Note: The documented chronology shows sources where they are not given here.

Nancy Elizabeth Kerr was born 13 November 1859 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama to William George and Susan Catherine Kerr. The family relocated to Jackson County, Alabama when Nancy E was probably only a few weeks old. They lived in District 3 in the area of Paint Rock until moving to Illinois when Nancy was about 4. They were living in Casper Precinct, Union County, Illinois (South Pass post office) on the 1870 US census.

Nancy became a wife and mother at a very young age. Nathaniel Madison Aldredge and Nancy E Kerr were married on 26 October 1873 by J F F Wallace, Justice of the Peace. Nineteen-year-old Nathaniel was a son of Isaac Beason Pope Aldridge, and one of six siblings who married into the Kerr family. Nancy’s counsin, Susan Jane Wright, married Nathaniel’s brother William Aldridge two weeks after Nathaniel and Nancy were married. Nancy became a 15-year-old mother when daughter Lucinda E Aldridge was born in 1874.

Nancy E lived her adult life in the Casper Precinct of Union County, Illinois. She and Nathaniel raised seven children: Lucinda, Christopher C born January 1876, Susie J born November 1878, Minnie M born October 1881, Sarah S born August 1883, Mary E born August 1883, Carrie E born November 1888. On the 1910 US census, all seven children are marked as living, but 11-year-old Carrie is not named in the household. Nathaniel and Nancy, at ages 65 and 60 in 1920, are still truck farming on Shilo Road, Cobden Precinct #1, Union County, Illinois on land they rented.

Sometime after Nathaniel died 15 May 1927, Nancy E spent some time with her daughter Mary Schipper in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. She was listed with Mary and her son-in-law Ellie on the 1930 US census enumerated as of April 1, 1930. She may have been visiting rather than living with Mary because her doctor in Cobden, J.R. Tweedy, M.D., stated on her death certificate that he began treatment for her heart disease July 12, 1930. Whether or not Nancy spent some time with each of her children, she had returned to Union County before her death and was probably staying with her son Christopher in Anna, since he is the informant listed on her death certificate.

Nancy Elizabeth Kerr Aldridge died 04 August 1931 at 6:00 p.m. from from valvular heart disease. Nancy was a mother at age 15, widowed after 53 years of marriage, and died at age 71. She died at Road Dist #4 in Union County, Illinois. She was buried 06 August 1931 in Cobden, Union County, Illinois.

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