John Davis KIRKPATRICK

                   IINFO. FROM A MEMORIAL REC. OF WESTERN KY. 1848 CAME TO MC CRACKEN CO. KY.
IN 858 HE MARRIED MARY JANE RUDOLPH B. IN MONTGOMERY CO. TENN IN 22 JUL 1834 HAD CHILDREN, INFANT DEC. ELMIRA ,ELLEN SIMPSON ,WILLIAM T. LINNIE B. E. WALLACE.  HE WAS A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER.AND WAS ALSO A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER
Info. from  desc. Christopher Dana Kirkpatrick of Ontario,Ca.  J.D. was an active minister of the Presbyterian Church.  He was a veteran of the Civil war in which he fought for 13 mos. in the cavalry under Gen, Forrest and colonel Holt,his service being mainly along the Mississippi River and at Nashville and Chattanooga.
tHE FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF A LETTER SENT TO JOHN BY HIS FATHERS TWIN BROTHER; REV.
JOHN D. kIRKPATRICK.
iN 1723 HUGH,THOMAS AND JOHN KIRKPATRICK LEFT PERTH SCOTLAND AND SETTLED IN CO. ANTHEN, IRELAND.  THEY WERE GRANDSONS OF ROGER KIRKPATRICK WHO WAS FAMOUS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
   IN 1729 THEY ALL CAME TO AMERICA.  HUGH SETTLED IN PA.  THOMAS IN  A. AND JOHN IN N.C. WHERE HE LIVED AND RAISED SIX SONS, HUGH,ANDERSON,THOMAS, ROBERT,JOHN AND WILLIAM.
ROBERT WAS MY GRANDFATHER.  J.R. KIRKPATRICK OF LOS ANGELES IS A GRANDSON OF ANOTHER OF THE SIX BROTHERS AND THE ONE FROM WHOM I GOT THIS INFO..