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Jamestowne Society Genealogical Proofs: the Lanes, Kirkpatricks & Tuckers

Introduction

Indian Massacre at Jamestown 1622

As is likely obvious we aren’t just “theboatinggenealogists” anymore. We are now also a land version of theboatinggenealogists, taking our research to land locations further from home in order to conduct more extensive genealogical research, like in Plymouth, Providence, Hagerstown and Jamestown. As part of our Jamestown exploration this past fall we went to the Jamestowne Society in Williamsburg, Virginia to learn if there was any opportunity to connect long ago Jamestown residents with my ancestors. In working with Jamestowne Society’s Librarian we learned that the Society had an existing genealogical proof connecting Lieutenant Jesse Lane (1733-1806) to Richard Pace (1585-1622), a well-known Jamestown “ancient planter” that saved Jamestown from total ruin in 1622.1 Given this new information it made sense to firmly substantiate my Tucker and Kirkpatrick lines. My existing rickety family tree connection to Lieutenant Jesse Lane needed to be shored up or removed all together.

Thus began digging into my Lane, Kirkpatrick and Tucker family lines and determining if there was existing evidence across and within each generation that would suffice as a genealogical proof.  The challenge was real in that civil registration systems for birth, marriage and death records (the basis for most genealogical proofs) were generally not recorded and/or organized until the late 1800s. This was especially true for states newly formed from territories. In fact, this documentation was not required by law until closer to 1915.2  In addition, in the first half of the 19th century the U.S. Cenus included the head-of-household name only and a “count” for all other household members.  Finally, the existing family trees for this ancestral line on the major online genealogical platforms were almost exclusively family trees recursively referencing other family trees and few, if any, of the primary sources required for a genealogical proof.

Richard Pace’s Plantation identified as “Pace’s Paines”
Partial Lineage Chart with yellow denoting three key ancestor couples requiring proofs

Given this background, this blog dives into the genealogical proof approved by Jamestowne Society focusing on three sets of my great grandparents across three generations where the stickiest genealogical proof issues existed.  The objective was to establish evidence-based connections between these three generations’ ancestors and descendants, while excluding same named individuals (but not the same person) in close locations with similar birth, death and/or marriage dates.  In particular, a genealogical proof that established and connected:  Hiram and Rosanna (Tucker) Palmer [Generation #5, this is Jamestowne Society’s naming convention], Elisha and Susannah Sophronia (Kirkpatrick) Tucker [Generation #6], and John and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick [Generation #7]. 

So on one end of this lineage, connecting Hiram and Rosanna Palmer to my great grandmother Jessie Palmer was straight forward as government birth, death and marriage records were reasonably comprehensive by late 1800s.  On the other end, genealogically connecting Lieutenant Jesse and Winifred (Aycock) Lane, the known descendant of Richard Pace of Jamestown, had already been proofed and approved by the Jamestowne Society.3   Therefore, starting with the oldest unproven generation, below are the genealogical proofs provided to and approved by the Jamestowne Society for the three generations in-between. Nevertheless, to provide context to these proofs, we begin with their family story.

The Lanes, Kirkpatricks & Tuckers – Their Story

Lane, Kirkpatrick, Tucker Family Moves Map

John and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick’s story [Generation #7]

John Kirkpatrick’s father, James Franklin Kirkpatrick, was shot to death in 1781 by the Patriot’s bitter enemy the Tories. James was at home in South Carolina on leave from fighting in the Revolutionary War.4 John was about 4 years old at the time and the youngest of James and his wife’s, Susannah (Gillham) Kirkpatrick, living children.5 Susannah remarried approximately two years after James’ killing and then removed to Jackson County Georgia with her new husband, Joseph Scott, and her family.6

In 1799 John Kirkpatrick married Sarah “Sally” Lane, daughter of Lieutenant Jesse and Winifred (Aycock) Lane.7 At the same time John’s older brother Thomas Newton Kirkpatrick married Sarah’s twin sister, Mary “Polly” Lane.8 By about 1802 both brothers and their wives removed to the Indiana Territories, initially to a location outside of St. Louis.9 It is here that Thomas founded Edwardsville, Illinois.10 Thomas’ and John’s uncles on their Gillham-side also located to Edwardsville along the Cahokia creek at this time.11 As a lawyer, Thomas is instrumental in ensuring the town’s success. He was the first county judge once Edwardsville became the county seat in 1812 and his home was the first county courthouse.12 Nonetheless, Edwardsville was very much on the wilderness’ edge. For example, the first tax levied by Edwardsville almost entirely went to offering rewards for killing wolves. 220 were killed in 1818 alone.13

Cahokia Mounds were right next to Cahokia Creek where the Kirkpatricks and Gillhams all located

Meanwhile, John also purchased Edwardsville land near his brothers and uncles.14 When their step-father dies in 1818 the brothers go back to South Carolina, where their mother was still living and move her and their remaining family to Sangamon County, Illinois, about 75 miles from Edwardsville.15 Both Thomas and John Kirkpatrick had large families during this timeframe. During this time they also acquired additional land. Many of their land purchases were in Greenville, Bond County, though some were further north in Springfield, Sangamon County.16 During this period John became an ordained minister and led camp meetings around the region.17

