Individual Details

Robert S. Kirkpatrick was born in May of 1857 in Randolph County, Arkansas. He lived in Newport, Arkansas for most of his life and died there at age 54 on 17 June 1911. He was a travelling salesman for many years. He also had a brokerage office in the Board Building in Newport.

On 14 July 1877 he married Ida Parlee Reynolds of Elm Store, Randolph County, Arkansas. She was born 8 November 1862, daughter of James Madison and Minerva (Foster) Reynolds. Ida died 21 July 1890 at Elm Store. Robert married second on 20 January 1894 to Mary Standford or Standiford, daughter of Israel Whittaker and Charlotte (Hendrin) Standiford. After his second wife's death, Robert married a third time on 31 October 1901 to Alice ("Ella") Williams. This is wrong. Robert Lee Kirkpatrick married Louellen Williams.

There were four (4) children born of the first marriage.
There was one (1) child born to the second marriage.

Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, Tuesday, June 20, 1911, Page 2, Col. 6: Dead Man Carried Heavy Insurance. Autopsy of Remains of Robert S. Kirkpatrick Is Held and Chemist of Little Rock Will Decide. Special to the Gazette. Newport, June 19.---An autopsy of the remains of Robert S. Kirkpatrick, a prominent traveling man, who was found dead in his room at the Qulin Hotel in Poplar Bluff, was conducted in this city last night by Dr. W. C. Dusaway of Little Rock, representing the insurance companies, and Dr. C. L. Willis of this city, for the relatives. When it became known that the deceased had insurance policies for $6,500 in the United Commercial Travelers Association, covering death by accident, and the state health officers and the coroner at Poplar Bluff had pronounced the cause of death to be ptomaine poison, the insurance authorities of Little Rock were notified and dispatched Dr. Dusaway here to hold the autopsy.

The physicians found the stomach full of embalming fluid, but no inflammation or any indication whatever of self-administered poison. While the objective conditions were of course, covered in the examination, the chemical and microscopical work that will be performed by one of three chemists of Little Rock was agreed upon by the physicians holding the autopsy. A part of the viscera was removed for this purpose, and taken to Little Rock. In case of ptomaine poison, the stomach is not inflamed as from other poison for ptomaine poison is taken up by the blood and disimenated through the body, according to physicians.

Birth	Abt 1857
Birth	13 May 1857	Randolph Co., Arkansas
Marriage	14 Jul 1877	Elm Store, Randolph Co., Arkansas - Ida Pearl Reynolds
Marriage	15 Nov 1893	Randolph Co., Arkansas - Mary A Standiford
Marriage	20 Jan 1894	Mary A Standiford
Death	17 Jun 1911	Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., Missouri
Alt name		R S Kirkpatrick
Burial		Walnut Grove Cemetery, Newport, Jackson Co., Arkansas
Residence		Pocahontas, Randolph Co., Arkansas

Spouse	Ida Pearl Reynolds (1862 - 1890)
Child	Novellah Ellen Kirkpatrick (1879 - 1978)
Child	Rufus Linton Kirkpatrick (1881 - 1912)
Child	Blanche B. Kirkpatrick (1886 - 1887)
Child	Herman Luther Kirkpatrick (1888 - 1943)

Spouse	Mary A Standiford (1875 - 1948)
Child	Busch Kirkpatrick (1894 - 1980)

Father	John Newton Kirkpatrick (1831 - 1916)
Mother	Sarah Catherine Wann (1833 - 1910)
Sibling	Ellander "Ellen" Arkansas Kirkpatrick (1860 - 1929)
Sibling	John E. Kirkpatrick (1861 - 1861)
Sibling	Albert Newton Kirkpatrick (1865 - 1939)
Sibling	Hiram Tinsley Kirkpatrick (1867 - 1940)
Sibling	Charles Meigs Kirkpatrick (1870 - 1929)
Sibling	Levi L. Kirkpatrick (1872 - 1876)
Sibling	Riley Foster Kirkpatrick (1873 - 1961)