Person:Jane Kirkpatrick (5)

Baptism recorded in Rev. John Cuthbertson's diary. Records her name as Jean, daughter of Robert Kilpatric. Jane is found in the 1850 census for Henderson Co, IL, at 69 yrs. of age.

Sketch of Life of Jane Kirkpatrick Mitchell "Jane Kirkpatrick Mitchell was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania July 13,1780 and was married to William Mitchell in York county, Pa. February 13,1804. She passed away at the home of her son, Matthew Mitchell, in Henderson County, Ill. May 28, 1867. She was almost 87 years old.

"Jane Kirkpatrick Mitchell was the daughter of Robert Kirkpatrick, who was born July 3, 1743 and married Agnes Patterson in 1774-- both of Lancaster County, Pa. Robert Kirkpatrick and his wife passed away the same week-- August 1828-- and were buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery at Martinsburg, Ohio. Robert was 85 years of age.

"Robert Kirkpatrick, with his family, joined a colony going from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1814. He purchased 215 acres of land where Utica, Ohio now stands.

"In the War of the Revolution he was a Lt. in Captain Watson's 6th. Company of Lancaster, Pa. Militia (1777).

"The Kirkpatrick and Mitchell families were prominent in their several communitiies in education, politics, and in religious activities. Although of hte Covenenter Faith, they were liberal in their attidtudes toward those of other beliefs.

"Jane Kirkpatrick Mitchell was a very remarkable woman, being possessed of energy, industry, piety and strength of character. Her strength of character was shown in the fact that she was the first woman who discontinued the custom of the day of serving whiskey in the harvest fields. Instead of whiskey she sent out hot coffee. Her piety was of the cheerful, happy type. Her Bible was her constant companion and was in her hands when she quietly passed away.

"Although bed-ridden for the last seven years of her life, she was never idle and during the last years did fine work iwth the needle. She kept an interest in the life about her and her mind was active until the end. Her life was a benediction to all who knew her and should be an inspiration to her descendants." Quoted directly from a genealogy file, "The Mitchell Family" found in the Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois library.