196. Documentation for John Kerr (1745 to Oct 2, 1807) father of Samuel Kerr (1788 to before Oct 8, 1823)

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1 196. Documentation for John Kerr (1745 to Oct 2, 1807) father of Samuel Kerr (1788 to before Oct 8, 1823) John Kerr was born in 1745 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania or in Ireland. He died October 2, 1807, in Guilford Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. There is no certainty as to his parents. He married Mary Daugherty on September 16, 1765, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Mary Daugherty was born in 1747 in Peters Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and died in 1819 in Franklin County, Ohio. Mary Dougherty Kerr, was a daughter of John and Lilly Dougherty of Peter's Township, now Franklin, County, Pennsylvania. "John and Mary settled near Conococheague Creek in Cumberland Co., in a part which in 1784 became Franklin Co., PA, building a fine stone mansion still standing in about He laid out part of borough long known as Kerrstown. He lived, worked and died on the farm for 60 years." The children of John Kerr and Mary Daugherty were: Joseph Kerr, born 1765 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and died August 22, 1837, in Lake Providence, Louisiana. He married Nancy Daugherty. She died July 10, 1833, in Louisiana. Their son, Joseph Kerr, died March 6, 1836, at the Alamo. Another son, Nathaniel Massie Kerr, died suddenly in Texas a couple of weeks before the Alamo. Jean Kerr was born in Jean Kerr McKinley was the elder daughter of patriot Lt. John Kerr (founded Kerrstown, now part of Chambersburg / was in the 8th. Pa. Batt.) and Mary Dougherty Kerr, daughter of John and Lilly Dougherty of Peter's Twp. (now Franklin, Co., Pa.). Possibly married a William McKinley. John M. Kerr was born October 15, 1772, in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He died October 2, 1858, in Green Township, Gallia County, Ohio. Note: He was the first Kerr of this line to settle in Gallia Co. (History of Gallia, Co.,OH) John left his father's farm in the fall of 1792 with the intent of joining his oldest brother in southwestern OH. On the way, while stopping for supplied in Gallipolis where he met Pierre Romaine Bureau who sold him on the virtues of the area and caused him to settle in Gallia County. Lived in Gallia, OH. Saved his money and purchased 640 acres in Green Twp. Assisted in formation of Gallia County Academy, was a Colonel in Ohio State Militia in War of 1812., county magistrate, prosecuting attorney and associate judge 10 years, member of Gallia County Commissioners for several terms between 1816 and During the 6-8 years he served as Sheriff of Gallia, Co., he became well known both for his abilities and his peculiarities. He always used a sheepskin for a saddle blanket and a rope for a halter. Once, when dealing with an unruly Buck Ridge inhabitant who was resisting arrest, he subdued him by hitting him in the head with a spade. Thereafter, he was referred to "Spadehead Kerr", as a possible warning to would-be troublemakers. He was also known as "Fighting Jack Kerr".

2 He died at his home called "Mt. Hope Farm" in Green Twp. His farm was secured in 1800 near the junction of the present Rodney and Buck Ridge roads in Green TWP,Gallia,OH. His first house was a log cabin, built in 1804 and still standing in 1989, when it was torn down. Only one of the three Kerr homes in this area remains and is still occupied. It is located on the west side of Route 160 just south of the Kerr post office. On tax list in 1806 for land in Green TWP, at R15 T5 S12 (See Gallia County OH Residents by Dennis R. JOnes) On tax list in 1808 for land in Green TWP at R15 T 5 S12 (RD11) On 1810 & 1811 lists, same property RD11 NOTE: From a list of inscriptions dated 1961 for stones/markers of burials in Mt. Zion Cem. there was information on a Christina Kerr who died July 10, 1833, age 24...part of this family?? Facts about this person: Fact 1 Mt. Zion Cem, Green Twp, Gallia, OH Source: Cemeteries of Green Twp,Gallia,OH Author: Gallia Historical Society Sarah Kerr was born in 1775 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Married a DeCamp. Lived 16 miles above Wheeling, WV. No hint so far as to spouse or whether she married. A faint possiblity is: A Sarah Kerr married a Samuel Wilson in Pickaway CO,OH on 15 Nov The "John Kerr Family" suggests her husband might have been Jacob DeCamp - the 1810 Cencus of Brooke Co., VA listed as 26/45 with female 26/45, and 1 male and 1 female under 10. In the 1840 cencus VA Brooke Wellsburg he is Jacob Decamp 60/70 with female 60/70 and 2 males 20/30. The 1850 census of VA (now WV) Brooke Co. Wellsburg, lists Sarah Decamp 79 b.pa, with Mary A. Buck 42 VA and John D. Buck 8 VA. (See "John Kerr Family"). James Kerr was born January 31, 1777, in Chambersburg, Franklin, PA; Samuel Kerr was born in 1778 and died before October 8, 1823, in He and wife Mary moved to Ohio with his brothers John and Joseph. Samuel and Nancy settled on the Big Darby about (Their arrival date in the area may have been earlier as a Samuel Kerr was the Justice of the Peace in Franklin, OH in 1807 (See History of Franklin CO, OH by William T. Martin) The Martin work also has a Samuel Kerr as an early settler in Georgesville on Darby and builder of the first frame house which was later owned by Elijah Chenoweth Jr. Samuel Kerr also built the first grist mill in He was also justice of the Peace in In the summer of 1811, one Thomas Miller taught a term of school in the little log cabin standing on the farm owned by Samuel Kerr. This was a small school, and was composed of the children of the Chenowith, Kerr and Foster Families. This is believed to have been the first school in this portion of the township. School was taught in this cabin for several years. While he was a thriving farmer, he also became Brother Joseph's agent, sending corn-fed hogs, fine cattle, wheat and corn to Chillicothe. He and wife died on the Big Darby, 10 miles west of Columbus,OH. ORSON KERR, a prosperous and highly respected farmer of Tippecanoe County, is a Pennsylvanian by birth, born April 19, 1805, a son of SAMUEL KERR, deceased. He was reared a farmer, which occupation he has followed principally through life, and his education was obtained in the pioneer schools of Franklin County, Ohio, to which county his parents removed when he was a boy.

