Thomas Kerr (31458088)
Suggested edit: He was the son of the Rev. James Kerr, a respectable Baptist minister, whose father was an Irishman. The latter resided in Pennsylvania, but in 1780 the father of the subject of this sketch removed and settled two miles from Danville, now Boyle county, Kentucky, where James was born on the 24th September, 1790, and was one of five sons and four daughters. At that day it was impossible to afford the means of acquiring a good education in that new and infested region. To defend the country from savage inroads required all the time and means the settlers had: and hence the children grew up with simply the rudiments of an English education. Their father, however, as well as their mother, possessed a strong mind, well stored with useful knowledge, and by their efforts they were blessed in imparting to their growing family much that was valuable to them in alter life, and to direct their minds in the path of virtue and patriotism. Through their mother, who was a Wells, they were first cousins to the great western orator and statesman, Phillip Doddridge, of Virginia, who died in Congress, in 1832. A portion of the family removed to Missouri, then a part of Spanish Louisiana, in 1797. The parents visited the same distant region in 1799, where the mother died near St. Louis : and in 1808 the remainder removed and settled in St. Charles county. The four surviving sons were just arriving at manhood when the war broke out in 1811-12, and early enrolled themselves in the volunteer service, and acquitted themselves throughout the struggle with much credit. Thomas, the younger brother, was one of the youngest volunteers in the field. He and William were employed in several trying emergencies, and did well. They proved then and in after life to be made of good material; Thomas having, as a citizen, and in various responsible public stations, ever sustained an unimpeachable reputation, went to the grave in peace and honor in January, 1849, in Lawrence county, Missouri.[Source: DeBow's Review, 1853]
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Suggested edit: He was the son of the Rev. James Kerr, a respectable Baptist minister, whose father was an Irishman. The latter resided in Pennsylvania, but in 1780 the father of the subject of this sketch removed and settled two miles from Danville, now Boyle county, Kentucky, where James was born on the 24th September, 1790, and was one of five sons and four daughters. At that day it was impossible to afford the means of acquiring a good education in that new and infested region. To defend the country from savage inroads required all the time and means the settlers had: and hence the children grew up with simply the rudiments of an English education. Their father, however, as well as their mother, possessed a strong mind, well stored with useful knowledge, and by their efforts they were blessed in imparting to their growing family much that was valuable to them in alter life, and to direct their minds in the path of virtue and patriotism. Through their mother, who was a Wells, they were first cousins to the great western orator and statesman, Phillip Doddridge, of Virginia, who died in Congress, in 1832. A portion of the family removed to Missouri, then a part of Spanish Louisiana, in 1797. The parents visited the same distant region in 1799, where the mother died near St. Louis : and in 1808 the remainder removed and settled in St. Charles county. The four surviving sons were just arriving at manhood when the war broke out in 1811-12, and early enrolled themselves in the volunteer service, and acquitted themselves throughout the struggle with much credit. Thomas, the younger brother, was one of the youngest volunteers in the field. He and William were employed in several trying emergencies, and did well. They proved then and in after life to be made of good material; Thomas having, as a citizen, and in various responsible public stations, ever sustained an unimpeachable reputation, went to the grave in peace and honor in January, 1849, in Lawrence county, Missouri.[Source: DeBow's Review, 1853]
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Thomas Kerr (31458088)
Suggested edit: He was the son of the Rev. James Kerr, a respectable Baptist minister, whose father was an Irishman. The latter resided in Pennsylvania, but in 1780 the father of the subject of this sketch removed and settled two miles from Danville, now Boyle county, Kentucky, where James was born on the 24th September, 1790, and was one of five sons and four daughters. At that day it was impossible to afford the means of acquiring a good education in that new and infested region. To defend the country from savage inroads required all the time and means the settlers had: and hence the children grew up with simply the rudiments of an English education. Their father, however, as well as their mother, possessed a strong mind, well stored with useful knowledge, and by their efforts they were blessed in imparting to their growing family much that was valuable to them in alter life, and to direct their minds in the path of virtue and patriotism. Through their mother, who was a Wells, they were first cousins to the great western orator and statesman, Phillip Doddridge, of Virginia, who died in Congress, in 1832. A portion of the family removed to Missouri, then a part of Spanish Louisiana, in 1797. The parents visited the same distant region in 1799, where the mother died near St. Louis : and in 1808 the remainder removed and settled in St. Charles county. The four surviving sons were just arriving at manhood when the war broke out in 1811-12, and early enrolled themselves in the volunteer service, and acquitted themselves throughout the struggle with much credit. Thomas, the younger brother, was one of the youngest volunteers in the field. He and William were employed in several trying emergencies, and did well. They proved then and in after life to be made of good material; Thomas having, as a citizen, and in various responsible public stations, ever sustained an unimpeachable reputation, went to the grave in peace and honor in January, 1849, in Lawrence county, Missouri.[Source: DeBow's Review, 1853]
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Suggested edit: He was the son of the Rev. James Kerr, a respectable Baptist minister, whose father was an Irishman. The latter resided in Pennsylvania, but in 1780 the father of the subject of this sketch removed and settled two miles from Danville, now Boyle county, Kentucky, where James was born on the 24th September, 1790, and was one of five sons and four daughters. At that day it was impossible to afford the means of acquiring a good education in that new and infested region. To defend the country from savage inroads required all the time and means the settlers had: and hence the children grew up with simply the rudiments of an English education. Their father, however, as well as their mother, possessed a strong mind, well stored with useful knowledge, and by their efforts they were blessed in imparting to their growing family much that was valuable to them in alter life, and to direct their minds in the path of virtue and patriotism. Through their mother, who was a Wells, they were first cousins to the great western orator and statesman, Phillip Doddridge, of Virginia, who died in Congress, in 1832. A portion of the family removed to Missouri, then a part of Spanish Louisiana, in 1797. The parents visited the same distant region in 1799, where the mother died near St. Louis : and in 1808 the remainder removed and settled in St. Charles county. The four surviving sons were just arriving at manhood when the war broke out in 1811-12, and early enrolled themselves in the volunteer service, and acquitted themselves throughout the struggle with much credit. Thomas, the younger brother, was one of the youngest volunteers in the field. He and William were employed in several trying emergencies, and did well. They proved then and in after life to be made of good material; Thomas having, as a citizen, and in various responsible public stations, ever sustained an unimpeachable reputation, went to the grave in peace and honor in January, 1849, in Lawrence county, Missouri.[Source: DeBow's Review, 1853]
Contributor: Sherry (47010546) • [email protected]
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