Then between 1820-23 John’s wife Sarah and his brother Thomas both died.18 19 John had had 13 children with Sarah.20 Thomas had had 14 children with Polly.21 Clearly an understatement, but this could not have been an easy time for the families or especially for John. Within two years John married Mary Ann Payton and then some years later moved his family to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois.22 23 By the early 1840s John Kirkpatrick had again moved his family, but this time to Wapello County, Iowa, and then died there in 1845.24 Unfortunately, John Kirkpatrick died insolvent as shown in his probate.25

Not surprisingly, six of John Kirkpatrick’s sons volunteered during the Black Hawk War of 1832, along with at least five of his nephews.26 Seeking to reclaim ancestral land in Illinois ceded in a disputed 1804 treaty, Black Hawk’s 1,000-person band was pursued by ~7,000 soldiers, resulting in a massacre at Bad Axe along the Mississippi River and the final removal of Native tribes from the region.27 As a result, military lands were offered to each of the soldiers.28

Elisha and Susannah Sophronia (Kirkpatrick) Tucker [Generation #6]

1833 Adams County Court document when John and Jesse Kirkpatrick attest to Elisha Tucker’s administrator role for his brother James’ intestate estate and agree to the penalty of $1200 if breached29 (click footnote to expand)

Two years following her mother Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick’s death, Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick married Elisha Tucker.30 Across the following eight years they had five children. Nonetheless, it seems something happened to the family around 1833 as they sold their entire 199 acres in Adams County, Illinois and by 1837 they had moved to Grant County, Wisconsin.31 32 33 During these same intervening years Elisha Tucker was administrator for his brother James Tucker’s Adams County, Illinois probate along with acting as probate administrator for others.34 35 We don’t know how these events impacted the Tucker family. However, once they moved to Grant County they almost immediately moved back to Adams County where Elisha Tucker died that same year.36 37 Very soon after Elisha Tucker’s death Susannah Sophronia (Kirkpatrick) Tucker married her 2nd husband, Samuel Morris Bashford, in Grant County, Wisconsin.38 By 1838 Samuel and Susannah Bashford had their first child and a year later another child.39

1841 Grant County Court document when Susannah Bashford sells her Uncle Gillham’s land with her father, uncle and husband as witnesses (click footnote to expand)40

But again, something must have happened because in 1841 we find John Kirkpatrick, his brother Jesse and Samuel Bashford together in a Grant County courthouse witnessing Susannah Sophronia Bashford selling her grand uncle Isaac Gillham’s Grant County land and receiving the proceeds.41 Before the year is out Susannah is dead.42

By the 1850 U.S. Census we find all five Tucker children distributed amongst their Kirkpatrick relatives, except Sarah Tucker the eldest, who had recently married.43 In fact, by the 1860 U.S. Census all the Tucker children and their Bashford half-siblings were again living in Grant County, either in the same household or very close by with their young families.44 Whatever happened to the Tucker children and their Bashford half-siblings during those years, they were watched over and cared for by their Kirkpatrick relatives and then a decade later cared for by each other. They all grew up to be fine parents and citizens.

Hiram and Rosanna (Tucker) Palmer [Generation #5]

Lumber Operations near Neillsville
Neillsville 1865
Neillsville 1890
Hiram Palmer was Clark County Sheriff 1865-66

In 1860 Rosanna Tucker, Elisha and Susannah Tucker’s youngest daughter, married Hiram Palmer. Hiram Palmer was a very successful local lumberman, who even took a stint as Clark County, Wisconsin’s sheriff between 1865-6.45 46 47 They had three children in Neillsville, Wisconsin with two living to adulthood, Merton and Jessie.48 Their only daughter, Jessie married Barzillai Ansley Scott in 1889. Barzillai Scott had lived in both Tomah and LaGrange, Wisconsin in his very early years, about 60-200 miles from Jessie’s home in Neillsville. However, when Barzillai was 13 years old his family moved to Spink County, South Dakota once the Dakota Territory opened up to settlement.49 50 51 Once married, Barzillai and Jessie moved around a bit before settling in Detroit, Michigan, where they had two of their three children.52 After Hiram Palmer died Rosanna moved to Detroit and lived with Barzillai and Jessie Scott for the next 17 years until her death in 1915.53 54

Woodward Ave, Detroit, Michigan in early 1900s near Barzillai and Jessie Scott’s home

We don’t know if Jessie was named after her 2nd great grandfather, Jesse Lane, a well known lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. Possibly she was named after one of her multiple Jesse uncles or cousins her mother would have known in her lifetime, or possibly her family name was just a happy coincidence. Nonetheless, Jessie (Palmer) Scott carried a special family name forward.55

Though these three generations as the Lanes, Kirkpatricks and Tuckers lived through turbulent times, with personal and family issues greatly impacting their lives, they did leave small breadcrumbs that allowed their lineage to be uncovered and their story to be told. At the time, the lack of civil registration systems meant lives were generally documented in family bibles, gravemarkers, court documents, local histories, local newspapers, and church records. Importantly, court documents have become more accessible then ever given features like familysearch.org‘s Full Text search combined with “good-enough” automated transcription capabilities. Truly, this capability was the unlock required to logically follow the Lanes, Kirkpatricks and Tuckers from the late 1700s through the late 1800s. And, in doing so provide a solid lineage back to the Jamestown settler, Richard Pace.

