This is from Janice Gerdts and descendant and excellent genealogist on this line. The following are corrections to the line of William Henry Kirkman, son of Bartley William Kirkman.I've made the changes to the website. Sandi Sandi This William Henry was not in Todd Co, KY in 1920. He was in Santa Cruz >Co, CA. #2 Myrtle Guinn is the same as Myrtle Gertrude Guinn and was his >2nd wife. Della Retta being his first. #3 Grace's middle name is spelled >Ar(m)etta. #4 Last child of William Henry and Myrtle Gertrude Guinn >Kirkman is Richard Wallace (living), making 12. Gladys and 13. Richard >Wallace. The last R.W. can be left off. the documentation I have on >the above William Henry Kirkman: Shelby County, IL Census 1860 130/720: >Shelbyville, 19 July, Bartley Kirkman, 28, Nancy, 18, William, 2/12. > Christian County, IL Census 1870: Assumption, Samuel Watkins, 50, >Prudence, 51, Nancy Kirkman, 28, Henry, 10, Alonzo, 7, Charles, 4. > Shelby Co, IL Census 1900: ED 112, sheet 4, Flat Branch, Henry >Kirkman Apr 1860 40 wid IL IL IL farmer, owned farm; Arther son Dec 1882 >17 IL IL OH; Earl son May 1885 15 IL IL OH; James son Aug 1892 11 IL IL OH. > Santa Cruz, California Federal Census, 1910: ED 134, p. 18; >Corralitos Precinct, 4 May; 229/230 W.H. Kirkman, 50, m.2x, 7yrs, b. IL, >father IL, mother IL; Gertrude, 26, m.1x, 7 yrs, 5 ch/5 liv, b. Missouri, >father TN, mother Missouri; Gracie, dau, 6, b. IL; Ray, son, 5, b. IL; >Ruby, dau, 2, b. California; Mildred, dau, 2, b. California; Nellie, dau, >11/12, b. California; Oeth, George, bro-in-law, 30, m.1x, 5yrs, b. IL, >parents, Germany; Lottie, sis-in-law, 25, m.1x, 3 ch/2 liv, b. Missouri, >father TN, mother Missouri; Chester, neph, 3, b. IL; Clyde, neph, 17/12, >b. IL. > Santa Cruz, California Federal Census, 1910: ED 116, p. 14A, Aptos >twp, 1 May, 243/243, Earl Kirkman, 25, single, b. IL, father, IL, mother, >OH, laborer, working out. William Kirkman Family Bible, started by >William Henry Kirkman, 1883 edition, passed to Grace Kirkman Inghram, to >Cecil Kirkman Wilson, to Kirk Kirkman, son of Richard Kirkman (1999). > Funeral cards for: Loran, Cecil, Charles Raymond, Grace. >Fred F. Kuhle deposed that he was well and intimately acquainted with the >Kirkman family since about 1870: that Bartley W. Kerkman who was the >grantee in a certain deed of conveyance, conveying the NE 1/4 of the NE >1/4 of sec 36 twp 13 N Range 2E of the 3rd meridian ....had his name >spelled incorrectly in said deed of conveyance, and that the same should >have been spelled Kirkman: that the said Bartley W. Kirkman departed this >life on or about July 20, 1869, leaving surviving him, Nancy Kirkman, his >widow, and William Henry Kirkman, Don Alonzo Kirkman, and Charles Kirkman >his children; that said widow, afterwards married George Clark; that said >Nancy departed this life on or about April 1 1878: that William H. >Kirkman, grantor in a certain deed of conveyance is one and the same >person as William Henry Kirkman and that he is unmarried on August 8, 1881: > conveyed land to George "Sory" correctly spelled Storey, deposition taken >28 Jan 1922. Shelby, IL, Birth Record, State of IL, GSU Film #: >birth of male child, first for mother, Della Tripp Kirkman, father William >H. Kirkman, father b. IL, age 22, mother b. OH age 19, birth Dec 27th >1882, Rose twp, Shelby County, IL Illinois Death Records, >GSU#1317639: Shelby County, 1-158, Altie May Kirkman, 29 Sep 1898, 2 a.m., >4 yrs old, 4 yrs resident, died of membranous laryngitis, ill 2 weeks, bur >Bethany Church Shelby, IL, copy of original document with J. >Gerdts: marriage certificate of William H. Kirkman of Rural, IL and Della >R. Tripp of same, at res Geo W. Loving, J.P., 30 Oct 1881, wit. Wh.A. >Tripp, Joseph Jenkins >Shelby, IL Marriage Bk 1878-1888, p. 23 (from Winifred Rothermel) >R. Lawrence, J.P. at Johnston City, 25 Mar 19 (03) Santa Cruz, >California Federal Census, 1910: ED 134, p. 18; Corralitos Precinct, 4 >May; 229/230 W.H. Kirkman, 50, m.2x, 7yrs, b. IL, father IL, mother IL; >Gertrude, 26, m.1x, 7 yrs, 5 ch/5 liv, b. Missouri, father TN, mother >Missouri; Gracie, dau, 6, b. IL; Ray, son, 5, b. IL; Ruby, dau, 2, b. >California; Mildred, dau, 2, b. California; Nellie, dau, 11/12, b. >California; Oeth, George, bro-in-law, 30, m.1x, 5yrs, b. IL, parents, >Germany; Lottie, sis-in-law, 25, m.1x, 3 ch/2 liv, b. Missouri, father TN, >mother Missouri; Chester, neph, 3, b. IL; Clyde, neph, 17/12, b. IL. > &&& mother b. Germany; Clyde H. son 21 Illinois father Illinois mother >Missouri; Virgil H. son 14 Illinois; Zella M. dau 12 California; Fern dau >8 California; Hah? Henry J boarder 18 United States father Germany mother >United States. Santa Clara, California, Dept of Health, California >Death Cert 29-020703, cert. copy: William H. Kirkman d. 30 Mar 1939, at Rt >1 Box 510, Coffin Rd, Santa Clara, wife Myrtle G. Kirkman, b. 25 Apr 1860, >Shelbyville, IL, bur Santa Clara Cem, 4/1/39, death due to coronary >occlusion.