Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 521-522 [McCracken]

     REV. JOHN D. KIRKPATRICK was born in Montgomery county,
Tennessee, November 27, 1828, and is a son of Finis Ewing and
Margaret (Gant) Kirkpatrick.  The mother died when he was just three
days of age.  He has a twin brother, Robert Simpson Kirkpatrick, now
a farmer and resident of Washington.  The parents were natives of
Tennessee.
     Rev. Kirkpatrick was reared by relatives in Tennessee.  His
training was given him upon a farm, and his early educational
advantages were very limited.  When seventeen years of age he was
thrown upon his own resources, and worked as a farm hand for one
year, then in 1848 came to McCracken county, where he has practical
made his home ever since.
     In 1858 he married Mary Jane Rudolph, born in Montgomery
county, Tennessee, July 22, 1834, and their children were as
follows: An infant, deceased; Elmira M., deceased; Ellen Simpson,
deceased; William T.; Linnie B., deceased; E. Wallace.
     When Mr. Kirkpatrick was sixteen years of age he joined the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, of which both he and his wife are
faithful members.  In the spring of 1855 Mr. Kirkpatrick was
licensed to preach, and was an active worker in the vineyard of the
Lord until recently when declining years forbade.  While carrying
his religious labors he has also farmed, and is a most excellent and
worthy man.  In his political convictions he is a Prohibitionist,
and at one time was a candidate of that party for legislature. 
Fraternally he is a Mason and a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows.

Kirkpatrick Gant Rudolph Simpson
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Montgomery-TN

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