Individual Details

Nero Kirkpatrick was born August 1814 in Jackson County, Tennessee. He married Emiline Ramsey, daughter of Randolph and Polly Ramsey, ca. 1843 in Jackson County, Tennessee. He was a farmer. He left Tennessee about 1851 and went to Illinois, probably Franklin County, where he lived until about 1855. Two surviving letters from Nero to his Father Amos, found in the court records of Jackson County, Tennessee, reveal that at least by 1855 he was in Atchison County, Missouri. He was looking for unclaimed land upon which to file, using an eighty acre land warrant which he had received from his father. In the second letter, dated 1 February 1857, he talks about going on to Kansas or Nebraska to find land, but since he is found in the 1860 census still in Atchison County, he must have abandoned those plans. By 1870 he was found in Jackson, Johnson County, Missouri, where he lived until he died ca. 1885.

There were eight (8) children born of the marriage.

On the 1860 U. S. Census of Nishnabotna Township, Atchison Co., Missouri, Nero appears with his wife Emoline and children, John, Sarah, Polly, Amos, Luisa, William, Mahaly and James.

On the 1870 U. S. Census of Jackson Township, Johnson Co., Missouri, Nero appears with his wife Emiline and children John R., Louisa, Margaret M. and William T. Nero is a farmer.

On the 1880 U. S. Census of Jackson, Johnson Co., Missouri, Nero is in the household of his son John.

Obituary not found at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, genealogybank.com or newspaperarchive.com, February 25, 2018.

Birth	Aug 1814	Jackson Co., Tennessee
Marriage	Abt 1843	Jackson Co., Tennessee - Emaline Ramsey
Death	17 Sep 1888	Jackson, Johnson Co., Missouri
Burial		Unknown

Spouse	Emaline Ramsey (1822 - 1877)
Child	John Ramsey Kirkpatrick (1844 - 1913)
Child	Sarah E. Kirkpatrick (1846 - )
Child	Polly A. Kirkpatrick (1847 - )
Child	Amos K. Kirkpatrick (1849 - )
Child	Louisa E. Kirkpatrick (1851 - )
Child	Margaret M. Kirkpatrick (1853 - )
Child	William T. Kirkpatrick (1857 - )
Child	James Kirkpatrick (1858 - )

Father	Amos Kirkpatrick (1779 - 1861)
Mother	Sarah Green Ellis (1779 - 1823)
Sibling	Emily Kirkpatrick ( - )
Sibling	Ellis Kirkpatrick (1799 - 1828)
Sibling	Elizabeth "Betsey" Kirkpatrick (1800 - 1845)
Sibling	Nancy Kirkpatrick (1803 - 1880)
Sibling	Milton Kirkpatrick (1806 - 1873)
Sibling	Lewis Kirkpatrick (1807 - 1843)
Sibling	John Kirkpatrick ( - 1845)
Sibling	Flinn Kirkpatrick ( - )
Sibling	Mary Ann Kirkpatrick (1811 - )