More new info, June 19, 2000:  Another " new" cousin, Marshel Roy Cunningham  of Montevallo, AL,--e.mail him at GoneToAla@aol.com--is a several-great-grandson of MiElda and Israel.

June 3, 2002:  Cousin Wanda Lou Kilpatric Slack of Longmont, CO, recently e.mailed me these pictures and details (see letters below) on the William Lafayette Kilpatric family, and I added them to the page this week. And now, October 2005, after a long absence, she has added some corrections--good to visit with you again, Wanda!

Here's a message posted to the Kilpatrick Family Genealogy Forum

James: PikeCoGa &TallapoosaCoAla1800s
Posted by: Marshel Roy Cunningham--GoneToAla@aol.com
Date: April 01, 1999 at 08:34:06

Seeking someone with information or an opinion on James Kilpatrick who is on the Pike County Ga census for 1830 and 1840. I think he is the same James who is on the 1850 Tallapoosa County Census: James Kilpatrick age 54 born South Carolina and wife Elizabeth age 50 born South Carolina. On the1855 he is in same Beat as my ancestor Israel T Kilpatrick....

Israel T Kilpatrick born 1818 in South Carolina, came "as a youth" to Georgia; married 1842 in Meriwether County ( next to Pike) to MiElda Vardaman. Israel and MiElda's oldest son named James Edwy Kilpatrick...her father was Edwy ( correct spelling) Vardaman, so maybe James is named for his father also....I researched the Richard Kilpatrick in Meriwether who dies by 1850 and he doesn't seem to pan out on the census of 1820 and 1830 as having a boy who would be Israel's age, that is, born in 1818.

Any help with finding parents or siblings of my Israel Thomas or Thompson Kilpatrick appreciated. He moved his family to Madison County, Alabama, by 1870.

His children are: Caroline, James Edwy, Taylor, Alley, Frances Amanda, Mary Lenora, Thompson or Thomas Butler, Adora /Caledonia, William Lafayette, John, and Emma Eva.

22.04--James Vardaman, b. unk.; d. 1797 (proven by estate papers); moved into SC with his parents in 1766; m1. Jack believes this first wife of James may have been Sabra Liles/Lyles for two reasons: (1) her married name is Vardaman, and from census records, she's the only possible person who could've been married to him; and (2) the name Liles is the middle name of Jack's and my gg-grandpa, Edwy Liles Vardaman (who would become Old William's g-grandson); Sabra was the mother of William's first two children and possibly the first three; (m2. Jane Johnson); seven children

23.02--Thomas Vardaman, b. ca.1777 in Dutch Fork, Newberry District, SC; d. 1857; m. in 1801 at about age 24 in Jefferson Co., GA, to Annie Vining (b.; d.; d/o Shadrach Vining and Phereby Ratcliffe); they moved around in GA and SC, finally settling in Coosa Co., AL, in 1836; nine children.

24.01--Edwy Liles Vardaman, b. 2 Feb 1804 in GA or b. in Newberry District, SC; d. 25 Jul 1879; bd. with wife at Smyrna, Coosa Co., AL; m. 6 Jan 1825 to Lucinda K. Mauk (b.; d. Mar 1862 ; d/o Mathias Jackson Mauk, Jr., and Frances Lea); 13 children;  served as Justice of the Peace in Tallapoosa Co., AL, for 24 years following his move there in 1848 (which would have been until about 1872--about the time, according to the above obituary, of his mental health failure), then moved to Coosa Co. (I speculate that his son John Forsythe Vardaman moved him and his second wife there so he (JFV) could help take care of him/them.); m2. 4 Jul 1864 to Martha Conway; no children;

26.01--Minerva A. Caroline (or Carolina) "Callie" Kilpatrick, b. Mar 1843 in Meriwether Co., GA; d. unk.; m. 3 Aug 1866 in Madison Co., GA, to James W. Carter; 8 children; [Cousin Wanda Slack provided the number of children, adding that Minerva's father, Israel, is living with James and Minerva in the 1900 census.]