Palmer Family Bible
Hiram, Jessie, Merton, Jessie
Rosanna, Ted (infant death)

Lanes, Kirkpatricks & Tuckers – Genealogical proofs

John and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick [Generation #7]

a) Sarah Lane was the daughter of Lieutenant Jesse and Winifred (Aycock) Lane. Evidence: Sarah Lane is listed as daughter of Lieutenant Jesse and Winifred (Aycock) Lane in Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families56 and Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia.57

b) Sarah Lane was born in 1777, Wake County, North Carolina. Evidence: Sarah Lane’s birth date is noted in Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families.58 Sarah Lane’s birth location is noted in Ancestry.com.59

c) John Kirkpatrick was the son of James Franklin and Susannah (Gillham) Kirkpatrick. Evidence: John Kirkpatrick’s parents are documented in a Kirkpatrick family memoir.60

d) John Kirkpatrick was born in c. 1777, South Carolina. Evidence: Given the below evidence and logic, John Kirkpatrick was born on or prior to 1777 in South Carolina. In addition, John Kirkpatrick was likely not born before 1772. Therefore, John Kirkpatrick was likely born between 1772 -1777 in South Carolina.

YearNarrative/Facts
N/AJohn Fletcher Kirkpatrick (son of John Kirkpatrick) said John Kirkpatrick was the youngest of the four brothers (Thomas Newton, James, Francis), sons of James and Susannah Kirkpatrick, was born in SC, and moved to GA with his family when his mother remarried54
1772Assuming John Kirkpatrick is the youngest of four sons and James Kirkpatrick and Susannah Gillham had no intervening daughters or infant deaths, the eldest child, Thomas Newton Kirkpatrick, was born in 1766.  With approximately 2 years between each son’s birth John Kirkpatrick was not born before 1772.55
1777John Kirkpatrick and his 3 brothers were on the 1798 Georgia Tax Digest.  John’s eldest brothers, Thomas Newton and James, had land and slaves.  John’s older brother, Francis Kirkpatrick, had no land and one slave.  John Kirkpatrick had no land and no slaves. Given that an adult male was required to be at least 21 years of age to be on the list, John Kirkpatrick had to be at least 21 years old to be on the Georgia Tax Digest.  Therefore, John was born at least by 1777 and likely the youngest of the four brothers.56
1779John Kirkpatrick’s father died in 1781 after being absent from his military post for the prior 9 months.  James Kirkpatrick had asked for and received a furlough home in 1781 where he was killed by Tories.  Therefore, John was likely conceived of at the latest date around 177957

e) Sarah Lane married John Kirkpatrick in 1799, Jackson County, Georgia. Evidence: Descendants listing with their marriage partners.61

f) Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick died in c. 1823, Illinois. Evidence: Through book-ending Sarah Lane’s earliest and latest possible death dates and locations a logical death date and location can be established as follows:

First bookend based on Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick’s final issue, Elizabeth Lane (Kirkpatrick) Bayse –

YearNarrative/Facts
N/AJohn and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick’s location when Elizabeth Lane Kirkpatrick was born in 1822 can be estimated as Greenville, Bond, IL given Elizabeth’s prior 9 siblings were born there also.62  Nonetheless, the direct evidence for Sarah’s death location must be broadened to Illinois as the John Kirkpatrick family may have moved to Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois in the intervening 1-2 years before John remarries
1821We can confirm John Kirkpatrick was in Greenville at least until 1821.63 64 65
1822John & Sarah Kirkpatrick’s family listing shows Elizabeth Lane Kirkpatrick is the last child of John and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick’s children66
1823Elizabeth Lane (Kirkpatrick) Bayse’s gravemarker – provides her birth date67
1842Elizabeth Lane Kirkpatrick’s marriage to Nathaniel Bayse – provides connection to censuses that only record her married name68
Note: Elizabeth Lane (Kirkpatrick) Bayse’s middle and maiden names – provides clarity that we have the correct Elizabeth Lane Kirkpatrick

Second bookend – John Kirkpatrick’s marriage date to 2nd wife, Mary Ann Payne.69 Therefore, one can conclude Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick died approximately in 1823 given her last child was born in 1822 and John remarries by 1825. 

g) John Kirkpatrick died in c.1846, Ottumwa, Wapello, IA. Evidence: John Kirkpatrick died intestate with his wife, Mary Ann (Payne) Kirkpatrick as Probate Executor, Wapello County, IA, 1846.70

Elisha and Susannah Sophronia (Kirkpatrick) Tucker [Generation #6]

a) Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick was the daughter of John and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick. Evidence: Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick is listed as the daughter of John and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick in a Kirkpatrick family memoir71

b)Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick was born in 1807 in Illinois. Evidence: Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick is noted as having been born in 1807 in a Kirkpatrick family memoir72

c) Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick died in 1841 in Head of the Plat, Wisconsin. Evidence: DAR record73

d) Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick married Elisha Tucker 17 May 1825, unknown location. Evidence: DAR record74

e) Elisha Tucker was born 22 Feb 1799 in Albany, New York. Evidence: DAR record75

f) i) Elisha Tucker died c.1837 in Adams County, Illinois. ii) Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick (SSK) married 2nd husband, Samuel Bashford, in 1837. Evidence: Given the below facts and logic one can ascertain Elisha Tucker’s death date and location and SSK’s 2nd marriage date.