3 Mary Kerr was born 1788 in Chambersburg, Franklin, County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1842 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. She married Andrew Patterson. He died at Cincinnati, Ohio. List of taxables in areas (of Cumberland) that are now part of Franklin County, page Lurgan Township, 1751 * John Kerr Robert Kerr William Kerr 1790 Cenus - Franklin? PA John Kerr Jno Kerr Michael Kerr Robt Kerr Information on General Joseph Kerr, a son of John Kerr and Mary Daugherty, confirms the ancestry of John Kerr and Mary Daugherty. "General Joseph Kerr was born of Scotch ancestry in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1765, and was married in that city, to Nancy Daugherty, a young lady of Irish descent, in 1788." It also confirms that Joseph Kerr, "very soon after April 1st, 1796, settled on an highly improved and large tract of bottom land, one mile below Chillicothe on the Scioto river". John and Christina Nisewanger Kerr The will of John Kerr Sr., probated October 21, 1807, in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, (Franklin Co. Will Bk "B", p.331, #918) bequethed the following: Son Joseph: 400 pounds. Daughter Sarah: 400 pounds Daughter Jean: 400 pounds Son James: 1 Spanish minted dollar. Son John: 400 pounds Son Samuel: Interest only from 400 pounds Daughter Mary: 500 pounds for rest of her life. Tombstone marking includes: Lt. John Kerr, PA militia, Rev.War. The DAR Patriot Index - Centennial Edition, part 2, lists John as "2Lt PA". Of Kerrsville (Chambersburg), PA. Served in Revolutionary War - (a) In Capt. Wm. Findlay's Co, Eighth Battalion, under Col. Smith, as a Pvt. in 1777, (b) as 2nd Lt. in 1778 in the 7th Co., Eighth Battalion, Capt. James Young's Co. under Col Abraham Smith, (c) as 2nd Lt. in the 5th Co. in A government marker was placed on his grave by the Franklin Co. DAR. Tombstone inscription says: "Lt. John Kerr: PA Militia, Rev. War." Pennsylvania Marriages to 1810 lists a marriage on September 10, 1777, between George Dougherty and Margaret Kerr. These two must have been related to John Kerr

4 and Mary Daugherty. (Note: Ms Kahn debunks the myth about the father of John Kerr Sr, as being David, one of a trio of brothers who emigrated to America via Ireland, Londonderry, to the port of Philadelphia in She cites work done by Virginia Shannon Fendrick for the Franklin County Chapter of the DAR, p143, which points to this conclusion. In that document he is reputed to have been born in Ireland in 1745.) According to the work "John and Christiana Nisewanger Kerr Jr., Their Ancestry and Descendents", the following supports his birth in Ireland and most likely: "During the 1600s there was general unrest in Scotland because of almost continual clan wars, religious differences and crop failures. During this time there was a migration of Scotts to Northern Ireland where they built the towns of Londonderry and Coleraine. Many of those who migrated because of religious reasons were caught up in the strife between Protestant William of Orange and Catholic James II, which had repercussions in northern Ireland, including the Siege of Londonderry. Londonderry was besieged in 1689 for a period of one hundred and five days by the forces of James II. His forces withdrew when they sighted several ships sailing up the Foyle estuary, each loaded with reinforcements dispatched by William of Orange. In subsequent years, there was an emigration of these Scotts to the American Colonies where they had a chance to acquire land, find religious freedom, and escape from war." NOTE: There is a difference of opinion amongst genealogists as to whether David is the father of John Sr. NOTE; Ancestral File ver 4.18 has birthplace as PA. Jr., author Edythe T. Kahn, 1991, Ohio Genealogical Library. The will of John Kerr Sr., probated 21 Oct 1807 in Franklin Co, PA - (Franklin Co. Will Bk "B", p.331, #918) bequethed the following: Son Joseph: 400 pounds. Daughter Sarah: 400 pounds; Daughter Jean: 400 pounds; Son James: 1 Spanish minted dollar; Son John: 400 pounds; Son Samuel: Interest only from 400 pounds; Daughter Mary: 500 pounds for rest of her life. See also John and Christina Nisewanger Kerr, Jr. by Edythe T. Kahn, 1991, Ohio Genealogical Society Library. DAR Patriot Index, Part 2, Centennial Edition GENERAL JOSEPH KERR. BY WM. E. GILMORE, CHILLICOTHE, OHIO. Volume 12, pages , Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications [The following article from the pen of Mr. Gilmore appeared in the columns of The Daily Scioto Gazette of March 21, As this article presents the history of Senator

