Individual Details

Fields A Kirkpatrick

(Mar 1882 - 16 Feb 1920)

The State, Columbia, South Carolina, Tuesday, February 17, 1920, Page 2: Fields A. Kirkpatrick. Special to The State. Chester, Feb. 16---The death of Fields A. Kirkpatrick at his home in the Lowryville section of Chester county at the age of 35 years today marked the passing of one of this county's leading and most successful young planters. The funeral service will be conducted Tuesday morning at his late home at 11 o'clock, after which the body will be buried in Zion graveyard at Lowryville. Mr. Kirkpatrick is survived by one brother, Fitz Kirkpatrick and four sisters, Mr. T. L. Carter, Mrs. Adam S. Pressley, Mrs. Thomas Pressley and Miss Fanny Kirkpatrick. Mr. Kirkpatrick was a business man of unusual ability and though young in years was making a tremendous success of this agricultural pursuits and had he lived would have been unquestionably in a few years ranked as one of the largest and most successful planters in the Carolinas. His death was attributed to double pneumonia and superinduced by Spanish influenza. When he first became indisposed with influenza he kept at his work rather than going to bed which may have hastened the gravity of the malady which overtook him.

Events

BirthMar 1882South Carolina
Death16 Feb 1920Chester Co., South Carolina
BurialZion Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lowrys, Chester Co., South Carolina

Families

FatherJames M. Kirkpatrick (1839 - 1900)
MotherElizabeth Ann Ross (1835 - 1920)
SiblingSarah Fanny Kirkpatrick (1859 - 1930)
SiblingWilliam L. Kirkpatrick (1868 - )
SiblingMattie E. Kirkpatrick (1870 - )
SiblingJames F. Kirkpatrick (1872 - )
SiblingCamilia J. Kirkpatrick (1874 - )
SiblingFitz Hugh Kirkpatrick (1879 - 1930)
SiblingDelia Irene Kirkpatrick (1879 - 1954)

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