Individual Details

Walter Kirkpatrick was born 12 April 1795 at Mine Brook, Somerset Co., New Jersey. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1813; was a member of the Legislative Council of New Jersey for the term of three years and was a useful citizen, highly esteemed. He married Mary Caroline, daughter of Colonel Lemuel Cobb of Parsippany, morris County, who was born 12 October 1798, and died 6 October 1826. The Latin epitaph on the monument in the grave-yard at Parsippany, where her remains and those of a beloved son lie, is a sincere and affecting expression of the grief of the surviving husband and father. The Hon. Walter Kirkpatrick was a man of delicate nervous organization, of highly cultivated taste, a fine classical scholar and an amateur of the Fine Arts. Repeated domestic bereavements disappointing his fond expectations, wrought powerfully upon his sensitive nature, and he went down to his grave, a mourner, 13 December 1841. No children survive him.

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Kirkpatrick Memorial, Westcott & Thomson, 1867 Philadelphia, PA

Birth	12 Apr 1795	Mine Brook, Somerset Co., New Jersey
Marriage	15 Jan 1823	Morris Co., New Jersey - Mary Caroline Cobb
Death	13 Dec 1841	Parsippany, Morris Co., New Jersey
Burial		Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset Co., New Jersey

Spouse	Mary Caroline Cobb (1798 - 1826)
Child	Son Kirkpatrick ( - )

Father	David Kirkpatrick (1758 - 1828)
Mother	Mary Farrand (1771 - 1805)
Sibling	Hugh Kirkpatrick (1797 - 1860)
Sibling	Elizabeth Farrand Kirkpatrick (1799 - 1857)