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m. 22 Dec 1823
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Abt 1803 |
Halifax County, Virginia  |
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Yes, date unknown |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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| Father |
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| Mother |
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Est 1825 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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Yes, date unknown |
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Est 1826 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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Yes, date unknown |
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Abt 1830 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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Yes, date unknown |
Missouri |
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1824 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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1911 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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| Spouse |
Turner Carter | F22754 |
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7 Aug 1849 |
Halifax County, Virginia (MB1/187) |
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1834 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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1904 |
Muhlenberg Co., KY |
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Joseph E. Farmer | F7622 |
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11 Jul 1839 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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3 Sep 1910 |
Person, N. Carolina |
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Clement Baptist Church Cemetery, Person County, North Carolina |
| Spouse |
Caroline Graves Carter | F22729 |
| Married |
28 Nov 1859 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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Est 1843 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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Bef 1850 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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Abt 1845 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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Yes, date unknown |
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William George Carter | F22730 |
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21 Dec 1859 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
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| Notes |
Married:
- Children of Meades and Sallie Kirby;
Elizabeth Kirby (-)
Jeremiah Kerby (1824-)
Martha R Kirby (1831-)
Mary Kirby (1833-)
Sarah T Kirby (1834-)
Ben W Kirby (1839-1910)
Frances H Kirby (1843-)
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- [S61] United States Census, 1870 Virginia Halifax Co., Black Walnut.
Sarah Kirby 67, Mary 40, Martha Carter 38, Nannie Carter 25 Charles Dixon 24 Farm Labour, Sallie 20 Keeping House
This is the Household of Meades Anderson Kirby and Sarah 'Sally' Word.
- [S160] Correspondence, George Kirby.
Description: What Happened to Turner Carter
the Kirby family lore has it that Jeremiah Kirby shot his brother-in-law - turner carter.
Jeremiah then fled to Missouri.
Jeremiah was the son of Meades Anderson Kirby and Sallie C. Kirby and brother to Martha Kirby Carter.
Turner Carter married Martha R. Kirby 8/6/1849 bonded by Sally Kirby and Carter. Turner married Martha K. Kirby 8/7/1847
Turner was killed by the gun shot. Somewhere I had a letter from another Kirby describing the altercation. I'll have to look around the house for it.
Jerimiah (Jerry) Kirby fled to Saline County Missouri after 11/22/1856 according to my dad's notes. His age is listed as 26 in the 1850 census so he was born around 1824.
I remember my dad telling me that Jerimiah was hidden in a trunk after the shooting by Richard Kirby who was the sheriff in Pittsylvania County.
Just found the letter from Eva Kirby Cresp relating to Jerimiah Kirby. In the early 70's my father's sister, Clara Francis Cobb, and I went to visit an elderly cousin, Caroline Carter. During this visit, cousin Caroline told us that she had once received a visit from a woman from Missouri that had come to N.C. in search of information about her grand farther or great grandfather. He was Jeremiah Kirby.
The story as it was told. Jerry had a sister who married a pretty good guy until he started drinking and then he became violent. He had unmercifully beaten his wife (Jerry's sister) many times very badly and during one of these times of drinking, she ran to her brother's home badly blody and clothes torn from her body. When the husband [Turner] arrived at Jerry's home, he demanded his wife to be sent out to him. Refusing to do so until he sobered up. He then went out back to Jerry's wood pile and removed the axe. He then began to break the door in so Jerry shot in self defense to save himself and his sister? He felt that he would be hung for murder so he left home. He was last seen riding away on his horse with his little dog running along beside the horse and was never heard from again until this granddaughter came in search for geneology and info on her grandfather's family.
Jerry died of old age in Kansas City Missouri. He had worked as a jailer in Kansas City Missouri. He had married and had a family there.
I found the following information in the LDS library but didn't record the reference
Jerry married Eliza Jane Higgins on 11/20/1866
Jerry is listed as having two daughers Alice B. Kirby 9/10/1874 and Virginia Lee Kirby 9/10/1874 in St. Peters, Marshall Missouri.
I was told he became a sheriff in Missouri. He and his daughters came back to visit Virginia sometime after my grandfather George Kirby was born.
But why did he flee to Missouri?
Well Meades Anderson Kirby (his father) brother Benjamin Kirby was living in Missouri.
Meades married Sally Word on 12/22/1823 and his brother Benjamin had previously married Sally's sister Elizabeth Word on 11/4/1822.
Brothers marrying sisters seems to be a common occurance in the 1700's and 1800's in the Kirby family.
These marriages are found in the Halifax County's marriage records.
Elizabeth and Sally's father William Word was commissioned by James Monroe and/or James Madison to build bridges in Halifax County, Va.
My dad's notes has Benjamin and Elizabeth living in Calloway County Missouri in 1849 but don't know when they went - between 1822 and 1849. Calloway county is the adjoining county to Saline County.
In the 1850 census of Calloway county Elizabeth Kirby 56 born in Va Joesph W. Kirby 26 born in Va Jno(?) Kirby 16 born in Va Caroline Kirby 14 born in Va Ann W. Richardson 23 born in Va
Ann E. Richardson 3 born in Mo.
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- [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate.
Bondsman, Richard Kirby
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