KIRBY, FLORENCE Leave a Comment / Cemeteries, Children, Communities, Deaths, Illness, Newspapers, Obits, Surnames / By Sherri Onorati Florence Kirby, little daughter of Mr. A. P. Kirby, died at his home two and a half miles southwest of this place Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock, of scarlet fever, after an illness of only a few days, and her burial took place at the Mount Carmel Cemetery. She lacked only a few months of being ten years of age at the time of her death. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the community in their sad loss. (The Covington Leader, Sept. 13, 1901) </p>