Dr. Francis Joseph Kron Family Cemetery located in Morrow Mountain State Park one block north of the restored Kron House - in the woods. George Kirk is buried here in an unmarked grave.

George Kirk homesteaded in Montgomery County (now Stanly County) at a site now part of Morrow Mountain State Park.

George's brother, Alexander, inherited from their father what is now known as the old Lowder Ferry, which was just below the junction of the Uwharrie and Yadkin Rivers, where the Yadkin becomes the Pee Dee River. [Dr. Kron referred to a ferry one mile from his home as Kirk's Ferry.] Around 1830 Alexander sold the ferry to George who operated it until his death in 1845. Sometime 1860-1870 George's heirs sold the ferry and land to David Lowder.

1840 census
2 sons and 3 daughters
son, age 20-30 (Daniel Christenberry)
son, age 5-10
2 daughters, age 15-20 (Eliza Giles)
daughter, age 10-15

Tindalesville, NC: An 1808 map shows Tindalesville on the west side of the Pee Dee River, opposite the mouth of the Uwharrie River. (The Yadkin River becomes the Pee Dee River at the point where the Uwharrie River flows into it.) There are four ferries, three south of the town and one north of it. A typhoid epidemic in 1816 and destruction by a tornado caused Tindalesville to be abandoned.

Dr. Francis Kron (in a letter to his parents in Germany Nov. 25, 1835): " . . . At the landing are the ruined frames of those houses which twenty years back formed the bulk of Tindalsville, a town!!! which then promised itself great things from a contemplated improvement of the navigation of the Pee Dee River . . . "

Sharpe's "Stanly County USA" says that Tindalesville was renamed Lowder Ferry and prospered until the Swift Island bridge was built in 1924.

Stanly County USA: THE STORY OF AN AREA AND AN ERA (1841-1991)
The famous Kirk Inn was located in Tindalesville. [Montgomery Co. Courthouse was moved here in 1789 and then moved to Lawrenceville in 1817 because of typhoid fever] It was owned and operated by George Kirk and Mrs. Kirk. After Mr. Kirk died his wife ran it until 1845. This two-story building contained 16 rooms with a wood stove in each room.
Bishop Asbury speaks of an old meeting house on a stony knoll above the town (Tindalesville), and, among other homes here, was Dr. Francis Kron's, which today (1990), is the only remaining building of those bygone days. ... in 1835, the congregation [Stony Hill United Methodist Church] moved to a new location on the Daniel Christenberry Kirk property, within a few hundred yards of where the church is today (1990). [Land for present location donated by Thomas Postel Kirk in 1885] [Author says some information furnished by Kirk Shaver]

DR. FRANCIS J. KRON, Robert O. Poplin, Jr., 1958
[Kron was born in Trier, Prussia, which was occupied by the French under Napoleon. The French were expelled in 1813, and Kron followed a year later.]
On June 30, 1846, Kron purchased the Benjamin Bell property, 500 acres, for a listed price of $280.30. On May 11, 1847, he sold 425 acres on the eastern declivity to Daniel C. Kirk for $250.00.
Dr. Kron referred to a ferry one mile from his home as Kirk's Ferry.

From Dr. Kron's log [11-14-35 to 12-8-35]
Mr. Willey Bell, a blind man ... is a lamentable instance of some of the deleterious effects of mercury, his blindness being fairly to be traced to the abuse of mercury in youth. His father ... , his panacea being calomel [note: mercurous chloride, HgCl], has been so liberal in his doses to his own offspring on all occasions that now every one of them, the oldest not over 45, are declining under continual sufferings.
Our immediate neighbor, Mrs. Paulina Moss, a living widow, being separated from her maniacal husband ... her brother James Kirk with whom she lives. Her brother, James Kirk ... we hardly ever see him ... a bachelor of thirty-six or thereabouts ... seems so far centered on the accumulation of wealth, which he will acquire if parsimony alone is sufficient ... a peaceable obliging neighbor.
The plantation we live on the west side of the Yadkin, a mile from Kirk's Ferry the same distance south of the great falls on the market road from Salisbury to Fayetteville ... . Here did live and die an old Scotchman, MacGregor, from Apion's Glens who left the Scotch kirk to preach in North American Baptist meeting houses.
A modern Madeleine, was taken in the evening with most violent symptoms of hysteria. Mrs. (widow) Kirk, who was delivered of a posthume two years after the death of her husband is the penitent to whose aid I was called. ... she would talk most lamentably of her faults, the disgrace of her children, her sorrow and desire for forgiveness and mercy.
Within a circle of eighteen miles where perhaps 30 families dwell I could count as many as 20 illegitimate children; some the offspring of widows, others of single never married women, and others, too, intruders in lawful wedlock.
Only left home to relieve my neighbor James KIrk from the dread of losing a favourite cow. A physician turned cow-doctor.
We live on a small estate of 140 morgen (294 acres).
Where I live there are no Germans; in four years I have spoken no German ... English is the native tongue.
Went again to my hysterical Madeleine: She is at last in a way to recover from her spasms and cantomenial mania. The ride ... was five miles ... . From my house to within a mile of patient's I traveled on the Salisbury Turn-Pike. ... it either crosses incessantly the numerous ridges that expire on the edge of the Yadkin or follows the bed of some branch through narrow stony gaps. On that whole road there are but two plantations with tenants; two wornout and abandoned and another in a way of clearing to be abandoned at some future day. The first inhabited plantation about a mile from my house, where one Michael Fesperman, a millwright and ingenious mechanician lives ...
On returning home met with Mr. Carter of Rowan County a former member of the legislature whom, it being dark and he unacquainted with the road, I conducted to G. Kirk's for traveling accommodations.
From my house to the river we count a mile.