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Teddy Charles Kirkpatrick was the youngest son of Don Dexter Kirkpatrick and Joyce Marie Richter. He was born on Dec. 20, 1959 in Waco, Texas. He married Kathy Louise Walpole in 1980 and had 3 children. They divorced in 1993 and never remarried or had any other children. He passed away in 2003 after a long battle with illnesses on Jan. 26, 2003. He was buried in the Mart Cemetery next to his father and brother.

Don Dexter Kirkpatrick was born on April 20, 1920 to William Addison "Buck" Kirkpatrick and Nancy Thomas. He married Joyce Marie Richter in 1948. They had 4 children. The story of his death is he came home was sitting at the kitchen table when he suddenly fell over and passed on. He passed away on May 01, 1968 at his home in Mart, Texas. He was buried on May 6, 1968 in the Mart Cemetery.

William Addison "Buck' Kirkpatrick was born in 1864 to William Pinkney Kirkpatrick and Sarah (Unknown). He married Rosa Lee Pore and had 2 children. They either separated or she passed away. He then married Nancy Thomas, daughter of John Thomas and Elizabeth Hughes of Scott County Arkansas. They had 10 children together and he passed away on May 20, 1939 in Aquilla, Hill County, Texas. He is buried in the Prairie Grove Cemetery.

William Pinkney Kirkpatrick was born in Abbeville, South Carolina in 1828. He made the trip to Texas with his father and 5 siblings arriving in 1849. He was the eldest of William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick and Katherine Obedience Jones. The family traveled to Washington County Texas where his father met up with an old friend from South Carolina, a Mr. Robert M Moore. On May 18, 1853 William Pinkney Kirkpatrick married Mary Ellen Moore, daughter of Robert M Moore and Marguerite Wiley, in Brenham, Washington county, Texas. They had 6 children before her death in 1863. in 1862 at the age of 34 William Pinkney Kirkpatrick joined the 19th Calvary (Buford's Regiment) as a confederate soldier of the Texas Civil War. He served 3 years and 7 months in Company D, 19th Texas Calvary, Parson's Brigade. He remarried in 1863 to a woman known as Sarah. They had 5 children. William Pinkney Kirkpatrick passed away 9 Feb 1895 in Hill County Texas.

William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick was born in 1797 in Abbeville County, South Carolina to Thomas Kirkpatrick and Margaret Craig. He married Katherine Obedience Jones, daughter of Benjamin F Jones and Mary Townes, In 1828 in Abbeville South Carolina. She passed away in 1842 after giving him 6 children. According the the book "The Early Settlers' Life in Texas" written by his son A.Y. Kirkpatrick. In 1846 William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick and his 6 children, along with 6 Negros left South Carolina headed to Texas. They loaded up a 6 mule wagon and took off traveling through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. When they arrived in Memphis, Tennessee they acquired passage on the Clipper down the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Arkansas River and up to Arkansas Pine Bluff. They had a lay over in Arkansas for 3 years due to extremely wet weather conditions. They arrived in Bynum Creek area Texas in the Fall of 1849. They purchased lands, built their home, and purchased stock. The area they settled was known as Navarro County until 1853 when it became present day Hill, County. They were one of the first settlers' of Hill County. William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick was listed among the voters who voted for Dr. Hill in 1851 along with 2 of his sons. William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick left his home in November 1863 with a man named Anderson, heading toward Mexico to get some supplies. On the return trip he became severely ill. Anderson continued leaving William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick in New Braunsfel, Comal, Texas. He died of Bright's disease, known today as Kidney disease. He dispatched a letter to Addison Young Kirkpatrick, his youngest son, asking him to come to his side. It took A.Y. Kirkpatrick 4 days to make the trip and 2 days after he arrived his father William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick passed away. A. Y. Kirkpatrick has his father remains placed in a metallic coffin and returned to Hillsboro to lay him to rest in the Old Cemetery. William Hawthorn Kirkpatrick was a prominent member of the Methodist church.

Zoette Gregory of TX was born circa March 13, 1948. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Linda Zoette (Cooey) Gregory.