Alva Glen Kirkpatrick^[1]

1897 - 1962  (65 years)

• Name	Alva Glen Kirkpatrick
  Birth	24 Jan 1897
  Gender	Male
  Other Name	"Glen"
  Death	1 Oct 1962	Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA
  Person ID	I25260	Bisbee
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2009

  
  

  Wife	Jessie Melia,   b. 30 Aug 1898, Plains, Meade, Kansas, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	18 Nov 1918
  Children	+ 1. Orville Kenneth Kirkpatrick,   b. 4 Jul 1919   d. 7 Sep 2001, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA (Age 82 years)   2. Marcella Mae Kirkpatrick,   b. 12 Mar 1922, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA d. 13 Apr 1935, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA (Age 13 years) + 3. Warren Wilmer Kirkpatrick,   b. 1 Jun 1925, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA d. 5 Dec 2002, Weatherford, Custer, Oklahoma, USA (Age 77 years) + 4. Chester Keith Kirkpatrick,   b. 20 Apr 1930   d. 7 Aug 1995, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F9494	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Death - 1 Oct 1962 - Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Following from "The Melia Family" by Kay Melia "Glenn Kirkpatrick, the son of another old pioneering family. Glen w as a prominent cattleman, raising registered Shorthorn Cattle, as well as a lot of horses, including at least a dozen Shetland ponies at about any given time. Glen owned a couple of big threshing machines along with his dad and did a lot of custom threshing around the courntry. Glen and Jessie's farm was located about a mile south and a mile east of where Jessie was born on Grandad Newt's homeplace. Jessie had four children." "The Kirkpatrick family was a busy one, and extremely hard working. Like most of us, they grew just about everything they ate during the years of the depression and the war. Glen died in 1962, and after living alone on the farm for a number of years, Jessie moved to Bucklin to live with Keith and Charlene, who created a complete independant apartment for her on the ground floor of their spacious home in the south part of Bucklin. Jessie was just over 90 when she passed away." Crandall Melia (also a first cousin) Adds--------" What I remember about Uncle Glenn was his Modified Model A Ford roadster which had all of the body removed with the exception of from the windshield forward, with open cockpit and the back was built up with cage like boxes to hold the coyote dogs. He always had a pack of dogs which could track them down. We would ride across the open ground, some times with an airplane to flush them out, and when they were spotted, we would release the dogs to catch them. This was before the days of seat belts, and I just remember "hanging on." I also remember him as a larger than life John Wayne type, always wearing a buff colored Stetson and cowboy boots. What I remember about the Kirkpatrick home(when I was a kid), was that they had the most fabulous feather bed mattresses which Aunt Jessie made, and they had a basement on the farm which was always cool in the hottest summer, and I used to go down there and lay in the feather bed in Keith"s room and read the most fantastic collections of Mechanics Illustrated magazines I had ever seen."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2589] Crandall Melia, Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, Melia, Crandall: Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, (1837 N. San Antonia Ave, Upland, California. Tel. 909-985-4350. Email candcmelia2@yahoo.com).