Individual Details
Lorrando Monroe Kirkpatrick
(14 Jan 1895 - 5 Jul 1928)
Texas death certificate has him listed as L. M. Kirkpatrick. It shows his occupation was driver, he was married and he died of a gun shot wound.
Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, Saturday, July 7, 1928, Page 2, Col. 4: Houston Judge Holds Inquest For Shooting. Special to The News. Houston, Tex., July 6---Justice Jeff Matthews of Harrisburg went to La Porte today to hold an inquest in the death of Lorenzo [Lorrando] Kirkpatrick, 34, of La Porte, who was found shot to death at the home of his mother about 11:15 o'clock last night.
Kirkpatrick, a world war veteran, was found with a bullet wound in the head, and a .38 caliber pistol beside him. After his return to America from France, at the end of the war, he lived in Jersey City, N. J., for a time, and recently returned to La Porte to enter the sand and gravel business. He has a wife and daughter in Jersey City, both of whom had planned to join him in La Porte this fall.
Besides his wife and mother, Kirkpatrick is survived by a sister, Mrs Leonard Dudley of La Porte, and three brothers, Harold of La Porte and Everette and Armand [Ormond] of Venezuela.
Kirkpatrick was a native of Centralia, Ill., and first made his home in La Porte in 1916.
Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, Saturday, July 7, 1928, Page 2, Col. 4: Houston Judge Holds Inquest For Shooting. Special to The News. Houston, Tex., July 6---Justice Jeff Matthews of Harrisburg went to La Porte today to hold an inquest in the death of Lorenzo [Lorrando] Kirkpatrick, 34, of La Porte, who was found shot to death at the home of his mother about 11:15 o'clock last night.
Kirkpatrick, a world war veteran, was found with a bullet wound in the head, and a .38 caliber pistol beside him. After his return to America from France, at the end of the war, he lived in Jersey City, N. J., for a time, and recently returned to La Porte to enter the sand and gravel business. He has a wife and daughter in Jersey City, both of whom had planned to join him in La Porte this fall.
Besides his wife and mother, Kirkpatrick is survived by a sister, Mrs Leonard Dudley of La Porte, and three brothers, Harold of La Porte and Everette and Armand [Ormond] of Venezuela.
Kirkpatrick was a native of Centralia, Ill., and first made his home in La Porte in 1916.
Events
| Birth | 14 Jan 1895 | Tamaroa, Perry Co., Illinois |  | ||
| Death | 5 Jul 1928 | La Porte, Harris Co., Texas | | ||
| Burial | Old La Porte Cemetery, La Porte, Harris Co., Texas | |
Families
| Father | Alva "Monroe" Kirkpatrick (1869 - 1910) |
| Mother | Rosa Belle Johnson (1872 - 1949) |
| Sibling | Harold William Kirkpatrick (1896 - 1962) |
| Sibling | Everett Ross Kirkpatrick (1899 - 1979) |
| Sibling | Ormond Kirkpatrick (1903 - 1965) |
| Sibling | Myra Lee Kirkpatrick (1910 - 1999) |