52 Ancestors: #32, Chester F. Kirk, Part 2: Clockmaker

Chester F. Kirk, date unknown¹

This is the second of "another story or four" about my paternal grandfather, Chester F. Kirk. This one is about Chester's second and third wives, and his first two children.

At the end of Part 1: From Maine to Bristol, Chester had left the Hitchcock paper box shop for E. Ingraham's clock factory, and no longer lived with or near his in-laws, leading me to believe that he and Ellen had separated or divorced. And, I said, subsequent events  – which probably had their genesis right at the Hitchcock paper box shop – appear to bear this out.

Back in the 1880 census, four pages away from the Hitchcocks but also on Divinity Street, was the household of Jane Martin. Two of her daughters, Mary E. Martin and Hattie (Martin) Moore, worked in a "box shop," which was almost certainly Hitchcock's.²

1880 U.S. census, Bristol, Hatford County, Connecticut, Jane Martin household

 No doubt it was through one of those daughters that Chester met another Martin sister, Charlotte ("Lottie").³ Evidently they became quite well acquainted: on 2 Jul 1886, he married Lottie Martin,⁴ and six months later, on 9 Jan 1887, Hazel Mae Kirk was born.⁵

What Happened to Ellen?
Ellen, for her part, also remarried in 1886, to a Scottish minister, the Rev. Samuel Graham Neil. They had one child, a daughter Amna, born in 1888. I haven't discovered where they lived from 1886 to 1902, when they were in Bristol, apparently briefly, before removing permanently to Philadelphia. The Reverend Neil died of influenza and pneumonia in 1932 while on a visit to Scotland. His body was returned to the U.S., where he was buried in the West Cemetery in Bristol in Benajah Hitchcock's plot. I expect Ellen is probably buried there as well; she was still living in Philadelphia in 1940, and the cemetery inscriptions were compiled in 1934.⁶

Chester remained at Ingraham for the remainder of his residence in Bristol.⁷ The E. Ingraham Co. had been manufacturing clocks in Bristol since 1840, and was famous for intricately decorated cabinet clocks and "visible pendulum spring clocks" with eight-day striking movements, such as these examples from an 1897-98 Ingraham catalog.⁸

     

Typical Ingraham cabinet clock

     

Typical Ingraham visible pendulum spring clock

Pendulum clock built by Chester Kirk, ca 1890

I remember staying overnight at my grandmother's house and listening, late at night, to the striking of the pendulum clock that graced her dining room – a clock made by my grandfather during his time at Ingraham. Though much more rudimentary in design than a typical Ingraham clock and with little ornamentation, it's easy to see the "family resemblance."⁹

West Cemetery (Bristol, Conn.), Lottie A. Kirk gravestone

After Hazel, Chester and Lottie had one more child, on 24 November 1889: a son, Kenneth Allen Kirk.¹⁰ Chester's second marriage lasted no longer than his first, but for a very different reason: just a year after Kenneth's birth, Lottie died on 25 November 1890, at the age of 33.¹¹ She is buried in West Cemetery in Bristol (or Plainville).¹²

Perhaps it's not surprising that Chester, left suddenly with a one-year-old and a not-quite-four-year-old, remarried rather quickly. On their 2 Jul 1891 wedding day, his third wife was a couple of months shy of 18 – just about half Chester's age.¹³ Hattie Schubert was the daughter of Theodore Schubert, a German immigrant clockmaker employed at Ingraham.¹⁴ It's hard to say why this girl would marry a man twice her age, taking on two small children in the bargain. On the face of it, the marriage doesn't appear to be a matter of necessity; their only child would not be born for over a year. Possibly Hattie was pregnant, but miscarried after the marriage. One more thing I will never know.

What I do know is that before September 1892, Chester and Hattie pulled up roots and moved,¹⁵ with Hazel and Kenneth, to Auburn, Maine, where Chester began a new career as – of all things – a veterinarian.

