Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930

WILLIAM T. KIMSEY

A member of the Nonagenarian Club is Mr. Kimsey and next July 4, he will celebrate his ninety-first birthday. He was born in Ohio of English and Irish parentage and has lived his long life in Indiana and Michigan.

At an early age he became a painter, which trade he followed with the exception of four years of service in the Civil War in which he enlisted as a drummer.

He has edited several papers, The Waterloo Press, The Grand River Valley Standard and the Ionia Standard.

Mrs. Kimsey is the real pioneer coming to Michigan, in Allegan county in 1850 and was one of four unusually attractive sisters, the Minier girls, Lily becoming the wife of Capt. Ami Coates; Esther, Mrs. J. Rhodes; Hannah, Mrs. Dan Wilson, and Margaret, Mrs. Wm. Kimsey, the only survivor, as the two brothers, Frank and Fred Minier are deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Kimsey, in spite of the years drive winters to a summer cottage in Wauchula, Fla., and Mr. Kimsey usually drives his car back and forth.

He attributes his good health to the fact that his hobby has always been "Kept busy", and even now he has a printing press in his home where he does job printing. Now his great ambition is to live to be one hundred years old.

Mrs. Kimsey remembers trading at Artemas Carter's store, where now is August Pfaff's home. That was in the fifties.