YearNarrative/Facts
1835Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick’s (SSK) last child with Elisha Tucker, John Elisha Tucker, was born May 1835 in Illinois76
1837Elisha Tucker and SSK move to Grant County, Wisconsin and then back to Adams County, Illinois77
1837SSK married 2nd husband, Samuel Morris Bashford (before July 1837 when first child with Samuel Bashford is conceived but after Elisha Tucker died in 1837)78
1838SSK’s first child’s birth, Charlotte May Bashford, with her 2nd husband, Samuel Morris Bashford, was born April 1838 in Wisconsin. Therefore, assuming a full term pregnancy, Susannah conceived this child in July 183779
N/ANote: Samuel Thompson Tucker’s Bio states Elisha Tucker’s death date is 1838. Given the evidence this is highly likely incorrect80

g) Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick’s (SSK) life timeline confirms we are pointing at the correct Susannah Sophronia Kirkpatrick, Elisha Tucker, and their family. Evidence: Documented family interactions across their lives as follows:

YearEventNarrative/Facts (grayed events are for context only and have already been proofed in this blog)
1807BirthSSK born in Illinois
1823DeathSarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick (SSK’s mother)
1825MarriageElisha Tucker and SSK married in 1825
1827-35BirthTucker children’s births – Sarah A (1827 in Illinois), Elvira H (1830 in Illinois), Samuel Thompson (1832 in Illinois), Rosanna (1833 in Illinois), John Elisha (1835 in Illinois)81
1833LegalThis court document directly connects Elisha Tucker of Adams County, Illinois with John Kirkpatrick (SSK’s father) and Jesse Kirkpatrick (SSK’s brother).  Both men vouch for Elisha Tucker in this record82
1834LegalThis court document directly connects Elisha Tucker of Adams County, Illinois with SSK.  They sign two deeds together selling 199 acres in Adams County, Illinois to Ebenezer Turner Sour83
c.1837DeathElisha Tucker died in Illinois
c.1837MarriageSSK married Samuel Morris Bashford
1838-39BirthSamuel Morris Bashford & SSK children’s births – Charlotte Mary (1838 in Wisconsin), Francis W (1839 in Wisconsin)84
1841LegalThis legal document directly connects SSK with her father, 2nd husband and brother.  SSK sells her grand Uncle Isaac Gilham’s land in Grant County, Wisconsin with her father John Kirkpatrick, her brother Jesse Kirkpatrick as witnesses and Samuel Morrison Bashford as party to the proceedings85
1841DeathSSK died in Wisconsin
1843MarriageSamuel Morris Bashford married 2nd wife, Mary Ann McKee, in Iowa County, Wisconsin86
c.1846DeathJohn Kirkpatrick died in Iowa
1850ResideAfter Rosanna Tucker’s parents’ deaths she and her siblings live with their Kirkpatrick relatives in Iowa and Wisconsin.  Rosanna Tucker lives with Daniel and Sarah A (Kirkpatrick) Spurr (her cousin through James Gillham Kirkpatrick).  John Elisha Tucker lives with John and Mary (Kirkpatrick) Swyers.  Elvira & Samuel Thompson live with Nathaniel Montgomery and Elizabeth Lane (Kirkpatrick) Bayse87
1860ResideNow adults, Rosanna Tucker and her siblings live together or close  to each other in Grant County, Wisconsin, along with their two half-siblings88 
1860MarriageRosanna Tucker married Hiram Palmer in Grant County, Wisconsin
1915DeathRosanna Tucker died in Detroit, Michigan.  However, on her death certificate her mother is recorded as “Sarah” Kirkpatrick born in Illinois, which mixes SSK’s correct birth state with the relative who cared for Rosanna while she was growing up. This first name discrepancy is likely due to her living from ~age 8-18 at her cousins, i.e. Sarah (Kirkpatrick) Spurr, and likely only mentioning Sarah’s name to her future death certificate informant, Barzillai Ansley Scott (Rosanna Tucker’s Son-in-Law)89