26.02--James Edwy Kilpatrick, b. 1846 in Meriwether Co., GA; d. unk., perhaps in TX; m. never; served as Private in CSA, Co. A, 63d AL Inf--Captured early, POW until paroled 4 May 1865 at Meridian, MS; no known children;

26.03--Zachary Taylor Kilpatrick, b. 1847-48 in Meriwether Co., GA; d. unk; bd. unk.; m. 25 Jan 1875 in Franklin Co., TN, to Emma Corn; unk. children;

26.04--Ailey (or Alley?) M. Kilpatrick, b. 1850 in Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL, where Israel had purchased a farm in 1849; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. 16 Mar 1870 in Frnaklin Co., TN, to John Turner; [Wanda Slack note: they went to northern California in early 1900's to work with her brother Thomas Butler Kilpatrick in mercantile stores he established there]; unk. children;

26.05--Frances Amanda Kilpatrick, b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m.unk.; unk. children;  (Who is this person?  She appears in Marshel Roy's post, above, but does not appear in Wanda's list, below.)

26.06--Mary Lenora "Molly" Kilpatrick, b. 18 Aug 1852 in Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL, where Israel had purchased a farm in 1849; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. 30 Apr 1872 in Madison Co., AL, to Hiram Melvin Jones; unk. children;

26.07--Thompson or Thomas Butler Kilpatric (nee Kilpatrick), b. 3 May 1853 in Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL, where Israel had purchased a farm in 1849; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m1. 15 Oct 1878 in Franklin Co., TN, to Rena Pitts (b. unk.; d. 1898);

27.01--William Seay Kilpatric, b. early 1890's

TBK m2. ca. 1900 to Lurah True Sitton of Salem, AR; he and brother William (5.9 below) owned and operated a Mercantile in Fayetteville, TN, for many years before moving to West Plains, MO, where they owned and operated another mercantile, eventually opening a third in Willow Springs, MO, as well; many children; [Wanda Slack note:  I'll send names and pictures of their children later.]

26.08--Aldona [Adora/Caledonia?] "Donie" Kilpatrick, b. ca. 1855-56 in Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL, where Israel had purchased a farm in 1849; d. unk., but was still living in 1932; bd. unk.; m. Johnson Ventrice; unk. children;

26.09--William Lafayette Kilpatric (nee Kilpatrick), b. 20 Oct 1857 in Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL, where Israel had purchased a farm in 1849; d. ca. 1931, age 74, at home in Valley Center, KS; bd. at Rose Hill Cem., Wichita, KS; m1. 2 Sep 1879 to Mary Hannah Wilson; 2 children; div. 1893;

27.01--Alva Wilson Kilpatric, b. 7 Jun 1880; m. in 1900 to Laura Edwin "Peach" Weatherford (b. , d/o Lewis Edwin Weatherford {b. in Halifax, VA, s/o Charles Buchanon Weatherford and Patience Nunnellee} and Sallie Ann Landrum of Montgomery City, MO; d. 1950; bd. ;); 7 children

28.00--Ralph Weatherford Kilpatric

29.00--Wanda Lou Kilpatric  [PRIVATE]; m. Robert Slack [PRIVATE];

30.00--Slack; [PRIVATE]

31.01--Teak Kilpatrick Slack,[PRIVATE]

28.00--Lorene Kilpatric, b. ca. 1908; d. ; bd. ; m. to Mr. Richards, living in Mountain Grove, MO;

28.00--Woodrow Wilson Kilpatric, b. ca. 1908; d. ; bd. ; m. ;

27.02--Lillian Agnes "Lily" Kilpatric, b. 1884;

27.03--unnamed daughter Kilpatric, stillborn 17 May 1885;  

26.10--John M. (or T.?) Kilpatrick, b. 1859 in Tallapoosa Co., AL; d. 1934; m. never; no known children;

26.11--Emma Eva Kilpatrick, b. ca 1861-62 in Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL, where Israel had purchased a farm in 1849; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. 18 Jan 1882 in Madison Co., to Abner Williamson; unk. children;

Subject:     Israel Thomas & Mieldah Vardaman Line
Received:    5/22/02 10:07 PM
From:        Wanda Slack, wandaslack@earthlink.net
To:          John Gwin, jmcdgwin@zianet.com

Dear Mr. Gwin

Following is the gathered information pertaining to my Great Great Grandparents:  Israel Thomas Killpatrick and Mieldah Vardaman family:

Husband:  Israel Thomas Killpatrick
Born:  1817-1818 South Carolina
Father - Possible:  1830 Pike County, GA. only one Kilpatrick
1 Male age 5-10, 2 males 10-15, 1 male 30-40, 1 female 0-5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 20-30 (Israel would be 12 at the time.

