Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
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Rev. Greer McIlvaine Kerr, D.D. and Elizabeth Stevenson




Husband Rev. Greer McIlvaine Kerr, D.D. 1 2

           Born: 23 Nov 1843 2
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           Died: Abt 29 Nov 1931
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         Father: John Kerr (1810-1885) 1 3
         Mother: Eliza McIlvain (1818-1911) 1 3


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Wife Elizabeth Stevenson 2

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Children
1 F Mary V. Kerr 2

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Greer McIlvaine Kerr, D.D.

Washington Co, PA

He and his wife had five daughters and three sons.

Rev. Greer McIlvaine Kerr, D. D., pastor of the Raccoon church, Bulger, Pa., died on Saturday, Nov. 29th, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. Dr. Kerr graduated at Westminister College in 1867, and from Western Theological Seminary in 1871, and began his ministerial career in the old Raccoon Church, where he has labored very faithfully and efficiently ever since. When he had rounded out fifty years of service in that church, he asked his congregation to release him as pastor, which they refused to do, and he has served them nine years more. Dr. Kerr was in his usual health and preached in his pulpit the Sabbath previous to his death. It is a very rare occasion that any minister serves the same congregation for fifty-nine years. Dr. Kerr was a strong preacher, a faithful and beloved minister, and a Presbyter of good judgment. He will be missed greatly in his own community and in the Presbytery of Pittsburgh. He preached his last sermon on his eighty-seventh birthday, Nov. 23rd. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Kerr; two sons, five daughters, and a sister, Mrs. Martha Larimer, of Spokane, Wash. Dr. Kerr was a man of whom it would be well said:
"None knew him but to love him;
None named him but to praise."

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Sources


1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1132.

2 William C. Armstrong, The Kerr Clan of New Jersey (Morrison, IL: The Shawver Publishing Co., 1931), Pg 190.

3 William C. Armstrong, The Kerr Clan of New Jersey (Morrison, IL: The Shawver Publishing Co., 1931), Pg 189.


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