Edward Kimmer
Born: 1868, Albion, Michigan
Died: 1929, Albion, Michigan

First Wife:
Jane (Duncan) Kimmer

Children:
Donna (Kimmer) Humphrey
Child, died in infancy

Second Wife:
Myrtie (Belcher) Kimmer

Parents:
Mathias Kimmer
Elizabeth (Doverman) Kimmer

Siblings:
Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Kimmer) Clough
Louisa Kimmer
Charles Kimmer
Caroline (Kimmer) Salter
Anna Kimmer
Mary Kimmer
Katie Kimmer

Occupation:
Carpenter, Albion
Employee, Sinclan Filling Station, Albion

Notes:
Edward was a carpenter by trade, though he worked at the Sinclan filling station on S. Superior St. at Ash Street around the time he died. According to his obituary, he lived in Albion his whole life and was a member of the Murat Lodge No. 14 F and A. M. Albion Chapter 32, Royal Arch Masons, and the Albion Council No. 57 R. and S. He's buried at Riverside Cemetary in Albion next to his first wife Jane (Duncan) Kimmer.

After the death of his first wife, Donna, Edward's only daughter, went to live with her cousin Naomi and her husband Warren.

Next to Edward Kimmer's stone, there is a stone with an upside-down K. It represents a child that died in infancy.

Week ending September 17, 1903, Albion-
“A Union meeting of the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist churches was held at the Methodist church Sunday evening to institute some method of procedure against the saloon keepers of the city, who are alleged to have kept their places of business open on Labor Day...Mr. Dickie as spokesman of the committee, stated the committee had witnesses who would testify that the Albion and Commercial Hotel bar rooms and the saloons of John Wochholz, Ed. Kimmer and W. J. Sweeney were open on Labor day, and that they believed that it was the mayor’s duty to proceed immediately to prosecute the persons named.”