Entry for Chester Kirk, 1893 Bristol city directory: "rem[oved] to Maine"

To be continued in Chester F. Kirk, Part 3: Veterinary Surgeon.

(Note: This post is in response to Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" challenge at No Story Too Small.)

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SOURCES

1. Photo of Chester F. Kirk, date unknown; Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Chester's daughter Geneva Kirk probably gave this tiny photo to her nephew Marshall Kirk, from whom the author inherited it in 2005.
2. 1880 U.S. Census, Hartford County, Connecticut, Bristol, ED 25, p. 26, dwelling 225, family 290, Jane Martin household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com : accessed 31 Aug 2012). Lottie is not enumerated in this household and I have been unable to find her elsewhere.
3. 1870 U.S. Census, Litchfield County, Connecticut, New Hartford, p. 72, dwelling 517, family 549, Harvey Martin household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com : accessed 31 Aug 2012). Jane, all the children from the 1880 census, and Lottie, are in the 1870 household, thus tying Lottie to this family. It was most likely Hattie, who maintained contact with and visited Chester and her niece and nephew in Maine in later years, who introduced him to Lottie.
4. Greenleaf Cilley and Jonathan P. Cilley, The Mount Desert Widow: Genealogy of the Maine Gamble Family (Rockland, Maine: Knox County Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1895), p. 170; digital images, Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/mountdesertwidow00cill : accessed 5 Mar 2012).
5. Ibid. Also, Certificate of Death for Hazel Mae Clark, 11-10-1962, State of Maine Department of Health and Welfare, undated photocopy of typed certificate stamped "NOT FOR LEGAL PURPOSES", Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia. 
6. I'm not going to try to list all the sources for this paragraph. Suffice it to say that I did turn up documentation on Ancestry.com 18-20 Jul 2014, which I will be happy to relate to anyone who might be interested. I'm pretty sure, by the way, that "Amna" really is the daughter's name; at first I thought it was a typo for "Anna" but then found other instances that definitely have an "m" in them.
7. Bristol, Plainville and Terryville Directory for [year] (New Haven, Conn.: Price, Lee & Co., 1888-1891), entries for Chester Kirk (1888; 1890-91; 1891); database and digital images, "U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Sep 2012).
8. Clocks Manufactured by the E. Ingraham Company, Catalogue 29, 1897-98 (Bristol, Conn.: E. Ingraham Co., 1897), p. 52, Bazar, p. 62, Lily; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/clocksmanufacturedingrahamcompany29bris : downloaded 9 May 2014).
9. Chester Kirk pendulum clock, ca 1890, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia; photographed by the author, 2004. The clock passed from Chester's last wife, Mary (Hodsdon) Kirk, to their daughter Geneva Kirk, who passed it on to the author sometime in the 1980s. It is not an "official" Ingraham clock; that is, it does not bear the Ingraham name. I speculate that employees may have been free to use the facilities to build their own clocks during their off hours. Though this clock now graces my living room, it – alas – no longer runs or strikes; the mechanism is simply worn out. 
10. Cilley and Cilley, p. 170. Also, "United States, World War One Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 26 Apr 2012), Fairfield County, Connecticut, 5 Jun 1917, No. 786, for Kenneth Allen Kirk.
11. Bristol, Plainville and Terryville Directory 1891 (New Haven, Conn.: Price, Lee & Co., 1891), p. 6, List of Deaths in Bristol, entry for "Kirk Lottie A., Nov. 25, '90 [age] 33".
12. Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 Sep 2012), memorial #46891025 for Lottie A Kirk, with photo of marker, citing West Cemetery (Plainville, Hartford County, Connecticut), plot 14, memorial and digital photo by C Greer (19 Jan 2010). The last two digits of year are illegible in the photo; the memorial gives the date of death as Nov. 29 [sic], 1889.
13. Bristol, Connecticut, Registrar of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, marriage license with clergyman's certification, #292, Chester F. Kirk and Hattie B. Shubert, 1891; certified (embossed) photocopy issued 14 May 1993.
14. Bristol, Plainville and Terryville Directory 1891, p. 66, entry for Theodore Schubert. 
15. Bristol, Plainville and Terryville Directory 1893 (New Haven, Conn.: The Price & Lee Co., 1893), p. 66, entry for Chester Kirk, "rem[oved] to Maine"; database and digital images, "U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Sep 2012). The September 1892 date and the destination of Auburn will be documented in the next installment. 