1840 Pike County, GA
1 male 10-15, 2 males 20-30 (Israel could be 22 then) 1 male 40-46(James) 1 female 5-10, 1 female 15-20, 1 female 30-40.(Elizabeth)

1850 Tallapoosa County, Alabama
James Kilpatrick age 54 farmer born in south Carolina
Elizabeth wife age 50  born South Carolina

1855 Tallapoosa County, Alabama -Beat 6 lists
Israel T. Kilpatrick
James Kilpatrick

1860 Tallapoosa County, Alabama
James Kilpatrick age 64 farmer born South Carolina
Elizabeth age 61 housewife born south Carolina

1883 List of War Survivors living in Tallapoosa County
James Kilpatrick

Note:  Israel's first son is James and both Israel and old James moved to Tallapoosa County beat 6

Marriages - Meriwether County, Georgia only two:
Israel Kilpatrick to Mieldah Vardaman, November 22, 1842;
Elizabeth Kilpatrick to Joseph Dunman (Dunham) July 14, 1842 - could she be sister of Israel?

James Kilpatrick's War of 1812 , in 1883, from note in Tallapoosa County...certificate 8631 says P.O. Box is Daviston, November 1871 (date of Original).  James Kilpatrick War of 1812 Record #24,214.  I haven't checked this out, as yet.  (Wanda Lou)

1860 Census Tallapoosa County, GA
Family 101 is James Kilpatrick age 64 born SC wife Elizabeth age 61.

The above information was provided by Marshel Roy Cunningham, great great grandson of Mary Lenore Kilpatrick Jones, daughter of Israel and Mieldah Kilpatrick.  Marshel Roy lives in Montevallo, Alabama and gave the above information as evidence that James and Elizabeth Kilpatrick are the parents of Israel.

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Mieldah Vardaman Killpatrick, born September 26, 1826 in Putnam, Georgia.  Died Jan 22, 188, in Madison County, Alabama.  She and Israel are both buried in the Concord Presbyterian Churchyard Cemetery, address Hazelgreen, Alabama.  She has headstone, and there is a small stone there for Israel with his named spelled Issac and that he died in 1898.  This is not correct.  Israel was still living in the year 1900 and living with his eldest daughter Minerva Carolina Kilpatrick Carter as proven by the 1900 census, Madison County, Alabama.  I am still searching for Israel's death date!  (Wanda Lou)
 

Mieldah Vardaman Kilpatrick
Born September 26, 1826
The daughter of Edwy Liles Vardaman and Lucinda K. Mauk.  (I believe the Vardaman's have their records)

Israel and Mieldah's children in order of birth:

Minerva A. Carolina ("Callie) was born in March 1843 in Meriwether County, Georgia.  She married James W. Carter in Madison County, Georgia August 3, 1866.

James Edwy ("Bud") born in 1846 in Meriwether, County, Georgia - place and time of death still unknown.  James E. was a Private, Co. A, 63rd Ala. Inf'y in the Civil War.  He was captured early and spent the duration of the war in the Union prisoners camp.  He was paroled from May 4, 1865, at Meridan, Mississippi.  James never married and we believe that he may have died somewhere in Texas.  Still to be found.  (I am looking - Wanda Lou).

Zachary Taylor was born in 1847-48 in Meriwether County, Georgia.  He married Emma Corn in Franklin county, Tennessee on January 25, 1875.  I have not found them on census as yet, but am still looking.  Wanda Lou

Ailey M Kilpatrick was born in 1850 in the Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.  She married a John Turner in Franklin County, Tennessee on March 16, 1870.  I have not found census yet, am still looking.  I know that they went out to Northern California in the early 1900's to work with Ailey's brother Thomas Butler in Mercantile stores established by Thomas Butler.  I am still looking.  Wanda Lou

Amanda Frances  was born April 14, 1851 in the Walnut Hill area of Tallapoosa County, Alabama - near Dadeville, Alabama.  She married Zachary Taylor McCollum in Madison County, Alabama April 30, 1872.  She died either Ocotober 11 or 26 1942.  She is buried with her husband Zachary at the Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Hazel Green, Alabama. Alabama.  Zachary Taylor McCollum died April 29, 1926 and is buried beside his wife.

Mary Lenore ("Molly") Kilpatrick was born August 18, 1852, Walnut Hill District near Dadeville, Alabama, Tallapoosa, Alabama.  Mary married Hiram Melvin Jones in Madison County, Alabama on April 30, 1872.  Marshal Roy Cunningham has not given up children's names or death and burial of Hiram and Mary Lenore.  I will get it!! Wanda Lou.

