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The Life of ABRAHAM A KIRKPATRICK

Major Abraham Kirkpatrick
Section 16, Lot 176

Born during 1749 in Virginia, Abraham Kirkpatrick served in various Virginia regiments during the American Revolution. He retired as Brevet Major in 1783. He was a brother-in-law of John Neville and a strong supporter of the government during the Whiskey Rebellion. He died in 1817, and was buried in a local churchyard and later moved to Allegheny Cemetery.

The inscription on his memorial reads:

This monument is erected to the memory of Major Abraham Kirkpatrick, who departed this life Nov. 17th, 1817, in the 68th year of his age.
He was a patriot of the Revolution, a gallant soldier and an honest man. When retired to the vale of private life, he carried with him that republican simplicity of manner and that unbending decision of character which had distinguished his military career; sincere in his friendships and inflexible in principles, his death was a source of regret, not to those alone to whom he was connected by the ties of consanguinity, but such as had felt the beneficence of a hand open as the day to melting charity.

"Stranger, tread lightly on the ashes of the soldier"

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