SIXTH GENERATION

686. Samuel D. Kirkpatrick was born on 5 Feb 1822 in Bond Co., Illinois. He died in Apr 1906 in Litchfield, Montgomery Co., Illinois. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Litchfield, Montgomery Co., Illinois.
Samuel D. Kirkpatrick, was born 5 February 1822 in Bond County, Illinoi s. He was in Wisconsin for a time as a chain carrier with a surveying g roup. This was in 1840 in Crawford and Richland counties, Wisconsin. A ccording to the "History of Crawford and Richland Counties, Wisconsin", S amuel was a blacksmith in Towerville, Crawford County, in 1856 and 1857 . This may, however, be a different Samuel D. Kirkpatrick, for there i s a record of a marriage of Samuel D. Kirkpatrick to a Melvina Chatterl in, 7 December 1862 in Grant County, Wisconsin, and we know that this w as not S.D.'s wife. Apparently S.D. Kirkpatrick drifted southward beca use during the Civil War he came aboard a troop steamer docked briefly a t Alton, Illinois, to greet Samuel Cotter Kirkpatrick of the 11th Wisco nsin Infantry, who was on his way south to Missouri. S.D. invited the y oung man to supper but the younger Kirkpatrick could not be excused. T his account, calling S.D. Kirkpatrick "Uncle Harrison's Samuel", is con tained in a letter from Samuel Cotter Kirkpatrick to his father dated 2 6 November 1861. S.D. was in business in Alton, Illinois at this time a ccording to a pre-Civil War city directory.

By 1867, we find him in Litchfield, Illinois, where he helped to found a M asonic lodge. According to a history of Montgomery County, Illinois, h e was a lumber merchant. He apparently continued to live in Litchfield f or the rest of his life, for we find him there in the 1880 census *** a nd it is there that he died in 1906. However, the Montgomery County hi story, which was published in 1904, states that in 1879 he removed to O regon, and has lived there since that time, living in 1904 in Portland.

S.D. Kirkpatrick authored a short family history titled "A Chronologica l Record of My Ancestry". There is no date on this piece. The account i s vivid but much of it's content is in error. It must be used with car e. The paper apparently descended through the family via S.D. Kirkpatri ck's daughter Myrtle (Kirkpatrick) Hazard of Lake Charles, Louisiana. ( Some copies of this paper bear comments by Day Jewell, another Kirkpat rick researcher, and some of his conclusions, unfortunately, are equall y unsound.)

In his paper, S.D. Kirkpatrick writes: "Bond County has many memorable e vents for me. It was in that county that my parents were married, in t hat county, I was born, in that county that my grandfather [Tho mas Newton Kirkpatrick] died, in that county that my great grandmother [ Susannah Gillham Kirkpatrick Scott] died*; it was from that county that m y grandfather went as a member of the convention that gave to Illinois h er first constitution that started her on her career as a free state fo r a free people. Yes, some of them had slaves, but only Grandfather br ought any to Illinois. He had two--a man and his wife. He gave them t heir freedom. They settled in the American Bottom** among the Gillhams a nd were living there when I came to Alton..."

S.D. died in April 1906, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Litchfie ld, Illinois on 3 May 1906. His wife is given in the 1880 census as Ma ry J. Kirkpatrick. She was Mary Jane Elworthy or Elsworthy, daughter o f William Elsworthy, whom he married 4 September 1851 in Madison County , Illinois. She was born in England and emigrated to this country with h er family when she was five years old, settling with them in Alton, Ill inois. She died in February 1915 in Litchfield and is buried there in E lmwood Cemetery beside S.D. The 1880 census record lists her age as 48 a nd her birthplace as England. This would make her birthdate around 183 2. However her cemetery record lists her age as 79, which would make h er birthdate about 1836. The Montgomery County history states that she w as 69 years old in 1904, which would place her birth as 1834 or 1835. W hich, if any of these dates is accurate, we cannot at this time say.

There were five children born of the marriage.

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* - Incorrect: Susannah died in Sangamon County, Illinois.
** - Region near the Mississippi River in the Southwestern corner of Ma dison County, Illinois.
*** Occupation listed as prospecting.

He was married to Mary Jane Elsworthy on 4 Sep 1851 in Madison Co., Illinois.⁽²⁵⁾ Mary Jane Elsworthy was born in Jun 1833 in England.⁽³⁷¹⁾ She died in Feb 1915 in Litchfield, Montgomery Co., Illinois. She was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Litchfield, Montgomery Co., Illinois. Mary is on the 1900 U. S. Census of Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Lou isiana with her son-in-law Edgar Hazzard and daughter Myrtle Hazzard. S he is age 66, married 49 years, the mother of 6, 3 which are currently l iving. She was born in England June 1833. Samuel D. Kirkpatrick and Mary Jane Elsworthy had the following children:

1530 i. Edward Kirkpatrick.
+1531 ii. Anna M. Kirkpatrick.
+1532 iii. James William Kirkpatrick.
1533 iv. Mary Carrie Kirkpatrick was born in May 1866 in Illinois. She died in Aug 1873 in Litchfield, Montgomery Co., Illinois.
+1534 v. Myrtle Kirkpatrick.