Samuel Kerr / Carr Senior 30 May 2017

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Documentation for Samuel Kerr/Carr Senior

(06 August 1778 to 23 September 1823)
father of Nancy Kerr/Carr
(1809 to After 1838 and Before 31 May 1840)
[Note: See Appendix A for a discussion of the dual spelling, i.e.

Kerr/Carr, of the last name or surname of this family.]
[See the article by Curtis Lynn Older entitled, "John Kerr, Founder
of Kerrstown and Soldier in the American Revolution", A Journal of
Franklin County History, Volume XXVIII, 2016, published by the
Franklin County Historical Society - Kittochtinny (Pennsylvania).]
Samuel Kerr was born in 1778 in Kerrstown (Chambersburg), Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania.(1) He was the son of John Kerr and Mary Dougherty.(2) John
and Mary were married 16 September 1765 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.(3)
John Kerr was born in 1745 and died 2 October 1807 in Guilford Township, Franklin
County, Pennsylvania.(4) Mary Dougherty was born in 1747 in Peters Township,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and died in 1815 in Franklin County,
Pennsylvania.(5) The family name is correctly spelled Kerr but is often found to be
written as Carr, perhaps because the family pronounced the name using an a instead
of an e.
The will of John Kerr, probated 21 October 1807 in Franklin County,
Pennsylvania, bequeathed the following:(6)
Son Joseph 400 pounds.

Daughter Sarah 400 pounds
Daughter Jean 400 pounds
Son James 1 Spanish minted dollar.
Son John 400 pounds
Son Samuel Interest only from 400 pounds
Daughter Mary 500 pounds for rest of her life
Samuel Kerr married Nancy Guin (perhaps Gwyn) in Pennsylvania in 1799

according to Virginia Shannon Fendrick in her book, Revolutionary Soldiers of Franklin
County.(7) However, Fendrick refutes herself elsewhere in her book, indicating Samuel
married a Nancy Quinn, daughter of a Patrick Quinn.(8)
Samuel's oldest brother, Joseph, became Ohio's fifth United States Senator and
was a General of Ohio troops during the War of 1812.(SEE APPENDIX J) Two of
Joseph's [Sr.] sons, Joseph Kerr [Jr.] and Nathaniel Massie Kerr, left Louisiana to join the
Texas Revolution. Their horses became disabled and they were discharged from their
Louisiana military unit. The brothers proceeded towards San Antonio de Bexar, but
before they reached their destination Nathaniel died from unknown circumstances on
19 February 1836. Joseph continued on to San Antonio de Bexar and died in the Battle of
the Alamo, 6 March 1836.(See APPENDIX K)
Samuel Kerr appears in the 1800 United States Federal Census, Guilford
Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.(9) The 1800 census lists one male age 16-25,
one female under 10, and one female age 16-25.
John Kerr, Jr. was a son of John Kerr of Kerrtown/Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,
and a brother of Samuel.(10) John Kerr, Jr. wrote a letter to a grandson, Augustus
Pomeroy Kerr, dated 20 January 1851 at Mt. Hope, Gallia Co., Ohio, in which he stated
the following: "my second brother and his wife died about 26 years ago on Big Darby 10
miles west of Columbus [Ohio]. He left a large family of which I know nothing."(11)
The Samuel Kerr family departed Kerrtown/Chambersburg for the state of Ohio
in the years of 1805 to 1807. A son of Samuel and Nancy Kerr, Orson, was born in 1805
in Pennsylvania.(12) By 1807, Samuel and his family had moved to Franklin County,
Ohio, about 10 miles west of Columbus on the Big Darby. Samuel Kerr was listed as a
Justice of the Peace in Franklin County, Ohio, in that year.(13) The Big Darby Creek is a
river located in northwestern central Ohio, and an important tributary to the Lower
Scioto River.(14)
We learn some very significant information about the family of Samuel Kerr
from two books written on the history of Franklin County, Ohio. We learn that the
Samuel Kerr family was very close with two other families who lived nearby, the
Chenoweths and the Fosters
William T. Martin, History of Franklin CO, OH (Columbus: Follett, Foster &
Company, 1858):
Page 192: Chapter XVI, Pleasant Township. "This township was organized by its
present name in 1807, though it then embraced four or five times its present area. It was
reduced to its present limits by the formation of Jackson in 1815, and of Prairie in 1819.
A settlement was commenced on Darby, near Georgesville, at an early age of the
county. Amongst the settlers were, . . . Samuel Kerr . . . and others." Page 195: Samuel
Kerr served one year as a Justice of the Peace, 1807.
History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches of Some of the Prominent Men and Pioneers (Cleveland, Ohio: Williams Bros.,
1880), beginning on page 433:
SETTLEMENT
"The first settlers in the south part of Pleasant township were two brothers,
Thomas and Elijah Chenoweth, natives of Maryland, who removed, with their
families, from Pike county, Ohio, to this township, in the fall of 1799.
"Thomas Chenoweth married Cassandra Foster, and lived to enjoy the full
fruition of his labors. After his death, his widow and children removed westward.
None now live in the township. The children were: John, Benjamin, Thomas, Joseph,
Rachel, and Cassandra. Elijah Chenoweth married Rachel Foster. He died, Dec. 5,
1828; his wife died Apr. 17, 1825. The children of this couple were as follows: Joseph,
who married Rachel Morgan, and, eventually, moved to Illinois, where he died;
Elizabeth who married John Carr, also died in the west; . . . Joseph, who married
Margaret Heath, was also a member of the State legislature; the greater portion of his
life was passed in Pleasant township where he died (Mrs. Sarah Hays, who lives in
Darby, Pickaway county, is a daughter of above); Cassandra, who married John
Morgan, and lived many years in Pickaway county, eventually moved west, where she
died; Rachel, who married Jesse Wood, also died in the west; Elijah, who married
Nancy Chenoweth, now lives on the old homestead, and is the only one of the children
now living in the township. To this gentleman, the writer wishes to express his
gratitude for material aid in the collection of data for this history."
"Benjamin Foster and Samuel Kerr, with their families, settled in this vicinity soon
after the Chenoweths. Of these, the writer could learn nothing."[note by Curtis L.
Older: The family of Samuel Kerr could not be easily traced, in part, due to their
surname being spelled both as Kerr and Carr, and also due to the fact they soon moved
out of Franklin County, Ohio, after the death of Samuel in 1823.]
EARLY EVENTS
"The first white child born in Pleasant township was, without doubt, a daughter,
to Elijah and Rachel Chenoweth. The date of this important addition to the pioneer
colony was Dec. 9, 1800. The child was named Cassandra. She became the wife of John
Morgan, going to live in Darby township, Pickaway county. Here her husband died.
She eventually married Joseph Morgan, and removed to the west, where she died.
Among the first marriages in the township was John Chenoweth to Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas and Mary Foster. The date was soon after the present century
began. The first burials were on the Chenoweth farm, and not far from the present
residence of Elijah Chenoweth. The writer was unable to ascertain who was the first
person buried here. The first log houses were constructed by the brothers Chenoweth,
in the fall of 1799. The first frame house was doubtless built by Samuel Kerr, early in
the settlement. It stood on the farm owned at present by Elijah Chenoweth, jr."
SCHOOLS
"In the summer of 1811, one Thomas Miller taught a term of school in a little log
cabin, standing on the farm owned by Samuel Kerr. This was a small school, and was
composed of the children of the Chenoweth, Kerr and Foster families. This is believed
to have been the first school in this portion of the township, though of this the writer
has not positive knowledge. Schools were taught in this cabin for several years."
We learn the following from two other sources. "The first frame house was built
by Samuel Kerr."(15) "His brother, Samuel, was a thriving farmer on Big Darby Creek
(near Columbus) and he became Joseph's agent sending corn-fed hogs, fine cattle, wheat
and corn to Chillicothe."(16)
[Substantiation of the preceding information provided in the two history books

about the Chenoweth and Foster families is included in APPENDICES C, D, E, and F]
No census records have been found for Samuel Kerr for the years 1810 or 1820 in
Ohio. Nancy, Samuel's wife, preceded her husband in death. Samuel Kerr died 29
September 1823 at Harrisburg, Franklin County, Ohio, and was buried in the
Chenoweth Cemetery.(17) He left eight minor children, all 18 years of age or
younger.(18)
The 8 October 1823 estate papers of Samuel Kerr in Franklin County, Ohio,
disclose the following: Administrators - Reuben Golliday, Lawrence Foster, and
William Beatty. Guardianship 1824 Benjamin Foster, Elijah Chenowith, and Samuel
Dyer appointed guardians of
1) Orson Kerr, age 18 years
2) Nancy Kerr, age 14 years
3) Clarissa Kerr, age 11 years
4) Jackson Kerr, age 4 years
5) Robert Kerr, age 8 years
6) Joseph Kerr, age 16 years
7) Samuel Kerr, age 9 years
8) Elijah Kerr, age 6 years minor children of the deceased.
The information provided in the estate papers of Samuel Kerr enables us to
conclusively identify and trace most of the children of Samuel and Nancy Kerr after
Samuel's death in 1823. See information in APPENDICES.
Children of Samuel and Nancy Kerr / Carr Senior:

1) (Probable) Mary Kerr, born 1800, in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. There is a
strong possibility the first child born to Samuel and Nancy Kerr was a daughter named
Mary. The will of Samuel's mother, Mary Dougherty Kerr, indicates there was a
daughter of Samuel Kerr named Mary at the time she wrote her will on 30 December
1809. Item. I will and devise to my granddaughter Mary Kerr, daughter of Samuel Kerr, the
sum of twenty pounds.(19)
If Mary was the first child of Samuel and Nancy Kerr, born in 1799 or 1800, she
would have been 23 or 24 years old at the time of her father's death. It is very likely she
would have married by that age.(20) The estate papers of Samuel Kerr in Franklin
County, Ohio, probated 21 October 1807, do not list a daughter who would have been at
least 22 years old at that time. Perhaps she died or married and was excluded from the
estate.
2) (Possible - Not Proven) Moses Kerr, born 1801-1804, Franklin County,

