Joseph N. Bimpson was born in Brown County, Ohio, on August 22, 1825, and came to this county in February 1852. His parents are John and Sarah N. (Campbell) Bimpson. Mr. Bimpson was married in Ironton, this county, on December 18, 1862, to Julia A. Henshaw, a native of Cattaraugus County, New York, born January 26, 1832.
Her parents are William Freeman and Nancy (Lane) Henshaw. Mr. Bimpson’s children are Margaret, born September 29, 1863; Henry H., November 5, 1865; Elizabeth H., February 16, 1867; Adaline W., August 4, 1874. They all reside at home.
Mr. Bimpson was the first Lieutenant in Captain J. S. George’s Calvary Company in the three-month service. He was wounded in a skirmish with Floyd’s pickets on Little Sewel Mountain, West Virginia. He was the first soldier wounded in this county. Richard Lambert, of the same company, was the first soldier killed from this county. Henry Henshaw, a brother of Mrs. Bimpson, was killed in the war in the State of Virginia.
The only particulars that could be learned of his death were that in destroying some captured arms, one of the muskets exploded, severing an artery from which he bled to death. Mr. Bimpson is a coal operator residing at Sheridan Coal Works, where he should be addressed.
Written in the Ironton Register on April 9, 1891, Mr. Bimpson of Sheridan spent Sunday here (Burlington). Children: 232 Margaret Bimpson b. 29 Sep 1863 233 Henry H. Bimpson b. 5 Nov 1865 234 Elizabeth H. Bimpson b. 16 Feb 1867 235 Adaline W. Bimpson b. 4 Aug 1874 (560) Margaret Ellen Bimpson, daughter of John and Sarah N. (Campbell) Bimpson, was born about 1829. Margaret Ellen died 26 Mar 1859 in Hecla Furnace, Lawrence Co., OH.
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