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Husband of Clementine Hensley.
They had 9 children.
Son of Arthur Kirk and Nellie Mills.
Mrs. Kirk and other members of her family provided an old-time funeral last week for her husband, Floyd Kirk, because he wanted just an old-time funeral, Mrs. Kirk told us.
"He was an old-time country boy who worked in the mines until he was injured in 1950, and then he started doing logging and sawmill work to raise his family," Mrs. Kirk said. "He hired a lot of local people and provided a number of jobs during those years," she added.
Indeed, Martin County residents can be proud of the rich heritage created by those hard working men and women who fought a different terrain and succeeded in establishing an ongoing county here.
Mr. Kirk's funeral included a horse drawn hearse which hadn't been used since 1915. It was brought to the county at the expense of the Kirk family by William E. Clark Funeral Home in Moorefield, Kentucky. The two beautiful Belgium horses where brought in by Charles Ormes and handled while here by June Bug Fannin, Joe Cat Fannin and Warren "Gabe" Cassady.
Floyd Kirk will long be remembered in this county not only for the beautiful funeral provided by his family but for the hard work and other contributions he made to our community.
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1918 - 1986 (68 years)
