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William Kitchen

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William Kitchen

Birth
Georgia, USA
Death
1867 (aged 60–61)
Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Stockton, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Old records report him buried here.
Patricia Dunbar, Index of Baldwin Co. Cemeteries
Shawn Holland, Cemeteries of Baldwin Co. pub. in BCHGQ, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 19-23.
Published in Baldwin County Genealogy Society-Cemetery Project Book published 2004
All these records are at the Foley Public Library.
Alabama Wills and Probate records. Ancestry.com
Alabama 1860 Census records [Baldwin Co]

William Kitchen was the son of Samuel Kitchen and Mary Smith, born about 1806, probably in Georgia. His family migrated to the Tensaw area of Baldwin County, Alabama, when he was young. Founding the town of Stockton, AL, in 1839, William Kitchen operated multiple stage coach lines from Blakeley, AL, to Montgomery and to Pensacola, FL, and also operated the Stockton Steamboat and Warehouse Company. He and his partner Ward Taylor obtained government contracts to transport mail from Montgomery to Mobile and back. He married Narcissa Watson, daughter of John Brown Watson and Mary B. Cooper Watson, on 11 Aug 1842. They built their home north of the town of Stockton in 1844, which had multiple buildings for stables, carriage, mail, blacksmithing, smoking, and commissary. William Kitchen's grave is reportedly in the Aiken Memorial Cemetery, which has been demolished.
Old records report him buried here.
Patricia Dunbar, Index of Baldwin Co. Cemeteries
Shawn Holland, Cemeteries of Baldwin Co. pub. in BCHGQ, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 19-23.
Published in Baldwin County Genealogy Society-Cemetery Project Book published 2004
All these records are at the Foley Public Library.
Alabama Wills and Probate records. Ancestry.com
Alabama 1860 Census records [Baldwin Co]

William Kitchen was the son of Samuel Kitchen and Mary Smith, born about 1806, probably in Georgia. His family migrated to the Tensaw area of Baldwin County, Alabama, when he was young. Founding the town of Stockton, AL, in 1839, William Kitchen operated multiple stage coach lines from Blakeley, AL, to Montgomery and to Pensacola, FL, and also operated the Stockton Steamboat and Warehouse Company. He and his partner Ward Taylor obtained government contracts to transport mail from Montgomery to Mobile and back. He married Narcissa Watson, daughter of John Brown Watson and Mary B. Cooper Watson, on 11 Aug 1842. They built their home north of the town of Stockton in 1844, which had multiple buildings for stables, carriage, mail, blacksmithing, smoking, and commissary. William Kitchen's grave is reportedly in the Aiken Memorial Cemetery, which has been demolished.


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