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Note: John 
Kithcart was a private in the Revolutionary War
John Kithcart or Cathcart b 1737 in County Antrim, Ireland. d 3/26/1812 in Fayette Co. PA.
m Sarah White b 1740 
d 3/4/1798 in Fayette Co 3 children: 

THE FOLLOWING IS 10 GENERATIONS OF THE KITHCART LINE

b= born    d=died

m= married   t= twin

   
Mary Kithcart
b  1766
d 3/4/1788
Did not marry-
no children
Joseph Kithcart
b 11/25/1770
d 2/24/1814
m Elizabeth Cunningham
on 3/22/1792 
d 8/20/1854
Had 10 children
   Note: This page shows only the genealogy for Melvin and Vernon Kithcart and their children. follow the names in bold.  I will  add other families as I get the information.  Thomas Kithcart
b 10-20-1768
d 10/5/1792
Killed at a barn raising-was to be married the next week.
no children
 
Sarah b10/28/1792
m William Andrews 9/15/1812,

d 8/10/1866
Had 8 children
Anna b10/6/1794
m 5/5/1814

Thomas Andrews
d6/26/1860
10 children
Thomas  
b 9/7/1796
d 9/16/1860
m Deborah Wright 1818
Lived in Ashland Co, OH  Had 10 children
Mary 
b 1/4/1798
m 1/25/1816
to  Robert Sherrard
d 7/31/1823
John 
b 12/5/1799
m 1821 to Mary Crossland, lived in Uniontown, PA
d 1849
Had 2 children

 

Cunningham 
b
9/18/1801
m Jane Dunlap d9/11/1884
d 3/3/1876
Had 9 children
Joseph
12/14/1803
Betsy b 3/6/1806 Martha b 6/24/1809 Daughter: 

Kezia 
b 4/26/1812
m Elias Yost

Nathan:: REFN: 539
Possible information in Whitney County, Indiana Historical Society
Bulletin, Oct., 1965, Aug 1980, Dec 1984. Also includes a Dr Kithcart.
Nathan b10/1/1820
in PA
d11/5/1876 in Tipton, MO
m Sarah Irvin 
b 8/12/1831 in Perrysville, OH
Had 7 children


Sara

I split off here because there is no more room
Nathan and Sara are the parents of Jon Armstrong and Eugene
Follow the names in BOLD type for further lines

Only the children of John Armstrong and Eugene are shown here  
Thomas I. 
b 12/28/1856
d?
m Mollie Burton 
2 children

John and EllaJohn Armstrong
b 2/19/1859
m Elmira (Ella) Louise Diers on 9/10/1890
d 4/4/1943 in Rich Hill, MO
Had 6 children
Laura L.
died in infancy
Rita Dola
b 4/23/1862
m Capt. J.C. Martin in Rich Hill, MO
moved to OK
had 2 children
*See below for more info
William
William A. 
b 1865
d ?
m Lucy Nieswonger
had 2 children
m Myra Lyons
had 4 children
Elmer E.
m Della? 
d 3/4/1939 in Kansas City, MO
3 children
buried in Independence, MO

Eugene E. 

b 1868 in Sparta, WI 
m Minnie F. Swope in Bates County, MO Sept 1, 1890
d
in Kansas City, MO 
2 children
Photo at right is Minnie and her mother Nellie March-Swope
Fern Blanch(t)
5/30/1891
d age
Fary Louise (t)
 
b 5/30/1891
d age
Donald Diers
b 3/22/1893
d age 78
Henry 
b 11/6/1897
d age 73
(twin) 
1 child
Nathan 
b 11/6/1897 (twin) in Rich Hill, MO
d age 94
m Ruby Grace Brisco on 9/2/1922 in Butler, MO
1 child
John Leland
b 5/6/1901

Here is the relationship
-1 st Cousins-
Boyd and Nathan

  Boyd Leland
b  7-8-1891
d 2/2/1951 Coronary
Age 59
m Nellie Margaret Thomas in 1906 in Bon Terre, MO
1 child

