Biography of Robert Kirkwood - Pulaski Co. VA


ROBERT KIRKWOOD-owns and cultivates one of the best farms in Pulaski county, to 
which is attached the historic interest of having been the first place settled 
by white inhabitants west of New river, when an unbroken wilderness stretched 
between here and Richmond. Charles S. and Lucy Ann (HARVEY) KIRKWOOD were the 
parents of the subject of this sketch. They were natives of Roanoke county, 
Virginia, and he was born in that county, March 16, 1837, coming to Pulaski 
county in 1863. At Pepper's Ferry, this county, December 15, 1863, he married 
Laura L. PEPPER, born at Pepper's Ferry, May 30, 1841. Jesse and Erskins PEPPER 
were her parents. They were born in this county, and her paternal grandfather, 
for whom Pepper's Ferry is named came to this (then Montgomery) county about 
1764. He built a small mill near his house immediately after coming here, to 
which people came from great distances to have their corn ground. During the war 
between the States, Robert KIRKWOOD had two brothers in the Confederate army, 
one in infantry, the other in cavalry services. Any mail for Robert KIRKWOOD 
should be sent to New River Depot, Pulaski county, Virginia.


Submitted by Karen Zemerick

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