Robert Early KIRK

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Information from Find A Grave page with personal photos

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On January 02,1890, ROBERT KIRK, son of Doctor Robert N. KIRK and Mary Jane KIRK married MARY "MOLLIE" ELLEN CARVER, daughter of Green CARVER and Martha L. STAPP in Pickens County, Alabama.

Robert Early Kirk was a school teacher and Mollie was one of his pupils in the little country school in the Liberty community. They were married Jan. 2, 1890. She never referred to him by any other name than the one she called him by "Mister Early".

They lived briefly at Vienna on the Tombigbee River, in Northport, Alabama, where Nancy Mary was born, and finally in Gordo where the other two children were born. Mister Early operated (owned?) commissaries in these towns. In 1898 in Gordo his commissary burned and in fighting the fire on a cold night he contracted pneumonia and died. Mollie later married John Daniel and had one son, Hurdis Leon Daniel.

Infant son born 17 Jul 1895 died at birth, child of Robert Early Kirk and Mollie Carver.

OBITUARY

1899, 10 December;
"The West Alabamian", 1899; Mr. R. Early Kirk died Dec 10 and was interred at the family burial ground, about eight miles south. He was one of the best businessmen of Gordo and a leading member of the firm of Carver & Kirk.



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