Individual Details
William Thompson Kirkpatrick
(28 Jan 1850 - 2 Dec 1923)
Riverside Daily Press, Riverside, California, Monday December, 3, 1923, Page 6: William T. Kirkpatrick. Funeral services for the late William T. Kirkpatrick will be held at Evergreen cemetery Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock. Rev. Mr. Findley of Long Beach, a close friend of the family, will have charge of the services. There will be no service at the undertaking parlors. Mrs. Kirkpatrick passed away Sunday morning, December 2, at the age of 74 years. For the past forty years he had been a valued resident of Riverside county, dividing his time between the city of Riverside and his ranch at Menifee.
He was born in Gainsborough, Tenn., where he lived until his marriage to Miss Callie Capten of Union City, Tenn., in 1871. Later Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick removed to California, where they lived for a few years in Garden Grove, later coming to Riverside county, where they located in the Menifee valley.
Mr. Kirkpatrick is survived by his widow and nine grown children, all of whom live in this section of the country. Mr. Kirkpatrick is the first member of the large family to pass away. Death came to him at the home of his nurse, Miss Marcia R. Peckens of 376 East Fifth street, where he and Mrs. Kirkpatrick had made their for the past few months. He had been in failing health for the past two years.
Close members of the family who survive the pioneer and his widow, a sister, Mrs. J. B. Teel of Long Beach; a brother, C. M. Kirkpatrick of Riverside; four daughters, Mrs. Jennie K. Velzy of Riverside; Mrs. Betty K. Cree of Palm Springs; Mrs. Mary O'Neill of San Bernardino, and Mrs. Lulu Patton of San Bernardino, and five sons, R. H. Kirkpatrick of Elsinore; Felix and Leonard Kirkpatrick of Menifee; Wert Kirkpatrick of Whittier and Floyd Kirkpatrick of Oceanside.
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Families
Spouse | Calpernia "Callie" Portia Patton (1854 - 1945) |
Child | Lulu Pauline Kirkpatrick (1871 - 1948) |
Child | Robert Hamilton Kirkpatrick (1873 - 1957) |
Child | Wert Porter Kirkpatrick (1877 - 1967) |
Child | Bettye Kirkpatrick (1879 - 1944) |
Child | Mary Patton Kirkpatrick (1881 - 1965) |
Child | Jennie Lind Kirkpatrick (1884 - 1935) |
Child | Felix Moore Kirkpatrick (1887 - 1970) |
Child | Floyd Anderson Kirkpatrick (1889 - 1964) |
Child | Leonard Morris Kirkpatrick (1893 - 1974) |
Father | Robert Campbell Kirkpatrick (1823 - 1904) |
Mother | Elizabeth Thompson (1834 - 1866) |
Sibling | Robert B. Kirkpatrick (1854 - ) |
Sibling | John Anderson Kirkpatrick (1856 - 1908) |
Sibling | Amos G. Kirkpatrick (1858 - 1909) |
Sibling | Nancy "Nannie" "Kezzie" Keziah Kirkpatrick (1859 - 1929) |
Sibling | Martha Prudence Kirkpatrick (1859 - ) |
Sibling | Claudius Morris Kirkpatrick (1864 - 1935) |
Sibling | Hall "Hallie" Kirkpatrick (1866 - 1888) |
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006), Database online..
2. 1900 Census Riverside Co., California.
3. Obituary of William Thompson Kirkpatrick, Riverside Daily Press, Riverside, California, Monday December, 3, 1923, Page 6.
4. Obituary of William Thompson Kirkpatrick, Riverside Daily Press, Riverside, California, Monday December, 3, 1923, Page 6.
5. Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006), Database online..
6. Obituary of William Thompson Kirkpatrick, Riverside Daily Press, Riverside, California, Monday December, 3, 1923, Page 6.
7. Evergreen Memorial Park, AKA Evergreen Cemetery. Index of burials at www.gergreen-cemetery.info.
8. Obituary of William Thompson Kirkpatrick, Riverside Daily Press, Riverside, California, Monday December, 3, 1923, Page 6.