1920 Census shows a John Wm Kirkpatrick b. 1851, his wife is listed as Martha E., i have been searching for this couple I believe they were from West Virginia, a John Wm Kirkpatrick married Martha E. Shuman in Tyler County, WV in 1878. Can someone look up this family for me?

willowtree123

This fellow is likely the one you found in the 1920 Census. You likely will have to get his obituary to see if he is related to the John Wm. you are referring to...

From “Tombstone Inscriptions and Burials of Jefferson County, Kansas, 1854 – 1986”, compiled by the Jefferson County Genealogical Society

on page 196

Kirkpatrick, John Wesley, 14 Feb 1850 – 12 Feb 1931 PLVW
s/Mr. and Mrs. William Kirkpatrick
h/Martha Ella Pennington

Kirkpatrick, Martha Ellen, 1854 – Jun 1936 PLVW
d/Mr. and Mrs. Asher Pennington
w/J. W. Kirkpatrick

on page 276

Pennington, Asher, 19 Jun 1829 – 6 Apr 1904 PLVW
h/ Mary A Kerns

Pennington, Mary Ann (Kerns), 16 Apr 1833 – 19 May 1914 PLVW
d/Mr. and Mrs. Abram Kerns
h/ Asher Pennington

PLVW = Pleasant View Cemetery, Oskaloosa, Jefferson County, KS, NW1/4 – SE1/4 S32 T9S R19E

There were no listing for: Mr. and Mrs. Abram Kerns or Mr. and Mrs. William Kirkpatrick

From “Marriage Records of Jefferson County, Kansas, 1854 – ????”, compiled by the Jefferson County Genealogical Society

on page 223

Kirkpatrick, John W., 22
Pennington, Martha E., 17
Apr 7 1872, Jefferson County marriage Records, Book B, page 138, #532
married in Oskaloosa by L. P. Price, Minister

If you visit the US GenWeb page for Jefferson County and take the link to the Jefferson County Genealogical Society, you will find an email address you can use to ask them to check their obituary file for obituaries.

Or your librarian, or the local LDS Family History Center can interlibrary loan newspaper microfilms from the Kansas State Historical Society and you can look for the obituaries. Visit this link to search for the microfilm numbers. Also take a look at the link for the interlibrary loan policies.

http://www.kshs.org/library/news.htm

Then visit this page at KSHS and scroll down to Jefferson County, take the link and you will see a list of records available for interlibrary loan on microfilm.

http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/localgovt/microfilm/index.h...

Dave Goldy
Overland Park, KS

Thank you for this information, i have a ggreat aunt, Martha E. Shuman who married John W. Kirkpatrick in Tyler county, Wv in 1878, i haven't been able to find them, ancestry. com gave me 3 different John & Martha E. Kirkpatrick, that had the approx. same births, this was one of them, I now know to keep looking elsewhere. My great grandfather had 12 children by 2 wives, none of his children stayed in Tyler county, wv most are spread across the US. I have only found about 5 of them.