Pennsylvania. The estate papers of Samuel Kerr in Franklin County, Ohio, probated 21
October 1807, do not list a son named Moses. It seems likely at least one or two children
of Samuel and Nancy Kerr would have been born in Pennsylvania between the time a
daughter was born in 1800 and Orson Kerr was born in 1805. Perhaps Moses was
excluded from the Samuel Kerr estate papers because he was not a minor or he had
married.
A Moses Carr [Kerr] married Rebeckah Grayham on 14 March 1824 in Madison
County, Ohio.(21) Madison County, Ohio, is adjacent the west side of Franklin County,
Ohio. A Moses Carr household appears in the 1830 Fountain County, Indiana census as
follows: 1 male under 5; 1 male 5 to 9; 1 male 20 to 29; 1 female under 5; and 1 female 20
to 29.(22) We also find a Moses Carr who married Elizabeth Pyle on 30 July 1835 in
Fountain County, Indiana.(23) There is no conclusive evidence at this time that Moses
was a son of Samuel and Nancy Kerr of Franklin County, Ohio.
3) Clarissa Kerr was 11 years of age according to the 1823 estate papers of her
father, Samuel Kerr. Clarissa was born 27 September 1813 in Franklin County, Ohio.(46)
Clarissa married Isaac Demorest on 24 October 1833 in Franklin Co., Ohio.(47) Isaac
Demorest was born 11 April 1809. It appears Clarissa stayed in Ohio and did not move
to western Indiana in the 1820s with most of her brothers and her sister Nancy. It is
possible Clarissa stayed with the Elijah Chenoweth or Samuel Dyer families, who were
also appointed guardians, in Franklin County, Ohio. Elijah Chenoweth died in late 1828
in Franklin County, Ohio.
Isaac Demorest of Franklin County, Ohio, purchased 5 tracts of land at the
Danville, Illinois, land office on 1 November 1839.(48) These tracts of land were all in
the 3rd Principal Meridian, Range 6 East, Township 19 North, Piatt County, Illinois.
Piatt County is adjacent the west side of Champaign County, Illinois. The county seat is
Monticello.
Isaac Demorest bought three more tracts in later years, all in Range 6 East,
Township 19 North: one on 10 October 1840 in which title was to Isaac Demorest of
Franklin County, Ohio; one on 10 November 1840 in which title was to Isaac Demorest
of Macon County, Illinois; and one on 10 July 1844 in which title was to Isaac Demorest
of Dewitt County, Illinois.(49) We found no land purchases for an Isaac Demorest in
Ohio or Indiana..
The family was listed in the 1840 DeWitt County, Illinois, census.(50) DeWitt
County is adjacent to Piatt County. The county seat is Clinton. The ages given on the
census would be correct for Isaac and Clarissa.
Isaac Demorest died 10 February 1845, probably in Dewitt County, Illinois.(51)
He was buried at the Union Methodist Cemetery in Columbus Township, Franklin
County, Ohio.(52)
Clarissa (Kerr) Demorest is listed with the Leah Demorest household in the 1850
Franklin Township, Franklin County, Ohio census.(53) Leah Goetschius Demorest was
the mother of Isaac Demorest.(54) Based on the state listed for the place of birth of each
of Clarissa's five children, the Demorest household was in Ohio until at least 1838. They
moved to Illinois in late 1839 or early 1840. Clarissa died 11 February 1880 in Franklin
County, OH.(55)
Isaac and Clarissa Demorest had a daughter named Eliza A. who was born 4
April 1839 in Illinois.(50) She was listed as age 10 in the 1850 census. Eliza A. Demorest
married an E. Edward Miller.(56)
E. Edward Miller and Eliza A. Demorest were the parents of Ethel C. Miller and
were listed on her marriage record dated 7 February 1912 at Franklin County, Ohio.(57)
4) Orson Kerr was 18 years of age according to the 1823 estate papers of his
father, Samuel Kerr. Orson was born 19 April 1805 in Franklin County,
Pennsylvania.(24) He married Cynthia Clawson, 5 December 1828 in Fountain County,
Indiana.(25)
An 1888 biographical sketch of Orson Kerr includes the following:
ORSON KERR, a prosperous and highly respected farmer of Tippecanoe

County, is a Pennsylvanian by birth, born April 19, 1805, a son of SAMUEL
KERR, deceased. He was reared a farmer, which occupation he has followed
principally through life, and his education was obtained in the pioneer schools
of Franklin County, Ohio, to which county his parents removed when he was a
boy. He came to Indiana in 1827, settling in Fountain County, this State, where
he was married December 28, 1828, to MISS CYNTHIA CLAWSON, a
daughter of THOMAS CLAWSON, who was one of the old and honored
pioneers of Fountain County. Of the eight children born to this union only four
are living, named as follows: SOPHIA, JOHN, TIMOTHY, and THOMAS. Two
daughters, named SARAH and JANE, died after reaching maturity, the latter
leaving a child named LISLIE OREAN. MR. KERR became a resident of
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1835, in which year he settled on his present
farm on section 22, Jackson Township. By industry and good management he
has succeeded well in his agricultural pursuits, and after selling some land and
giving 120 acres to his children, he still has 300 acres, his land being well
improved and under cultivation. He was bereaved by the death of his wife in
1875, who had shared with him the vicissitudes of life for nearly fifty years. She
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a consistent Christian.
MR. KERR has been a member of the same church for the past fifty years.(26)
The Orson Carr household is listed in the 1830 Fountain County, Indiana, census
consisting of one male age 20 to 30, one female age age 15 to 20, and one female under
five years of age.(27)
Orson Kerr purchased 80 acres on 1 November 1830 in Township 21 North,
Range 7 West, Section 35, the West Half of the Northeast Quarter. This land was within
the same Township as the 320 acres purchased by Benjamin Foster, guardian of the
Kerr/Carr minor children..
Orson Kerr also purchased land adjacent to Thomas Gouty and to Thomas and
Joseph Chenoweth as shown on the Map of the First Land Owners of Highland Township,
Vermillion County, Indiana, and as documented by United States land records.(28) This
land is in Section 17, Township 19 North, Range 9 West, Meridian 2nd PM, State of
Indiana, County of Vermillion, the East Half of the Northeast Quarter, 80 acres, and was
purchased on 10 April 1829. He also purchased 80 acres in Section 9, Township 19
North, Range 9 West, the West Half of the Southeast Quarter. These two tracts are
adjacent.
The Orson Carr household moved to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1835 and is
listed in the 1840 Tippecanoe County, Indiana, census.(29) Orson Kerr purchased 40
acres of land on 5 April 1837 in Tippecanoe County, Section 27, Township 21 North,
Range 6 West.
A 1 August 1850 Jackson Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, census record
lists an Orson Kerr household that includes Orson Kerr, age 44, born in Pennsylvania,
and Cintha Kerr, age 38, born in Ohio. The 9 July 1860 Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
census includes an Orson Kerr, age 55, born in Pennsylvania, and a Cintha Kerr, age 47,
born in Ohio.
An "O. Kerr" purchased three items on the "sale bill of the personal property of
Samuel Kerr, Deceased, September 16th, 1852, sold at the residence in Champaign
County (IL)." "O. Kerr" is presumed to be Orson Kerr. He purchased one heifer for
$17.25 and a second for $20.10. He also purchased one black mare for $95.00 and 8 steer
calves for $80.00.(Illinois Probate Records, Samuel Kerr, 4 Oct 1852, Champaign,
Illinois, Case #104, Packets No. 102-149, 1852-1855, Cover Page 1, Order Papers 2-9,
Account Papers 10-14, Sales Paper, 15-18, Account Papers 19-23)
Joseph Kerr is identified as the brother of Samuel Kerr, deceased, by the widow,
Betsy Ann (Taylor) Kerr on 5 August 1852, and she requests that Joseph be appointed
Administrator of the estate. Joseph Kerr was living nearby in Vermilion Co., IL. Also
listed on the sale bill of the personal property of Samuel Kerr, deceased, was an A. J.
Kerr, assumed to be another brother of the deceased. He purchased 8 cattle at $14.60 per
head, total $116.80.
The previous discussion leaves no doubt that the Orson Kerr who owned land
adjacent to Thomas Gouty, Joseph Chenoweth, and Thomas Chenoweth in Highland
Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, was the Orson Kerr listed in the 8 October 1823
Franklin County, Ohio, estate papers of Samuel Kerr. The 1852 Samuel Kerr probate
papers in Champaign Co., IL, appear to connect Samuel, Joseph, Orson, and Andrew
Jackson Kerr, brothers, in one event.
5) Joseph Kerr - See APPENDIX A - Documentation for Joseph Kerr

(1 April 1807 to 12 February 1872), son of Samuel Kerr Senior.
6) Samuel Kerr Junior - See APPENDIX B - Documentation for

Samuel Kerr Junior (13 February 1812 to 16 July 1852), son of Samuel
Kerr Senior.
7) Robert Kerr was 8 years of age according to the 1823 estate papers of his
father, Samuel Kerr. We have found no conclusive records to identify Robert. It is
possible Robert stayed with the Elijah Chenoweth or Samuel Dyer families, who were
also appointed guardians, in Franklin County, Ohio. Elijah Chenoweth died in late 1828
in Franklin County, Ohio.
There is a Robert Karr listed in the 1880 Concord Township, Iroquois County,
Illinois, census records. His place of birth is given as Ohio and his parents were both
born in Pennsylvania. He is 65 years old. His wife's name is Carolina, age 59, born in
Virginia, and her parents were both born in Virginia. We also find a Robert Kerr who
married a Sharlotte Roborts on 26 October 1838 in Franklin County, Ohio.
8) Elijah Kerr was 6 years of age according to the 1823 estate papers of his
father, Samuel Kerr. Elijah Isaac Kerr/Carr was born about 1817-18 in Ohio. We have
not been able to identify conclusively Elijah Kerr/Carr following the death of his father
in 1823.
It appears that several minor children of Samuel Kerr/Carr were not staying
with Benjamin Foster in Fountain County, Indiana, in 1830. It is possible Elijah stayed
with the Elijah Chenoweth or Samuel Dyer families, who were also appointed
guardians, in Franklin County, Ohio. Elijah Chenoweth died in late 1828 in Franklin
County, Ohio.
Elijah Kerr/Carr may have been staying with other related Foster households in
Fountain County in 1830. James Foster born 3 April 1803, John I. Foster born 08 March
1805, and Basil Prather Foster born 14 February 1816 are three children of Benjamin
Foster and his wife who are buried in Fountain County, Indiana, and who may have
kept some of the minor Kerr/Carr children in the 1820s. John I. Foster acquired land in
Fountain County in 1826 and James Foster acquired land there in 1831. The 1830 John I.
Foster census for Fountain County, Indiana, does not list any males other than John I.
Foster, age 30 thru 39.
Two Fosters who acquired land in nearby Warren County and whose
relationship to Benjamin Foster is not known are a Joseph Foster who acquired land in
1826 and a Jeremiah B. Foster who acquired land in 1828.
The minor Kerr/Carr children also could have stayed with a Chenoweth family
in Vermillion County, Indiana. There were many Chenoweth households listed in the
1830 Vermillion County, Indiana, census: Hiram Chenoweth, Susannah Chenoweth,
John Chenoweth, Joseph Chenoweth, and Thomas Chenoweth. Ruth, Joseph and
Benjamin Franklin Chenoweth all went to Missouri at some point in time.
We find an Elijah Kerr who married Jane Burns Mulligan on 10 August 1842 in
Andrew County, Missouri, her second marriage. Jane Burns was born 22 March 1815 in
Kentucky. Her first marriage was to Lindsay Mulligan on 22 January 1837 in Casey
County, Kentucky. Lindsay and Jane Mulligan were the parents of Matilda S. Mulligan.
Matilda was born 1 March 1836-7 and she died 17 July 1859 in Fillmore Township,
Andrew County, Missouri.
The first child of Elijah Isaac Kerr and Jane Burns Mulligan was named Clarissa.
There was a Clarissa Kerr who was a sister of Elijah, and similar to his sister Nancy
Kerr/Carr Gouty, Elijah could have named his first daughter Clarissa. Clarissa was
Elijah's only living sister besides Nancy. The 1850 Nodaway Township, Andrew
County, Missouri census, enumerated 18 September 1850, lists Elijah Carr, age 32, male,
farmer, born in Ohio, cannot read or write; Jane Carr, age 33, female, born in Kentucky;
Clarissa Carr, age 7, female, born in Missouri; Emily Carr, age 4, female, born in
Missouri; Katharine Carr, age 2, female, born in Missouri; Matilda Mulligan, age 14,
female, born in Illinois, married within the year box was checked.
Elijah Kerr, age 53, born in Ohio, appears in the 1870 census for Irwin Township,
Brown County, Kansas. His wife's name is Jane and she is 55 years old, born in
Tennessee. We believe this Elijah Kerr/Carr died in 1872 in White Cloud Township,
Doniphan County, Kansas.
9) Jackson Kerr was 4 years of age according to the 1823 estate papers of his
father, Samuel Kerr. Significant records exist to positively identify Andrew Jackson
Kerr. He was born 2 April 1819 in Franklin County, Ohio, and died 26 August 1903 in
Montgomery County, Indiana.(61) He married Nancy Sayers on 22 April 1849 in
Tippecanoe County, Indiana.(62) She was born in 1830 and died in 1864.(63) Andrew J.
Kerr is buried at Wheelers Grove Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County,
Indiana.(64) The Andrew J. Kerr household appears in the 1850 U. S. census for Jackson
Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.(65)
The biography of Robert Floyd Kerr, a son of Andrew Jackson Kerr, follows in
part:(66)
ROBERT FLOYD KERR, A. M., is one of the most influential citizens of
Brooking, who has always shown an unselfish interest in furthering the
intellectual and material progress of its people. He was born in Sugar Grove,
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, April 12, 1850, and a son of Andrew J. and Nancy
(Sayers) Kerr. Andrew J. Kerr was born in Franklin county, Ohio. His father,
Samuel Kerr, came from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and was of Scotch-Irish
lineage, his ancestors having immigrated prior to 1740 and located at
Chambersburg. John Kerr, one of the immigrants, was a sergeant of the
Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary war. He was taken prisoner at the
battle of Long Island, but exchanged after some time.
Andrew J. Kerr, a farmer by occupation, now living in retirement at New
Richmond, Indiana, has filled several local public offices in Tippecanoe county,
and is an influential and useful citizen. Mrs. Nancy Kerr died in August, 1864, at
the age of about thirty-four years, from the effects of an accident. She is a
daughter of Robert F. and Martha (McMillin) Sayers. This family moved from
Tazewell county, Virginia, in 1830, when Mrs. Kerr was two years of age.
A second biography of Robert Floyd Kerr states:

Andrew Jackson Kerr was born April 2, 1819, in Franklin County, Ohio,
and died August 26, 1903 in Montgomery County, Indiana. His spouse was Ann
Marie Ocheltree and his parents were Samuel Kerr and Nancy Gwyn.(67)
Another "Biography of Robert Floyd Kerr [1898], source unknown, states:
Andrew J. Kerr was born in Franklin Co. OH. A farmer by occupation,

now living in retirement at New Richmond, Indiana, has filled several local
public offices in Tippecanoe Co, and is an influential and useful citizen.
Andrew J. Kerr removed from Ohio to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in
company with an elder brother, being a lad of eleven years at the time, and he
forthwith initiated his independent career and began to depend upon his own
resources. He continued to work . . ."
Robert Floyd Kerr submitted an application for membership to the Sons of the
American Revolution through the South Dakota Society, approved 17 April 1911, as a
descendant of John Kerr of Chambersburg, PA.
10) Nancy Kerr was 14 years of age according to the 1823 estate papers of her
father, Samuel Kerr. She married Thomas Gouty on 14 October 1830 in Vermillion
County, Indiana, in a ceremony performed by Thomas Chenoweth.(68) Thomas Gouty
(pronounced gow like cow and tee as in a golf tee) was born about 1807 in Caroline
County, Maryland.(69)
According to the book Gessie, Indiana, The First One Hundred Years 1872 - 1972,
"Henry, Thomas, and Zechariah came to Indiana in 1820. Thomas Gouty was married 3
times and had children by all three. His first wife was Nancy Carr, his second wife was
Elizabeth Stutler and his 3rd wife was Catherine Hoobler.(70)
Thomas Gouty acquired 80 acres of land in Section 17, Range 9 West, Township
19 North, Highland Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, on 5 January 1831.(71) This
land was adjacent to land owned by Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth, sons of Thomas
Chenoweth and his wife, Cassandra Foster.(72) [See APPENDICES C, D, E, and F for
analysis of the Chenoweth and Foster families.] Thomas's land also was adjacent to
land purchased by Orson Kerr, brother of Nancy Kerr/Carr.(73)
Nancy Kerr/Carr Gouty named her first daughter after her younger sister,
Clarissa, who was listed in the 1823 estate papers of her father, Samuel Kerr.(74)
Clarissa Gouty was born 5 July 5 1832 in Highland Township, Vermillion, Indiana, and
died 7 April 1875 in Deerfield, Vernon, Missouri.(75) She married John Sampson
Chezem (1830-1879) on 5 August 1849 in Vermillion County, Indiana.(76) [See
APPENDIX B for court case to allocate land of Thomas Gouty to his children after his
death. Clara [Clarissa Gouty] Chezem received 36 acres.] John and Clarissa Chezem
had a child named Sarah Ellen Chezem (1854-1931).(77)
Nancy Kerr/Carr Gouty, first wife of Thomas Gouty, apparently died sometime
before May 31, 1840, the date when Thomas Gouty married his second wife, Elizabeth
Stutler, in Vermillion County, Indiana.(78) It seems very likely Nancy Kerr/Carr Gouty
died in childbirth as a son, John Russell Gouty, must have been born in early 1840.
The evidence is substantial and conclusive to identify Nancy Kerr/Carr,
daughter of Samuel and Nancy Kerr of Franklin County, Ohio, as the first wife of
Thomas Gouty.
Children (Gouty) of Thomas Gouty and Nancy Kerr/Carr, all born in Indiana:
i. Clarissa Gouty, 5 born July 1832 in Indiana.(79)
ii. Elias B. Gouty, born 11 September 1833 in Highland Township,

Vermillion Co., IN; died 18 April 1915 in Vermillion Co., IN.(15)
iii. Mary Gouty, born about 1836 in Indiana and died 4 April 1857.(16)
iv. Eleanor Gouty, born about 1838 in Indiana.(17)
v. John Russell Gouty, born about 1840 in Indiana and died in 1907.(18)
ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL to support the RELATIONSHIP between

SAMUEL KERR / CARR and his daughter NANCY KERR / CARR
See Sons of the American Revolution Supplemental Ancestor Certificate, Curtis

L. Older, descendant of John Kerr, approved 4 November 2015. The application
includes the following proof of Samuel Kerr/Carr as the father of Nancy Kerr/Carr:
1) On 08 October 1823, the estate records of Samuel Kerr of Franklin, OH, lists
his children Orson (age 18), Joseph (age 16), Nancy (age 14), Clarissa (age 11), Samuel
(age 9), Robert (age 8), Elijah (age 6), and Jackson (age 4). On 11 March 1824,
Benjamin Foster was appointed guardian of the minor heirs with Elijah Chenowith
named as a security.
2) According to DAR RC#722981, Elijah Chenoweth married Rachel Foster,

daughter of John Foster of MD, and died in Franklin Co, OH, on 05 December 1828.
3) According to DAR RC#842921, Benjamin Foster was a son of John Foster of

MD, had a son born in Ohio in 1803, and died in Fountain Co, IN, on 01 October
1844.
4) The 1830 and 1840 census records of Fountain Co, IN, each show a household
headed by Benjamin Foster.
5) The will of Elijah Chenoweth (Franklin Co, OH will book A, p196, dated 21
July 1828 and probated 7 April 1829) names among his heirs, Thomas, Joseph, and
Elijah Chenoweth. Elijah is named as the youngest son and, according to his
gravestone, was born in 1806.
6) On 31 Jan 1828, Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth purchased land in

Vermillion Co, IN. The 1850 census of Vermillion Co, IN, shows a Thomas
Chenowith, age 49.
7) According to a biographical sketch of Orson Kerr found in Biographical

Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe, Indiana, Orson was born in Pennsylvania,
the son of Samuel Kerr. He lived in Franklin County, OH; moved to Fountain County,
IN, in 1827; married Cynthia Clawson in 1828; and moved to Tippecanoe County, IN,
in 1835. While this source is not well--documented, it is corroborated by official
documents and, significantly, was published in 1888, during Orsons lifetime (see
photo of grave marker). Fountain County marriage records confirm that Orson Carr
married Cynthia Clawson in 1828. Fountain County 1830 census lists Orson Carr as a
resident. Tippecanoe County 1840 census lists Orson Carr as a resident. Tippecanoe
County 1850 census lists Orson Keer(44) born in Pennsylvania. Tippecanoe County
1860 census lists Orson Kerr(55) born in Pennsylvania.
8) In a biographical sketch of Robert Floyd Kerr from a compendium of

biographical sketches of citizens of South Dakota, Andrew J. Kerr of Tippecanoe Co,
IN, was named as the son of Samuel Kerr, having been born in Franklin Co, OH. The
grave marker of Andrew J. Kerr in Tippecanoe Co, IN, shows a birthdate of 02 Apr
1819.
[Note - Point 9) below is incorrect. Samuel Kerr Junior was in the 1850 Illinois,
Champaign Co., District 21, census.]
9) The 1850 census of Fountain Co, IN, shows a Samuel Carr, age 38, born in
OH.
10) Vermillion, IN, marriage records show that Thomas Gouty married Nancy
Carr in 1830, in a ceremony performed by Thomas Chenoweth. He later married
Elizabeth Stutler on 31 May 1840.
11) A map of first landowners in Highland Twp, Fountain Co, IN, shows that
Orson Kerr owned property bordering properties owned by Thomas Gouty and
Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth.
12) The Vermillion County 1850 census, shows the household of Thomas
Gouty. His oldest child, Clarissa(18X), bears the name of Nancy Kerrs only sister.
CONCLUSION
The Foster, Chenoweth, and Kerr families were closely related in Franklin Co,
OH. There is substantial evidence that between 1824 and 1830, Benjamin Foster; his
nephews - Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth; and three of his wards -- Orson, Samuel
and Andrew Jackson Kerr; moved to Fountain Co, IN. Orson Kerr and the Chenowiths
purchased parcels of land next to Thomas Gouty in Highland Twp. In 1830, Thomas
Gouty married a Nancy Carr in a ceremony performed by Thomas Chenoweth.
Thomas and Nancy Gouty named their first child Clarissa, the same name as the only
sister of Nancy Kerr of Ohio. Given the close relationships between these families, it
is very likely that Nancy Kerr moved from Ohio to Indiana with her guardian and
her brothers and it is she that married Thomas Gouty.
REFERENCES
(1) The South Dakota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Application for
Membership, Robert Floyd Kerr, descendant of John Kerr, 12 April 1911. The year of
birth for Samuel Kerr is listed as 1778.
(2) Will of John Kerr, Franklin Co., PA, Will Book "B", page 331, #918, made 25 August
1807 and probated 21 October 1807; will of Mary Dougherty Kerr, Franklin Co,, PA,
Will Book "C", page 420, #1583, made 30 December 1809 and probated 04 November
1815. "Item. I will and devise to my granddaughter Mary Kerr, daughter of Samuel
Kerr, the sum of twenty pounds."
(3) Edythe T. Kahn, John and Christiana Nisewanger Kerr, Jr., Their Ancestry and
Descendants, 1745-1991 (E. T. Kahn, 12710 N. Lakeshore Dr., LaSalle, MI 48145), 3.
(4) Kahn, John Kerr, Jr., 3.
(5) Kahn, John Kerr, Jr., 3. Kahn gives the year of death as 1819. However, the will of
Mary Kerr was probated in 1815.
(6) Will of John Kerr, Franklin Co., PA, probated 12 Oct. 1807.
(7) Virginia Shannon Fendrick, compiler, American Revolutionary Soldiers of Franklin

County (Chambersburg, PA: Historical Works Committee of the Franklin Co. Chapter,
D.A.R., 1944), 250.
(8) Fendrick, American Revolutionary Soldiers, 178. Nancy Quinn was a daughter of
Patrick Quinn whose estate was administered at Chambersburg, 19 Oct. 1801.
(9) Septennial Census Returns, 1800, Guilford Twp., Cumberland Co., PA, 23 and 26.
(10) Will of John Kerr, Franklin Co., PA, probated 12 Oct. 1807.
(11) Kahn, John Kerr, Jr., 17.
(12) Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana (The Lewis
Publishing Company, 113 Adams Street, Chicago, 1888), 387-388. "Orson Kerr,
ORSON KERR, a prosperous and highly respected farmer of Tippecanoe County, is a
Pennsylvanian by birth, born April 19, 1805, a son of SAMUEL KERR, deceased."
(13) William T. Martin, History of Franklin CO, OH (Columbus: Follett, Foster &
Company, 1858), 195.
(14) www.wikipedia.org, Big Darby Creek.
(15) Franklin County at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (Columbus: Historical
Publishing Company, 1901), 74.
(16) Marie Dickore, ed., General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio, "Ohio's Lost Senator" (The
Oxford Press, Oxford, OH, 1941), 43.
(17) unknown source
(18) Rings, Blanche Tipton, Francis Herbert Obetz, Margaret Scott, and Ohio
Genealogical Society. Franklin County Chapter. Abstracted Wills, 1805-1831, from
Franklin County, Ohio, Court Records, with Genealogical Notes. Columbus, Ohio (P.O. Box
09696, Columbus 43209): Franklin County Genealogical Society, 1982. No. 0422, KERR,
Samuel - Decd., 8 Oct 1823.
(19) Will of Mary Dougherty Kerr, Franklin Co., PA, probated 4 Nov. 1815.
(20) 1800 U. S. Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Guilford Township, Franklin County,