5 Kerr, no where else to be found, it is thought sufficiently valuable to deserve permanent preservation and is therefore herewith republished.- E. O. R.] At length my inquiries and correspondence, begun in 1886, for the purpose of recovering something of the personal history of General Joseph Kerr, a very early resident of Chillicothe, and in his day a very prominent and important one, has met with some success through the kind assistance of Mr. Henry Clay Carrel, an eminent architect, of 1123 Broadway, New York, who is a son of the well known Captain Hercules Carrel, formerly of Cincinnati, and a great-grandson of General Kerr. It has been strangely difficult to get information in regard to this notable person, owing to many peculiar causes. In the first place he himself was utterly indifferent as to whether his fellow citizens or any others knew anything about him or not. In the second place, while his correct name was Kerr, almost every person who knew him spelled and pronounced it Carr, and this fact gave infinite trouble to his descendants afterward, in proving up title to a large land grant, made by the Republic of Texas to soldiers of its revolutionary war with Mexico. He was defeated in long litigation for that magnificent farm just east of this city, known as the Watts farm, and the defeat almost impoverished him, and greatly embittered him. He had been unjustly treated, he thought, in large contracts for supplies to the army of the U. S., operating under General Hull. He had quarreled with Gov. Thomas Worthington, to whose remnant of senatorial term he had been elected by the General Assembly of Ohio, and finally he, with his family, had made two or three changes of residence after leaving Chillicothe in 1824, and if he ever wrote a single letter back to any one here, I never could hear of it, although I have made diligent search for such. And so "his trail" was lost, and so completely lost, that even so intelligent, industrious and resourceful an investigator as Col. W. A. Taylor, of Columbus, gave it up, and in his list of Ohio Statesmen, simply designates him as "the lost Ohio Senator." Therefore, when I, this morning, received the documents. which enable me to give the salient points of General Kerr's personal history, as herein given, from his greatgrandson, Mr. H. C. Carrel, I was inclined to echo the old Greek's shout, "eureka! eureka!" General Joseph Kerr was born of Scotch ancestry in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1765, and was married in that city, to Nancy Daugherty, a young lady of Irish descent, in He removed to Ohio with his young family "in the year 1792," according to the statements of his son, James D. Kerr, (who was still living on a part of the homestead farm, in Carrel Parish, near Lake Providence, Louisiana, in 1887-and I do not know how much later) "and settled on an highly improved and large tract of bottom land, one mile below Chillicothe on the Scioto river, but the title was disputed by a Virginian by the name of Watts, who, after 18 years of litigation, gained the land from my father." This date, 1792, must be wrong, for it is four years earlier than the advent of Nathaniel Massie's party of original settlers in this valley, or the occupancy of this region by any white people. But certainly Kerr came very soon after Massie's party did, i. e., very soon after April 1st, I can myself remember that a lane, which led from the northeastern part of this city, eastward to the race track on the Watts farm, was known as "Carr's Lane." The oldest powder-house was located upon it, near its eastern end. He was elected to the legislature as a representative from Ross County, in When Thomas Worthington resigned his place in the United States senate in 1814, to

6 accept the governorship of Ohio, to which he had been elected. Mr. Kerr was elected to fill out the unexpired part of his term, which, however, only lasted from December 10th, 1814, to March 4th, At that time he and Worthington were decidedly "at outs" with each other, and I never could understand how and why he was selected to succeed to Worthington's remnant of a senatorial term. It may be that it was as a peace-offering from the friends of the governor-elect in that General Assembly. Senator Kerr held a commission as brigadier general of volunteers in , and is reported to have seen some service in the field, during the war, but I am not able to say what or how much it was. In 1824, Kerr, with his family, left Ohio, intending to remove to Mexico, but stopped at Memphis, Mississippi, and having bought land near there, for a few seasons followed farming. But this location, not proving satisfactory, he moved further south and settled finally in Louisiana, a little below Lake Providence, in what is now known as Carrel Parish. Here his wife died in 1833, and he followed her to the grave in Nine children had been born to General Kerr and his wife during their union. These were, in order of their births, named Aletha, Harriet, Chambers, Elie, Clara, Susan, Nathaniel, James and Joseph. I am unable to follow the story of these children beyond the fact that Elie was appointed a West Point cadet about 1816, and that Joseph and Nathaniel early enlisted in the Revolutionary army of Texas, and were both killed by the Mexicans under Santa Anna, in the assault and capture of the Alamo. Both Joseph and Nathaniel were born here in Chillicothe, as were also several of their brothers and sisters. In consequence of the confusion which always existed between the names, Kerr and Carr, great trouble ensued in settling the identity of the two sons killed in the Alamo, and securing the land grants which the Republic of Texas gave to the personal representatives of her soldiers who were killed or died in that war. Testimony was taken in the case, here in Chillicothe, notably the depositions of Dr. William Waddle and of his mother, Mrs. Nancy Mann Waddle, and of Col. James McLandburg. BOOK REVIEWS 85 General Joseph Kerr, of Chillicothe, Ohio--"Ohio's Lost Senator." From the Carrel manuscript collection, edited by Marie Dickore. (Oxford, Ohio, Oxford Press, Cloth. 112p. $1.50.) General Joseph Kerr was a very colorful figure in the early history of Ohio, living in Ohio for thirty years and leaving the State in His interests were varied. As brought out in this book, he was an early surveyor, the fifth United States Senator from the State, an industrial tycoon of the Scioto Valley, an exporter, a provisioner of the Army of the Northwest at Upper Sandusky in the War of 1812, active in political affairs and opposer of the United States Bank. After his financial reverses in Ohio, he left the State for the Southwest and proceeded to build anew. The absence of information concerning him after he left Ohio gave rise to the expression "Ohio's lost Senator." As a result of interest taken in him by his great-grandchildren--henry Clay Carrel, J. Wallace Carrel, Eleanora P. Carrel and George P. Carrel--much original material, including letters, deeds, surveys and other

7 manuscripts covering the years 1786 to 1824 was found. This collection, supplemented by materials in possession of the Illinois Historical Survey, the Wisconsin State Historical Library and private collections, has furnished the data for this interesting and valuable contribution to one phase of Ohio's history. The task of organizing and editing this material into the present volume was entrusted to Miss Marie Dickore, an experienced research student and writer of history. The result of her labors is embodied in this book, divided into ten chapters with bibliography and index. Much source material is included. Thanks are due to George P. Carrel in making this book possible. It is a valuable contribution to the State's history and another illustration of the possibilities for valuable research work which may be made available to the public in book form. H. L. Joseph KERR Note: The following notes are taken from "The John Kerr Family" 1. He purchased land in Maryland in 1786 before moving to OH. He was active at Fort Washington in for General St. Clair's campaign against the Indians, and supplied the army stationed at Greenville, till after He became a deputy surveyor of the Virginia Military lands and in 1797 was with Nathaniel Massie at Manchester on the Ohio, where he was active in politics, in surveying and as agent for various men holding land warrants for the Virginia Military District. 3. In 1801 he was selling pork and salt down river as a partner in ventures with Nathaniel Massie, and they exchanged cattle and land with others. (See also Massie Papers in Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH, includes correspondence Joseph Kerr to Nathaniel Massie and other information about land speculation. The following from John and Christiana Kerr, Jr. by Kahn: He was active in the Indian War at Fort Washington from for General St. Clair and supplied the army stationed at Greenville until after The Edythe T. Kahn book says he was born in Cumberland, PA and died in Lake Providence,LA. 4. He was a member of the first Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace at Manchester in the Northwest Territory in 1797, and in 1800 Coerk of the Adams Board of Commissioners. 5. In 1801 he moved to Ross County OH, where he became one of the first settlers of Chillicothe. He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1804 and was Speaker Pro Tem. He was appointed by President Jefferson in 1804/1805 as one of the commission to lay out a road from Cumberland,MD to the Ohio River. He was a member of the House of Representatives 1808,1818,1819 and was Adj. General of Ohio He developed a flourishing business with his son-in-law, Amazih Davisson, supplying hogs, flour, etc. down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and to foreign countries. 7. In 1814 he was named to the U.S. Senate for the unexpired term of Thomas Worthington, who had become Ohio's Governor. From 1812 to 1815 he was appointed Brigadier General of the Militia and mortgaged his land to supply the army. 8. He is quoted "Joseph Kerr, who had been elected to serve out Worthington's unexpired term in the Senate, reported from Wahington, January 30, 1815, that the fall

