Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Levi Thomas Kerr and Mary Ellen Williams




Husband Levi Thomas Kerr 1 2

           Born: 23 Dec 1832 - Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 26 Aug 1907 2
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 3


         Father: Thomas Bradon Kerr (1804-Bef 1883) 2 4 5
         Mother: Tamar Williams (      -Aft 1883) 1 6


       Marriage: 15 Feb 1855



Wife Mary Ellen Williams 1 7

           Born: 2 Jan 1835 - Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 1921
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 3


         Father: Thomas M. Williams (      -      ) 1 7
         Mother: Ella M. (Mary?) Williams (      -      ) 1 7




Children
1 F Laura Delena Kerr 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Thomas Bovard (      -      ) 7
         Spouse: Thomas J. Goldthorp (1839-Aft 1909) 8


2 M Carmila Carleton Kerr 7

            AKA: Camilla Carlton Kerr 9
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Elizabeth Shook (      -      ) 7


3 M Thomas Meridan Kerr 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Rennie English (      -      ) 7


4 F Mary Almira Kerr 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: James Daubenspeck (      -      ) 7


5 F Thamer M. Kerr

            AKA: Tammer Kerr 7
           Born: Abt Sep 1861
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Jan 1862
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


6 M John Hamilton H. Kerr 7

           Born: 6 Dec 1866
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Feb 1903 - California
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
         Spouse: Ella Mahood (      -      ) 7


7 F Sabine O. Kerr 7

            AKA: Bina Kerr
           Born: 1865 - Eau Claire, Venango Twp, Butler Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1951
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Philip S. Hoffman (1857-1939) 10 11


8 M Levi Phipps Kerr 7

           Born: Abt Jan 1871
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Mar 1871
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


9 F Bessie C. Kerr 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



10 M S. Roy Kerr 12

           Born:  - Oakland Twp, Butler Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Myrta Kimes (      -      ) 13



General Notes: Husband - Levi Thomas Kerr


His father bought fifty acres of land at $3 per acre. After his father's death, it came into his pos­session. He added fifty acres to the farm, pay­ing for his purchase about $24 per acre. He was proprietor of the Kerr House, Farmington, beginning in 1878. [HBC 1883, 453]

He attended the public schools of his home community, and then went to work on his father's farm, which he came into possession of at the time of his mar­riage. It consisted of fifty acres of land, and to this he added forty-five acres which he purchased of James Miller, who in turn had acquired it of Squire John Commigan. This made a total of ninety-five acres of valuable and tillable land, on which he erected a comfortable home and a fine set of farm buildings. Oil and gas were de­veloped in paying quantities, and three veins of coal were discovered underlying the land. Retaining ownership in the farm, Mr. Kerr purchased a hotel at Eau Claire, rebuilt it and erected a good barn, and for a period of eighteen years he con­ducted the establishment with good suc­cess. He then sold out to William Mitchell and purchased an adjoining lot, on which he erected a fine home. He lived there un­til his death at the age of seventy-five years. [HBC 1909, 1371]


General Notes: Wife - Mary Ellen Williams


She was the granddaughter of Mark Williams of Clarion County, PA.
She was a devout member of the Presbyterian Church at Scrubgrass, of which her mother was a member for seventy-three years.

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Sources


1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 453.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1368.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 47.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 452.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1313.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 790.

7 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1371.

8 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1281.

9 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 27.

10 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 998.

11 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1372.

12 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1353, 1371.

13 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1353.


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