Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography: George KIRKPATRICK ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Transcribed and submitted by Darla Ruebush, , 1998. ************************************************************************** GEORGE KIRKPATRICK - post master, notary public and farmer, owns a farm of 220 acres on Anthonys Creek, four miles above Alvon, and a second farm of about 270 acres on Howards Creek, five miles from White Sulphur Springs. All is good land, well located and well improved, and on the lower farm is found coal and iron ore. The parents of George KIRKPATRICK were Thomas K. and Jennie (HAYS) KIRKPATRICK, who came from Augusta County, Virginia, to Greenbrier County in 1812. His birth was in Anthonys Creek District, September 4, 1816, and on Howards Creek, October 20, 1836, he married Belinda D. DEAN. The fifteen children of their union are recorded: Thomas H., born July 27, 1837, lives in Augusta County, Virginia; George Dean, September 8, 1838, died May 26, 1845; William K., December 3, 1839, lives in Idaho Territory; James F., August 17, 1841, killed December 18, 1855; John H., December 1, 1842 lives on Howard Creek, this county; Eleanor V., February 6, 1845, died April 9, 1863; Francis H., May 13, 1846, lives on Howards Creek; Samuel B., February 8, 1848, lives at home; Margaret J., December 11, 1849, died February 11, 1863; Hugh M., February 26, 1851, lives on Howards Creek; Susan Ann, January 10, 1853, resides in Fayette County, West Virginia; Aquilla F., September 22, 1854, lives at home; Edward C., September 20, 1856, lives in Augusta County, Virginia; S. Kate, February 3, 1859, lives at Hinton, Summers County, this State; Virginia, October 5, 1861, died when four days old. Four sons were in Edgar's Battalion, Confederate army. Thomas H. as first lieutenant, William K., sergeant, and John H. and Francis. Thomas was wounded, John was held prisoner of war in the last year of the war, and all gave faithful service to their State. The mother of these children was a daughter of George and Margaret (KEISTER) DEAN, who came to Greenbrier County from Pendleton County in 1825. She was born April 25, 1817, and died March 28, 1863. In Monroe County, West Virginia, March 20, 1866, George KIRKPATRICK married Bettie A. SHANKLIN, who was born September 16, 1824. Mr. KIRKPATRICK is a good citizen who has been honored with many public trusts. He was eight years constable, eight years justice of the peace, two years supervisor, four years secretary of the board of education and is now commissioner of roads, postmasters at Lowry's Mills, notary public, and member of the Democratic executive committee of Greenbrier County. He has been for fifty years a member of the Presbyterian church, elder and clerk of the Session many years. Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974.