8 of New Orleans was expected any minute and that Congress had authorized eighty thousand more militia. He advised Worthington to get the legislature to act for the safety of Ohio, for Monroe coud not be depended on, and there was no prospect of peace." 9. He developed his fram into a show place, but in 1818 he lost it and large amounts of land as a result of the KERR vs WATTS case about conf licting surveys and claims. He had mortgaged his lands heavily in order to supply in the war of 1812, and as a result of a dispute with the U.S. Bank was imprisoned for indebtedness. He was released and settled his debts. 10. In 1824 he was active in the campaign of Andrew Jackson for President. Becoming descouraged with county politics and with actons of the U.S. Bank to harass him for debt. He moved his family down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers becoming "Ohio's Lost Senator" 11. He is listed in the 1830 census Oachita Parish of Lousiana as Joseph Kerr, 60/70, female 50/60, with 2 males 20/30, 1 male 15/20, 1 female 30/40, 2 females, 20/30, 2 females 10/15, 1 female 5/10. Next to him is listed James B Prescott & Co. 12. Two of his sons, Nathaniel and Joseph Kerr, were in Col. James Bowie's group of 100 men who gave up their lives 6 Mar 1836 at the Alamo. 13. He died 1837 at Lake Providence, Lousiana. His homestead and grave, and other family graves were taken by the Mississippi River. The Kerr Plantati on is among those listed in the 4th Ward, E. Carroll Parish. 14. His life is well told in a book entitled "General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio. Ohio's Lost Senator". There is also a biography of him in the Ohio Archaelogy and Historical Socity Publication XII,p Joseph Kerr (1765 August 22, 1837) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate. Born in Kerrtown, Pennsylvania (now Chambersburg), Kerr (pronounced "car") moved to Ohio in He served in a number of positions as clerk, judge and justice of the peace in the Northwest Territory. After statehood was declared, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1808, 1816, 1818, and 1819 and the Ohio State Senate in 1804 and He also served as a brigadier general of Ohio Volunteers during the War of 1812, in charge of supplying provisions to the Army of the Northwest. Kerr was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1814 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Thomas Worthington. Kerr served from December 10, 1814, to March 3, He did not seek re-election. Kerr's extensive farm went bankrupt in 1826, and he moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then to rural Louisiana, where he purchased a homestead. Joseph Kerr, brother of Samuel, married Nancy Daugherty. She died July 10, 1833, IN Louisiana. Their son, Joseph Kerr, died March 6, 1836, at the Alamo. Another son, Nathaniel Massie Kerr, died suddenly a couple of weeks before the Alamo. [Joseph Kerr, brother of Samuel Kerr] His life is well told in a book entitled "General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio. Ohio's Lost Senator". There is also a biography of him in the Ohio Archaelogy and Historical Socity Publication XII,p Two of his sons, Nathaniel and Joseph Kerr, were in Col. James Bowie's group of 100 men who gave up their lives March 6, 1836, at the Alamo.

9 Joseph KERR, b. 1814, LA; d. Mar., 6, 1836 residence: Lake Providence LA son of Gen. Kerr of Lake Providence, LA brother of Nathaniel Kerr (d. Feb. 19, 1836) uncle of James D. Kerr and Harriett Kerr Davison KERR, JOSEPH ( ). Joseph Kerr, Alamo defender, son of General Kerr, was born at Lake Providence, Louisiana, in He and his brother, Nathaniel, traveled to Texas with Capt. S. L. Chamblis's Louisiana Volunteers for Texas Independence. In early February 1836 they were honorably discharged from Chamblis's company because their horses were disabled. The brothers continued on to San Antonio de Béxar, where Nathaniel died of a sudden illness. Joseph remained with the Texan garrison, entered the Alamo on February 23, 1836, and died on March 6 in the battle of the Alamo. qv BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). Amelia W. Williams, A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and of the Personnel of Its Defenders (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1931; rpt., Southwestern Historical Quarterly 36 (April 1933), 37 (July, October 1933, January, April 1934). Franklin County PA Early Tax Lists as given in "The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams and Perry Counties" by I. Daniel Rupp, Gilbert Hills and Pub, Lancaster, Kerr, Joseph ( ) of Ohio. Born in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., Democrat. State court judge in Ohio, 1797; member of Ohio state senate, 1804; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1808; U.S. Senator from Ohio, Died August 22, Interment in private or family graveyard. See also: congressional biography. Dickore, Marie Palla, ed. General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio: Ohio s Lost Senator. Oxford, Ohio: Oxford Press, Ohio's Founding Fathers By Fred J. Milligan A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory By Randy Roberts, James S. Olson Published by Simon & Schuster, 2001 ISBN , pages