52 Ancestors: #31, Chester F. Kirk, Part 1: From Maine to Bristol

Some time ago, in my fourteenth "52 Ancestors" post, The Not-So-Honorary Aunts, I said of my paternal grandfather:

To be more precise, he had been married four times previously, and there were several other children, but that's another story or four...

Chester F. Kirk, date unknown¹

To be even more precise, Chester Kirk had a total of five wives, one other "liaison," and
nine children, including one stillborn, two who died in infancy, and six who lived to adulthood. At least, that's all I know of. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were others (wives, liaisons, and/or children) yet to be found. Curiosity has led me to research Chester's many relationships and try to find out what happened to all those step-grandmothers and half-uncles.

Herewith the first of "another story or four" (or maybe even more). This one is about Chester's early years, his move to Connecticut, and his first wife.

Chester F. Kirk was born 10 September 1857 in Warren, Knox County, Maine.² (His middle initial, according to one online tree, stood for Frank, but I can find no documentation stating his middle name.) He was the oldest child, only son, and only child to survive to adulthood, of Silas Kirk and Sarah C. Sukeforth. I know almost nothing about his childhood, aside from a 1925 photo of the house where he was born,³ and that his family moved around a lot: from Warren to Union before 1860;⁴ to Washington by 1861;⁵ to Auburn sometime between 1861 and 1867;⁶ and finally to Freeport around 1875.⁷

Chester Kirk in front of the home where he was born, Warren, Maine, 1925³

1860 U.S. census, Union, Knox County, Maine, Silas Kirk household

1870 U.S. census, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, Silas Kirk household

1880 U.S. census, Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine, Silas Kirk household

Newspaper illustration of the John A. Briggs, 1901⁹

In 1880, according to the census enumeration of Silas's family in Freeport, Chester was working "in a clock shop."⁸ One might suppose from this that the clock shop was in Freeport, but Freeport, Maine, wasn't exactly known as a clock-making hub; on the contrary, it was a 19th-century ship-building center, which is why Silas, a ship's carpenter, moved there. (He may even have worked on the John A. Briggs, the largest ship ever launched in Freeport, in 1878.)⁹

As it turns out, the "clock shop" was quite a bit further south, in Bristol, Connecticut, which was known as a clock-making hub, and Chester had been enumerated there as well as in Freeport. He was boarding in the household of H. W. Hungerford, whose wife Minerva and resident brother-in-law Maurillo Soule were also both born in Maine. While Hungerford did work in a clock shop, both Chester and Maurillo worked in a "triming" [probably trimming] shop.¹⁰

1880 U.S. census, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, Chester Kirk in H.W. Hungerford household

Advertisement in 1882 Bristol city directory

What they trimmed wasn't specified, but in Bristol, it was almost certainly clocks, and indeed several manufacturers of "Clock Trimmings," such as Albert Warner, advertised in the city directories.¹¹ What clinched the identification of this Chester Kirk as "my" Chester was the discovery that Maurillo Soule was born in Freeport, Maine, and like Chester was double-enumerated in 1880 in both Bristol and Freeport – where his parents said he worked "in a clock factory."¹² Very likely, these two young men had decided they weren't destined to be shipwrights like their fathers (1880 being essentially the end of the wooden ship-building era), and had gone off together to investigate the booming Bristol clock industry of which Maurillo's brother-in-law was a part, but their parents still reported them to the census taker in Freeport (perhaps believing – or at least hoping – that their sons' absences would only be temporary).

