Alabama Carl Oates Kirkland (1871-1951)

Alabama Carl Oates Kirkland

Birth

17 Oct 1871

Henry County, Alabama, USA

Death

26 Jun 1951 (aged 79)

Trinity, Trinity County, Texas, USA

Burial

Old Shiloh - Kirkland Cemetery

Woodville, Tyler County, Texas, USA Add to Map

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Alabama Carl Oates was the 13th child born to Robert and Sarah Matthews Oates. Alabama Carl was a year-old-infant when her parents moved the family from Henry County, Alabama, to Texas in December of 1872. The Oates Family lived in Newton, Texas, before moving to Polk County in the spring of 1873 where they lived on a rented farm near Bear Creek. From there, they moved to a farm on Sand Creek after Alabama Carl's father, Robert Oates, filed a 160-acre homestead claim. Alabama Carl Oates was nearly 7 years old when her father, Robert Oates, died in 1878.
At the age of 24 years, Alabama Carl Oates married Elzy O. "Major" Kirkland in Lufkin, Texas. Major and Alabama Carl Oates Kirkland lived in their early married life in Tyler County, Texas, where Major engaged in farming. From Tyler County, Major and Alabama Carl Kirkland moved to Angelina County where Major worked as a county surveyor. In 1913, Major and Alabama Carl Kirkland settled in Trinity County where Major Kirkland became involved in the sawmill and lumber industry.
Major and Alabama Carl Kirkland were married 48 years when Major died in 1944.
At her death in 1951, Alabama Carl Oates Kirkland was survived by her three sons, Ephraim Haywood Kirkland, Robert W. Kirkland, and Winston O. Kirkland; her two daughters, Cecile Kirkland Duff and Katherine "Kate" Kirkland Nesbitt Saye; her 9 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren; two brothers, William Henderson Oates and John Calvin "Cab" Oates; and one sister, Mae Hettie Oates Adams.
Alabama Carl Oates Kirkland was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Sarah Matthews Oates; her husband, Elzy O. "Major" Kirkland; two infant children; four brothers, Stephen M. Oates, Ephraim E. Oates, Charles Spencer Oates, and James Robert Oates; and six sisters, Mary Oates Davison, Elizabeth Oates Griner, Susan Jane Oates Walding, Margaret Oates Gibson, Sarah Oates Gray, and Sina Oates Peavy.