10 Name: Samuel KERR Birth: 1778 in Chambersburg, Franklin, PA 1 Death: 1825 in Columbus, OH 1 Samuel Carr family of Madison County, Ohio, 1820 census is most likely father of Nancy Carr and Orson Carr. Samuel and his wife were both listed as age 26 to 45 in census. Two daughters were age to 10 years. One son was listed to age 10 - must have been Orson Kerr. Don't know where Moses Kerr came from. John Kerr about same age listed below in same 1820 census. Must have become part of Franklin County, Ohio - Madison County. (This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography, including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, Page 254.) ROBERT FLOYD KERR, A. M., is one of the most influential citizens of Brooking, who has always shown an unselfish interest in furthering the intellectual and material progress of its people. He was born in Sugar Grove, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, April 12, 1850, and a son of Andrew J. and Nancy (Sayers) Kerr. Andrew J. Kerr was born in Franklin county, Ohio. His father, Samuel Kerr, came from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and was of Scotch-Irish lineage, his ancestors having immigrated prior to and located at Chambersburg. John Kerr, one of the immigrants, was a sergeant of the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary war. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, but exchanged after some time. A History of Tippecanoe County, Indiana indicates the following under a Biographical Sketch of Orson Kerr: the father of Orson Kerr was named Samuel Kerr; Orson was born April 19, 1805, in Pennsylvania; he was educated in Franklin County, Ohio, where his parents had moved while Orson was a boy; he came to Indiana and settled in Fountain County, in 1827; he married Cynthia Clawson on December 25, 1828, in Fountain County, Indiana; Orson Kerr became a resident of Tippecanoe County, Indiana in 1835 when he settled on his present farm on section 22 in Jackson Township; his wife died in 1875; he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Tippecanoe County for 50 years.(6t) The Biographical Sketch of Orson Kerr leaves no doubt that he was the Orson Kerr listed in the October 8, 1823, Franklin County, Ohio estate papers of Samuel Kerr.

11 It appears Orson probably had a brother named Moses Carr, also listed in the 1830 Fountain County, Indiana, census.(5y) However, this son is not mentioned in the Samuel Kerr estate papers.(8u) A Mosses Carr married a Married in Madison County, Ohio, on March 14, 1824 and it is highly probably that this Mosses Carr was a brother of Orson Kerr.(77Y)(Madison County, Ohio: CARR, Mosses and Rebeckah GRAYHAM, March 14, 1824) Also listed in the Samuel Kerr estate papers is a Jackson Kerr, age 4, who must have been born in 1819.(66TT) The Biography of Robert Floyd Kerr, 1904 edited by Maurice Krueger, Publisher History of South Dakota by Doane Robinson, Vol. II, 1904 states that Andrew Jackson Kerr was born April 2, 1819, in Franklin County, Ohio, and died August 26, 1903 in Montgomery County, Indiana. His spouse was Ann Marie Ocheltree and his parents were Samuel Kerr and Nancy Gwyn. Obituary in Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, August 28, 1903, date of death in Montgomery County, Indiana. Wheeler's Grove Cemetery. Pioneers of Franklin County, Ohio CHENOWETH Elijah CHENOWETH Joseph CHENOWETH Thomas CHENOWETH Nancy CHENOWETH John FOSTER Benjamin FOSTER John FOSTER Laurence FOSTER Rachel FOSTER William KERR John KERR John A. KERR Mary F. KERR Samuel Abstracted wills, , from Franklin County, Ohio court records, with genealogical notes / compiled by Blanche Tipton Rings and Mrs. Francis Herbert Obetz ; edited by Margaret Hiles Scott.

12 See also John and Christina Nisewanger Kerr, Jr. by Edythe T. Kahn, 1991, Ohio Genealogical Society Library. DAR Patriot Index, Part 2, Centennial Edition. Samuel Carr of 1820 Ohio census for Madison County, Union Township. John Kerr, brother?, on same census John E. Gwynne on previous page Benjamin Foster in Jefferson Township, Madison County, Ohio in 1820 John Foster, Darcus Foster, and Lewis Foster also in Jefferson, Madison, OH in 1820 census A George Dougherty married a Margaret Kerr on September 10, 1777, in Pennsylvania Marriages to The will of John Kerr Sr., probated 21 Oct 1807 in Franklin Co, PA - (Franklin Co. Will Bk "B", p.331, #918) bequethed the following: Son Joseph: 400 pounds. Daughter Sarah: 400 pounds; Daughter Jean: 400 pounds; Son James: 1 Spanish minted dollar; Son John: 400 pounds; Son Samuel: Interest only from 400 pounds; Daughter Mary: 500 pounds for rest of her life. Mary Kerr, 1788, Chambersburg, Franklin, PA, died 1842 Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH, married Andrew Patterson. He died at Cincinnati. John Kerr married Mary Daugherty on September 16, 1765, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Jean Kerr was born about ; Joseph Kerr was born 1765 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania; John M. Kerr was born October 15, 1772 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania; Sarah Kerr was born in 1775 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania; James Kerr was born January 31, 1777, in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania; Samuel Kerr was born 1778 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania; Mary Kerr was born in 1788 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.[John and Christina Nisewanger Kerr, Jr., author Edythe T. Kahn, 1991, Ohio Genealogical Library. Joseph Kerr (1765 August 22, 1837) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate. Born in Kerrtown, Pennsylvania (now Chambersburg), Kerr (pronounced "car") moved to Ohio in He served in a number of positions as clerk, judge and justice of the peace in the Northwest Territory. After statehood was declared, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1808, 1816, 1818, and 1819 and the Ohio State Senate in 1804 and He also served as a brigadier general of Ohio Volunteers during the War of 1812, in charge of supplying provisions to the Army of the Northwest. Kerr was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1814 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Thomas Worthington. Kerr served from