Hiram and Rosanna (Tucker) Palmer [Generation #5]

a) Rosanna Tucker was the daughter of Elisha and Susannah Sophronia (Kirkpatrick) Tucker. Evidence: Rosanna (Tucker) Palmer’s death certificate90

b) Rosanna Tucker was born 6 Aug 1833 in Sangamon County, Illinois. Evidence: Palmer Family Bible91

c) Rosanna Tucker died 29 Dec 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. Evidence: Rosanna (Tucker) Palmer’s death certificate92

d) Rosanna Tucker married Hiram Palmer on 15 Aug 1860. Evidence: Palmer Family Bible93

e) Hiram Palmer was born 25 May 1833 in Lewis County, New York. Evidence: Palmer Family Bible94

f) Hiram Palmer died 5 Aug 1897 in Neillsville, Wisconsin. Evidence: Palmer Family Bible95

Generational Interconnections Proof [Generations #5-7]

This proof establishes we are pointing at the correct individuals – John and Sarah (Lane) Kirkpatrick [Generation #7], Elisha and Susannah Sophronia (Kirkpatrick) Tucker [Generation #6], and Hiram and Rosanna (Tucker) Palmer [Generation #5], while placing them with their correct family of origin and family of procreation. Evidence: Shows concomitant family locations and events across time and generations (see Family Moves map above for a visual perspective) as follows:

YearNarrative/Facts (key ancestor names bolded for simplicity, [] for explanatory clarity, grayed rows are family timeline context only, already proofed)
1777John Kirkpatrick born c. 1777 in South Carolina and Sarah Lane born 1777 in Wake County, North Carolina
1781“After his death (James Kirkpatrick) she [Susannah (Gillham) Kirkpatrick] married a man by the name of Potts (actually Scott — probably a transcription error over time). At his death my father (John Kirkpatrick) and Uncle Frank (Francis Kirkpatrick) went to Georgia after her and Uncle James and family and moved with her to Illinois, but I cannot remember the year. She lived with us when we lived ln Bond County and went with us when we moved to Sangamon County, near Springfield, where she died.”96
1799Thomas Kirkpatrick and John Kirkpatrick marry twin sisters, Mary Ann Lane and Sarah “Sally” Lane
1802“We find papers dated March and April in 1802 that Kirkpatrick [Thomas Kirkpatrick] is signing in his capacity as justice of the peace of Jackson Co. [GA].   It would appear from this that he did not move to Illinois  until sometime in 1802 — a year when other Kirkpatricks, Gilhams, etc., moved in some numbers to the western territory  The family settled in a spot in Illinois about 20 miles northeast of the city of St. Louis.”97  
1809“In 1809 the Methodists formed a society at Old Salem, at the house of Isaiah Dunnagan. There were seventeen members, viz: Isaiah Dunnagan, James Gillham, Polly Gillham, R. C. Gillham, Susanna Gillham, George Davidson, Jane Davidson, Polly Davidson, George Sanders, Hannah Sanders, John Kirkpatrick, Sally [Sarah] Kirkpatrick, Thomas Kirkpatrick, Polly [Mary Ann] Kirkpatrick, Anna Dodd, Sally Salms. In the absence of a church building religious meetings were held at the homes of the members of the society.”98
1815“Citizens of the County [Madison] in 1815.  A list of persons subject to road labor, preserved in the county records, give, doubtless, the names of the great portion of the adult male residents of the county at that time… On the public road leading from Edwardsville…Charles Gillham, Francis Kirkpatrick, William Gillham,… On the public road leading from New Bridge on Cahokia creek near Edwardsville…Thomas Kirkpatrick, John Kirkpatrick,…James Gillham, Ryderus Gillham,…On the public road leading to Edwardsville to Isom Gillham’s bridge on Cahokia creek, James Kirkpatrick,…Isom Gillham, James Kirkpatrick… On the public road from Isom Gillham’s ferry on the Mississippi to Indian creek…Isaac Gillham, Samuel Gillham, Harry Gillham, David Gillham, Jacob C Gillham…”99 
1817“Among the early settlers of Greenville and vicinity may be mentioned the Kirkpatricks. who came at least as early as 1817. Thomas Kirkpatrick lived about one and half miles southeast of Greenvile. in the hewed log house in which uncle Tommy Brown lived for many years afterward and died. He was, as has been stated before in this work, a member of the first County Court held in the county, at Hills Station June 2, 1817, and also a member of Constitutional Convention for Bond County in 1818. John Kirkpatrick, a Methodist preacher, lived northeast of Greenville, near where Madison Alien now resides a half mile north of Almira College. He was one of the members of the first Commissioners’ Court held at Greenville April 16, 1821…Francis Kirkpatrick, brother of John and Thomas, above mentioned, lived about half mile northeast of John Kirkpatrick. The Kirkpatrick family were Methodists.”100 
1829While plenty of Kirkpatricks and Gillhams stayed in Madison and Bond Counties many others kept moving north, as did John Kirkpatrick.  John Kirkpatrick remarries in Sangamon County, Illinois where his mother Susannah (Gillham) Kirkpatrick dies, then moves onto Adams County, Illinois, residing there for approximately 10 years, and finally dies in Wapello County, Iowa in 1846.  “Susannah, youngest daughter of Thomas Gillham, the 1st, married James Kirkpatiick in South Carolina… They had five children, viz: James, Thomas, Franklin, John and Polly… Her older sons, four in number, all came to Illinois at an early day, and figure prominently in the early settlement of Madison county. Their descendants are to be found in many portions of the state in Bond, Adams, Morgan and other counties.”101
1841Susannah Sophronia (Kirkpatrick) Tucker died  in 1841, after her husband Elisha Tucker’s death in c.1837.  All of their unmarried children are located at Kirkpatrick relatives by 1850.  
1860Tucker children (now adults) locate together in Grant County, Wisconsin, along with their half-siblings. This generation of Tuckers, Kirkpatricks, Gillhams, and now Bashfords, Bayses, Swiers, and Kendricks locate together in Grant County, Wisconsin.  For example, Francis Criswell Kirkpatrick (John & Sarah Kirkpatrick’s nephew) and Henrietta Fletcher Kirkpatrick (John & Sarah Kirkpatrick’s niece)  all reside in Grant Co. with their cousins by the 1860s.102 