Thomas Butler Kilpatrick was born May 3, 1853 in the Walnut Hill area near Dadeville, Alabama, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.  Thomas first married Rena Pitts on October 15, 1878 in Franklin County, Tennessee.  Rena died in 1898 and shortly thereafter, Thomas married Lurah True Sitton from Salem, Arkansas.  Thomas and his brother William Lafayette or Laffatte owned an operated a Mercantile in Fayetteville, Tennessee for many years before moving to West Plains, Missouri.  They owned and operated Mercantile stores in both Willow Springs and West Plains, Missouri.  I have all names of children and will list them at another date.  I also have pictures of family members - so let me know what you want and size, etc.  Wanda Lou

Aldona ("Donie") was born in 1855-56 in the Walnut Hill district near Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
Donie married Johnson Ventrice - no not where?  She was still living in 1932 when my great grandfather William Lafayette Kilpatrick died in 1932 in Valley Center, Kansas.  I am looking for her records.  Wanda Lou

William Lafayette (Laffette) Kilpatrick was born October 20, 1857, in the Walnut Hill District where Israel had purchased a farm in 1849, Tallapoosa, County, Alabama.
William married Mary Hannah Wilson September 2, 1879.  They divorced in 1893 and William Lafayette Married Maude A. Blakely from Iowa in 1895 in West Plains, Missouri.  William Lafayette died at home  at the age of 74 in Valley Center Kansas.  William is buried at the rose Hill Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.  His great granddaughter Wanda Lou Kilpatric this Month of May placed a stone with his name and particulars in the City Cemetery pf Willow Springs, Missouri where his son Alva Wilson Kilpatric and his wife Laura Edwin "Peach" Weatherford Kilpatric, grandparents of  Wanda Lou and her 9  brothers and sister, all still living this day May 22, 2002. are buried.  Wanda was saddened to find her great great grandfather lying alone in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas when she found his final resting place almost pushed aside under a large cedar tree in 1989.  May he rest in Peach with his loved ones in Willow Springs, Missouri.  I will have a more detailed outline of his life and his decedents when I get there!!!!!!Wanda Lou

John "M" or "T" Kilpatrick was born in 1859 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.  He was never married and only this past spring 2002 did I Wanda Lou find him in his final resting place.  When my grandfather William Lafayette died in Valley Center, Kansas, a John T. Kilpatrick was listed as still living in Lorenza, Crosby County, Texas.  My husband Robert E. Slack and myself, while coming home from Harlingen, Texas took the extra route to see if we could find information pertaining to John.  I will repeat the story later in my synopsis of the Kilpatrick clan!  WOW! what a find!  We did find John and his burial plot.  We preceded to make him a stone and built it right on his gravesite there at the Lorenza City Cemetery.  I scratched his vitals on the wet cement and sank red roses on the headstone.  When I find him, I said, "Well hello there John, I've been looking for you", he didn't say a word!  God rest his soul.  He died the year I was born in 1934.  Wanda Lou

Emma Eva Kilpatrick was born in the Walnut Hill District near Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.  She was born according to the census maybe 1861 or 2 at on January 18, 1882 she married Abner Williamson in Madison County.  I have not found her yet.  Still looking.  Why are my Kilpatrick's so difficult to find.  I need help!!!

Lastly listed on the Soundex of Madison County,  Beat 12, Alabama Bureau of Census is a young lady named Martha.  She was age 10 and listed as a Martha Kilpatrick and a servant girl.  Living in the household at that time was Israel, Mieldah, a Cintha M. relationship daughter age 23 and born in Alabama.  I haven't been able to decide who she is....Emma E. daughter age 18 also born in Alabama.  I have a lot of looking to do!  How 'bout You?

It is my hope that you will be able to copy what I have here to the Israel and Mieldah's spot on the Website.  I will get together the children of the children of the children as I go along.  Hoping to see you in the year 2003 as the Vardaman's meet in Kentucky!!!!       --Wanda Lou Kilpatric Slack

Can't help it!  I am so impressed by all of this!  I wish I knew more about my great great-grandfather and mother.  How they lived, etc.  Jack Vardaman did take us to this place, and there was an old home with tin roof sitting by the road, but I know that was not the homesite.  No one seemed to live there but was storing something?  I sat on the porch and Bob took my picture.  I felt at home!

