN
Sex: Male as shown by certificate of birth returned by William IMAN-Father
and recorded in Birth Record No. 1 at page 43.



Norm Iman: William b 1821 m Lucinda Malcolm b 1819 in 1847 in Kanawha Co,VA. Lucinda was a sister to Jacob's wife Rachel . Both families moved to Kanawha Co, VA around 1848. There they raised six boys Andrew Jackson b 1849,Gabriel Barker b 1851,Wi lliam JosephÊ b 1852, Esau Malcolm b 1855, Isaac b 1857 and Jacob b 1859. William was a land owner in Hardy Co (purchased 3600 acres less 630 acres of Middle Mtn from an estate) prior to moving to Kanawha Co. He sold the land ~ half on So side o f Mtn to Solomon Crites then sold various sections on the No side of Mtn to some of the Imans and others before leaving for Kanawha Co. The big attraction in Kanawha Co was cheap land for farming and plenty of water and pasture for livestock. Will iam was a gunsmith and blacksmith and hired others in his shop. He also farmed and was adept at carpentry, saw mill and grist mill operations. It was recently reported by a great granddaughter Bernice Schmitz of Lyons,KS that Lucinda hid Andrew i n the corn field when a company of soldiers came through the area looking for young men to snatch and force them to fight in the Civil War (~1868). Not too long after this, (~1869) William and family packed up their belongings and loaded them o n a river raft and headed down the Ohio River on their way to KS. They stopped off probably in Monroe Co, IL and visited Iman relatives and stopped for quite some time in Rosendale, MO where they along with other families awaited the opening of th e Kansas Territory for homestead lands. In 1870 William and family migrated to just E of Clifton, KS where William took up a homestead (160 acres) overlooking the Republican River. Gabriel took up a homestead (160 acres) just east of William and o n N side of road. Andrew took up a homestead (160 acres) 2 mi N of Gabriel on E side of road. The homestead act required them to build a 16' x 20' house and live on the land for 5 yrs in order to get the free land which each of them did. The othe r boys were too young to take up a homestead so helped the older boys farm their land and build their homes. In 2004 I visited Clifton,KS and took photos of their farms. The house of William and Lucinda still stands however it has been converted t o an equipment shed. The well that he and the boys dug and tiled is adjacent to the house and an old cottonwood tree shades the corner. William died in 1883 and Lucinda followed in 1888. Both are buried in Clifton,KS.

It has quite some time since I have talked with Robert Miles in CA (descendant of Gabriel Iman), however he has done a bunch of investigating of the Imans from William on down. He is the one that discovered that Emanuel left VA and probably visite d his brothers and sisters in OH,IN,MO and KS along the way. He said that John ended up in Arkansas. He has done a lot of scanning of micro film copies of the local newspapers in Washington Co and Clay Co,KS trying to find out why the Imans all de parted the Clifton, KS area ~ 1900. William, Lucinda and Mary Jane Iman (Andrew's wife) are all buried there in unmarked graves. Lucinda and Mary Jane are buried in the IOOF Cemetery and William was buried in a graveyard where the current water to wer now stands. I guess that a man could take a can of paint and write "here lies the remains of William Iman on the water tower. When I inquired about why that they had destroyed the graveyard, no one seemed to know. One guy said that some of th e stones were laying along the fence, however when I went up there to look I didn't find anything.

Other interesting things came from the visits that I have had in Clifton include the fact from William's obit is that he was a member of the United Brethren Church since age 16 which indicates that Emanuel must have been a minister in the United B rethren Church. If you go to Christian Herr's will you can see that he and Christian(I) Eymann were instrumental in forming the United Brethren Church in Lancaster Co, PA. In Clifton the United Brethren Church alternated Sundays in the Methodist C hurch.

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