© Elizabeth Scott Wright, 2026

Footnotes

  1. Richard Pace I, Pace Society of America, https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/jamestowne-society-purchased-proof-cover-page.jpeg ↩︎
  2. Lunde, Anders S., The Organization of the Civil
    Registration System of the United States    , International Institute for Vital Registration and Statistics, Bethesda, Maryland, 1980, pg 1, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/crvs/documents/IIVRS_papers/IIVRS_paper8.pdf ↩︎
  3. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/jamestowne-society-purchased-proof-cover-page.jpeg ↩︎
  4. Hair, James T., Gazetteer of Madison County, Alton, Illinois, 1866, pg 279, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/28252/images/dvm_LocHist012209-00140-1?usePUB=true&_phsrc=siv11710&pId=283&backlabel=Return&queryId=6462fd3118d966aeff90a5aed358b992&rcstate=dvm_LocHist012209-00140-1%3A1992%2C193%2C2087%2C243 ↩︎
  5. Family Data Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5769/records/2658262?tid=54200939&pid=190074912817&ssrc=pt ↩︎
  6. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 34-5, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=59&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  7. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Geneology: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 35-6, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=27#page=60&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  8. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Geneology: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 35-6, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=27#page=60&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  9. https://madison.illinoisgenweb.org/town_histories/edwardsville_history.html ↩︎
  10. Brink, W.R., History of Madison County, Illinois, W.R. Brink and Company, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882, pg 333 ↩︎
  11. Brink, W.R., History of Madison County, Illinois, W.R. Brink and Company, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882, pg 81-2 ↩︎
  12. Brink, W.R., History of Madison County, Illinois, W.R. Brink and Company, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882, pg 114 ↩︎
  13. Brink, W.R., History of Madison County, Illinois, W.R. Brink and Company, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882, pg 125 ↩︎
  14. Brink, W.R., History of Madison County, Illinois, W.R. Brink and Company, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882, pg 82 ↩︎
  15. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 34-5, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=59&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  16. Bureau of Land Management website, https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/kirkpatrick-brothers-adams-county-land-purchases-1817-40.png, https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/kirkpatrick-brothers-bond-county-land-purchases-in-blm-1817-26.png ↩︎
  17. Brink, W.R., History of Madison County, Illinois, W.R. Brink and Company, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882, pg 279 ↩︎
  18. Generation #7, Proof “f” (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  19. Madison County ILGenWeb website, https://madison.illinoisgenweb.org/biographies/kirkpatrick_ThomasNewton.html#:~:text=The%20town%20became%20the%20seat,Moody%20Cemetery%20in%20Bond%20County. ↩︎
  20. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 34-5, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=59&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  21. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 27, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=60&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  22. Ancestry.com, Illinois, Compiled Marriages, 1790-1860, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, Utah, 2004, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7851/records/82041?tid=54200939&pid=190074912816&ssrc=pt ↩︎
  23. 1840 U.S. Census, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, pg 19, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8057/images/4411336_00041?pId=3691523 ↩︎
  24. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 35 ↩︎
  25. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9NT-1GQB?view=fullText&keywords=Mary%20Ann%20Kirkpatrick%2COttumwa&lang=en&groupId=, images 1551-1694 ↩︎
  26. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 52, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=80&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=black%20hawk ↩︎
  27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_War ↩︎
  28. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 77, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=108&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=black%20hawk ↩︎
  29. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elisha-tucker-john-k-jesse-k-witnesses-1833.pdf ↩︎
  30. Generation #6, Proof “d” (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  31. Generation #6, Proof “g” (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  32. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elisha-susannah-tucker-on-same-legal-doc-1834.jpg ↩︎
  33. Butterfield, Consul Willshire, History of Grant County, Wisconsin, Chicago : Western Historical Co., 1881, pg 998 ↩︎
  34. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elisha-tucker-kirkpatricks-on-same-legal-doc-1833-1.jpg ↩︎
  35. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elisha-tucker-as-estate-administrator-in-1833.pdf ↩︎
