of  Jackson County, MS

Written by E. Ferrill McKee  -  January 30, 2007

William Kirkwood is believed to have come to Jackson County, Mississippi from an unknown Mississippi county. We do know that William died in Jackson County in 1840.

William married Elizabeth, surname unknown. The marriage produced Isabella, born 1800, and Henry, born 1817, and perhaps, other children.

Henry’s sister, Isabella, married William (James) Andrews. Their marriage produced six children.

Born to the marriage of William and Elizabeth was Sarah Jane Kirkwood, born 1850, along, possibly with other children.

Henry died in 1870. Miranda died in 1899. We believe that the remains of each repose in Old Zion Cemetery, Escatawpa, Jackson County, Mississippi.

In 1866, we think, that Sarah Jane Kirkwood married Wesley Francis Ferrill, born 1847, not so long after he returned from service with the Confederate Army in 1865.

Sarah Jane died in 1929, in Columbia, Marion County Mississippi. Wesley died at the Confederate Soldier’s Home, in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. Their remains repose under a common gravestone, in Columbia Cemetery, Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi. A Confederate Soldier’s monument to Wesley also has been placed at the gravesite.

Their marriage produced twelve children, including Cadmus, who died at age thirteen, and Wesley John, who died at age twenty. Their remains repose in Columbia Cemetery. Another child was Cammie Inez Ferrill, who married Hugh Kelsey McKee, Sr. They lived in Picayune, Pearl River County, MS from 1918 until Hugh’s death, in Bay St Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi, in 1960. In 1964, their home on Fifth Avenue in Picayune was sold to the Picayune Separate School District, and their home-site is occupied by Picayune Memorial High School, along with sites previously occupied by three other residences. Cammie died in 1971, in Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi. Their remains were buried in the McKee Plot, New Palestine Cemetery, Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi.. Their marriage produced eleven children, two of whom died at birth. The remaining nine children, six boys and three girls, lived to adulthood, All six sons served in the military during the World War I era, which officially lasted from December 7, 1941 until 1956, when peace was declared. Four sons and two girls, survive today, 2007.

Written by E. Ferrill McKee January 30, 2007