BIOGRAPHIES
* Source #1: History of
Fayette County, Ohio
Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914
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Source #2 - History of Fayette County,
Ohio & State of Ohio
By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio -
1881
(Unless otherwise noted)
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JAMES KIRKPATRICK
left Virginia in the year 1810, accompanied by his wife and two children (one child was left
behind), and William Young, his brother-in-law. While yet on the other side of the Ohio River,
they fell in company with the Ray and Fifer families, who accompanied them as far as Madison
County. The remaining members of the party came to Fayette, and on Christmas Eve of the same
year arrived at the cabin of Solomon Soward, in Jefferson Township, where they remained during
the winter. Upon arriving in this county, they stopped at the cabin of Captain
Joseph Parrett, and
upon inquiring for Soward's cabin, were informed that it was located about two miles further on,
on Paint Creek. No road but a bridle path led to the place, and they were compelled to leave the
wagons behind them. The next morning they returned for the same, and found the goods (among
which was a tin box containing eight hundred dollars) unmolested. Indians frequently came to
Soward's, bringing deer barns, and exchanging them for corn meal. The Virginians were
exceedingly anxious to see the camp of the savages, and on the Sunday following their arrival,
followed a squaw, who had been at the house, to the encampment, which was located on the high
bank of Paint Creek, on the Reuben Vesay farm. The redskins, about thirty in number, were
peaceable, but did not appear well pleased with the visit, and left the neighborhood a few days
after, and never returned. In 1811, Kirkpatrick and Jacob Dunkle purchased of
Mr. Gatch, of
Chillicothe, the Mosley survey in Jefferson Township, containing one thousand acres, a portion
of which is now owned by his son Henry Kirk. He engaged in the war of 1812, served as county
commissioner, and was one of Fayette's prominent citizens. He died January 1, 1840; his wife,
April 16, 1863. The union was blessed with thirteen children, of whom five are living. For the
sake of convenience the family name has been changed from Kirkpatrick to
Kirk.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio: Odell
& Mayer, 1881) |
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