  36. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elisha-susannah-tucker-on-same-legal-doc-1834.jpg ↩︎
  37. Generation #6, Proof “f-i” (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  38. Generation #6, Proof “f-ii” (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  39. Generation #6, Proof “g”, Year 1838-9 (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  40. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/susannah-kirkpatrick-bashford-with-father-brother-husband-1841.pdf ↩︎
  41. Generation #6, Proof “g”, Year 1841 (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  42. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/dar-record-for-samuel-thompson-tucker-1.png ↩︎
  43. Generation #6, Proof “g”, Year 1850 (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  44. Generation #6, Proof “g”, Year 1860 (above in Proofs section)  ↩︎
  45. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/palmer-family-bible-marriages.jpeg ↩︎
  46. Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn, History of Clark County Wisconsin, H.C. Cooper & Company, 1918, pg 113 ↩︎
  47. Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn, History of Clark County Wisconsin, H.C. Cooper & Company, 1918, pg 78 ↩︎
  48. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/palmer-family-bible-births.jpeg ↩︎
  49. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/palmer-family-bible-marriages.jpeg ↩︎
  50. Ancestry.com, 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Lincoln, Monroe, Wisconsin, pg 6 and Ancestry.com, 1880 U.S. Federal Census, La Grange, Monroe, Wisconsin, pg 16 ↩︎
  51. https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/54200939/person/26036796389/media/ff7303cb-ec73-4c9e-bbff-e37fb81d0446?galleryindex=1&sort=-created ↩︎
  52. Ancestry.com, 1910 U.S. Federal Census, District 0091, Detroit Ward 6, Wayne, Michigan, sheet #7b ↩︎
  53. Ancestry.com, U.S., City Directories, Detroit, Michigan, City Directory, 1898, Ancestry.com Operations, pg 1142 ↩︎
  54. Generation #6, Proof “g”, Year 1915 (above in Proofs section)  ↩︎
  55. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/jesse-lane-to-jessie-palmer-scott-ancestry-lineage-chart.pdf ↩︎
  56. Selden Kennedy, Mary, Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families, Vol 2, Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, New York, pg 214-5 ↩︎
  57. McCall, Mrs Howard H, Roster of the Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Vol 1, Georgia Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Clearfield, pg 107 ↩︎
  58. Selden Kennedy, Mary, Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families, Vol 2, Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, New York, pg 214-5 ↩︎
  59. Family Data Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5769/records/2658262?tid=54200939&pid=190074912817&ssrc=pt ↩︎
  60. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 34-5, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=60&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  61. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Geneology: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 35-6, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=27#page=60&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  62. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/john-kirkpatrick-descendancy.pdf ↩︎
  63. 1820 US Census, Ripley, Bond County, Illinois, pg 5, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7734/images/4433397_00024?pId=1234952 ↩︎
  64. Carson, Will C., Historical Souvenior of Greenville, Illinois, The Lecrone Press, Effingham, Illinois, 1905, pg 13 ↩︎
  65. Perrin, William Henry, History of Bond and Mongomery Counties, Illinois, O.L. Baskin Historical Publishers, Chicago, Illinois, 1882, pg 76-7 ↩︎
  66. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 36, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=61&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  67. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elizabeth-lane-kirkpatrick-basye-gravemarker-1883.png ↩︎
  68. Wisconsin Marriages, 1835-1900, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/54200939/person/190074912828/facts ↩︎
  69. Ancestry.com, Illinois, Compiled Marriages, 1790-1860, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, Utah, 2004, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7851/records/82041?tid=54200939&pid=190074912816&ssrc=pt ↩︎
  70. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/john-kirkpatrick-probate-1846-pg-2.jpg ↩︎
  71. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 36, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=61&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=  ↩︎
  72. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 36, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=61&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  73. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/dar-record-for-samuel-thompson-tucker-1.png ↩︎
  74. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/dar-record-for-samuel-thompson-tucker-1.png ↩︎
  75. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/dar-record-for-samuel-thompson-tucker-1.png ↩︎