13 December 10, 1814, to March 3, He did not seek re-election. Kerr's extensive farm went bankrupt in 1826, and he moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then to rural Louisiana, where he purchased a homestead. 6. He developed a flourishing business with his son-in-law, Amazih Davisson, supplying hogs, flour, etc. down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and to foreign countries. 7. In 1814 he was named to the U.S. Senate for the unexpired term of Thomas Worthington, who had become Ohio's Governor. From 1812 to 1815 he was appointed Brigadier General of the Militia and mortaged his land to supply the army. Joseph Kerr, brother of Samuel, married Nancy Daugherty. She died July 10, 1833, IN Louisiana. Their son, Joseph Kerr, died March 6, 1836, at the Alamo. Another son, Nathaniel Massie Kerr, died suddenly a couple of weeks before the Alamo. [Joseph Kerr, brother of Samuel Kerr] His life is well told in a book entitled "General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio. Ohio's Lost Senator". There is also a biography of him in the Ohio Archaelogy and Historical Socity Publication XII,p Two of his sons, Nathaniel and Joseph Kerr, were in Col. James Bowie's group of 100 men who gave up their lives March 6, 1836, at the Alamo. Joseph KERR, b. 1814, LA; d. Mar., 6, 1836 residence: Lake Providence LA son of Gen. Kerr of Lake Providence, LA brother of Nathaniel Kerr (d. Feb. 19, 1836) uncle of James D. Kerr and Harriett Kerr Davison KERR, JOSEPH ( ). Joseph Kerr, Alamo defender, son of General Kerr, was born at Lake Providence, Louisiana, in He and his brother, Nathaniel, traveled to Texas with Capt. S. L. Chamblis's Louisiana Volunteers for Texas Independence. In early February 1836 they were honorably discharged from Chamblis's company because their horses were disabled. The brothers continued on to San Antonio de Béxar, where Nathaniel died of a sudden illness. Joseph remained with the Texan garrison, entered the Alamo on February 23, 1836, and died on March 6 in the battle of the Alamo. qv BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). Amelia W. Williams, A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and of the Personnel of Its Defenders (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1931; rpt., Southwestern Historical Quarterly 36 (April 1933), 37 (July, October 1933, January, April 1934). Franklin County PA Early Tax Lists as given in "The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams and Perry Counties" by I. Daniel Rupp, Gilbert Hills and Pub, Lancaster, List of taxables in areas (of Cumberland) that are now part of Franklin County, page

14 Lurgan Township, 1751 * John Kerr Robert Kerr William Kerr 1790 Cenus - Franklin? PA John Kerr Jno Kerr Michael Kerr Robt Kerr Samuel Kerr US General Land Office Record for April 2, 1829, 2nd PM, Fountain County, Indiana, Township 22-N, Range 6-W, Section 32 Mentions: Mary, John, Samuel, Joseph, Eliza, James R. Ruth, Elizabeth and Robert H. Kerr of Fountain County, Indiana, as owners. The will of John Kerr Sr., probated 21 Oct 1807 in Franklin Co,PA (Franklin Co. Will Bk "B", p.331, #918) bequethed the following: Son Joseph: 400 pounds. Daughter Sarah: 400 pounds Daughter Jean: 400 pounds Son James: 1 Spanish minted dollar. Son John: 400 pounds Son Samuel: Interest only from 400 pounds Daughter Mary: 500 pounds for rest of his life.

15 Nancy Kerr married first Thomas Gouty on October 14, 1830, in Vermillion County, Indiana.(7) They were married by Thos. Chenoweth, J. P. Thomas Chenoweth probably was the brother of Elizabeth Chenoweth, Nancy's mother. He was born May 22, 1786, in Mason County, Ohio(Kentucky?), and died on September 16, 1849, in Vermilion County, Illinois. Rachel Kerr was born October 26, 1782 and died September 30, 1837 in Indiana. She married James Cochran on August 30, 1804 in Ross County, Ohio. James Cochran was born April 19, 1778 and died September 5, Children of James and Rachel Cochran include:

16 Pioneers of Franklin County, Ohio CHENOWETH Elijah CHENOWETH Joseph CHENOWETH Thomas CHENOWETH Nancy CHENOWETH John FOSTER Benjamin FOSTER John FOSTER Laurence FOSTER Rachel FOSTER William KERR John KERR John A. KERR Mary F. KERR Samuel Kerr, Joseph ( ) of Ohio. Born in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., Democrat. State court judge in Ohio, 1797; member of Ohio state senate, 1804; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1808; U.S. Senator from Ohio, Died August 22, Interment in private or family graveyard. See also: congressional biography. Dickore, Marie Palla, ed. General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio: Ohio s Lost Senator. Oxford, Ohio: Oxford Press, Name: Birth: Death: Parents: Spouse: Andrew Jackson Kerr 2 Apr Franklin, OH (Ohio) 26 Aug Montgomery, IN (Indiana) Samuel Kerr, Nany Gwyn Ann Marie Ocheltree Name: Biography of Robert Floyd Kerr [1904] Author: /Scanned/, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger Publisher: "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II, 1904 Call Number: Notes: This biography appears on pages in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system,

17 or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author.!sources: Author: Edythe T. Kahn, 1991!Title: John and Christina Nisewanger Kerr Jr...!Publication: Probably privately printed.!repository: Name: Ohio Genealogical Society Library!Call Number: Kerr 1991 Author: Edythe T. Kahn, 1991!Title: John and Christiana Nisewanger Kerr, Jr... Title: DAR Patriot Index, Part 2, Centennial Edition Agnes Elder, Daughter of James and Elizabeth Elder was born March 17, 1763, Dry Run, Cumberland Co. (now Franklin Co.) Pennsylvania d. April 15, 1859 m Robert Kerr. Robert Kerr was from Londonderry County, Ireland. Agnes Nancy Bone Kerr is listed with eleven other children, the issue of Robert Kerr who married 1784 Agnes Elder and resided in Franklin County, Pennsylvania Samuel Carr of 1820 Ohio census for Madison County, Union Township. John Kerr, brother?, on same census John E. Gwynne on previous page Benjamin Foster in Jefferson Township, Madison County, Ohio in 1820 John Foster, Darcus Foster, and Lewis Foster also in Jefferson, Madison, OH in 1820 census

18 1809 to 1810 Madison and Pickaway counties were formed from Franklin and Ross Counties. Married in Madison County, Ohio: CARR, Mosses and Rebeckah GRAYHAM, March 14, 1824 Josiah Kerr, died January 2, 1869, aged 77 years, 1 month, 17 days, Newtown Cemetery, Fountain County, Indiana Ohio County Formation Maps - Samuel Kerr and Nancy Guin, married 1799 in Pennsylvania Samuel born Chambersburg, Franklin, PA, 1778, died 1825, Columbus, Ohio Nancy Guin died 1825(1822) in Franklin County, Ohio (Nancy Gwyn age 34) Author: Edythe T. Kahn, 1991!Title: John & Christina Nisewanger Kerr Jr, Their Anc. & Dec.!Repository: Name: Ohio Genealogical Society Library!Call Number: Kerr 1991 Title: John Kerr Family

