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Lucilius M. Kirkpatrick
Lucilius M. Kirkpatrick, Muhlenberg County, was born July 18, 1829, in Wilson County, Tenn. He is the eldest of nine children - four boys and five girls - born to Anderson and Emma E. (Moss) Kirkpatrick, natives of Wilson and Sumner Counties, Tenn., respectively of Scotch-Irish and German descent. Anderson Kirkpatrick was a son of John Kirkpatrick, who married a Miss Clendening; they were natives of North Carolina and Virginia respectively. John Kirkpatrick, was the son of Alexander Kirkpatrick, who was born in Ireland. The family came to Tennessee about 1780. The mother of our subject was a daughter of John Moss, who married Miss Lawrence Slainks; they were natives of Virginia.
Lucilius M. was reared on a farm, and received a common school education; he taught several terms of school in Tennessee; he lived with his parents until the age of twenty, when he engaged as salesman for one year in Lebanon, Tenn. He then engaged in business for himself at Cole's Ferry, on the Cumberland River, for eight years. In 1859, he moved to Logan County, Ky., and engaged in farming for two years. When the war broke out he returned to Tennessee, and engaged in farming and trading until 1877, when he moved back to Logan County. In 1879, he located near Penrod, where he has been engaged in the mercantile business, railroad contracting and farming.
He was married in September, 1853, to Vandelia S. Coles, of Tennessee, a daughter of Samuel and Sallie (Walker) Coles; natives of Wilson County, Tenn., and of Irish descent. Her grandfather, William T. Coles, was born in Dublin, Ireland.
To Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick were born thirteen children: Laura L. (deceased wife of -- Kennedy), Sallie E. (Crewdson), John W., Mary E. (deceased), Lizzie M. (Mohon), Lucilius Z., Colista A., Anderson D., Samuel T., Robert H., Harry L., Sue D., Frizzella. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a member of the F. & A.M.
Source: Battle, J.H., W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffen. Kentucky: A History of the State. Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, 1885. Page 911.
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