Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Thomas Kerr and Elizabeth Forsythe




Husband Thomas Kerr 1 2

           Born:  - Scotland or Ireland
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           Died: 1870 - ? Butler Co, PA 2
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 



Wife Elizabeth Forsythe 1

            AKA: Eliza Forsythe 2
           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
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           Died: 
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Children
1 F Rebecca Kerr 1 2

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         Spouse: William H. Curran (      -      ) 1 2


2 M Milton Bruce Kerr 1 2

            AKA: N. B. Kerr 3
           Born: 1850 - Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Mary Coovert (      -      ) 1


3 F Jane Catherine "Kate" Kerr 1

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         Spouse: Thomas H. McCamey (1861-      ) 1 4
           Marr: 21 May 1885 5


4 F Jennie Kerr 1

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5 M Thomas A. Kerr 1 2

           Born: 2 Nov 1854 - Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Annie Miller (      -      ) 2
         Spouse: Sarah J. Patton (      -      ) 2


6 F Jessie A. Kerr 2 6

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         Spouse: Hon. Nelson H. Thompson (1848-      ) 2 7 8 9


7 M James Kerr 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Kerr


He was born in Scotland and came to Pennsyl­vania in early manhood. He was a stone mason by trade and did a large amount of stone work in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County, where he also acquired a farm. He married after settling in But­ler County. [TCHBC, 1018]

He was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1833, when thirteen years old, first locating in Lawrence county, PA, where he learned the stone-cutting trade. After attain­ing his majority he settled at Slippery Rock, Butler County, where he married, purchased a farm of sev­enty-five acres, and conducted it in conjunc­tion with working at his trade until his death. He served nine months as a soldier in the Civil war, enlist­ing in 1862 as a member of Company K, 137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, be­ing honorably discharged in 1863. [HAC 1914, 524]

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Sources


1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1018.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 524.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 991.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 524, 536.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 536.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1481.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 364.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1248.

9 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1480.


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