Wanda Lou

Samuel Knox & Wife

To

Israel T. Killpatrick

Be it known to all men that we Samuel Knox and Sarah Knox his wife of the County of Tallapoosa in the State of Alabama for and in consideration of the sum of Two Hundred and Seventy five Dollars to us in hand paid by Israel T. Killpatrick of the same place the receipt whereof  we hereby acknowledge do hereby grant bargain due ----off and confirm unto the said Israel T. Killpatrick his heirs and assigns the West half of the South East Quarter of Section of  N 14 Fourteen Township NW Twenty of Range N 22 in the  County of Tallapoosa and State of Alabama in Tallapoosa Land District subject to sale at Montgomery To have and to hold the aforegranted premises to the said Israel T. Killpatrick his heirs and  assigns to their up and behalf forever in To simple and in covenant with the said Israel T. Killpatrick his heirs and assigned that we are lawfully seized in Fee of the aforementioned premises that they are free from all encumbrances that we have a good right to sell and convey the same to the said Israel T. Killpatrick and that we will warrant and defend the said  ------to the said Israel T. Killpatrick his heirs and assigns forever against  the lawful claims and demands of all  persons.  In witness whereof the said Samuel Knox and his Wife Sarah have hereunto set our hands and Seal this 3rd day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
 

Test James Lightfoot                              Samuel Knox               Seal

          Thomas Tonderl                               Sarah  X Knox         Seal

                                 (Mark)
 

The State of Alabama } Personally appeared before me James D. Phillips Tallapoosa County     }  a Justice of the Peace for Tallapoosa County and State, aforesaid James Lightfoot who being duly sworn said that he saw Samuel Knox & Sarah Knox the signers to the within deed and sign seal and deliver the within deed to the said Israel T. Killpatrick for the purposes therein named and that he saw the other subscribing  witness sign this deed.

Jan  of 23 of 1849                                                           James Lightfoot

Sworn to and Subscribed before me  }the January 23 of 1849

James D. Phillips

The forgoing deed filed for record 3rd June 1850 and on the same day duly recorded

James A. Jordan Clerk

By T Bostick Dep. Clerk
 

Israel Thomas Killpatrick

To

Samuel Gray  The State of Alabama  }   Know all men by the state of their presents, did I.  T.
Talapoosa County                                   }   Killpatrick of the County of Tallapoosa and State of Alabama, for and in consideration of Samuel Gray of the same county and state being my security to Mary Pearson on three promissory notes, two for forty-five dollars each, and one for twenty two & 50/100 dollars, dated the 6th day of February last and due the 1st day of June any next, and I being desirous of securing the said Samuel Gray, the receipt - whereof is hereby acknowledged, I do have by grant, bargain, sell, enbroff???and confirm unto the said S.Gray, his heirs, Excutress, Administatress and  assiyus???, the west half of the south east quarter of Section fourteen (14) in township twenty (20) of Range twenty two (22) in the district - of land subject- to sale at Montgomery to have and to hold the above bargained land to him the said Samuel Gray his heirs and assiyus???? Forever in fee sinple???  Now if the said I. T. Killpatrick shall pay off and discharge  the said  the above described notes to the said Mary Pearson as the bearer of the same at maturity, there and in that case this deed to be void but should  I the said I. T. Killpatrick failed to pay off the said notes as aforesaid and all cost that may accrue on the same there and in that case the said S. Gray shall have full power and authority, and I do authorize the said S. Gray to seize upon the said land as  foresaid, and after advertising the same for the space of third (30) days at the courthouse in said county and that two other public places in said county -----to sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash and the proceeds apply first to the costs and expenses which has accrued by

------ of those present, and to the payment of the afore described notes and the over--- if any then the pay over to the said I. T. Killpatrick. In  testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seal on the 13 day of March  AD 1852.

I. T. Kilpatrick

The State of Alabama    }  Personally came before me Jos. Know a Justice of the Peace Tallapoosa, Alabama     }     in and for said County.  I. T. Kilpatrick  and acknowledged that - he signed , sealed and delivered the forgoing deed to the said Samuel Gray on the day and date therein mentioned for the purposes therein  specified on this 13th day of March A.D. 1852

Joseph Knox (JP)

The foregoing deed was filed in office for Record 29, April 1852 and recorded 8th May 1852

M. C. Love Judge of Probate

NOTE:  The forthcoming note added to the Deed of Debt of I. T. Kilpatrick to Samuel Gray was noted as follows:  {Satisfied in full January 15th 1853}            Signed by:  Samuel Gray

I typed the deed just as it appeared on the records trying to match the scripting.  Looks the same.  I guess I haven't scanned my picture yet...did not see it in my picture file!  When I do, I shall send.

Good night till we meet again and have a Blessed Evening!