Born in Montgomery, Illinois, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Robert Kirkland
and Jane (Long) Kirkland
Sister of
Eleanor (Kirkland) Long, Daniel Kirkland, John Kirkland, Elizabeth (Kirkland) Fogleman and Steven Berry Kirkland
Wife of
James McPhail
— married
12 Jan 1848 in Montgomery County, IL
Mother of
Nancy Elizabeth (McPhail) Barlow and Robert Alonzo McPhail
Died
at age 25
in Montgomery, Illinois, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Jun 2014
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Biography
This profile is part of the Kirkland Name Study.
Aged 25y 10m 22d w/o James McPhail; married 12 January 1848 in Montgomery County, Illinois.
Burial: Kirkland Cemetery, Montgomery County, IL
"She d. in 1856 leaving four chn.: NANCY E., ROSELLA J., ALONZO & MARTHA, of whom NANCY E. m. THOMAS BARLOW. ROSELLE J. m. NICHOLAS MERRIMAN & lives at Nokomis, Ill. ALONZO & MARTHA are not married; JAMES d. in infancy." Illinois, USA
Sources
- "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2PS-PDW : 14 February 2020), Martha Kirkland in entry for James Mc Phaill, 1848.
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M858-RHY : 4 April 2020), Martha Mcphail in household of James Mcphail, Montgomery county, Montgomery, Illinois, United States; citing family 598, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- [1] Frost & Gilchrist
- [2] findagrave MEMORIAL ID# 46775717
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Martha:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Martha:
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~1.56%
~4.69%
Sara (Langley) Woods 
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Nancy Caton :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ncaton
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Sharon (Gott) Griffin :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Kathy Boyd :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JV8553184 [compare], Ancestry member kathy_boyd
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