Major Kirby's House and Family

House of William Gause (ancestor of Mary Elizabeth Durant)

Family of Augustus Hilliard Kirby. Left to right: Sarah Elizabeth "Sabie"; Major Kirby, Charles Chalmers Kirby in lap of John Wesley Durant, father of Mary Elizabeth Durant Kirby; Mary Josepha "Joda"; George Franklin Kirby in front of her; Mary Elizabeth Durant Kirby seated with Pattie Durant Kirby [Jones] beside her; Carolina Virginia Kirby [Earle], Rev. Hilliard F. Chreitzberg holding his child (Cousin Gus), Addria Eugenia Kirby [Chreitzberg]; James Henry and William Augustus Kirby. The house stood where the US Post Office is now located, on the southwest corner of Church Street and Henry Street.