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Lorenzo Dow Kirk

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Giles County, Virginia, USA
Death
12 Apr 1861 (aged 27)
Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri, USA
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Lorenzo Dow Kirk was born on December 9, 1933, in Giles County, Virginia, the ninth of 14 children to John Kirk III and Margaret Burke "Peggy" Williams. He married Harriett Cooper on November 9, 1856, in Livingston County, Missouri. Lorenzo and Harriett had two children, Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Kirk b. August 12, 1857, and Georgia Ann Kirk b. January 3, 1860. Lorenzo was killed on April 12, 1861, in Chillicothe, Missouri. He is presumably buried in the Kirk Cemetery, Northwest of Chillicothe. The cemetery is located on private property and is not maintained.
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Taken from History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties MO. published 1886, Chapter VI

A young man who had stirred up trouble where ever he went; California, on the gold rush, Springhill where he was born, playing cards in Utica and Breckinridge, or on the square of Chillicothe, was shot by one of his enemies. Lorenzo Dow Kirk was shot by a resident of Livingston County, Tom Jennings. Dow Kirk and a friend Tomas Curtis were loading goods at Dunglin & Morling's Store on the square when Jennings moved stealthily through the trees on the square and leaned on the fence and shot. First killing Curtis and injuring Kirk and then shooting again and killing Kirk. This wasn't related to the problems of the Federal government but it shows the problems in Livingston County when a jury in 1862 acquitted Jennings for both deaths. In fact, the Kirks were in the same military unit with Jennings in May, 1861 and they were still fussing but on the same side, the South, in the larger fuss.
Lorenzo Dow Kirk was born on December 9, 1933, in Giles County, Virginia, the ninth of 14 children to John Kirk III and Margaret Burke "Peggy" Williams. He married Harriett Cooper on November 9, 1856, in Livingston County, Missouri. Lorenzo and Harriett had two children, Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Kirk b. August 12, 1857, and Georgia Ann Kirk b. January 3, 1860. Lorenzo was killed on April 12, 1861, in Chillicothe, Missouri. He is presumably buried in the Kirk Cemetery, Northwest of Chillicothe. The cemetery is located on private property and is not maintained.
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Taken from History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties MO. published 1886, Chapter VI

A young man who had stirred up trouble where ever he went; California, on the gold rush, Springhill where he was born, playing cards in Utica and Breckinridge, or on the square of Chillicothe, was shot by one of his enemies. Lorenzo Dow Kirk was shot by a resident of Livingston County, Tom Jennings. Dow Kirk and a friend Tomas Curtis were loading goods at Dunglin & Morling's Store on the square when Jennings moved stealthily through the trees on the square and leaned on the fence and shot. First killing Curtis and injuring Kirk and then shooting again and killing Kirk. This wasn't related to the problems of the Federal government but it shows the problems in Livingston County when a jury in 1862 acquitted Jennings for both deaths. In fact, the Kirks were in the same military unit with Jennings in May, 1861 and they were still fussing but on the same side, the South, in the larger fuss.

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