19 John Kerr 19 Sep 1806 Ohio 100 OH2110_.397 No Ohio No, No, No Section 1, Township 7-N, Range 19-W, Meridian = US Military Survey Marion County John Kerr 21 Sep 1812 Ohio 100 OH2120_.145 No Ohio No, No, No Section 2, Township 7-N, Range 19-W, Meridian = US Military Survey Marion County John Kerr 25 Jan 1813 Ohio 50 OH2120_.206 No Ohio No, No, No Section 1, Township 7-N, Range 17-W, Meridian = US Military Survey Morrow County June 1, 1796: United Brethren Warrant Act (1 Stat.480)

20 Kerr Connection - John Foster Kerr was born October 10, 1785 in Hampshire County, Virginia and died December 30, 1848 in Iowa. Elizabeth Chenoweth was born June 22, 1789 in Mason County, Kentucky and died February 12, 1875 in Dover Center, Fayette County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Elijah Chenoweth and Rachel Foster. Marriage date of December 6, 1804, Ross County, Ohio Source Citation: Birth year: 1789; Birth city: Mason CO; Birth state: KY. Source Information: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., Rebecca Kerr - Born March 25, 1825, married William A. Boxson on July 11, 1847? Died in Walla Wall, Washington, December 1, Harvey Kerr, born about 1810 in Ohio, died in 1856, married Sabra Miller? Hanford Kerr, born 1820 in Ohio. Rachel Kerr, born about 1785, married John Chenowith in Ross County, Ohio, on December 14, 1809, died June 5, 1848, Perrysville, Vermillion County, Indiana. John Samuel Kerr was born about 1785 in Hampshire County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Chenoweth at Ross County, Ohio, on December 6, Married by Arthur Chenoweth, Justice of the Peace. A John Kerr married a Mary Ann Scranton on July 12, 1813 in Ross County, Ohio. Pickaway County, Oho Connection?? Pickaway County came into existence March 1, 1810, the General Assembly of Ohio, in session at Chillicothe, having on the 12th day of January, 1810, passed an act establishing the county, the full text of which is as follows : An act for erecting a part of the counties of Ross, Franklin and Fairfield, into a separate county, by the name of Pickaway. Sec. 1. Be it enacted, etc., That all that part of the counties of Ross, Franklin and Fairfield, within the following boundaries, be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate county, to be known by the name of Pickaway: Beginning on the east side of the Scioto river, at the intersection of a line between township two and three, of range twenty-two, Worthington's survey; thence east with the township lines, to the southeast

21 corner of township number eleven, and range twenty; thence north with the range line, to the northeast corner of section number one, of township eleven, in range twenty; thence west with the township line, to the northwest corner of said township; thence with the range line, to the northeast corner of section number thirteen, in township ten, of range twenty-one, Matthew's survey; thence west to the Scioto river, thence west from the Scioto river, twelve miles; thence south twenty miles; thence east to the Scioto river; thence down said river to the place of beginning. Children (Gouty) of Thomas Gouty and Nancy Carr, all born in Indiana: i. Clarissa Gouty, born about 1832 in Indiana(9) ii. Elias B. Gouty, born September 11, 1833, in Highland Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, and died April 18, 1915, in Vermillion County, Indiana(10) iii. Mary Gouty, born about 1836 in Indiana and died April 4, 1857(11) iv. Eleanor Gouty, born about 1838 in Indiana(12) v. John Russell Gouty, born about 1840 in Indiana and died in 1907(13) 1. REFERENCES 7. Indiana State Library, Genealogy Database, Marriages through 1850, spouse number 1 - Carr, Nancy, spouse number 2 - Gouty, Thomas, county - Vermillion, date - October 14, U. S. Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, John Carr; Jno Carr, Perrysville (P.O. Address), widow 1812, certificate number 5,189, Vermillion County, Indiana, list of 1883 Military Pensioners Federal Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, page 63, enumerated October 25, 1850, by Thomas C. W. Lake, Dwelling 234, Family 234, lists Thomas Gouty, age 44, male, farmer, born in Maryland, real estate value owned = $3,000, Catherine Gouty, age 25, female, wife, born in Ohio, Clarissa, age 18, female, born in Indiana, Elias, age 17, male, born in Indiana, attended school in year, Mary, age 14, Elenor, age 12; Russell, age 10; William, age 6; and Amos, age 5; also See Book 20, pages 260 through 263 for court case: Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et al. Vermillion County Court In Partition, Newport, Indiana. The court case identifies Elias Gouty as the son of Thomas Gouty and his wife Catherine Gouty. It is obvious from the ages of Catherine and Elias that they were not mother and son. It is obvious from this census record that Catherine Gouty was too young to be the mother of Elias B. Gouty; See Book 20, pages 260 through 263 for court case: Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et al. Vermillion County Court In Partition, Newport, Indiana: "3. To Clara Chezem we set off..." 10. Elias B. Gouty tombstone, Hicks Cemetery, Perrysville, Vermillion County, Indiana; See Book 20, pages 260 through 263 for court case: Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et

