When Josiah Morgan Kirkland was born on 23 August 1845, in Headland, Henry, Alabama, United States, his father, Josiah Kirkland, was 40 and his mother, Cynthia Hutto Watson, was 37. He married Mahala Kirkland on 19 August 1863, in Henry, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Slocomb, Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 3 Douglas Crossroads, Henry, Alabama, United States in 1920. He died on 17 March 1920, in Alabama, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Henry, Alabama, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places called Kirkland (Cumbria, Lancahires; Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Lanarkshire), all named with Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + land ‘land’, except for the Lancashire placename, which derives from kirkja + lúndr ‘small wood, grove’.
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