SIXTH GENERATION

435. Jane Evaline Kirkpatrick was born on 10 Nov 1827 in Chester Co. South Carolina. She died on 12 Dec 1911 in Monroe Co., Mississippi. She was buried in Hatley Cemetery, Monroe Co., Mississippi.⁽⁵⁾

She was married to Hezekiah West Kirkpatrick (son of Samuel Kirkpatrick and Elizabeth Burris) on 5 May 1853 in Lowndes Co., Mississippi. ⁽⁵⁸⁾ Hezekiah West Kirkpatrick was born on 3 Nov 1816 in Chester Co., South Carolina. He died on 5 Oct 1901 in Monroe Co., Mississippi. He was buried in Hatley Cemetery, Monroe Co., Mississippi. ⁽⁵⁾ He served in the military in Hardy's Company, Company G, 1st Infantry, Mississippi State Troops, CSA. ⁽⁵⁹⁾ Hezekiah, the oldest child of Samuel and Elizabeth Buris Kirkpatrick, w as born 3 November 1816 in Chester County, South Carolina. In 1850, He zekiah moved his family to Monroe County, Mississippi. On 18 August 18 64, at the age of 48, Hezekiah enlisted in the Confederate State Troops a s a Private. His enlistment records show that he was a blacksmith. Fo llowing the war, he returned to Monroe County, where he remained until h is death on 5 October 1901.

Hezekiah was twice married. His first wife was Malinda Triplett whom h e married probably around 1839. Malinda was the daughter of John N. Tr iplett, and was born circa 1814 in South Carolina, and died in 1853, pr obably in Monroe or Lowndes County, Mississippi. Hezekiah married seco ndly, on 5 May 1853, his first cousin, Jane Evaline Kirkpatrick, daught er of Francis and Isabella Triplett Kirkpatrick. Jane was born 10 Novem ber 1827, Chester County, South Carolina and died 12 December 1911, Mon roe County, Mississippi. Jane was a diminutive woman, described as abo ut 5 feet 3 inches tall and only weighing 85 pounds. "She was well edu cated, intelligent, industrious, creative, gracious and warmhearted, an d a true Christian," according to her granddaughter Velma Ritter Wright . She attended a girl's academy in Chester, South Carolina in her yout h, where she studied, among other subjects, painting. After her marria ge to Hezekiah, she raised Hezekiah's five children by his first marria ge and her own eight. When the youngest, twins, were fourteen, she and H ezekiah took in three small orphaned boys aged 3, 5, and 7. Later stil l, they took in another baby boy and raised him. When she was 77 years o ld, after Hezekiah died, she opened a country store and was a country s torekeeper for a few years before here health began to fail. Jane died 1 2 December 1911 in Monroe County, Mississippi. Both Hezekiah and Jane a re buried in the Hatley Cemetery in Monroe County.
Jane Evaline Kirkpatrick and Hezekiah West Kirkpatrick had the following children:

1154 i. Robert Amzi Kirkpatrick was born in 1854 in Monroe Co., Mississippi. He died in 1855 in Monroe Co., Mississippi.⁽⁵⁸⁾ He was buried in Old Aberdeen Cemetery, Monroe Co., Mississippi. ⁽⁵⁸⁾
+1155 ii. Susan Annabel Kirkpatrick.
1156 iii. Henry Francis Kirkpatrick.
+1157 iv. James Wallace Kirkpatrick.
+1158 v. Nancy Ellen Kirkpatrick.
+1159 vi. Augustus Eli Kirkpatrick.
+1160 vii. Louis Oliver Kirkpatrick.
+1161 viii. Rebecca Alice Kirkpatrick.
+1162 ix. Sallie Annice Kirkpatrick.