Biography of C C Kirkland, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 683

C. C. Kirkland, a well-known planter and cotton-raiser of Independence County,
Ark., was born in Alabama, in 1826, and is a son of Richard and Elizabeth
(Anderson) Kirkland, who were born in South Carolina and East Tennessee, and
were married in Alabama, whither the mother was taken when a child, but where
the father moved after reaching manhood. Mrs. Kirkland died in 1882, at the age
of seventy-five years. Mr. Kirkland died in 1845, aged fifty-three years. Five
of their eight children are now living: Two brothers, besides our subject,
reside in Arkansas; Lucinda is the widow of William Tate, and resides in Tate
County, Miss.; W. R., died in Alabama, at the age of thirty-five years; J. W.,
died in Mississippi, aged about thirty-five years, also; Martha, who married
Mr. Garrison, died in Mississippi, and Ellen, wife of Ed Johnson, now resides
in Memphis, Tenn. C. C. Kirkland grew to manhood in Northern Alabama, and in
1860 came to Independence County, Ark. During the Rebellion he served in the
Confederate army three years; was at the battle of Helena, was a participant in
a great many skirmishes, and was assistant ordnance master on Price's raid
through Missouri. Since the war he has been engaged in farming, and for eight
years past he has been collecting agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company
during four or five months of each year. He was first married, in 1851, to Miss
Charlotte Parks, who was born in Alabama, in 1829, and the result of their
union has been six children: W. T., who is now employed with The Goodspeed
Publishing Company; Mary E., wife of W. P. Sneed; Frances C., wife of Tom
Hardin; James W., Calvin A., and Joan, wife of John A. Thomas. In 1872 Mr.
Kirkland was called upon to mourn the death of his wife, and after remaining a
widower for some time he was united in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Jane
Whaley, by whom he has one child, Cora. Mr. Kirkland has always supported the
men and measures of the Democrat party, and has shown his approval of secret
organizations by becoming a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which order he
has ascended to the Royal Arch degree. He has a good and fertile farm of ninety
acres, improved with buildings, fences and orchard, and supplied with all
necessary stock.