22 al. Vermillion County Court In Partition, Newport, Indiana: "We find upon a careful examination & valuation of said real estate that Elias Gouty having received the sum of twelve hundred & ninety dollars as an advancement from his Father as found by the court that said Elias is therefore not entitled to any part of said lands in Partition." Federal Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, page 63, enumerated October 25, 1850, by Thomas C. W. Lake, Dwelling 234, Family 234, Thomas Gouty household. 15. Gessie, Indiana, The First One Hundred Years , page TO DO. 16. History of Vermillion County, Indiana TO DO Indiana Marriages to 1850!about Carr, Nancy Spouse 1: Carr, Nancy Spouse 2: Ulery, Daniel Marriage Date: 13 Jan 1836 Marriage Location: Indiana!Vermillion County Indiana Marriages to 1850!about Carr, Nancy Spouse 1: Carr, Nancy Spouse 2: Gouty, Thomas Marriage Date: 14 Oct 1830 Marriage Location: Indiana!Vermillion County Nancy Kerr was a sister of Orson Kerr who owned land very near to Thomas Gouty. See the First Land Owners of Highland Township Map circa Real Estate: See Book 20, pages 260 through 263 for court case: Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et al. Vermillion County Court In Partition. This court case identifies Elias Gouty as the son of Thomas Gouty and his wife Catherine Gouty. (Rebecca Gouty may have been the wife of Henry Gouty. She was 50 in 1850 Indiana Census.) 1850 IN Census: (Thomas Gouty family) Vermillion Co., Highland Township (Family Tree Maker Disc #302) Microfilm 177, Census Page 63 Thomas Gouty, age 44, male, Farmer, born in MD, real estate value owned $3,000 Catherine Gouty, age 25, female, wife, born in OH 1. Clarissa, age 18, female, born in IN 2. Elias, age 17, male, born in IN, attended school in year

23 3. Mary, age 14, female, born in IN, attended school in year 4. Elenor, age 12, female, born in IN, attended school in year 5. Russell, age 10, male, born in IN, attended school in year 6. William, age 6, male, born in IN 7. Amos, age 5, male, born in IN I have the book if you would like more information.!"two of General Kerr's sons, Nathaniel Massie Kerr and Joseph Kerr, were in Col. James Bowie's group of 100 men who joined in the Texan fight for liberty and with him gave up their lives, March 6, 1836, at the Alamo where a bronze tablet marks their last resting place.!their brother, James D. Kerr, was appointed their adminstrator because both died intestate and unmarried and Texas granted them and their heirs vast tracts of lands for their services. Some of this land was lost to the heirs but some was held for their brothers and sisters."!renee Kerr Hi:!Joseph Kerr and his brother Nathaniel died at the Alamo after joining a group of 30 volunteers. There is a plaque with both of their names at the site. Their father was one of most famous Kerrs, General Joseph Kerr, later referred to as the "Ohio's Lost Senator." He was born 1765 in Chambersburg, PA and died in LA in He married Mary Daugherty. They had: Aletha, Harriet, Chambers, Elie Williams, Susan Blair, Nathaniel Massie, James D., and Joseph. They all descend from John Kerr, and Mary Doherty, both from PA. I descend from the General's brother John Kerr and Christena Nisewanger.!Hope this helps Bob Name: Lilly BLAIR 1 Sex: F Birth: 1777 in PA 2 Death: WFT Est !Father: Andrew BLAIR b: WFT Est ! Mother: Elizabeth b: WFT Est !Marriage 1 John DAUGHERTY b: WFT Est Married: WFT Est Children Sarah DOUGHERTY b: WFT Est Moses DOUGHERTY b: WFT Est John DOUGHERTY b: WFT Est Samuel DOUGHERTY b: WFT Est Mary DAUGHERTY (DOHERTY) b: 1747 in Peters Twp, Cumberland, PA!Sources: Title: John Kerr Family Title: John and Christiana Nisewanger Kerr, Jr...!Author: Edythe T. Kahn, 1991 GENERAL JOSEPH KERR.

24 BY WM. E. GILMORE, CHILLICOTHE, OHIO. Volume 12, pages , Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications [The following article from the pen of Mr. Gilmore appeared in the columns of The Daily Scioto Gazette of March 21, As this article presents the history of Senator Kerr, no where else to be found, it is thought sufficiently valuable to deserve permanent preservation and is therefore herewith republished.- E. O. R.] At length my inquiries and correspondence, begun in 1886, for the purpose of recovering something of the personal history of General Joseph Kerr, a very early resident of Chillicothe, and in his day a very prominent and important one, has met with some success through the kind assistance of Mr. Henry Clay Carrel, an eminent architect, of 1123 Broadway, New York, who is a son of the well known Captain Hercules Carrel, formerly of Cincinnati, and a great-grandson of General Kerr. It has been strangely difficult to get information in regard to this notable person, owing to many peculiar causes. In the first place he himself was utterly indifferent as to whether his fellow citizens or any others knew anything about him or not. In the second place, while his correct name was Kerr, almost every person who knew him spelled and pronounced it Carr, and this fact gave infinite trouble to his descendants afterward, in proving up title to a large land grant, made by the Republic of Texas to soldiers of its revolutionary war with Mexico. He was defeated in long litigation for that magnificent farm just east of this city, known as the Watts farm, and the defeat almost impoverished him, and greatly embittered him. He had been unjustly treated, he thought, in large contracts for supplies to the army of the U. S., operating under General Hull. He had quarreled with Gov. Thomas Worthington, to whose remnant of senatorial term he had been elected by the General Assembly of Ohio, and finally he, with his family, had made two or three changes of residence after leaving Chillicothe in 1824, and if he ever wrote a single letter back to any one here, I never could hear of it, although I have made diligent search for such. And so "his trail" was lost, and so completely lost, that even so intelligent, industrious and resourceful an investigator as Col. W. A. Taylor, of Columbus, gave it up, and in his list of Ohio Statesmen, simply designates him as "the lost Ohio Senator." Therefore, when I, this morning, received the documents. which enable me to give the salient points of General Kerr's personal history, as herein given, from his greatgrandson, Mr. H. C. Carrel, I was inclined to echo the old Greek's shout, "eureka! eureka!" General Joseph Kerr was born of Scotch ancestry in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1765, and was married in that city, to Nancy Daugherty, a young lady of Irish descent, in He removed to Ohio with his young family "in the year 1792," according to the statements of his son, James D. Kerr, (who was still living on a part of the homestead farm, in Carrel Parish, near Lake Providence, Louisiana, in 1887-and I do not know how much later) "and settled on an highly improved and large tract of bottom land, one mile below Chillicothe on the Scioto river, but the title was disputed by a Virginian by the name of Watts, who, after 18 years of litigation, gained the land from my father." This date, 1792, must be wrong, for it is four years earlier than the advent of Nathaniel Massie's party of original settlers in this valley, or the occupancy of this region by any white people. But certainly Kerr came very soon after Massie's party did,

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