John Kerr (son of Samuel Kerr and grandson of Valentine Kerr) was born on the paternal homestead in West Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania in 1826, and there received an education in the common schools. He always followed farming in his native township, and was a successful man, becoming a large land owner.
John Kerr was married to Mary (Mogle) Kerr and five children were born to them: Catherine, Samuel, Alfred, Ida, and Thomas.
During the Civil War, John Kerr enlisted in Company H, 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers on 31 March 1865. Prior to Kerr's enlistment, nearly all of the soldiers in the 103rd Regiment had been captured at the Battle of Plymouth in North Carolina. At the time of the surrender, the unit consisted of about four hundred rank and file members many of whom had been enlisted since the organization of the regiment. The officers were immediately separated from the enlisted men, not again to be united, the latter being sent to Andersonville Prison in Georgia, to starve and die in scores. The officers were sent to Charleston where they were placed under fire of the powerful Union batteries, then engaged in bombarding the city. In the months of March and April 1865, eight new companies (including John Kerr's company H), fully organized and officered, were assigned to the 103rd Regiment. The command was finally mustered out of service, at Newbern, North Carolina, on 25 June 1865, with eighty-one of the original men being then present.
John was a Republican in politics, and in religion a member of the Lutheran Church.
John died on the farm at the age of sixty-five and was buried in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery at Smicksburg, Pennsylvania.
John Kerr was married to Mary (Mogle) Kerr and five children were born to them: Catherine, Samuel, Alfred, Ida, and Thomas.
During the Civil War, John Kerr enlisted in Company H, 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers on 31 March 1865. Prior to Kerr's enlistment, nearly all of the soldiers in the 103rd Regiment had been captured at the Battle of Plymouth in North Carolina. At the time of the surrender, the unit consisted of about four hundred rank and file members many of whom had been enlisted since the organization of the regiment. The officers were immediately separated from the enlisted men, not again to be united, the latter being sent to Andersonville Prison in Georgia, to starve and die in scores. The officers were sent to Charleston where they were placed under fire of the powerful Union batteries, then engaged in bombarding the city. In the months of March and April 1865, eight new companies (including John Kerr's company H), fully organized and officered, were assigned to the 103rd Regiment. The command was finally mustered out of service, at Newbern, North Carolina, on 25 June 1865, with eighty-one of the original men being then present.
John was a Republican in politics, and in religion a member of the Lutheran Church.
John died on the farm at the age of sixty-five and was buried in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery at Smicksburg, Pennsylvania.
John Kerr (son of Samuel Kerr and grandson of Valentine Kerr) was born on the paternal homestead in West Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania in 1826, and there received an education in the common schools. He always followed farming in his native township, and was a successful man, becoming a large land owner.
John Kerr was married to Mary (Mogle) Kerr and five children were born to them: Catherine, Samuel, Alfred, Ida, and Thomas.
During the Civil War, John Kerr enlisted in Company H, 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers on 31 March 1865. Prior to Kerr's enlistment, nearly all of the soldiers in the 103rd Regiment had been captured at the Battle of Plymouth in North Carolina. At the time of the surrender, the unit consisted of about four hundred rank and file members many of whom had been enlisted since the organization of the regiment. The officers were immediately separated from the enlisted men, not again to be united, the latter being sent to Andersonville Prison in Georgia, to starve and die in scores. The officers were sent to Charleston where they were placed under fire of the powerful Union batteries, then engaged in bombarding the city. In the months of March and April 1865, eight new companies (including John Kerr's company H), fully organized and officered, were assigned to the 103rd Regiment. The command was finally mustered out of service, at Newbern, North Carolina, on 25 June 1865, with eighty-one of the original men being then present.
John was a Republican in politics, and in religion a member of the Lutheran Church.
John died on the farm at the age of sixty-five and was buried in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery at Smicksburg, Pennsylvania.
John Kerr was married to Mary (Mogle) Kerr and five children were born to them: Catherine, Samuel, Alfred, Ida, and Thomas.
During the Civil War, John Kerr enlisted in Company H, 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers on 31 March 1865. Prior to Kerr's enlistment, nearly all of the soldiers in the 103rd Regiment had been captured at the Battle of Plymouth in North Carolina. At the time of the surrender, the unit consisted of about four hundred rank and file members many of whom had been enlisted since the organization of the regiment. The officers were immediately separated from the enlisted men, not again to be united, the latter being sent to Andersonville Prison in Georgia, to starve and die in scores. The officers were sent to Charleston where they were placed under fire of the powerful Union batteries, then engaged in bombarding the city. In the months of March and April 1865, eight new companies (including John Kerr's company H), fully organized and officered, were assigned to the 103rd Regiment. The command was finally mustered out of service, at Newbern, North Carolina, on 25 June 1865, with eighty-one of the original men being then present.
John was a Republican in politics, and in religion a member of the Lutheran Church.
John died on the farm at the age of sixty-five and was buried in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery at Smicksburg, Pennsylvania.
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