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Rev John Birkett

Birth	:	23 Nov 1818 Kendal, South Lakeland District, Cumbria, England
Death	:	25 Jan 1902 Holton, Jackson County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Sullivan Cemetery, Winthrop, Okanogan County, USA
Coordinate	:	48.4742012, -120.1707993
Plot	:	Section 3, Block 6, Lot 66
Description	:	The Holton Recorder, January 30, 1902: The Rev. John Birkett was born at Kendall, in the north of England, November 23, 1818. His father had been a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, who had to locate because of poor health. When a boy of only thirteen his mother died and the lad was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, which business he continued until he emigrated to America. At 19 years of age he was converted and united with the Wesleyan church. Very soon after his conversion he was licensed as a local preacher and placed on the plan of the Manchester circuit, which... Read More	The Holton Recorder, January 30, 1902: The Rev. John Birkett was born at Kendall, in the north of England, November 23, 1818. His father had been a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, who had to locate because of poor health. When a boy of only thirteen his mother died and the lad was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, which business he continued until he emigrated to America. At 19 years of age he was converted and united with the Wesleyan church. Very soon after his conversion he was licensed as a local preacher and placed on the plan of the Manchester circuit, which necessitated his preaching from two to three times a Sunday. In 1842, at the solicitation of his brother who had been in America number of years, he came to this country and in the fall of the next year was admitted into the Pittsburg Conference, and for ten years he served the charges in that conference which were situated in the mountainous country of Virginia. The circuits were very large and the work very arduous, often attended with exposure, and in 1853 Mr. Birkett's health having failed, he was compelled to retire from the active work. He located at Beverly, W. Va., and went into the mercantile business. In 1861 he had been appointed postmaster by President Lincoln. Just before the battle of Rich Mountain the Confederate forces occupied Beverly, Mr. Birkett was an outspoken Union man. They first tried to persuade him by offers of temporal advancement to swear allegiance to the south. Failing utterly in that they threatened his life. For weeks it was necessary for him to be in hiding, and finally they gutted his store at a loss of $4,000 to him. After Rich Mountain came the Union forces. The store was restocked, but the next year the small union force had to evacuate because of the approach of a large Confederate force, and as a war measure the commissary stores were burned, and Mr. Birkett's building and stock went with them-another loss of $6,000. He then moved to Williamsburg, Ohio, and went into business just in time to have John Morgan's raiders clean up the stock at a loss of $2,500. After the war he returned to his old home in Virginia and went back into the old business. But the rebel element had not forgot his staunch stand for the Union, and the people had been impoverished by the war, and the venture was a losing one. In 1868 he sold out and after spending two years at Goshen, Ohio, he came to Kansas and purchased a farm near Circleville. In 1874, just as he was getting a good start on the farm, the grasshoppers came along and ate him out. He then sold his farm and went into business first at Circleville and afterwards at Holton. The first Newman fire on the north side of the square caused him to be a heavy loser. He then moved his stock to Arrington. In the course of a few weeks a cyclone wrecked the building, scattering the stock over the prairie and injured Mr. Birkett and one of his sons. He took what was left of his goods to North Cedar and in a few months moved back to Holton. He preached on the America City circuit for two years after coming to Kansas, and was a member of the Kansas legislature in 1874. In the summer of 1849 he was married to Miss Rebecca Buckey, of Beverly, W. Va., who with two sons, Edward E. and Emmet V., still survive him. A daughter, Mrs. Geo. Hotts, dying a number of years ago ... Roy Birkett, a grandson of the deceased, who is teaching near Netawaka, was unable to get here to the funeral on account of the heavy snow.

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Where is Rev John Birkett's memorial?
Rev John Birkett's memorial is located at: Sullivan Cemetery, Winthrop, Okanogan County, USA.
When did Rev John Birkett death?
Rev John Birkett death on 25 Jan 1902 in Holton, Jackson County, Kansas, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Rev John Birkett's memorial?
Latitude: 48.4742012
Longitude: -120.1707993

Family Members:

Parent

Edward Birkett

(1791 - 1845)

Spouse

Rebecca Buckey Birkett

(1827 - 1902)

Siblings

Children

Edwin Edward Birkett

(1850 - 1930)

Emmett Vance Birkett

(1854 - 1930)

Ann Elizabeth “Lizzie” Birkett Houts

(1858 - 1888)

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