| Birth: | 3 Dec 1900 in Batesville, Albemarle, Virginia |
| Death: | 6 Dec 1996 in Waynesboro, Augusta, Virginia |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Samuel Richard Kirby b. 9 Mar 1856 in Batesville, Albemarle, Virginia |
| Mother: | Ella Nora Taylor b. 20 May 1866 in near Batesville, Albemarle, Virginia |
| Burial: 9 Dec 1996 Wild Rose Cmtry, near Batesville, Albemarle, Virginia |
| Changed: 18 Oct 2001 07:18:31 |
| Spouses & Children |
| Mary Thelma Wade (Wife) b. 15 Aug 1912 in Batesville, Albemarle, Virginia | |
| Marriage: | 18 Oct 1932 in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia |
| Children: | |
| Notes |
BIRTH, MARRIAGE: Personal knowledge of Percy Wilbur Kirby.
DEATH, BURIAL: Personal recollection of W. Scott Simpson, Sr.,
grandson of Percy Wilbur Kirby.
Percy was primarily a farmer and lumberman. He cut the trees, sawed
them into lumber, and sold the lumber to a lumber yard. He was also a
very talented furniture-maker throughout his life. Percy worked as a
night watchman at Miller School in Albemarle County, Virginia, from
approximately 1942 until approximately 1944 (during which time he and
his family lived at the school), and he sold McNess consumer products
door-to-door for at least five or ten years, around the 1960s. Percy
accidentally shot off his right hand while hunting at the age of about
twenty-three. He had been right-handed, but learned to write and
work extremely well with his left hand. Despite his one-handedness,
he was also an excellent baseball player, and played on a minor-league
team for a brief period in his twenties. (Personal recollections of a
daughter of Percy Wilbur KIRBY.)
A photograph of Percy Wilbur Kirby is posted on my Web site, at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~vagenealogy/photos.htm.