Merry Bee Genealogy - Kerr
Merry Bee Genealogy - Kerr
If is difficult to know if records for Samuel Kerr after 1850 refer to this particular Samuel or not. While this Samuel is 14 in 1850, the Samuel name occurs three other times in the family in Whitley County. He has a cousin age 1 (Hugh’s), a nephew age 10 (Matthew’s), and a cousin age 19 (Harvey’s). The following is the most likely unfolding of his life, but there could be confusions with another of the Samuels on any specific point.
Samuel and Nancy Jane Earls were married in Whitley County, Kentucky, but the dates given in online records seem to be conjecture. Their firstborn, John J, was born 14 July 1855 and Luther M followed in October 1858. A third child identified only by initials S M in the Susan Carr family tree was born 1859. These three childdren were born in Kentucky, but about 1859 Samuel took his family to Missouri. The 1860 US census finds them in Sni A Bar Township, Jackson County, Missouri. Post Office: Oak Grove.
Four girls were born to Samuel and Nancy in the 1860s. Sally (ca 1860), Roda (ca 1863), and Easter (ca 1866) were born in Missouri. Galomay was born about 1868 in Kentucky so the family returned to Kentucky about 1867.
Samuel owns land valued at $800 in Martin Springs Precinct, Whitley County, Kentucky (Post Office: Bark Camp Mills) at the 1870 US census. In the fall of 1871, there are three land transactions attributed to this Samuel by J Lee Sharp Family Home Page.
(1) 16 September 1871 deeds his share of his father’s undivided lands on Cumberland River to Harvey Carr, Deed Book 8, page 174; also buys a drawing knife from father’s estate
(2) 19 August 1871 deeds 250 acres on Spruce Creek to N D Alsip, Deed Book 8, page 206
(3) 05 September 1871 deeds land on Bark Camp Creek to Robert R Tye, Deed Book 9, page 349
I don’t know why the sequence in the deed books do not correspond to the sequence of dating.
I have not found any records for this family after 1871.