Samuel Kerr, 1 male 16-25, 1 female under 10, 1 female 16-25.
(21) Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, Moses Carr and Rebeckah Grayham, 14 Mar 1824.
(22) Moses Carr, 1830 Fountain County, Indiana census.
(23) Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Moses Carr and Elizabeth Pyle, 30 Jul 1835, Fountain
County, Indiana.
(24) A History of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Biographical Sketch of Orson Kerr;

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana (The Lewis
Publishing Company, 113 Adams Street, Chicago, 1888), 387-388.
(25) Orson Carr, Cynthia Clawson, December 5, 1828, Fountain County, Indiana,
Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941; Biographical Record and Portrait Album of
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 387-388; Indiana State Library Genealogy Database:
Marriages through 1850: Spouse 1: Carr, Orson; Spouse 2: Clawson, Cynthia; Marriage
Date: 05 Dec 1828; Marriage Location: Indiana, Fountain County.
(26) Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 387-388.
(27) 1830 Fountain County, Indiana, census, Orson Kerr.
(28) Map of the First Land Owners of Highland Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
Thomas Gouty - earliest he owned in Vermillion County, 5 Jan. 1831, Section 17,
Township 19 North, Range 9 West, Meridian 2nd Prime, State Indiana, Counties
Vermillion, Accession Number: IN1060_.079, Document 9351. Thomas Gouty also
acquired land in Section 5, Township 19 North, Range 9 West, Meridian 2nd Prime,
State Indiana, Counties Vermillion, Accession Number: IN1060 .079, Document 9352.
Orson Kerr, 10 Apr. 1829, 80 acres, Section 17, Township 19 North, Range 9 West,
Meridian 2nd PM, State of Indiana, County of Vermillion, Document 6378, Accession
Number: IN0990 .03, Crawfordsville land office, authority April 24, 1820. Orson Kerr
also owned two other tracts that are recorded in the U.S. General Land Office Records,
1796-1907. Orson Kerr, 1 Nov. 1830, 80 acres, Section 35, Township 21-N, Range 7-W,
Meridian 2nd PM, State of Indiana, County of Vermillion, Document 8897, Accession
Number: IN1050 .125, Crawfordsville land office, authority April 24, 1820. Orson Kerr, 5
Apr. 1837, 40 acres, Section 27, Township 21-N, Range 6-W, Meridian 2nd PM, State of
Indiana, County of Vermillion, Document 6378, Accession Number: IN3170 .158,
Crawfordsville land office, authority April 24, 1820.
(29) 1840 Tippecanoe County, Indiana, census, Orson Kerr.
(30) Illinois Marriages to 1850, Joseph Kerr, Jane Davison, 11 March 1830, Vermilion
County, Illinois.
(31) Township 21 North, Range 12 West, the West Half of the North East Quarter of
Section 24.
(32) Township 21 North, Range 11 West, the East Half of the South East Quarter of
Section 19.
(33) 1870 census, Newell Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, enumerated 24 August
1870, Joseph Kerr, retired farmer, age 62, born in Ohio. The census Post Office was
shown as Danville.
(34) Cooke/Flodquist Family Tree, Ancestry.com, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, Ancestral File.
(35) "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch.Org, James Davidson and

Ruth Chenoweth, 03 Apr 1828; citing Franklin, Ohio, reference; FHL microfilm 0285142
V. 1-3.
(36) International Genealogical Index (TM) (IGI) entry, FamilySearch.org.
(37) findagrave.com; Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL, tombstone: Ruth
wife of James Davison died April 9, 1833. The website indicates she was born Nov. 19,
1808.
(38) Lottie E. Jones, History of Vermilion County, Illinois; a Tale of It's Evolution,Settlement
and Progress for Nearly a Century (Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Company, 1911)
republished on Books.Google.com.
(39) Illinois Marriages to 1850, Jesse L. Partlow, Rachel Davison, 30 Aug 1848, Vermilion
County.
(40) Illinois Marriages 1790-1860, James Davison, Sally F. Humphrey, 16 June 1836,
Vermilion County.
(41) findagrave.com
(42) findagrave.com
(43) findagrave.com
(44) findagrave.com
(45) Indiana Marriages to 1850, Robert Davison, Melvida Chenoweth, 11 February 1836,
Vermillion County, Indiana.
(46) Sons of the American Revolution application dated 8 August 1967 by John H. Bell
or Henry Grady Hardy, Jr.
(47) Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, Isaac Demorest and Clarissa Kerr, 24 Oct 1833.
(48) U. S. Bureau of Land Management, West half of the south west quarter of Section
15, Township 19 North, Range 6 East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Danville,
Illinois, containing 80 acres. This land is in Piatt County, Illinois. The county seat is
Monticello. The county is west of Champaign County, Illinois.
(49) U. S. Bureau of Land Management.
(50) 1840 Dewitt County, Illinois, census. The Demorest household consisted of: 1 male
5 to 9; 1 male 30 to 39; 3 females under 5; 1 female 20 to 29.
(51) findagrave.com; Picture of tombstone of Isaac Demorest, died Feb. 10, 1845, aged 35
yrs. 10 mo.
(52) findagrave.com; Picture of tombstone of Isaac Demorest, died Feb. 10, 1845, aged 35
yrs. 10 mo.
(53) 1850, Franklin Township, Franklin County, Ohio, Leah Demorist, female, age 74,
born in New Jersey; Clarrissa, female, age 37, born in Ohio; Russel B., male, age 15, born
in Ohio; Margaret, female, age 14, born in Ohio; Emeline, female, age 13, born in Ohio;
Eliza, female, age 19, born in Illinois; and Jane, female, age 8, born in Illinois.
(54) findagrave.com
(55) findagrave.com; Clara Demorest, no picture of tombstone shown; birth 1814; death
Feb. 11, 1880; Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio.
(56) Death Certificate, State of Ohio, County of Franklin, Township of Jackson, Eliza D.
Miller, female, white, widowed, date of birth - 4 April 1839; age - 74 years, 9 months, 18
days; date of death - 21 January 1914; place of burial - Concord Cem; date of burial - 24
January 1914; name of father - Isaac Demorest; birthplace of father - Ohio; maiden name
of mother - Clarissa Kerr; birthplace of mother - Ohio. Information provided by Mark
Miller, Grove City, Ohio.
(57) Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013, Sterling Donaldson and Ethel C. Miller, 07 Feb
1912, Franklin, Ohio.
(58) 1840 U. S. Census, Davis Township, Fountain County, Indiana, Samuel Carr
household, 1 male 20 and under 30, 1 female under 5, and 1 female 20 and under 30. A
Mary Carr is listed two lines earlier, 1 male 10 and under 15, 2 females 15 and under 20,
1 female 50 and under 60.
(59) Indiana Marriages to 1850, Samuel Kerr, Dorothy Jefferson, 11 May 1837, Fountain
County (lawful consent).
(60) 1850 U. S. census, Indiana, Davis Township, Fountain County, Indiana, Samuel
Carr, age 38, born in Ohio; Dorathy Carr, age 35, born about 1815 in Indiana.
(61) Jackson Kerr, born 1819. Obituary in Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, August 28,
1903, date of death in Montgomery County, Indiana. Wheeler's Grove Cemetery. A
death certificate for Andrew J. Kerr appears in City Health Office, Crawfordsville, book
H-33, page 77, produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration. It lists Andrew
J. Kerr, date of August 26, 1903, location New Richmond, age 84, male, white.
Findagrave. Tombstone at Wheelers Grove Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County,
Indiana, indicates Andrew J. Kerr, April 2, 1819, Aug. 26, 1903.
(62) Unknown source, Andrew Jackson Kerr, Nancy Sayers, 22 April 1849, Tippecanoe
County; S.A.R. application of Robert Floyd Kerr.
(63) S.A.R. application of Robert Floyd Kerr, approved 1911; another source indicates
she was born 25 November 1827 in Tazewell County, Virginia, and died 20 August 1864
in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
(64) Findagrave. Tombstone at Wheelers Grove Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe

County, Indiana, indicates Andrew J. Kerr, April 2, 1819, Aug. 26, 1903.
(65) 1850 U. S. census, Jackson Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, enumerated 1

August, Andrew J. Kerr, age 31, born in Ohio; Nancy, age 22, born in Virginia; Jesse, age
4, born in Indiana, and Robert, age 2 months, born in Indiana.
(66) Biography for Robert Floyd Kerr, A. M., "Memorial and biographical record; an
illustrated compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of
South Dakota..." (Chicago: G. A. Ogle & Co., 1898), 254.
(67) The Biography of Robert Floyd Kerr, 1904 edited by Maurice Krueger, Publisher,
History of South Dakota by Doane Robinson, Vol. II, 1904; John William Leonard,
Albert Nelson Marquis, editors, Who's Who in America, 1908-1909, Volume 5 (Chicago: A.
N. Marquis & Co., 1908), 1047, Robert Floyd Kerr, educator.
(68) Indiana State Library, Genealogy Database, Marriages through 1850, spouse
number 1 - Carr, Nancy, spouse number 2 - Gouty, Thomas, county - Vermillion, date -
October 14, 1830.
(69) The 1850 census lists Thomas Gouty as age 44 and the 1860 census lists him as 53.
However, see the Thomas Gouty tombstone, Hicks Cemetery, Perrysville, Vermillion
County, Indiana, which lists his age at death in 1863 as 61 years. Also see, History of
Vermillion County, Indiana, Thomas Gouty died June 10, 1863, aged sixty-one years.
He was therefore born sometime between 1802 and 1807. In the 1800 US Census for
Maryland, the only Gouty names that appear in Caroline County are: Abel, John,
Zachariah, and Prichard (i.e., Pritchett). 1800 Maryland census, Caroline County; 1800
US census records, Caroline Co., MD, Pritchard GOUTEE, p.10, 11010-10010-00.
(70) Gessie, Indiana, The First One Hundred Years 1872-1972, David Gouty.
(71) Two records for Thomas Gouty: (1) U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land
Management, General Land Office Records website. Land office: Crawfordsville; Gouty,
Thomas; document number 9351, 5 January 1831, total acres 80, township 19 north,
range 9 west, W half SE quarter of section 17, Vermillion County, Indiana, 2nd principal
meridian. (2) U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General
Land Office Records website. Land office: Crawfordsville; Gouty, Thomas; document
number 15743, 10 July 1832, total acres 80, township 19 north, range 9 west, W half NE
quarter of section 17, Vermillion County, Indiana, 2nd principal meridian.
(72) U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office
Records website. Land office: Crawfordsville; Chenoweth, Thomas and Joseph;
document number 5885, 30 January 1828, total acres 80, township 19 north, range 9
west, E half SE quarter of section 17, Vermillion County, Indiana, 2nd principal
meridian.
Records website. Land office: Crawfordsville; Kerr, Orson; document number 6378, 10
April 1829, total acres 80, township 19 north, range 9 west, E half NE quarter of section
17, Vermillion County, Indiana, 2nd principal meridian.
(74) 08 October 1823 estate records of Samuel Kerr of Franklin County, Ohio, Clarissa;
1850 Federal Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, page 63,
enumerated October 25, 1850, by Thomas C. W. Lake, Dwelling 234, Family 234, lists
Thomas Gouty, age 44, male, farmer, born in Maryland, real estate value owned =
$3,000, Catherine Gouty, age 25, female, wife, born in Ohio, Clarissa, age 18, female,
born in Indiana, Elias, age 17, male, born in Indiana, attended school in year, Mary, age
14, Elenor, age 12; Russell, age 10; William, age 6; and Amos, age 5.
(75) One World Tree, Wolfe Family Tree of Vernon County, Missouri.
(76) Book 20, pages 260 through 263, court case: Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et al.
Vermillion County Court In Partition, Newport, Indiana, 02 August 1865, "3. To Clara
Chezem we set off thirty six acres etc." This court case allocated the property of Thomas
Gouty to his children after his death; Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860, John Chezum,
Clarissa Coudy, 5 August 1849, Vermilion County, Illinois, source Family History
Library, Salt Lake City, UT, microfilm 1298747; OneWorldTree, Wolfe Family Tree of
Vernon County, Missouri.
(77) OneWorldTree, Wolfe Family Tree of Vernon County, Missouri.