Everett E.
b 3/6/ 1893
age 75
no children
      See Rich Hill Kithcart Page Melvin Nathan 
b 11/16/1923
m Mary Lou Sherman
b 2/4/1928
in Butler, MO
Kithcart Apple Orchard
3 children

Melvin and Mary KIthcart, June, 2002
(Only Melvin and Vernon's children are shown from here on)

-2nd Cousins-
Vernon and Nathan

See Kansas City Kithcart Page Vernon Boyd Kithcart
b 11/6/1929
m Marie Eleanor Lombardo on 11/25/1955 in KC, MO
      Sharon Lou 10/31/1949 in Butler, MO
m Leanord Wallace Tourtillott

3 children
(see below and left)

Donna Sue 
b 8/10/1951 in Butler, MO
m Gregg Edward Zeller
2 children below
James Nathan
b 9/29/1955 in Butler, MO
m Diana Sue West
2 children, twin sons below

-3rd cousins-

  **Margaret Ruth (Margie)
b 12/10/1956 in KC, MO
m Ronald Timmons
2 children: Maria and Rachel--
Divorced and remarried to Gene Padgitt (no children)
Alice Marie
b 8/22/1959 in KC, MO
m Keith Brink
Had 2 children
below:

FrankBrian

b 9/22/1961 in KC, MO
m Aileen Cajanding
2 children
  Jeffrey Scott Tourtillott
 8/30/1968
m Brenda Ann Jordan Leanard

4 Children below:
Kimberly Lynn 5/12/1975 Lucas Kyle
7/11/1978
Nicholas Adam
6/12/1978
Elizabeth Ann
3/15/1981
James Nathan
4/4/1973
Richard Nathaniel
4/4/1973
m Valerie Ruth Ensor
3 children

-4th cousins-

  (see Margie's children on new chart below) 1 child: Katrina Marie, b 3/27/1986
and one adopted child, Benjamin
b 3/24/1990
2 adopted children: Sheryl and Tommy Cajanding
Stachia Renea Tourtillott
b 9/5/1995
Morgan Ruth
8/18/1993
Ashlyn Grace
2/23/1996
Nathaniel
1/28/2000

-5th cousins-

 

 **Margaret Kithcart-Padgitt's children and grandchildren: 


Maria Christine
 
b 11/27/1976
m Anthony Thomas, 2 children
divorced
Maria Christine 
m Henry Arthur McKenzie

Rachel Dianne
b 10/20/1978
m Arturo B. Denham, 2 children
divorced
m Ricky Carroll Cline

Phillip Anthony Thomas
b 7/16/1993

Cynthia Maria Louise Thomas
b 1/6/1996

Adrian Marcus Scott McKenzie
b 11/9/2002

Lenora Christine McKenzie
b 6/9/2005
Donovan Alejandro Denham
b 4/22/2001
Nicholas Arthur Denham
b 8/18/1998
Ricky Carroll Cline, Jr.  b 8/22/2006
       
 

*Rita Dola Kithcart: (information from her great-grandaughter Linda Woods)

Rital Dola was born June 25, 1862 in Perryville, Ashland, Ohio and died March 22, 1953 in Norman, OK.  She is buried in Alva, Woods County, OK.  James Calvin Martin, her husband was born in 1837 in Alabama and he died February 19, 1906 in Alva, OK.  He is buried in Rich Hill, Bates County, MO. 

They had two children: Onita May Martin and James Thomas Martin. 
Onita May married James Edgar Ruggles, Sr. and had two children:  Gareth Ruggles and James Edgar Ruggles, Jr. 
James Thomas Martin married Lola Ruth Gibler and had 4 children: Rita Ann, Peggy Jo, James Charles, and Mary Sue. 
Gareth had no children.
James Edgar Ruggles married Marjorie May Grimes and they had 4 children:  Gary Martin, Linda Gail(Woods), Marla Dianne, and James Alan. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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