B. Hitchcock advertisement, 1882 Bristol city directory

But their stay in Bristol was far from temporary: Maurillo settled there permanently, while Chester would spend the next dozen years in Bristol. On 27 October 1880, he took his first bride, 18-year-old Ellen "Nellie" Hitchcock,¹³ the younger daughter of Benajah Hitchcock,¹⁴ a manufacturer of paper boxes in Bristol¹⁵ and, in 1882 and 1884, Chester's employer.¹⁶ Very likely Chester and Ellen were living with her parents as well, as the city directories said Chester "b[oar]ds Divinity," Divinity Street being the location of the Hitchcock residence and business.¹⁷

Entry for Chester Kirk, 1882 Bristol city directory

Chester and Ellen had no children, and the marriage lasted only a few years. By late 1885, Chester was no longer working for Hitchcock or living on Divinity Street; he was now boarding at 25 North Street, and working for the E. Ingraham Co., perhaps the most prominent of Bristol's clock manufacturers.¹⁸ Now, perhaps they had just moved to be closer to his new employer, but the fact that he had a new employer at all seems indicative of a split from the Hitchcocks, and a separation and divorce from Ellen. Subsequent events, which probably had their genesis right at the Hitchcock paper box shop, appear to bear this out.

Entry for Chester Kirk, 1886-7 Bristol city directory

To be continued in Chester F. Kirk, Part 2: Clockmaker.

(Note: This post is in response to Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" challenge at No Story Too Small.)

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SOURCES

1. Photo of Chester F. Kirk, date unknown; Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Chester's daughter Geneva Kirk probably gave this tiny photo to her nephew Marshall Kirk, from whom the author inherited it in 2005.
2. Greenleaf Cilley and Jonathan P. Cilley, The Mount Desert Widow: Genealogy of the Maine Gamble Family (Rockland, Maine: Knox County Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1895), p. 170; digital images, Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/mountdesertwidow00cill : accessed 5 Mar 2012). Also, State of Maine, Bureau of Health, certificate of death for Dr. Chester F. Kirk, 15 Jul 1939; photocopy of certificate stamped "Not For Legal Purposes," issue date and whereabouts of original unknown; Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author.
3. Photo of Chester F. Kirk in front of the house where he was born in Warren, Maine, 1925, in Geneva Kirk photograph album; Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Chester's daughter Geneva gave this small album to her nephew Marshall Kirk, from whom the author inherited it in 2005.
4. 1860 U.S. Census, Knox County, Maine, Union, p. 41 (upper left), 227 (penned upper right), dwelling 312, family 300, Silas Kirk household; digital image, ProQuest, HeritageQuest Online (access through participating libraries : accessed 7 Mar 2012).
5. Cilley and Cilley, p. 170; Abbie was b. 1861 in Washington.
6. Ibid.; Abbie d. 1867 in Auburn. Also, 1870 U.S. Census, Androscoggin County, Maine, City of Auburn Ward 2, p. 35, dwelling 237, family 318, Silas Kirk household; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 9 Dec 2010).
7. Directory of ... the Cities of Lewiston and Auburn for 1876-7 (Boston: Greenough & Co., 1876), p. 230, no entry for Silas Kirk; database and digital images, "Maine City Directories," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 Jul 2014); Silas presumably left before the directory was compiled. Also, Cyrus Eaton, Annals of the Town of Warren, in Knox County, Maine, Second Edition (Hallowell [Maine]: Masters & Livermore, 1877), p. 567; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books : accessed 11 Dec 2010); Silas "r. Freeport" by the time the book was published in 1877.
8. 1880 U.S. Census, Cumberland County, Maine, Freeport, ED 33, p. 22, dwelling 203, family 222, Silas Kirk household; digital image, ProQuest, HeritageQuest Online (access through participating libraries : accessed 9 Mar 2012).
9. Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maine, Maine, A Guide "Down East" (n.p.: Maine Development Commission, 1937), p. 214; digital images (preview), Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=-n7OgTUS_ewC : accessed 22 Jul 2014). Illustration of ship in "Ship John A. Briggs is Coming Here...," San Francisco Call, 13 Aug 1901, p. 7, col. 2-4; digital images, California Digital Newspaper Collection (http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19010813.2.91# : accessed 22 Jul 2014).
10. 1880 U.S. Census, Hartford County, Connecticut, Bristol, ED 25, p. 15, dwelling 140, family 165, H. W. Hungerford household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jul 2014).
11. Bristol and Plainville Directory 1882 (New Haven, Conn.: Price, Lee & Co., 1882), p. xviii, Albert Warner advertisement; database and digital images, "U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jul 2014).
12. 1880 U.S. Census, Cumberland County, Maine, Freeport, ED 33, p. 16, dwelling 161, family 175, George E. Soule household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jul 2014). 
13. Bristol, Connecticut, Assistant Registrar of Vital Statistics, ca 1993 letter concerning marriages of Chester F. Kirk; Marshall K. Kirk Research Files, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia. The letter reports that Bristol records include a "marriage Oct. 27, 1880 to Ellen Hitchcock."
14. 1880 U.S. Census, Hartford County, Connecticut, Bristol, ED 25, p. 30, dwelling 261, family 335, B. Hitchcock household (accessed 3 Sep 2012).
15. Bristol and Plainville Directory 1882, p. 19, B. Hitchcock advertisement.
16. Ibid., p. 88; Bristol, Plainville and Terryville Directory for 1884-85 (New Haven, Conn.: Price, Lee & Co., 1884), p. 42; database and digital images, "U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Sep 2012); entries for Chester Kirk. 
17. Ibid.
18. Bristol, Plainville and Terryville Directory for 1886-7 (New Haven, Conn.: Price, Lee & Co., 1886), p. 40, entry for Chester Kirk; database and digital images, "U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Sep 2012). 