(78) Indiana State Library, Genealogy Database, Marriages through 1850, spouse
number 1 - Gouty, Thomas, spouse number 2 - Stutler, Elizabeth, county - Vermillion,
date - May 31, 1840.
(79) The 1850 census for the Thomas Gouty family indicates Clarissa was 18 years old
and should have been born in or about 1832. The source which indicates her birthdate
as July 5, 1832, is unknown.
(80) Elias B. Gouty tombstone, Hicks Cemetery, Perrysville, Vermillion County, Indiana;
See Book 20, pages 260 through 263 for court case: Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et
al. Vermillion County Court In Partition, Newport, Indiana: "We find upon a careful
examination & valuation of said real estate that Elias Gouty having received the sum of
twelve hundred & ninety dollars as an advancement from his Father as found by the
court that said Elias is therefore not entitled to any part of said lands in Partition.";
Name: Elias, Sr. Gouty; Date: 18 Apr 1915; LOCATION: Vermillion County; Age: 81 yr;
Gender: Male; Race: White; Source Location: County Health Office, Dana; Source Notes:
The source of this record is the book H-5 on page 77 within the series produced by the
Indiana Works Progress Administration.
(81) Birth date estimated from 1850 census records for Thomas Gouty family.
APPENDIX A
Documentation for Joseph Kerr, son of Samuel Kerr Senior
(1 April 1807 to 12 February 1872)
Joseph Kerr was 16 years of age in 1823, the year the probate papers for his father,
Samuel Kerr, Sr., of Franklin Co., OH, were filed.(1) Benjamin Foster, Elijah Chenowith,
and Samuel Dyer were appointed guardians for Joseph and his minor brothers and sisters
in 1824.(2) Two of Joseph's brothers, Orson and Andrew Jackson, and one sister, Nancy,
moved to Fountain and Vermillion Counties in Indiana along with their guardian,
Benjamin Foster in the mid-1820s.(3) Joseph and another brother, Samuel Jr., also moved
to western Indiana about the same time, but they do not appear to have lived in the
Benjamin Foster household.(4)
Joseph Kerr was born 1 April 1807 in Franklin Co., OH.(5) Recorded in Volume 8
of the Franklin County, Ohio, Record of Deeds at the Recorder's Office is a deed between
Joseph Kerr of Vermillion County, Indiana, and John Chenoweth of Franklin County,
Ohio, dated 6 September 1828.(6) This deed was signed in the presence of a William
?Gardener? and James Davison. James Davison was a son-in-law of Elijah Chenoweth, a
guardian of the minor children of Samuel Kerr, Sr. of Franklin County, OH.
Joseph Kerr turned 21 years of age in 1828 and was no longer a minor. Perhaps he
became the owner of land previously owned by his father, Samuel Kerr, Sr. Perhaps
Joseph, deciding to remain in Vermillion County, IN, transferred the property to John
Chenoweth for $150 and severed his ties with Franklin Co., OH.
Joseph Kerr of Vermillion Co., Indiana, purchased 80 acres of land on 1 December

1830 in Vermilion Co., Illinois.(7) This land was in Township 21 North and Range 12
West, Section 24. Vermilion Co., Illinois, was formed in 1826.(8) Joseph Kerr purchased
four additional tracts of land in Vermilion Co., IL, from 1831 to 1839.(9)
Joseph Kerr married Jane Davison on 11 March 1830 in Vermilion Co., Illinois,
where she apparently was living with her family at that time.(10) She was born 25 June
1809 in Franklin Co., OH.(11) She was the daughter of Andrew Davison.
"Andrew Davison came here (i. e., Vermilion Co., Illinois) from Franklin Co., OH,
with his wife and family in 1828 and took up land in section thirteen. There were seven
children in the Davison family, viz.: James, Robert, Sally, Jane, Susan, Betty and Polly.
Two of these were married when they came here, James and Mrs. Joseph Grundy. A short
time after the arrival of the Davison family Joseph Kerr came here. He married one of the
Davison girls."(12)
The Davisons settled in Vermillion Co., Indiana, for a brief period before moving
a short distance to Vermilion Co., Illinois. Andrew Davison of Vermillion Co., Indiana,
acquired his first tract of land in Vermilion Co., Illinois, on 5 November 1830. This land
was in Township 21 North, Range 11 West, Section 7.(13)
James Davison was the brother of Jane Davison, the wife of Joseph Kerr. James
Davison was born 3 June 1805 in Ohio.(14) He married Ruth Chenoweth on 3 April 1828
at Pleasant Township, Franklin Co., OH.(15) Ruth Chenoweth was the daughter of Elijah
Chenoweth (1762 - 1828), a guardian for the minor children of Samuel Kerr, Sr., and his
wife, Rachel Foster (1768 - 1825).(16) The James Davison household appears in the 1830
Vermilion Co., IL, census. James was listed as age 20 thru 29 and his wife, Ruth, was listed
as age 20 thru 29. They had one female child under 5 years of age.(17) James Davison died
on 3 January 1875 in Vermilion Co., IL.(18)
Joseph Kerr and his brother-in-law, James Davison, of Vermilion Co., Illinois,
purchased 80 acres of land on 8 December 1830 in Vermilion Co., IL.(19) This land was in
Township 21 North, Range 11 West. The east side of Range 11 West in Vermilion Co., IL,
is adjacent the Indiana state line.
Samuel Kerr, Jr., brother of Joseph Kerr, was born 13 February 1812.(20) He was
eleven years old in 1823 at the time of his father's death, contrary to the age of nine years
shown on the Samuel Kerr, Sr. probate records.
Samuel Kerr/Carr, Jr., son of Samuel and Nancy Kerr/Carr, Sr. of Franklin
County, Ohio, was 23 years old and no longer a minor in 1835. Samuel Kerr of Fountain
County, Indiana, purchased three tracts of land in the northeast corner of present-day
Champaign Co., Illinois, on 16 September 1835.(21) These three tracts were in Township
22 North, Range 14 West. He later bought two more tracts in this Township and Range.
Samuel Kerr, Jr. died 16 July 1852 in Champaign Co., IL.(22) William Chenoweth signed
a document, part of the probate records of the Samuel Kerr, Jr. estate, in which he states
that "Samuel Kerr late of said county departed this life on or about the 16th day of July
last and that he died intestate as he verily believes and further saith not."(23) The
document was dated 6 August 1852.
Guardians were appointed in 1855 to care for the minor children of Samuel Kerr,
Jr., deceased. The minor children were Russell T. Kerr, John C. Kerr, Elizabeth S. Kerr,
Matilda M. Kerr, Joseph F. Kerr and Rachael Ann Kerr.(24) The guardians appointed
were: Absalom H. Wood, Caleb P. Evertson, Edward Edwardly, and Lindsey Corbly.(25)
John Carr, son of Samuel Kerr, Jr. and Betsy Taylor, was living with the Evertson family
in the 1860 Champaign Co., IL census.(26)
The Biography of Russell T. Kerr, a son of Samuel Kerr, Jr. states: "The paternal
ancestors of Mr. Kerr were originally from Scotland, and a paternal granduncle served as
a soldier in the Revolutionary War until its close and was afterward a member of the
United States Senate."(27)
The above statement appears to refer to Lt. John Kerr of Chambersburg/Kerrtown,

Pennsylvania, during the American Revolution and to General and United States Senator
Joseph Kerr of Ohio, a son of Lt. John Kerr and a brother of Samuel Kerr, Sr.(28) General
and United States Senator Joseph Kerr of Ohio would have been Russell T. Kerr's
grandfather's brother, a granduncle. However, Lt. John Kerr of the American Revolution
would have been Russell T. Kerr's great-grandfather.
Joseph Kerr was called the brother of Samuel Kerr Junior by Samuel's widow in
her request to have Joseph Kerr appointed Administrator of her husband's estate.(29)
Land tracts owned by Samuel Kerr, Jr. were in Township 22 North, Range 14 West,
perhaps 10 to 15 miles distant from land owned by his brother, Joseph Kerr.(30)
An O. Kerr, an A. J. Kerr, and an Andrew Kerr purchased several items at the

Samuel Kerr, Jr., estate sale.(31) We assume that O. Kerr was Orson Kerr, brother of
Samuel Kerr, Jr. and Joseph Kerr. Joseph Kerr and Jane Davison Kerr had a son named
Andrew J. Kerr who was born 2 July 1833 and who died 13 July 1919 in Catlin,
Vermilion Co., IL.(32) The A. J. Kerr of the estate sale could have been Andrew Jackson
Kerr, brother of Samuel Kerr, Jr., or he could have been the son of Joseph Kerr. We
assume Joseph Kerr named his one sons Andrew J. Kerr after his brother, Andrew
Jackson Kerr.(33)
Children (Kerr):
1) Andrew J. Kerr, born 2 July 1833, died 13 July 1919, Gundy Cemetery
2) Samuel H. Kerr, born unknown, died 30 October 1832, Gundy Cemetery
3) Mary Kerr, born 25 February 1835?, died 23 August 1862, Gundy Cemetery
4) Mary Elizabeth Kerr, born 5 August 1835, died 14 December 1912, Gundy
Cemetery

SAMUEL KERR / CARR, SENIOR and his son JOSEPH KERR / CARR
1) The 08 October 1823 estate records for Samuel Kerr of Franklin Co., OH,
lists his minor children as Orson (age 18), Joseph (age 16), Nancy (age 14), Clarissa (age
11), Samuel (age 9), Robert (age 8), Elijah (age 6), and Jackson (age 4). Benjamin Foster,
Elijah Chenowith, and Samuel Dyer were appointed guardians for the minor Kerr
children in 1824.

daughter of John Foster of MD, and died in Franklin Co, OH, on 05 Decemberv1828.
3) The will of Elijah Chenoweth names among his heirs, sons Thomas, Joseph,
John F., youngest son Elijah Chenoweth, and daughter Ruth Davidson. (Franklin Co,
OH will book A, page 196, dated 21 July 1828, probated 7 April 1829)
4) James Davison married Ruth Chenoweth, daughter of Elijah Chenoweth, on 3

April 1828 at Pleasant Township, Franklin Co., OH. (Ohio Marriages, 1789 - 1898, original
image: #1074, 1828, James Davidson to Ruth Chenoweth, April 3d Anno Domini, Samuel
Shaw. Also see History of Vermilion County, Illinois by Lottie E. Jones, published in 1911,
Biography of Andrew Davidson, father of James Davison.)
5) Joseph Kerr married Jane Davison on 11 March 1830 in Vermilion Co., IL.
(Illinois Marriages to 1850, Joseph Kerr, Jane Davison, 11 March 1830, Vermilion Co., IL)
6) The Davisons came to Illinois from Franklin Co., Ohio by way of Indiana.(Jack
Moore Williams, History of Vermilion County Illinois, 2 vols., (Topeka - Indianapolis,
Historical Publishing Company, 1930), 1:295) They settled in Vermillion Co., IN, for a
brief period before moving to Vermilion Co., IL.(Bureau of Land Management, 5
November 1830, Andrew Davison of Vermillion County, Indiana, Township 21 North,
Range 11 West, Section 7, East Half Southeast Quarter Vermilion Co., Illinois) Andrew
Davison of Vermillion Co., IN, first bought land in Vermilion Co., IL, on 5 November
1830. This land was in Township 21 North, Range 11 West.(History of Vermilion County,
Illinois by Lottie E. Jones, published in 1911, Biography of Andrew Davidson, father of James
Davison.)
7) The S. A. R. Supplemental Ancestor Certificate of Curtis L. Older, descendant

of John Kerr, approved 4 November 2015 supports the conclusion that Nancy Kerr, Orson
Kerr, and Andrew Jackson Kerr, minor children of Samuel Kerr, Sr. of Franklin Co., OH,
came to the western Indiana counties of Fountain and Vermillion in the 1820s with
Benjamin Foster, a guardian appointed for the Kerr minor children.
8) Joseph Kerr of Vermillion Co., IN, purchased 80 acres of land on 1 December

