Fifth Generation

152. James Kirkpatrick was born on 15 March 1790 in Madison Co., Kentucky. He died on 13 September 1845 at the age of 55 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. He was buried in Big Bottom Cemetery, Jackson Co., Tennessee.

James Kirkpatrick was born 15 March 1790 in Madison County, Kentucky. he removed at an early day, at least by 1811, probably with his parents, to Jackson County, Tennessee, where he lived the remainder of his life. He died there in an epidemic on 12 or 13 September 1845.

James married Margaret Scantland (Scanlan), daughter of James and Amelia (Kirkpatrick) Scantland, ca. 1818. She was born 27 June 1793 in Virginia, and died on 27 January 1871. After James' death, Margaret, his widow, remarried to a man named Ferguson.

Isaac T. Reneau, a Disciples of Christ minister in Tennessee, wrote of a visit to the Old Bethel Church in Jackson County in September of 1845. In this account he wrote of James and of the effects of an epidemic in the neighborhood.

"The fifth (to die) was Brother James Kirkpatrick, whom the Gospel had five years previous removed from scepticism. He was in Christianity, as he was in everything he engaged in -- in earnest. His life was a good comment on the profession (of faith). He understood Christianity to be a perfect system of absolute and relative morality, and temporal death to be nobel (sic) institution. Brother Kirkpatrick kept up regular worship in his home. He and his beloved wife Margaret read the Testament in both translations, he in the common* and she, the same portion in the new**. This was their regular order -- stand to sing and kneel to pray.
"Brother Kirkpatrick was anticipating a protracted meeting to commence the 12th of September, he promised himself great satisfaction with his brethren in general, and Brother J. M. Mulkey and myself as preachers in particular. But sometime previous to the meeting he was taken with the fever, which prevented him from seeing the meeting, but on the 11th day of September, 2nd day of the meeting about 7 O'Clock P.M. he took his leave of his pious, intelligent and dutiful wife Margaret, and his only daughter, General S. Saddler's wife. Together with other brethren and friends, brother Mulkey and myself visited him on the evening of the 12th shortly after our arrival at the meeting -- he was still sensible and could speak, but . . . saw he must die. He seized our hands and drew Brother Mulkey's head near his own and said 'I suffer greatly, but my prospects are glorious'.***

There were two (2) children born of the marriage, one dying as an infant.
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* King James Version
** The translation of Alexander Campbell, founder of Disciple of Christ.
*** Reneau, Isaac. "Isaac Reneau Visits Old Bethel Church, 1845 -- Jackson Co., Tn." Upper Cumberland Genealogical Association Bulletin, vol. 16.

James Kirkpatrick and Margaret Scantland were married about 1818 in Tennessee. Margaret Scantland, daughter of James Scantland and Amelia Kirkpatrick, was born on 22 June 1793 in Virginia. She died on 27 January 1871 at the age of 77.

James Kirkpatrick and Margaret Scantland had the following children:

391	i.	Helen M. Kirkpatrick was born on 18 September 1819 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. She died on 4 October 1821 at the age of 2 in Jackson Co., Tennessee.
+392	ii.	Zerilda Kirkpatrick.