 Kitchin died in Scotland Neck, North Carolina on February 2, 1901.Although he declared himself as a "militant Baptist", he was interred in the family plot in the cemetery of Trinity Episcopal Church.Kitchin began a North Carolina political dynasty, as two of his eight sons, Claude Kitchin and William Walton Kitchin, and a grandson, Alvin Paul Kitchin, became prominent politicians, and another son, Thurman Delna Kitchin, was a long-time president of Wake Forest College.