1830 in Vermilion Co., IL.(Bureau of Land Management, Joseph Kerr, 1 December 1830,
Township 21 North, Range 12 West, West Half of Northeast Quarter, Section 24,
Vermilion Co., IL.)
9) Joseph Kerr and James Davison of Vermilion Co., IL, purchased 80 acres of land
on 8 December 1830 in Vermilion Co., IL.(5) This land was in Township 21 North, Range
11 West.
10) Samuel Kerr of Fountain Co., IN, purchased land in Township 22 North,
Range 14 West, Champaign Co., IL, on 16 September 1835. This land was within 12
miles of land owned by his brother, Joseph Kerr.
11) Joseph Kerr was appointed Administrator for the estate of Samuel Kerr, Jr.
who died 16 July 1852 in Champaign Co., IL.(Samuel Kerr Probate Records, Champaign,
Illinois, 4 October 1852, Case Number 104, widow's request to have Joseph Kerr
appointed administrator. "The undersigned widow of Samuel Kerr Decd, late of
Champaign Co. Ill, hereby resign my right to administrator on the estate of said decd,
and request that Joseph Kerr, the brother of the Decd, may be appointed Administrator
of said estate. Betsy Ann Kerr Aug. 5, 1852")
12) An O. Kerr, an A. J. Kerr, and an Andrew Kerr purchased several items at the
Samuel Kerr, Jr., estate sale. We assume that O. Kerr was Orson Kerr, brother of Samuel
Kerr, Jr. and Joseph Kerr. Joseph Kerr and Jane Davison Kerr had a son named Andrew
13) Kerr who was born 2 July 1833 and who died 13 July 1919. The A. J. Kerr of
the estate sale could have been Andrew Jackson Kerr, brother of Samuel Kerr, Jr., or he
could have been the son of Joseph Kerr. We assume Joseph Kerr named his one son
Andrew J. Kerr after his brother, Andrew Jackson Kerr.
14) Guardians were appointed in 1855 to care for the minor children of Samuel
Kerr, deceased. Those children were Russell T. Kerr, John C. Kerr, Elizabeth S. Kerr,
Matilda M. Kerr, Joseph F. Kerr and Rachael Ann Kerr.(Illinois Wills and Probate
Records, 1772-1999, Samuel Kerr, Probate Date: 4 Oct 1852, Champaign, Illinois, Case
#104, Packets No., 102-149, 1852-1855. Cover Page 1, Order Papers 2-9, Account Papers
10-14, Sales Paper 15-18, Account Papers 19-23)
15) The Biography of Russell T. Kerr states: "The paternal ancestors of Mr. Kerr
were originally from Scotland, and a paternal granduncle served as a soldier in the
Revolutionary War until its close and was afterward a member of the United States
Senate."(Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas
(Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1890), pp. 44-5, Biography of Russell T. Kerr.) The
previous statement refers to Lt. John Kerr of Chambersburg/Kerrtown, Pennsylvania,
during the American Revolution and to General and United States Senator Joseph Kerr
of Ohio, son of Lt. John Kerr and brother of Samuel Kerr, Sr.(George P. Carrel and Marie
Dickore, General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio: "Ohio's lost senator," (Oxford, Ohio: The
Oxford Press, 1941)) General and United States Senator Joseph Kerr of Ohio would have
been Russell T. Kerr's grandfather's brother, a granduncle. However, Lt. John Kerr of the
American Revolution would have been Russell T. Kerr's great-grandfather.
CONCLUSION
The Foster, Chenoweth, and Kerr families were closely related in Franklin Co,
OH. There is substantial evidence that between 1824 and 1830, Benjamin Foster; his
nephews - Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth; and three of his wards -- Orson Kerr/Carr,
Andrew Jackson Kerr, and Nancy Kerr/Carr; moved to Fountain Co, IN. The strong
connection between the Davison, Chenoweth, and Kerr families is sufficient to conclude
Joseph Kerr, husband of Jane Davison and brother-in-law of James Davison and his
wife Ruth Chenoweth, must be the son of Samuel Kerr, Sr. who died in 1823 in Franklin
Co., OH.
Joseph Kerr of Vermilion Co., IL, husband of Jane Davison, was a brother of
Samuel Kerr Junior of Champaign Co., IL. The biography of Russell T. Kerr, son of
Samuel Kerr Junior, gives adequate proof that Samuel Kerr Junior had an ancestor in the
American Revolution and an uncle who was a United States Senator. The American
Revolution ancestor was Lt. John Kerr of Chambersburg/Kerrtown, PA, and the uncle
was United States Senator Joseph Kerr of Ohio, the son of Lt. John Kerr and the brother
of Samuel Kerr Senior.
REFERENCES for APPENDIX A

(1) The 08 October 1823 estate records of Samuel Kerr of Franklin County, Ohio.
Abstracted Base Files 1805 1831 from Franklin County, Ohio Court Records with Geneaalogical
Notes, compiled by Blanche Tipton Rings and Mrs. Francis Herbert Obetz edited by
Margaret Hiles Scott. Copyright 1932. The Franklin County Genealogical Society, a
chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society. No. 0422, 8 Oct 1823, Kerr, Samuel Decd.
Joseph Kerr, age 16 years. Index to Administrators, Executors, Assignees and Trustees,
Case No. 422, year 1823, Kerr, Samuel Est., Administration Docket Vol. 1, Page 191.
(2) Abstracted Base Files 1805 1831 from Franklin County, Ohio Court Records, edited by
Margaret Hiles Scott, "Guardianship 1824 - Benjamin FOSTER, Elijah CHENOWETH and
Samuel DYER appointed guardians."
(3) S.A.R. Supplemental Ancestor Certificate for Curtis L. Older, descendant of John Kerr,
approved Nov. 4, 2015. "Proof Summary that Nancy Carr (Gen 6) is the daughter of
Samuel Kerr (Gen 7) of Franklin, OH."
(4) 1830 Fountain Co., IN, census, Benjamin Foster household, 1 male age 5 thru 9, 1 male
age 15 thru 19, 1 male age 40 thru 49, 1 female age 10 thru 14, 1 female age 20 thru 29, 1
female age 40 thru 49, total free white persons - 6.
(5) Findagrave.com, Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL, Joseph Kerr, birth:
Apr. 1, 1807, death: Feb. 12, 1872. Find A Grave Memorial #58427332. No tombstone
picture available. Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL. "This cemetery is
located in the old village of Myersville. Named for Jacob Gundy, a soldier of the
American Revolutionary War. They cemetery is also sometimes referred to as Davison
Cemetery, for Andrew Davison, a pioneer of 1827."
(6) Volume 8, Franklin County, Ohio, Record of Deeds, Recorder's Office, deed from
Joseph Kerr of Vermillion County, Indiana, to John Chenoweth of Franklin County, Ohio,
dated 6 September 1828.
(7) Bureau of Land Management, Joseph Kerr, 1 December 1830, Township 21 North,
Range 12 West, Section 24, West Half Northeast Quarter, Vermilion Co., IL.
(8) Wikipedia, Vermilion County, Illinois. "The county was officially created on January
18, 1826 from a portion of Edgar County."
(9) Bureau of Land Management, Joseph Kerr, Vermilion Co., IL:
16 May 1831 - Township 21 N, Range 12 West, Section 13, W Half of SW Quarter;

16 Mar 1837 - Township 21 N, Range 12 West, Section 13, SE Quarter of SW Quarter; 01
Apr 1837 - Township 21 N, Range 11 West, Section 17, NW Quarter of SW Quarter; 01
Nov 1839 - Township 21 N, Range 12 West, Section 24, NW Quarter of SW Quarter.
(10) Illinois Marriages to 1850, Joseph Kerr, Jane Davison, 11 March 1830, Vermilion Co.,
IL.
(11) Findagrave.com, Jane Kerr, birth 25 June 1809, death 6 September 1870, Gundy
Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL, Find A Grave Memorial #58427354. No
tombstone picture available.
(12) Jack Moore Williams, History of Vermilion County Illinois, 2 vols., (Topeka -
Indianapolis, Historical Publishing Company, 1930), 1:295.
(13) Bureau of Land Management, 5 November 1830, Andrew Davison of Vermillion

County, Indiana, Township 21 North, Range 11 West, Section 7, East Half Southeast
Quarter Vermilion Co., Illinois.
(14) Findagrave.com, James Davidson, Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL,
date of birth 3 June 1805, Find A Grave Memorial #42448385, No tombstone shown.
(15) Ohio Marriages, 1789 - 1898, original image: #1074, 1828, James Davidson to Ruth
Chenoweth, April 3d Anno Domini, Samuel I. Shaw; Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, James
Davidson, Ruth Chenoweth, 03 April 1828, Franklin, OH.
(16) Will of Elijah Chenoweth, 12 June 1762 to 05 December 1828, Franklin Co., OH, will
dated 21 July 21 1828, filed 7 April 1829, "to my daughter Ruth Davidson one hundred
dollars to be had 4 years after my decease;" Findagrave.com, Ruth Chenoweth Davison,
Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL, Parents Elijah Chenoweth and Rachel
Foster, Spouse James Davidson, Find A Grave Memorial #42448546, Tombstone picture
shown.
(17) 1830 Vermilion Co., IL, federal census, James Davison household.
(18) Findagrave.com, James Davison, death 3 January 1875 in Vermilion Co., IL, burial
Gundy Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL, Find A Grave Memorial #58433236.
(19) Bureau of Land Management, Joseph Kerr and James Davison, 16 May 1831,
Vermilion Co., IL, Township 21 North, Range 11 West, Section 19, East Half of Southeast
Quarter.
(20) Findagrave.com, Samuel Kerr, Jr., Birth: Feb 13, 1812, Franklin Co., OH, Champaign
Co., IL, Tomlinson Cemetery, Find A Grave Memorial #72189988, tombstone picture
shown.
(21) Bureau of Land Management, Samuel Kerr of Fountain County, Indiana, 16

