"History of Menard and Mason Counties"
In 1837, Kinzey Virgin moved in from Ohio, bought a place with other adjoining tracts, built a hewed-log house where the barn now stands, and settled down in his new and rather wild and romantic home. He was a man of considerable enterprise as a stock-raiser and accumulated this world's goods quite rapidly, but was peculiarly unfortunate with his family of children, but one of whom ever lived to reach the years of majority, and that the youngest, and but a babe when he himself died in 1852. Six children, and all but the one having preceded him to the grave, and the wife following two years later. Though a man somewhat reckless in his habits and profane in conversation, he held it a sacred duty to have a funeral sermon preached for every one of his children that died, what was something remarkable. John L. Turner, the "little Baptist preacher" of Crane Creek, officiated at every one of these occasions, and also at that of the father and mother. The latter, "Aunt Eliza" was one of Nature's noblewomen. The silent grief and heart-pangs which many circumstances pierced like a dagger her very soul, were buried there and without a word of reproach or complaint, forever. She was universally beloved and honored for her inherent goodness and nobility of nature
In 1837, Kinzey Virgin moved in from Ohio, bought a place with other adjoining tracts, built a hewed-log house where the barn now stands, and settled down in his new and rather wild and romantic home. He was a man of considerable enterprise as a stock-raiser and accumulated this world's goods quite rapidly, but was peculiarly unfortunate with his family of children, but one of whom ever lived to reach the years of majority, and that the youngest, and but a babe when he himself died in 1852. Six children, and all but the one having preceded him to the grave, and the wife following two years later. Though a man somewhat reckless in his habits and profane in conversation, he held it a sacred duty to have a funeral sermon preached for every one of his children that died, what was something remarkable. John L. Turner, the "little Baptist preacher" of Crane Creek, officiated at every one of these occasions, and also at that of the father and mother. The latter, "Aunt Eliza" was one of Nature's noblewomen. The silent grief and heart-pangs which many circumstances pierced like a dagger her very soul, were buried there and without a word of reproach or complaint, forever. She was universally beloved and honored for her inherent goodness and nobility of nature
"History of Menard and Mason Counties"
In 1837, Kinzey Virgin moved in from Ohio, bought a place with other adjoining tracts, built a hewed-log house where the barn now stands, and settled down in his new and rather wild and romantic home. He was a man of considerable enterprise as a stock-raiser and accumulated this world's goods quite rapidly, but was peculiarly unfortunate with his family of children, but one of whom ever lived to reach the years of majority, and that the youngest, and but a babe when he himself died in 1852. Six children, and all but the one having preceded him to the grave, and the wife following two years later. Though a man somewhat reckless in his habits and profane in conversation, he held it a sacred duty to have a funeral sermon preached for every one of his children that died, what was something remarkable. John L. Turner, the "little Baptist preacher" of Crane Creek, officiated at every one of these occasions, and also at that of the father and mother. The latter, "Aunt Eliza" was one of Nature's noblewomen. The silent grief and heart-pangs which many circumstances pierced like a dagger her very soul, were buried there and without a word of reproach or complaint, forever. She was universally beloved and honored for her inherent goodness and nobility of nature
In 1837, Kinzey Virgin moved in from Ohio, bought a place with other adjoining tracts, built a hewed-log house where the barn now stands, and settled down in his new and rather wild and romantic home. He was a man of considerable enterprise as a stock-raiser and accumulated this world's goods quite rapidly, but was peculiarly unfortunate with his family of children, but one of whom ever lived to reach the years of majority, and that the youngest, and but a babe when he himself died in 1852. Six children, and all but the one having preceded him to the grave, and the wife following two years later. Though a man somewhat reckless in his habits and profane in conversation, he held it a sacred duty to have a funeral sermon preached for every one of his children that died, what was something remarkable. John L. Turner, the "little Baptist preacher" of Crane Creek, officiated at every one of these occasions, and also at that of the father and mother. The latter, "Aunt Eliza" was one of Nature's noblewomen. The silent grief and heart-pangs which many circumstances pierced like a dagger her very soul, were buried there and without a word of reproach or complaint, forever. She was universally beloved and honored for her inherent goodness and nobility of nature
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Kinzey Virgin
Died
Oct. 1, 1852
Aged 45 years
4 months 24 days
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