52 Ancestors: #14, The Not-So-Honorary Aunts

Today's entry in the 52 Ancestors challenge doesn't actually involve direct-line ancestors, but you do get two for the price of one:  Hazel Mae (Kirk) Clark and her daughter Helen Margaret Clark.

When I was a child, there were aunts, and there were "honorary" aunts. Now, my mother didn't hold with the notion of having her children call non-relatives "aunt"; we addressed her adult women friends and neighbors either as Mrs. Smith or – in a few very special cases – by their first names. As far as my mother was concerned, the title of "aunt" was reserved for our "real" aunts or great-aunts. The only exception was for godmothers.

At my maternal grandmother's (and real aunt's) house, however, things were different. Grammie would have us call certain friends and neighbors "aunt." I didn't find this confusing; I knew perfectly well that Aunt Geneva was really my aunt and Aunt Sadie was really my great-aunt, while "Aunt Fanny" (the next-door neighbor lady) and "Aunt Betty" (Aunt Geneva's schoolteacher friend who boarded with them during the week) were just "honorary" aunts and not related to me. (Oddly, this habit didn't extend to calling male friends and neighbors "uncle"; "Aunt Fanny's" husband was always Mr. Parent.)

So when another of my (real) aunt's schoolteacher colleagues was introduced as "Aunt Helen" and her mother as "Aunt Hazel," I assumed they were no more my relatives than were Aunt Betty and Aunt Fanny. After all, I knew "Aunt Helen" wasn't my father's sister (as Aunt Geneva was), and "Aunt Hazel" was almost as old as my father's mother, for heaven's sake. So of course they had to be honorary aunts, who were unrelated to me.

Except they were related to me... and they weren't honorary (well, one wasn't, and the other was only semi-honorary). You can see I was more confused than I had thought.

Hazel Mae (Kirk) Clark, date unknown¹¹

What I didn't understand until many years later was that my grandfather, Chester Kirk, who died a dozen years before I was born, had been 25 years older than my grandmother; he had been married previously, and had had a daughter and son who were, in fact, almost as old as my grandmother. (To be more precise, he had been married four times previously, and there were several other children, but that's another story or four....)