September 1835, Champaign Co., Illinois, Township 22 North, Range 14 West, Section 6
- Northwest Quarter, Lot/Tract 1; Section 8 - East Half Southeast Quarter; Section 9 - West
Half Southwest Quarter.
(22) Findagrave.com, Samuel Kerr, Jr., Death: Jul 16, 1852, Champaign Co., IL, Tomlinson
Cemetery, Find A Grave Memorial #72189988, tombstone picture shown.
(23) Illinois Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999, Samuel Kerr, Probate Date: 4 Oct 1852,
Champaign, Illinois, Case #104, Packets No., 102-149, 1852-1855. Cover Page 1, Order
Papers 2-9, Account Papers 10-14, Sales Paper 15-18, Account Papers 19-23.
(24) Illinois Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999, Samuel Kerr, 4 Oct 1852, Champaign,
Illinois, Case Number 104, Packets No. 102-149, 1852-1855; Campaign County Probate
Court, Guardianship Case 284: In the Matter of the Guardianship of Joseph F. and Rachel
Ann Kerr, February 15, 1867.
Illinois, Case Number 104, Packets No. 102-149, 1852-1855.
(26) 1860 Champaign Co., IL, census, Caleb Evertson household. Township 21 North,
Ranges 11 East and 14 West, Champaign Co., IL. Post Office Point Pleasant. Caleb
Evertson age 61 born in PA, Mary Evertson age 55 born in OH, John Carr age 19 born in
IL.
(27) Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas
(Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1890), pp. 44-5, Biography of Russell T. Kerr.
(28) George P. Carrel and Marie Dickore, General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio: "Ohio's
lost senator," (Oxford, Ohio: The Oxford Press, 1941).
Illinois, Case Number 104, Packets No. 102-149, 1852-1855. "The undersigned widow of
Samuel Kerr Decd, late of Champaign Co., Ill. hereby resign my right to Administator on
the estate of said Decd and request that Joseph Kerr, the brother of the Decd, may be
appointed Administrator of said estate. (Signed) Betsy Ann Kerr, Aug. 5, 1852."
(30) Joseph Kerr owned land in Township 21 North, Range 12 West. Samuel Kerr owned
land in Township 22 North, Range 14 West. A Township is six miles, north to south. A
range is six miles, east to west.
Illinois, Case Number 104, Packets No. 102-149, 1852-1855.
(32) Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947, Andrew Kerr, birth date 20 Jul 1833, death
date 13 Jul 1919, death place Catlin, Vermilion, IL, burial date 13 July 1919, Cemetery
name - Davidson, death age 85, occupation farmer, race white, marital status M, gender
male, residence Catlin, Vermilion, IL, father name Joseph Kerr, father place of birth Ohio,
mother name Jane Davison, mother place of birth Ohio, FHL Film Number 1562101.
(33) Findagrave.com, Andrew J. Kerr, birth Jul. 2, 1833, death Jul. 13, 1919 Illinois, Gundy
Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion Co., IL. No tombstone shown. However, the tombstone
of his wife, Mary Elizabeth Brown, indicates "wife of A. J. Kerr," Gundy Cemetery, Find
A Grave Memorial #40564000.
APPENDIX B
Documentation for Samuel Kerr Junior,

son of Samuel Kerr / Carr Senior
(13 February 1812 to 16 July 1852)
Samuel Kerr/Carr Junior was the son of Samuel and Nancy Kerr / Carr Senior of
Franklin County, Ohio.(1) His father, Samuel Kerr / Carr Senior was a son of Lt. John
Kerr / Carr and his wife, Mary Dougherty Kerr / Carr, of Cumberland/Franklin
County, Pennsylvania.(2)
Samuel Kerr Junior was 9 years of age according to the 1823 estate papers of his
father, Samuel Kerr Senior.(3) He was born 13 April 1812 in Franklin Co., Ohio, and he
died 16 July 1852 in Champaign Co., IL., aged 40 years, 3 months, 3 days.(4) He was
buried in Tomlinson Prairie Cemetery, Champaign Co., Illinois.(5)
Samuel Jr. married (Elizabeth) Betsy Ann Taylor on 19 October 1837 in Warren
County, Indiana.(6) She was the daughter of John Clark Taylor and Rachel C. Cole.(7)
Elizabeth Betsy Ann Taylor was born 15 January 1820 in Fleming, Kentucky.(8)
John Clark Taylor was born 18 January 1775 in Richmond or Hampshire Co.,
VA.(9) He was the son of Tarpley Taylor and Siball "Libbie" Clark.(10) John Clark
Taylor was elected twice to the House of Representatives, Fleming Co., KY.(11) He
moved to Kent Township in Warren Co., IN, about 1828.(12) He was a Justice of the
Peace in Warren County between 1836 and 1838.(13)
John Clark Taylor married Rachel C. Cole on 12 March 1798 in Mason,
Kentucky.(14) She was the daughter of Joseph Cole and Elizabeth Beeson.(15) She was
born 22 March 1782 in Virginia and she died 27 July 1838 in Warren Co., IN.(16) She
was buried at the (New) Gopher Hill Cemetery east of State Line, IN.(17) John died 16
September 1838 in Mound Township, Warren Co., IN.(18) He was buried in the (New)
Gopher Hill Cemetery.
John Taylor of Fleming County, Kentucky, acquired 80 acres of land in Warren
County, IN, on 2 November 1831.(19) This land was in Township 20 North, Range 9
West, Section 19. John Taylor of Warren Co., IN, also acquired 80 acres on 2 November
1831 in Township 20 North, Range 9 West, Section 18, Warren Co.(20) John Taylor and
William F. Taylor acquired 80 acres of land on 10 July 1832 in Township 20 North and
Range 9 West, Section 17, Warren Co.(21)
Samuel Kerr/Carr Jr., son of Samuel and Nancy Kerr/Carr Sr. of Franklin
County, Ohio, should have been 21 years old, no longer a minor, in 1835. According to
land patents, Samuel Kerr of Fountain County, Indiana, purchased three tracts of land
in the northeast corner of present-day Champaign Co., Illinois, on 16 September
1835.(22) These three tracts were in Township 22 North, Range 14 West:
Section 6 - Northwest Quarter, Lot/Tract 1
Section 8 - East Half of Southeast Quarter
Section 9 - West Half of Southwest Quarter
The above land was measured from the 2nd Principal Meridian in Indiana and not from
the 3rd Principal Meridian in Illinois.
Samuel Kerr of Vermilion Co., IL, purchased a fourth tract in Champaign Co. on
1 November 1839, also in Township 22 North, Range 14 West: Section 9, the Southeast
Quarter of the Southwest Quarter.(23) Samuel Kerr of Champaign Co., IL, purchased a
fifth tract in Champaign Co. on 10 May 1848, also in Township 22 North, Range 14
West: Section 8, the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter.(24)
The children of Samuel Kerr / Carr Junior and Elizabeth Betsy Ann Taylor Kerr
were: (25)
1) Russell T. (Taylor) Kerr, born 2 March 1841 in Champaign Co., IL, married
Frances J. Lamb. She was born in Fountain Co., IN, on 31 October 1847. He died 20 July
1911 in Hollenberg, Washington, KS.
2) John C. (Clark) Kerr, resident of Vermilion Co., IL, born 29 September 1841 in
Champaign Co., IL, married 21 March 1862 in Ford Co., IL, to Rachel Ann (Rebecca)
Smith. He died 15 December 1924 in Danville, Vermilion Co., IL. An obituary for him
does exist.
3) Elizabeth Kerr, the wife of Jacob Jones, Vermilion Co., IL. She was born 25
October 1844 in Champaign Co., IL, and died 31 March 1905 in Illinois. She was buried
at the Rankin Union Cemetery in Rankin, Vermilion Co., IL.
4) Matilda Kerr, the wife of Jonathan Jones, lived in Vermilion Co., IL. She was
born 23 January 1848 and died 4 December 1932. Buried at the Partlow Cemetery,
Armstrong, Vermilion Co., IL.
5) Joseph F. Kerr was born 27 August 1849 in Kerr Township, Champaign Co., IL,
and died there on 27 August 1918. John F. Kerr was married 18 February 1869 in Ford
Co., IL, to Emma Bradshaw. She was born in 1852 and died in 1940. He died 30 August
1918 in Kerr Township, Champaign Co., IL, and is buried at Rankin Union Cemetery,
Rankin, Vermilion Co., IL.
6) Rachel Ann Kerr, the wife of Prince Evans, lived in southern Kansas. She was
born in January 1852 in Champaign Co., IL. She died in March 1929 at Grady Co., OK,
and is buried at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Chickasha, Grady Co., OK, Block 7, Lot 1.
A History of Champaign County tells us that: "Samuel Kerr, reputed to have been
the first person to become a permanent resident of the northeaster township of
Champaign County -- and from whom the township received its name -- in the year
1833 entered land in Section 9, in what has since been known as 'Sugar Grove,' an
aggregation of fine timber which grew up under the protection of the Middle Fork of
the Vermilion River, which makes a cut across the northeast corner of this county. Here
he lived and died -- with the exception of a very few others who also ventured so far
away -- alone in the great waste of timber and prairie which lay unclaimed around
him."(26)
A biography of the oldest child of Samuel and Betsy Kerr Junior tells us
something about the Samuel and Betsy Kerr family. "He is the offspring of an excellent
family, being the son of Samuel and Betsy Ann (Taylor) Kerr, who were natives
respectively of Ohio and Kentucky. Both parents removed to Indiana in their youth and
in that State were married. In 1836 they settled in Champaign County, Ill., and were
among its earliest pioneers, taking up land from which the Indians had just departed.
Upon the north and west of them there was not a settler for twenty miles. Deer, wolves
and various other kinds of wild animals were plentiful. The elder Kerr entered 500 acres
of land from the government and when his township was organized, it was named in
his honor . . . The paternal ancestors of Mr. Kerr were originally from Scotland, and a
paternal granduncle served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War until its close and was
afterward a member of the United States Senate. On his mother's side Grandfather John
Taylor, was a second cousin of President Zachary Taylor, and a member of the
Kentucky Legislature."(27)
The above statement appears to refer to Lt. John Kerr of
Chambersburg/Kerrstown, Cumberland/Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the
American Revolution and to General and United States Senator Joseph Kerr of Ohio, a
son of Lt. John Kerr and a brother of Samuel Kerr, Sr.(28) General and United States
Senator Joseph Kerr of Ohio would have been Russell T. Kerr's grandfather's brother, a
great uncle. However, Lt. John Kerr would have been Russell T. Kerr's great-
grandfather.(29)
We have not found a record that indicates a middle name for Joseph F. Kerr, son
of Samuel and Betsy, but there is some indication the "F" stood for Foster. Joseph F. Kerr
and Emma Z. J. Bradshaw were the parents of a Joseph Foster Kerr who was born 11
December 1873 in Kerr Township, Champaign Co., IL. Joseph Foster Kerr married Cora
A. McHaley on 7 May 1894 in Ford Co., IL. The will of Joseph F. Kerr, the son of Samuel
Kerr, Jr., of Kerr Township, Champaign Co., IL, was signed 15 March 1915 and was filed
9 September 1918. The will identifies the three children of Joseph F. Kerr and Emma
Bradshaw as Nancy Belle Strayer, Rosa Lee McIntosh, and Joseph Foster Kerr. The will
was signed "Joseph F. Kerr." It seems likely the son of Samuel and Betsy Kerr, Jr. was
also named Joseph Foster Kerr.
A possible link has been found to the names given to Russell Taylor Kerr and
Joseph F. Kerr, two sons of Samuel and Betsy Taylor Kerr, Jr. This link goes through a
Joseph Foster who settled in Warren Co., IN, where Samuel Kerr, Jr., and his wife, Betsy
Ann Taylor, were married.
Joseph Foster was born 23 March 1795 in Maryland and died 17 April 1866 in
Warren Co., Indiana.(30) Joseph Foster of Clark Co., Ohio, purchased four tracts of land
in Warren Co., Indiana, on 5 October 1826, in Township 20 North, Range 9 West,
Sections 30 and 31.(31) Joseph Foster of Warren Co., IN, purchased four more tracts on 3
January 1831, all in township 20 North, Range 9 West, Warren Co., IN.(32)
Joseph was a son of Thomas Foster and Mary Prather.(33) Thomas Foster was a
brother of Benjamin Foster who was appointed a guardian for the children of Samuel
Kerr.(34) Joseph married Mary Elizabeth Russell (1797 - 2 January 1861) in Pike County,
Ohio, on 13 June 1830.(35) She was born in 1797 and died 3 January 1861 in Warren Co.,
IN.(36) Both are buried at the Foster Cemetery in Warren Co., IN.(37)
Samuel Kerr probably met Betsy Ann Taylor when 1) Samuel Jr. lived at the
Joseph Foster home or 2) Samuel Jr. visited the Joseph Foster home in Warren Co. John
Taylor's land in Section 19 was the West Half of the Northeast Quarter. This land was
within about a mile distance of land owned by Joseph Foster in Section 30 which was in
the East Half of the Southeast Quarter. Section 19 was adjacent Section 30.
It seems reasonable to believe the first son of Samuel Kerr, Jr. was named Russell
for the maiden name of Joseph Foster's wife and was named Taylor for the maiden
name of Samuel's wife. It also is reasonable to believe Joseph F. Kerr, son of Samuel
Kerr, Jr., was named after Joseph Foster of Warren Co., IN, where Samuel Kerr, Jr. met
his wife, Betsy.
William Chenoweth signed a document, part of the probate records of the
Samuel Kerr estate, in which he states that "Samuel Kerr late of said county departed
this life on or about the 16th day of July last and that he died intestate as he verily
believes and further saith not."(38) The document was dated 6 August 1852.
Guardians were appointed in 1855 to care for the minor children of Samuel Kerr,
deceased. Those children were Russell T. Kerr, John C. Kerr, Elizabeth S. Kerr, Matilda
M. Kerr, Joseph F. Kerr and Rachael Ann Kerr.(39) The guardians appointed were:
Absalom H. Wood, Caleb P. Evertson, Edward Edwardly, and Lindsey Corbly.(40)
Absalom Wood purchased land in Township 22 North, Range 14 West, Section
19 and 20 on 20 January 1851.(41) Caleb Evertson purchased land in Township 22
North, Range 14 West, Section 33, on 2 January 1854.(42) Lindsey Corbly purchased
land in Township 22 North, Range 14 West, Section 17, on 1 October 1856.(43) All of
these individuals lived fairly close to Samuel and Betsy Kerr, Jr.
Kerr Township in Champaign Co. was named after Samuel Kerr Junior.(44) Kerr
Township is in the extreme north-east corner of the county, and occupies Township 22
North, Range 14 West, 2nd Principal Meridian and Township 22 North, Range 11 East,
3rd Principal Meridian.(45)
The 1840 Illinois, Champaign Co., census lists Samuel Kerr, 1 male age 20 - 30;
one male under age 5; one female age 20 - 30; one female age 5 - 10.(46) The 1850 census
for District 21, Champaign County, Illinois, listed the Samuel Kerr Junior family as
follows: Samuel, age 38, farmer, real estate $7,000, born in Ohio; Betsey, age 31, born in
Kentucky; Russel, age 11, born in Illinois; John, age 9, born in Illinois; Elizth, age 6, born
in Illinois; Matilda, age 2, born in Illinois; and Joseph, age 1, born in Illinois.(47)
Betsy Taylor Kerr remarried on 28 February 1856 in Danville, Vermilion Co.,
Illinois, to Daniel Allhands.(48) Betsy Ann Taylor Kerr Allhands must have died prior
to 1860 as indicated by the Biography of Russell Kerr and by the fact that Daniel Allhands
married an Elizabeth Wilson in early 1860.(48)
Russell Kerr, age, 21, a son of Samuel and Betsy Kerr Junior, is included in the
Daniel and Elizabeth Wilson Allhands family census of 1860.(50) Elizabeth is listed as
having been born in Ohio. We know this is not Elizabeth Betsy Ann Taylor Kerr since 1)
Betsy was born in Kentucky; 2)went by Betsy, not Elizabeth, in the 1850 census; and her
son, Russell, indicated she died not long after her husband, Samuel.

