Jeremiah Kirby^{[1, 2, 3]}

Abt 1830 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Jeremiah Kirby
  Born	Abt 1830	Halifax County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown	Missouri
  Person ID	I18563	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Meades Anderson Kirby,   b. Abt 1790, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. 1884, Prob. Halifax Co., Virginia  (Age ~ 94 years)
  Mother	Sarah "Sally" C. Word,   b. Abt 1803, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown, Halifax Co., Virginia
  Married	22 Dec 1823	Halifax County, Virginia   [4]
  	Children of Meades and Sallie Kirby; Elizabeth Kirby (-) Jeremiah Kerby (1824-) Martha R Kirby (1831-) Mary Kirby (1833-) Sarah T Kirby (1834-) Ben W Kirby (1839-1910) Frances H Kirby (1843-)
  Family ID	F518494808	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S160] Correspondence, George Kirby. Description: to what happened to Turner Carter the Kirby family lore has it that Jeremiah Kirby shot his brother-in-law - Turner Carter. Jeremiah then fled to Missouri Jeremiah was the son of Meades Anderson Kirby and Sallie C. Kirby and brother to Martha Kirby Carter. Turner Carter married Martha R. Kirby 8/6/1849 bonded by Sally Kirby and Carter Turner married Martha K.Kirby 8/7/1847 Are these the same people? He was killed by the gun shot. Somewhere I had a letter from another Kirby describing the altercation. I'll have to look around the house for it. Jerimiah (Jerry) Kirby fled to Saline County Missouri after 11/22/1856 according to my dad's notes. His age is listed as 26 in th 1850 census so he was born around 1824. I remember my dad telling me that Jerimiah was hidden in a trunk after the shooting by Richard Kirby who was the sheriff in Pittsylvania County. Just found the letter from Eva Kirby Cresp relating to Jerimiah Kirby In the early 70's my father's sister, Clara Francis Cobb,and I went to visit an elderly cousin, Caroline Carter. During this visit, cousin Caroline told us that she had once received a visit from a woman from Missouri that had come to N.C. in search of information about her grand farther or great grandfather. He was Jeremiah Kirby. The story as it was told. Jerry had a sister who married a pretty good guy until he started drinking and then he became violent. He had unmercifully beatten his wife (Jerry's sister) many times very badly and during one of these times of drinking, she ran to her brother's home badly bloddy and clothes torn from her body. When the husband arrived at Jerry's home,he demanded his wife to be sent out to him. Refusing to do so until he sobered up. He then went out back to Jerry's wood pile and removed the axe. He then began to break the door in so Jerry shot in self defense to save himself and his sister? He felt that he would be hung for murder so he left home. He was last seen riding away on his horse with his little dog running along beside the horse and was never heard from again until this granddaughter came in search for geneology and info on her grandfather's family. Jerry died of old age in Kansas City Missouri. He had worked as a jailer in Kansas City Missouri. He had married and had a family there. I found the following information in the LDS library but didn't record the reference Jerry married Eliza Jane Higgins on 11/20/1866 Jerry is listed as having two daughers Alice B. Kirby 9/10/1874 and Virginia Lee Kirby 9/10/1874 in St. Peters, Marshall Missouri I was told he became a sheriff in Missouri. He and his daughters came back to visit Virginia sometime after my grandfather George Kirby was born. But why did he flee to Missouri? Well Meades Anderson Kirby (his father) brother Benjamin Kirby was living in Missouri. Meades married Sally Word on 12/22/1823 and his brother Benjamin had previously married Sally's sister Elizabeth Word on 11/4/1822. Brothers marrying sisters seems to be a common occurance in the 1700's and 1800's in the Kirby family. These marriages are found in the Halifax County's marriage records. Elizabeth and Sally's father William Word was commissioned by James Monroe and/or James Madison to build bridges in Halifax County, Va. My dad's notes has Benjamin and Elizabeth living in Calloway County Missouri in 1849 but don't know when they went - between 1822 and 1849. Calloway county is the adjoining county to Saline County. In the 1850 census of Calloway county Elizabeth Kirby 56 born in Va Joesph W. Kirby 26 born in Va Jno(?) Kirby 16 born in Va Caroline Kirby 14 born in Va Ann W. Richardson 23 born in Va Ann E. Richardson 3 born in Mo. gckirby3@gmail.com [S18] Family Search, LDS, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZ6-S19. Family Search locates Jeremiah Kerby in Marshall Township, Saline Missouri in 1860 as a deputy sheriff. this is consistent with kirby family stories. Name Jeremiah Kerby Event Type Census Event Date 1860 Event Place Marshall Township, Saline, Missouri, United States Gender Male Age 30 Race White Birth Year (Estimated) 1830 Birthplace Virginia Page 236 [S61] United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBS7-VK7?i=12&cc=1473181. 1860 Missouri-Marshall Twp. Jeremiah Kerby Age 30 Birth 1830. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate. Bondsman, Richard Kirby