Kirkpatrick - Nannie E. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Nannie E. Kirkpatrick, eldest daughter of John and Amanda Kirkpatrick, died at their home in Frankfort Sunday, aged a little more than 22 years. Nannie for many years was one of Darlington’s best little girls. We only knew her as a child. Womanly, industrious, studious and kind, she made friends wherever she went, and in due time was a good scholar, far exceeding many of her classmates. Some years ago she with her family moved to Frankfort. She then just blooming into womanhood soon took her place in society and gathered many friends around her. Being of an independent nature she wished to be of some use to the family and to the world, she decided to learn stenography and the art of type writing and place herself in a position to maintain herself. For two years she attended for this purpose, school in Crawfordsville and became very proficient in her work and for a time held good positions of trust and profit in her home city. Soon her health gave way and for fourteen long months she was compelled to live and suffer; no murmuring or complaining. All was done that kind hands could do until last Sunday when God called her home. Her funeral and burial was held here Tuesday, Rev. A. S. Buchanan of the Presbyterian Church officiating. The remains were brought from Frankfort by a team a distance of some twenty four miles, and the large crowd that followed, including six of her young lady friends as pall bearers through a steady rain, the floral tribute, the largest perhaps ever seen here, speaks louder than words of the love and esteem in which she was held at home.

The family has the sympathy of the entire neighborhood in which they lived so long and were so well and favorably known. Yes Nannie is gone but will not be forgotten.