BIO:  KIRK, Abraham D., s/o Edmond Kirk

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

KIRK   MAYHALL

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County,  Decker Twp,, page 539

ABRAHAM D. KIRK (deceased) is a native of Gibson County, Ind., where he was
born January 3, 1824.  He is a son of Edmond Kirk, who was a native of the
"Blue-grass" State, and came to Indiana with his parents when only a small
boy.  In 1850 our subject came to Knox County, Ind., and here has always made
his home.  At the age of twenty-six years he was married to Mary Jane
Mayhall, daughter of William Mayhall, a native Kentuckian.  After marriage
he located on his present farm and cleared 170 acres, owning 600 acres.  To
their marriage seven children were born, five of whom are living:  Frank,
Alice, Charles, Octavia and Drusilla.  Mr. Kirk did not participate in the
late war.  He died June 30, 1884, of cancer of the throat.  His widow still
survives him.
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