So it turned out that Aunt Hazel Clark really was my aunt, or at least my half-aunt, having been born 9 Jan 1887, in Bristol, Connecticut, to Chester F. Kirk and his second wife Charlotte "Lottie" Martin.^{1, 2} After Lottie's death in 1890, Chester acquired a third wife and then returned to Maine; Hazel and her brother Kenneth went to live with their grandparents, Silas and Sarah Kirk. (Kenneth died two years before his father, so he wasn't around for me to call Uncle Kenneth, which might have either alleviated or exacerbated my confusion.)

On 8 Sep 1907, Hazel married a Lewiston, Maine, shoemaker named John H. Clark,³ a widower with four children under the age of 10. They had five children of their own:

1. Helen Margaret Clark, b. 11 Nov 1907⁴
2. Raymond Lesley Clark, b. 1909
3. Ralph Malcolm Clark, b. 1910
4. Robert Moore Clark, b. 1912
5. Francis Beecher Clark, b. 1915

This makes Helen my half-first cousin, which is why I said she was only a semi-honorary aunt: while she wasn't really my aunt, she was a close relative and got the honorary "aunt" title because she was older than my real aunt (Geneva) and therefore not to be addressed by her first name alone. I suppose if I had known any of her brothers, who of course were also my half-first cousins, I probably would have known them as semi-honorary "uncles" – which again might have either alleviated my confusion or made it worse – but it's a moot point since I have no recollection of ever meeting them.

Francis Clark, Hazel Kirk Clark, Helen Clark, Ralph Clark (l-r), New London, Conn., 5 Apr 1953 (Easter Sunday)¹¹

Helen, who never married, was a schoolteacher for 44 years in the Lewiston school system.⁵ After her father died in 1935, she continued to make her home with her mother until Hazel's death on 10 Nov 1962.^{6, 7} I visited them once with my Aunt Geneva; I couldn't have been more than 9 or 10, and about all I recall of the visit is that they had an exceedingly geriatric, blind dog named "Major". Helen retired in 1972, and died 9 Sep 1995 in Auburn, Maine.^{8, 9} Both Hazel and Helen are buried in the Kirk family lot in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Maine.¹⁰

Kirk family monument, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Maine¹⁰

(Note: This post is in response to Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" challenge at No Story Too Small.)

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SOURCES

1. "Hazel M. Clark" obituary, photocopy of 10 Nov 1962 clipping, probably from Lewiston [Maine] Evening Journal, Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
2. Certificate of Death for Hazel Mae Clark, 11-10-1962, State of Maine Department of Health and Welfare, undated photocopy of typed certificate stamped "NOT FOR LEGAL PURPOSES", Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
3. “Maine, Marriage Records, 1705-1922,” database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search : accessed 30 Apr 2012), John H. Clark-Hazel M. Kirk marriage, 1907.
4. “Maine Vital Records, 1892-1922,” digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 22 Jan 2014), Margaret Clark birth, 1907.
5. "Helen M. Clark" obituary, photocopy of 10 Sep 1995 clipping, Lewiston [Maine] Daily Sun, Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia. 
6. "Hazel M. Clark" obituary.
7. Certificate of Death for Hazel Mae Clark.
8. "Helen M. Clark" obituary.
9. Certificate of Death for Helen Margaret Clark, Sept. 9, 1995, State of Maine Department of Human Services, photocopy of original certificate (issued 11 Sep 1995), Kirk-Murphy Family Collection, privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
10. Mount Auburn Cemetery (Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine), Kirk family monument, read and photographed by the author, 13 Aug 2012.
11. Portrait of Hazel Mae (Kirk) Clark, date unknown; snapshot of Hazel Mae (Kirk) Clark and her children Francis, Helen, and Ralph Clark, 5 Apr 1953, New London, Conn. These prints appear to be made from scans of photocopies of the originals, and were provided by Betty Clark, daughter-in-law of Raymond Clark, to the author's brother Marshall Kenneth Kirk in 2003. Whereabouts of the originals are unknown. Copies privately held by the author, Virginia Beach, Virginia.