My Genealogy Hound

C. C. Kirkland, a well-known planter and cotton-raiser of Independence County, Ark., was born in Alabama, in 1826, and is a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Anderson) Kirkland, who were born in South Carolina and East Tennessee, and were married in Alabama, whither the mother was taken when a child, but where the father moved after reaching manhood. Mrs. Kirkland died in 1882, at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. Kirkland died in 1845, aged fifty-three years. Five of their eight children are now living: Two brothers, besides our subject, reside in Arkansas; Lucinda is the widow of William Tate, and resides in Tate County, Miss.; W. R., died in Alabama, at the age of thirty-five years; J. W., died in Mississippi, aged about thirty-five years, also; Martha, who married Mr. Garrison, died in Mississippi, and Ellen, wife of Ed Johnson, now resides in Memphis, Tenn. C. C. Kirkland grew to manhood in Northern Alabama, and in 1860 came to Independence County, Ark. During the Rebellion he served in the Confederate army three years; was at the battle of Helena, was a participant in a great many skirmishes, and was assistant ordnance master on Price’s raid through Missouri. Since the war he has been engaged in farming, and for eight years past he has been collecting agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company during four or five months of each year. He was first married, in 1851, to Miss Charlotte Parks, who was born in Alabama, in 1829, and the result of their union has been six children: W. T., who is now employed with The Goodspeed Publishing Company; Mary E., wife of W. P. Sneed; Frances C., wife of Tom Hardin; James W., Calvin A., and Joan, wife of John A. Thomas. In 1872 Mr. Kirkland was called upon to mourn the death of his wife, and after remaining a widower for some time he was united in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Jane Whaley, by whom he has one child, Cora. Mr. Kirkland has always supported the men and measures of the Democrat party, and has shown his approval of secret organizations by becoming a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which order he has ascended to the Royal Arch degree. He has a good and fertile farm of ninety acres, improved with buildings, fences and orchard, and supplied with all necessary stock.