History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
687.

JOHN L. KIRK was born in Augusta County, Va., Sept. 17, 1814.  His
father was James Kirk, born in Virginia.  He was Captain in the war of
1812.  He married Jane G. Powell.  They had a family of eight children. 
John L. was the third child, and oldest of the four now living.  He was
but six years old when he came, in 1820, to Daviess County, Ky.  His
father first settled on the farm now owned by C. D. Jackson.  John L.
was but thirteen when his father died.  He lived with his mother until
eighteen, when he left the farm in charge of his brothers.  He then
worked for different parties until his marriage to Susan Cottrell, in
January, 1835.  She was born in Shelby County, Ky., and was a daughter
of Reuben and Sarah (Pattmon) Cottrell.  After his marriage Mr. Kirk
settled in the timber, where now is his fine farm in Masonville
Precinct.  He and wife had six children, four living--Sarah J., born
June, 1837, is the wife of Luther J. Cottrell, of Owensboro; Thomas P.,
born August, 1839, married a Miss Taylor, who died, and he then married
Susan Barnhill, and resides in Boston Precinct; Melissa, born in 1841,
is the wife of John Chapman, of Owensboro; Menerva P., born in 1843, is
the wife of Hiram Bristow; and John, born in 1851, died Dec. 15, 1874. 
The mother died June 18, 1853.  Mr. Kirk married Mrs. Sarah A.
Hemingway, in November, 1854.  She was born in Charleston, Ind., Dec.
23, 1823, and was a daughter of Enoch and Delila (Whittaker) Stout. 
Mrs. Kirk first married Hiram Rager, and they had one son, William T.
Rager, born April 4, 1843.  Mr. Rager died in 1844.  She then married
Daniel Hemingway.  They had one daughter, Mildren, now Mrs. B. Chapman. 
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk have had six children--Mary A., born Jan. 18, 1855,
now Mrs. Samuel Taylor; Richard W., born Nov. 25, 1857; Emily B., born
Oct. 20, 1859; James C., born Oct. 20, 1862, and Benjamin F., born Sept.
18, 1863.  Mr. and Mrs. Kirk are both members of the Bethabara Baptist
church.  He has been Deacon eighteen years.  Mr. Kirk owns a fine farm
of 169 acres, 100 under cultivation.  In politics he has always been a
Democrat.

Kirk Powell Jackson Cottrell Pattmon Taylor Barnhill Chapman Bristow
Hemingway Whittaker Stout Rager 
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Augusta-VA Shelby-KY

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