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GUY H. KINKEAD, farmer, P. O. Ripley, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Union Township, was born on the farm of his present residence July 14, 1805. His parents, William and Anna (Dunlap) Kinkead, were natives of Augusta County, Va. The former was born June 6, 1769, and the latter November 6, 1770. They were married December 1, 1789. His parents, William and Eleanor (Guy) Kinkead, removed to Kentucky among the earliest pioneers of the State. Mr. K. was born January 9, 1736. Mrs. K. was born August 17, 1740, and was captured by the Indians on April 14, 1764. She had three children when taken — Margaret, Isabell and Andrew. She saw her son Andrew murdered by the savages, when he was two years old. She had one child born during her captivity, a son who was christened Andrew. He was born in Ross County, Ohio. She was released in the early part of 1765. William Kinkead, Jr., the father of the subject of this sketch came to what was then Adams County, and settled on the old Kinkead homestead two and a half miles from Ripley. Prior to this, he purchased 3,000 acres of land in Union Township, 2,000 acres near Chillicothe, and 1,000 acres near Columbus. In the latter part of 1796, he with his family removed to his land near Chillicothe, but owing to the hostility of the Indians returned without unloading his goods. He died April 30, 1855. Mrs. Kinkead departed this life August 12, 1855. Guy H. Kinkead is the seventh child of a family of nine children. He was reared and brought up on the old homestead, and was married, September 17, 1839, to Miss Mary D. Gay, daughter of James and Catharine Gay, and a native of Woodford County, Ky., where she was born February 15, 1818. They had three children, all of whom are deceased. Mary C. died, aged twenty-six, and James G. and Anna died in infancy. Mrs. Kinkead departed this life March 28, 1854, and Mr. K. celebrated his second marriage in Springfield, Ohio, November 17, 1859, with Miss Mary P. Bechtle, a native of the Queen City, where she was born November 27, 1820, and a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Perry) Bechtle Two children were the fruits of this union — Lizzie G., born March 12, 1861, and Sallie B., born December 10, 1864. Mr. Kinkead owns a valuable farm of 137 acres, 120 of which is a part of the original homestead, and which his father gave him in 1826. Mr. Kinkead has always pursued the avocation of agriculture, except two years, which he spent in a store at Ripley, and six months in the mercantile business at Russellville, besides two years he was engaged in a queensware store at Ripley. He is one of the finest farmers in Brown County. Since 1873, he has devoted his attention to the breeding and raising of Short-Horn Durham cattle, in which he has been successful. Mr. and Mrs. K. are members of the Red Oak Presbyterian Church, and their daughters of the Ripley Presbyterian Church. Mr. K. is a Republican, politically, and one of the most honorable and highly respected citizens of Union Township.