Nancy Kinder, afterward Nancy Warren, settled with her husband in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, and there remained until the year 1852, when she died, aged about 77 years. There were born unto Jacob and Katy Clay Kinder, who came from Holland to this continent in 1760, three children, twentytwo grandchildren, and one hundred and two great grandchildren. Being unable to trace the fourth generation accurately, we think we approximate the truth, when we say there were about one hundred and fifty, great, great grandchildren. We have reserved our last page to speak more particularly of the three sons of Isaac and Rhoda Warren Kinder, who have fought life's battles successfully, and have gone to their eternal reward; viz: Warren, John and Jacob, three of the noblest and grandest men who ever lived in this communty. In a general respect, they all reminded me of the Ocean. The Ocean is grand, so were those men. War The Ocean is majestic, so were those men. And yet, each one reminded me of the Ocean under varied circumstances. ren reminded me of the Ocean when it stretches on and on in its majestic grandeur, under the solemn stillness of an autumn's sun. John reminded me of the Ocean, when the breezes have fanned themselves into a brisk gale, and have piled up its bosom into mighty, towering columns of strength and power. Jacob reminded me of the Ocean when the dark storm-cloud gathers, and the driving winds lash it into fury, and its mighty huge billows, rolling mountains high, dash and break upon the shore as if they would submerge and engulf the very earth. Jacob Kinder possessed a restless, riggling activity, which would not let him be still. But give him something to do, something that was worthy of his doing, and he was up and at it, and never succumbed until the task was accomplished, and thoroughly accomplished. Like the seabird, happiest when riding the highest wave of the storm, Jacob Kinder was most and greatest and mightiest when he was ascending the very crest of some mountain barrier, and had but to reach forth his hand, nerved by his mighty indomitable will, and wrench success from the very jaws of apparent death. Those men were firm men. Men of the staunchest type of integrity. Men, wherever known, whose word was as good as their bond. Men who always exerted an influence for good, and impressed their noble spirits upon all with whom they came in contact. Men who did their own thinking, and arrived at their own conclusions, and when they had once reached a conclusion, you had might as well try to move the earth with a crowbar, as to move those men from their conviction of right and duty. We are not here to say that those men were perfect, or free from weakness which are the common lot of humanity-else they had not been buman-we are not here to say that those men did not study policy in their actions and transactions among men, but we are here to say that whenever a question of policy or right was presented to those men for decision, there was such a deep sense of abiding rectitude and right in the very constitution of their natures, that they invariably vergd to the right, let the outcome be loss or gain. They were good men. Since their death many tender tributes of respect have greeted my ears from men who knew them well all their lifetime. The writer was standing at the desk of a prominent merchant, who is struggling to accumulate this world's goods, when the news of the death of my uncle, Lewis N. Wright, came, and said this man : "I envy such men as Warren Kinder, your father, and Lewis Wright, when I hear of their death. Men who have acted a noble part in life, and have come down to its final close with honor and credit to themselves, and the respect and love of all who knew them." 1 A few weeks after my father's death, I met one of the most prominent men who ever lived in this State, Senator Saulsbury, who knew him long and well, and speaking of his noble life, said he, "John Kinder was the salt of the earth." Men who have made it the business of their lives to find fault with christian men and to point out their weaknesses rather than their strength, men who knew Jacob Kinder well, were compelled to acknowledge the purity and uprightness of his life, and the holy triumph of his death. Many men have been made by circumstances, but the process was too slow for Jacob Kinder. made circumstances, and pushed all the interests of his vocation to their utmost bounds, and at the same time lived a life devoted to God, and the great interests of His Church. He These facts have been mentioned to show that those men's noble, active lives were impressed upon all lives about them, and that there is a power in the christianity which they professed and lived, which raised them above the suspicion of men, and crowned their years with honor, goodness and success. Those men had an unconquerable faith in their Mother's Bible and their Mother's God. Several ministers visited Warren on one occasion. During the day they took a walk on his farm. One of the ministers could not be satisfied long at a time without book to read." in his house."' a book in his hand, and he said in the walk, "I wish I had a good My uncle remarked “he had a very good book The minister felt somewhat elated to think he was in such close proximity to a good book