!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Cox-Kirk Cemetery, Grassy Creek, Ashe, NC1, M. C. Kirk, husband Frank Kirk (1842-1914), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16860792
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, Melvina C. Ward, children Mary Elizabeth Kirk, Eliza Kirk, James Lester Kirk, George Lewis Kirk, Susan Elizabeth Kirk, Jones Horton Kirk, Claudia B. Kirk Cox, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/KGG9-XHQ
!CENSUS: 18-Sep-1850 District 19, Grayson, VA731, 632/632, Malinda C. Ward
!CENSUS: 1860 Grayson, VA, Melvina Ward
!MARRIAGE: 29-Oct-1865 Grayson, VA marriages456, Franklin Kirk and Malinda C. Ward, parents Lewis Ward and Mary Ward
!CENSUS: 1870 Wilson Creek, Grayson, VA, Melvina C. Kirk, husband Franklin Kirk, 2 children
!CENSUS: 1880 Chestnut Hill, Ashe, NC, Malvina Kirk, husband Frank Kirk, 5 children
!CENSUS: 1900 Grassy Creek, Ashe, NC, Melvin C. Kirk, husband Franklin Kirk, 3 children