  76. Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14147387/john-elisha-tucker?_gl=1*9klclx*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3Njg3ODEyNTEuQ2owS0NRaUFwckxMQmhDTUFSSXNBRURoZFBlT0lvTGVGZldWRFE0a3JTSWtxZnY0ZWxHRGxLa05iQWY4aDRnemRfanZWRTJuM2s4UWV0RWFBbDVRRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_dc*R0NMLjE3Njg3ODEyNTEuQ2owS0NRaUFwckxMQmhDTUFSSXNBRURoZFBlT0lvTGVGZldWRFE0a3JTSWtxZnY0ZWxHRGxLa05iQWY4aDRnemRfanZWRTJuM2s4UWV0RWFBbDVRRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MTE5MTg5Njk0LjE3NjM1NjE1NjE.*_ga*MTU2NTY0NzE0NC4xNzU1NzM1MjQ0*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*c2M1MDZkZTNkLWRiOTAtNDgwMy04ZjMxLWFhMjVkYjY5ZDI2NSRvMjc3JGcxJHQxNzY5NzAyMDc1JGo2MCRsMCRoMA..*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*c2M1MDZkZTNkLWRiOTAtNDgwMy04ZjMxLWFhMjVkYjY5ZDI2NSRvMjc3JGcxJHQxNzY5NzAyMDc1JGo2MCRsMCRoMA.. ↩︎
  77. Butterfield, Consul Willshire, History of Grant County, Wisconsin, Chicago : Western Historical Co., 1881, pg 998 ↩︎
  78. Generation #6, Proof “f-i”, Year 1837 (above in Proofs section)  ↩︎
  79. Generation #6, Proof “f-i”, Year 1838 (above in Proofs section)  ↩︎
  80. Generation #6, Proof “f-i”, Year “N/A” (above in Proofs section) ↩︎
  81. SSK & Tucker children birth records ↩︎
  82. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elisha-tucker-kirkpatricks-on-same-legal-doc-1833-1.jpg ↩︎
  83. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elisha-susannah-tucker-on-same-legal-doc-1834.jpg ↩︎
  84. Charlotte Mary Bashford: Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62593311/mary-elizabeth-huff?_gl=1*gy3a7f*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3Njg3ODEyNTEuQ2owS0NRaUFwckxMQmhDTUFSSXNBRURoZFBlT0lvTGVGZldWRFE0a3JTSWtxZnY0ZWxHRGxLa05iQWY4aDRnemRfanZWRTJuM2s4UWV0RWFBbDVRRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_dc*R0NMLjE3Njg3ODEyNTEuQ2owS0NRaUFwckxMQmhDTUFSSXNBRURoZFBlT0lvTGVGZldWRFE0a3JTSWtxZnY0ZWxHRGxLa05iQWY4aDRnemRfanZWRTJuM2s4UWV0RWFBbDVRRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MTE5MTg5Njk0LjE3NjM1NjE1NjE.*_ga*MTU2NTY0NzE0NC4xNzU1NzM1MjQ0*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*c2M1MDZkZTNkLWRiOTAtNDgwMy04ZjMxLWFhMjVkYjY5ZDI2NSRvMjc3JGcxJHQxNzY5NzA0NDAzJGo0MiRsMCRoMA..*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*c2M1MDZkZTNkLWRiOTAtNDgwMy04ZjMxLWFhMjVkYjY5ZDI2NSRvMjc3JGcxJHQxNzY5NzA0NDAzJGo0MiRsMCRoMA.. ; Francis Bashford: Ancestry.com, Pierce County, Washington, U.S., Will Journals, 1854-1950, Record of Wills Volume 3 Pierce County, Dec 1889-Sep 1894, Ancestry.com Operations, pg 244 ↩︎
  85. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/susannah-sophronia-kirkpatrick-bashford-sells-her-grand-uncle-isaac-gillhams-land-1841.png ↩︎
  86. Ancestry.com, Wisconsin, U.S., Marriage Records, 1820-2015, Pre-1907, Green Lake-Iowa, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61484/images/45638_00065-01182?pId=1852701 ↩︎
  87. Sarah (Tucker) Kendrick: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, East District 25, Grant, Wisconsin, pg 186; Samuel Thompson Tucker, Elvira Tucker and John Elisha Tucker: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, East District 25, Grant, Wisconsin, pg 184; Rosanna Tucker: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Bellevue, Jackson, Iowa, pg 168, line 41 ↩︎
  88. Sarah (Tucker) Kendrick, Elvira (Tucker) Kendrick, Charlotte Mary Bashford, Francis Bashford: 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Wingville, Grant, Wisconsin, pg 119; Samuel Thompson Tucker, Rosanna Tucker, John Elisha Tucker: 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Wingville, Grant, Wisconsin, pg 129; ↩︎
  89. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rosa-s-tucker-death-cert.jpg ↩︎
  90. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rosa-s-tucker-death-cert.jpg ↩︎
  91. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/palmer-family-bible-births.jpeg ↩︎
  92. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rosa-s-tucker-death-cert.jpg ↩︎
  93. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/palmer-family-bible-marriages.jpeg ↩︎
  94. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/palmer-family-bible-deaths.jpeg ↩︎
  95. https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/palmer-family-bible-deaths.jpeg ↩︎
  96. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 9, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=28&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  97. Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina, ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 24, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=48&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ↩︎
  98. Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois and Its People, 1812 to 1912, Unigraphic, 1912, pg 486 ↩︎
  99. Brink, W.R. & Co, History of Madison County, Illinois, W.R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882, pg 82  ↩︎
  100. Perrin, William Henry, The History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois, O. L. Baskin, Chicago, 1882, pg 79-80 ↩︎
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  102. Francis Criswell Kirkpatrick Gravemarker: https://theboatinggenealogists.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/francis-criswell-kirkpatrick-gravemarker-son-of-james-gilham-kirkpatrick.png; Kirkpatrick, Melvin E., A Kirkpatrick Genealogy: : Being an account of the descendants of the family of James Kirkpatrick of South Carolina ca. 1715-1786, Family History Library, 1985, pg 31, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/108180/?offset=#page=55&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=31; Ancestry.com, 1860 US Federal Census, Grant County, Wisconsin, Ancestry.com Operations, pg 32  ↩︎

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