Dale-Henry County AlArchives Obituaries.....Kirkland, Easter Kirkland Roebuck July 20, 1885
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The Southern Star, September 30, 1885
The Southern Star
Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
Wednesday, September 30, 1885
Page Two

Death of a very Old Lady

Mrs. Easter Kirkland, was born Sept. 7th, 1777, and departed this life near the
line of Dale and Henry counties, July 20th, 1885, lacking one month and eighteen
days of being one hundred and eight years old.  Her father was Hezakiah
Kirkland.  Her first husband was William Roebuck.  She had some property which
she inherited from her father, but her faithless husband took possession of it,
and left the wife penniless, in a strange land.  She returned to her people in
Carolina, and subsequently became the wife of Benjamin Kirkland.  She was the
mother of eleven children, three of whom are still living.  She and her husband,
with many relatives of the same name, came to Henry county about 1820, and
settled on the place where J.T. Lock now lives and continued to reside there,
till the death of her husband.  Many years ago, under the ministry of Rev. R.E.
Brown, she joined the Missionary Baptist Church, and was baptized by Rev. Wm. F.
Irwin.  On the 20th of May last she had a fall from which she never recovered. 
For a great many years she lived a peaceable and quiet life, abiding for the
most part with her relatives, but the best of all is, that she was truly pious,
and for many years never entertained a double of her acceptance with God.

We can only realize what a long life she lived, by scanning the past and noting
the great events which transpired during her existence.  She saw the
revolutionary war, the rise and formation of the United States Government, the
great wars which shook all Europe during the life of Napolean the 1st, the last
war with Great Britain, the invention of steam, its application to steamboats
and steam cars, the telegraph, the Mexican war, the late civil war, and all the
mighty strides which progress and civilization have made in upwards of a
century.  Practically she was more than twice as old when she died as Mathusalah.

She left a large circle of relatives in Henry and Dale counties, mainly among
the Kirklands and Brackins.

Perry


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