and on returning to his home Warren Kinder handed him a copy of the Holy Bible saying: "That is the best book I ever read. '' Those men lived close together in their lives and were not far apart in their death, and at a good ripe old age closed their eyes upon the conflicts of mortality and have gone to live and grow and sing forever in the Paradise of Angels and God. And now as we look upon the friendly, familiar faces which compose this re-union-earth-born and fleeing-and as we look beyond it and beyond this Church-this time-honored Templeand beyond these grounds and beyond the horizon, and beyond the clouds and beyond the stars let us ask ourselves the question: "Shall we all meet in that grand re-union in the upper Temple and with Abraham and Isaac and Warien and John and Jacob be eternally shut in to go out no more forever?'' The Noble Family BY COL. J. M. MCCARTER. The first of this family, we think, came to America from England settling on the Eastern Shore of the Province of Maryland about A. D. 1650. At this time about fifty families among whom were the Richards, the Wrights, and the Nobles, and others, followed John Richards to Dorchester County who had patented large tracts of land lying in what is now known as North West Fork Hundred in the State of Delaware, and in several of the upper election districts of Dorchester County, Md. The writer of this sketch has seen and examined the original title deeds from King Charles I of England to the aforesaid John Richards, one or more of which is yet in the possession of his lineal descendant, Mrs. Doctor Hugh Martin, nee Richards, of Seaford, Delaware. We have no means of ascertaining the christian name of the first immigrant bearing the name of Noble in the early settlement in Dorchester County. He and his descendants, for several generations, lived unconspicuous and quiet lives. When the celebrated Dr. Johnson, author of the English dictionary, was refused marriage by the lady whom he addressed with that view, and he pressed her to know the reason of such refusal, she is said to have replied, that an insuperble obstacle was in the fact that her father had been hung; to which he made answer, that the hanging of several of his ancestors was, he had no doubt, richly deserved, if it had not been effected, and instead of its being an objection, was an honor. This era in English history was the period of death for political offences, and we know that: "Whether on the gallows high, Or in the battle's van, The noblest place for man to die We know of none of the Nobles who have been hung, or who have been lifted into notice in history by either heroic or criminal conduct. The generations succeeding the first immigrant bearing this name, lived through exciting periods, but no one bearing the name of Noble was conspicuous in the disputed boundary question between Delaware and Maryland; nor in the Claiborne or Cromwellian wars of Maryland. Even in the struggle for independence, we have no knowledge of one of this name fighting either in the ranks of the " Maryland Line,'' or in those of the Blue Hen's Chickens," as the soldiers of Delaware were called. So far back as we can trace them, they were Quakers. The origin of name designating individuals and families sometimes was found in the qualities, or characterisics of the person. We flatter ourself that this was the case in the name of Noble; and strange and incongruous as it seems in a Republican Government and a Democratic State, we have had Nobles (a nobility) from its beginning, and today finds us surrounded if not indeed, overawed, by NOBLES. The grandfather of our present Sheriff William Noble was a member of the Society of Friends; a Dorchester citizen who was twice married. By his first marriage were two sons, John and William. His second wife was a Miss Jackson of Dorchester County; by this marriage there were two sons also; Joshua and Mark Noble who are the progenitors of the family here today assembled. Of the other and earlier brothers, we are without record. The father of Joshua and Mark Noble was removed from them by death when they were quite young; and their mother married, for a second husband a gentleman by the name of Brooks, who squandered a very considerable estate of his own and of his wife's, in gambling and horse-racing. The extent to which horse-racing was indulged in, at the close of the last century, and indeed throughout the entire century, by those residing in the colonies settled by the English, may be learned by reading the July number of The Century Magazine, 1885, in an article by Dr. Eggleston. Mr. Brooks was devoted to this sport, and when Joshua, the elder of his two step-sons, became old enough to manage a race-horse, he, under the control of his step-father, became a racerider; going, not unfrequently, the distance of one hundred miles from home, to ride in races for Mr. Brooks. When Joshua arrived at the age of seventeen years, after mature deliberation, he determined never to ride again, and so informed his step-father. He expected to be severely chastised for this avowal. Mr. Brooks did not, much to his surprise, even threaten him, and never afterward asked him to get into a saddle for a race. ever after the most determined foe of horse-racing. this Mr. Brooks died and left his two step-children and their Joshua was |