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Рождение
Дата: 1904-09-19
Место: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Заметка: Have conflicting info regarding Jack's place of birth -census record indicates MSother record indicates NC

Перепись: Jack, age 6, was living on Denison & Bells Road in Grayson County, Texas with his father and mother and brothers Houston, and Lawrence.
Дата: 1910-05-06
Возраст: 5
Место: Precinct 2, Grayson County, Texas

Перепись: Jack was living in Charlotte, NC with his father, his step-mother, brothers Houston, Lawrence and Norman and half brothers, Everette, Harvey (H. G.) and Martin. Houston and Jack were working as doffers in a cotton mill.
Дата: 1920-01-07
Возраст: 15
Место: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Event-Misc: YOUNG KIRBY LAID TO REST IN ELMWOOD|Hundreds Attend Funeral and Pay Final Tribute to Charlotte Boy||The sharp staccato of three crackling volleys from the rifles of Fort Bragg riflemen, followed by the restful call of 'taps', signifying the end of a soldier's day, marked the end of the journey of Edward C. Kirby, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey G. Kirby, as he was laid to rest in the Elmwood cemetery yesterday afternoon with military honors.| Mr. Kirby was drowned when the U. S. destroyer, 'Young', crashed into the rocks off Santa Barbara coast several days ago.| Headed by the Fifth Field Artillery band, playing mournful strains of Chopin's funeral march, the procession made its way to the cemetery, with sailors marching beside the hearse to the grave, going as far with their comrade as they could, to the very end of his journey.| Hundreds of Charlotte people, on foot and in cars, followed in the wake of the funeral as the soldiers and sailors trudged slowly along on their sorrowful mission, and tears stood in many eyes as the casket was lowered into the grave after a tender message by Rev. A. H. Porter.| Many floral offerings, indicating the love and esteem for young Kirby in his home city, were mute memorials to his honor and to the honor of a well-beloved son.| Rev. A. H. Porter, pastor of the Chadwick Memorial Baptist church officiated at the graveside.| The active pallbearers were from three recruiting branches of the United States service. These were: Sergeants McGee and Davis, of the naval recruiting station; Sergeants Schuster and Weckstrom, of the marine recruiting station; and Sergeants Twiford and Goesch, of the local army recruiting station.
Дата: 1923-09-24
Возраст: 19
Место: Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Смерть: Да
Дата: 1923-09-08
Возраст: 18
Место: Point Perdanales near the Santa Barbara Channel, California
Заметка: Jack drowned in a naval disaster in 1923 while serving on the destroyer USS Young. An account of the episode from the Department of the Navy reads as follows:Honda Point Disaster, 8 September 1923The Navy's greatest navigational tragedy took place in September, 1923 at an isolated California headland locally known as Honda Point. Officaially called Point Perdernales, Honda is a few miles from the northern entrance of the heavily-traveled Santa Barbara Channel. completely exposed to wind and wave, and often obscured by fog, this rocky shore has claimed many vessels, but never more at one stroke that at about 9 PM on the dark evening of 8 September 1923, when seven nearly new U. S. Navy destroyers and twenty-three lives were lost there.

Похороны: Jack's father, Harvey G. Kirby, who died in 1941, is buried next to his son. The photo shows Jack's brothers , Lawrence, Norman, Everette, HG, and Martin at his grave. Brother Houston may have been away in the Navy when this photo was taken.
Дата: 1923-09-22
Место: Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina