3. | KIRK, Hazel Ann was born on 28 Nov 1825 in Anderson, Tennessee, USA (daughter of KIRK, Thomas Riley and GWIN, Martha); died on 6 Apr 1919 in Mercer, Missouri, USA; was buried in Mercer, Missouri, USA. Notes:
GRANVILLE, Grundy County, Missouri
Granville, an old town, flourished in the eighteen fifties, very near the present site of Dunlap. It had a general and grocery store, whose principle trade was in whisky, and a blacksmith shop. Here occurred the killing of McAfee and Phipps, about 1859.
In about 1859 there was a double killing at the town of Granville. In a quarrel, George McAfee shot Joseph Phipps. At the time Joseph Phipps war married to Hazel A. Kirk. One of Hazel's brother's (Wiley Clark Kirk) then shot and killed George McAfee. Hazel later married Jesse Huston Brassfield.
George McAfee was a Mason. Only legend remains, but the story goes that he was killed over a dispute concerning racehorses, two men were killed and buried near the creek bank. Only remnants of one stone were found; broken and scattered. It is recorded that George McAfee (November 25, 1821 - June 29, 1859) is commemerated at the site of the McAfee Cemetery in Grundy County, Missouri.
Buried:
Coon Cemetery
Children:
- PHIPPS, Flora was born in 1851 in Missouri, USA.
- PHIPPS, Martha E was born in 1852 in Missouri, USA.
- PHIPPS, James C was born in 1848 in Grundy, Missouri, USA.
- PHIPPS, Francis M was born in 1856 in Grundy, Missouri, USA.
- 1. PHIPPS, Preston was born in 1853 in Grundy, Missouri, USA.
- PHIPPS, Thomas Riley was born on 29 Mar 1855 in Platte City, Platte, Missouri, USA; died on 11 Apr 1942 in Centerville, Appanoose, Iowa, USA.
- PHIPPS, Henry P was born in 1854 in Grundy, Missouri, USA.
- PHIPPS, Nancy J was born in 1849 in Grundy, Missouri, USA.
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