SAMUEL KERR / CARR SR and his son SAMUEL KERR / CARR JR
1) The 08 October 1823 estate records for Samuel Kerr of Franklin Co., OH, lists
his minor children as Orson (age 18), Joseph (age 16), Nancy (age 14), Clarissa (age 11),
Samuel (age 9), Robert (age 8), Elijah (age 6), and Jackson (age 4). Benjamin Foster,
Elijah Chenowith, and Samuel Dyer were appointed guardians for the minor Kerr
children in 1824.
daughter of John Foster of MD, and died in Franklin Co, OH, on 05 December 1828.
3) The will of Elijah Chenoweth names among his heirs, sons Thomas, Joseph,
John F., youngest son Elijah Chenoweth, and daughter Ruth Davidson. (Franklin Co,
OH will book A, page 196, dated 21 July 1828, probated 7 April 1829)
4) James Davison married Ruth Chenoweth, daughter of Elijah Chenoweth, on 3

April 1828 at Pleasant Township, Franklin Co., OH. (Ohio Marriages, 1789 - 1898, original
image: #1074, 1828, James Davidson to Ruth Chenoweth, April 3d Anno Domini, Samuel
Shaw. Also see History of Vermilion County, Illinois by Lottie E. Jones, published in 1911,
Biography of Andrew Davidson, father of James Davison.)
5) Joseph Kerr married Jane Davison on 11 March 1830 in Vermilion Co., IL.
(Illinois Marriages to 1850, Joseph Kerr, Jane Davison, 11 March 1830, Vermilion Co., IL)
6) The Davisons came to Illinois from Franklin Co., Ohio by way of Indiana.(Jack
Moore Williams, History of Vermilion County Illinois, 2 vols., (Topeka - Indianapolis,
Historical Publishing Company, 1930), 1:295) They settled in Vermillion Co., IN, for a
brief period before moving to Vermilion Co., IL.(Bureau of Land Management, 5
November 1830, Andrew Davison of Vermillion County, Indiana, Township 21 North,
Range 11 West, Section 7, East Half Southeast Quarter Vermilion Co., Illinois) Andrew
Davison of Vermillion Co., IN, first bought land in Vermilion Co., IL, on 5 November
1830. This land was in Township 21 North, Range 11 West.(History of Vermilion County,
Illinois by Lottie E. Jones, published in 1911, Biography of Andrew Davidson, father of James
Davison.)
7) The S. A. R. Supplemental Ancestor Certificate of Curtis L. Older, descendant

of John Kerr, approved 4 November 2015 supports the conclusion that Nancy Kerr, Orson
Kerr, and Andrew Jackson Kerr, minor children of Samuel Kerr, Sr. of Franklin Co., OH,
came to the western Indiana counties of Fountain and Vermillion in the 1820s with
Benjamin Foster, a guardian appointed for the Kerr minor children.
8) Joseph Kerr of Vermillion Co., IN, purchased 80 acres of land on 1 December

1830 in Vermilion Co., IL.(Bureau of Land Management, Joseph Kerr, 1 December 1830,
Township 21 North, Range 12 West, West Half of Northeast Quarter, Section 24,
Vermilion Co., IL.)
9) Joseph Kerr and James Davison of Vermilion Co., IL, purchased 80 acres of land
on 8 December 1830 in Vermilion Co., IL.(5) This land was in Township 21 North, Range
11 West.
10) Samuel Kerr of Fountain Co., IN, purchased land in Township 22 North,
Range 14 West, Champaign Co., IL, on 16 September 1835. This land was within 12
miles of land owned by his brother, Joseph Kerr.
11) Joseph Kerr was appointed Administrator for the estate of Samuel Kerr, Jr.
who died 16 July 1852 in Champaign Co., IL.(Samuel Kerr Probate Records, Champaign,
Illinois, 4 October 1852, Case Number 104, widow's request to have Joseph Kerr
appointed administrator. "The undersigned widow of Samuel Kerr Decd, late of
Champaign Co. Ill, hereby resign my right to administrator on the estate of said decd,
and request that Joseph Kerr, the brother of the Decd, may be appointed Administrator
of said estate. Betsy Ann Kerr Aug. 5, 1852")
12) An O. Kerr, an A. J. Kerr, and an Andrew Kerr purchased several items at the
Samuel Kerr, Jr., estate sale. We assume that O. Kerr was Orson Kerr, brother of Samuel
Kerr, Jr. and Joseph Kerr. Joseph Kerr and Jane Davison Kerr had a son named Andrew
J. Kerr who was born 2 July 1833 and who died 13 July 1919. The A. J. Kerr of the estate
sale could have been Andrew Jackson Kerr, brother of Samuel Kerr, Jr., or he could have
been the son of Joseph Kerr. We assume Joseph Kerr named his one son Andrew J. Kerr
after his brother, Andrew Jackson Kerr.
13) Guardians were appointed in 1855 to care for the minor children of Samuel
Kerr, deceased. Those children were Russell T. Kerr, John C. Kerr, Elizabeth S. Kerr,
Matilda M. Kerr, Joseph F. Kerr and Rachael Ann Kerr.(Illinois Wills and Probate
Records, 1772-1999, Samuel Kerr, Probate Date: 4 Oct 1852, Champaign, Illinois, Case
#104, Packets No., 102-149, 1852-1855. Cover Page 1, Order Papers 2-9, Account Papers
10-14, Sales Paper 15-18, Account Papers 19-23)
14) The Biography of Russell T. Kerr states: "The paternal ancestors of Mr. Kerr
were originally from Scotland, and a paternal granduncle served as a soldier in the
Senate."(Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas
(Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1890), pp. 44-5, Biography of Russell T. Kerr.) The
previous statement refers to Lt. John Kerr of Chambersburg/Kerrtown, Pennsylvania,
during the American Revolution and to General and United States Senator Joseph Kerr
of Ohio, son of Lt. John Kerr and brother of Samuel Kerr, Sr.(George P. Carrel and Marie
Dickore, General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio: "Ohio's lost senator," (Oxford, Ohio: The
Oxford Press, 1941)) General and United States Senator Joseph Kerr of Ohio would have
been Russell T. Kerr's grandfather's brother, a granduncle. However, Lt. John Kerr of the
American Revolution would have been Russell T. Kerr's great-grandfather.
CONCLUSION
Samuel Kerr Junior of Champaign Co., IL, husband Betsy Taylor, was a brother
of Joseph Kerr of Vermilion Co., IL, as indicated in the probate papers, Case #104, of
Samuel Kerr Junior. The biography of Russell T. Kerr, son of Samuel Kerr Junior, gives
adequate proof that Samuel Kerr Junior had an ancestor in the American Revolution
and an uncle who was a United States Senator. The American Revolution ancestor was
Lt. John Kerr of Chambersburg / Kerrstown, PA, and the uncle was United States
Senator Joseph Kerr of Ohio, the brother of Samuel Kerr Junior's father, Samuel Kerr
Senior. Samuel Kerr Junior must have been a son of Samuel Kerr Senior.
REFERENCES for APPENDIX B
Samuel - Decd., 8 Oct 1823. The estate records for Samuel Kerr of Franklin Co., OH,
list his minor children as Orson (age 18), Joseph (age 16), Nancy (age 14), Clarissa
(age 11), Samuel (age 9), Robert (age 8), Elijah (age 6), and Jackson (age 4). Benjamin
Foster, Elijah Chenowith, and Samuel Dyer were appointed guardians for the minor
Kerr children in 1824; see Sons of the American Revolution Supplemental Ancestor
Certificate for Curtis L. Older, descendant of John Kerr, approved November 4, 2015.
The line of descent from John Kerr goes through his son Samuel and then through
Samuel's daughter, Nancy. The documentation for the Certificate provides conclusive
evidence Nancy Kerr/Carr, who married Thomas Gouty in 1830 in Vermillion Co.,
Indiana, was the Nancy listed in the 1823 Samuel Kerr/Carr estate papers in Franklin
Co., Ohio. Orson Kerr/Carr, brother of Nancy and son of Samuel, bought land adjacent
Thomas Gouty and Nancy Kerr/Carr Gouty in Highland Township, Vermillion Co.,
Indiana. Orson later moved to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, as also did Jackson Kerr
who was listed in the 1823 estate papers. Nancy's brother Joseph lived briefly in
Vermillion Co., Indiana, as well. As documented in this article, Samuel Junior also lived
for a short period of time in Vermillion County, Indiana. Benjamin Foster, one of the
guardians listed in the 1823 Samuel Kerr/Carr estate papers moved to Fountain Co.,
Indiana, adjacent Vermillion Co., in 1826. See Older Family Tree on Ancestry.com for
information about the children of Samuel Kerr/Carr Senior.
(2) Will of John Kerr, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Will Book "B", page 331, #918,
made 25 August 1807 and probated 21 October 1807; Will of Mary Kerr, Franklin
County, Pennsylvania, Will Book C, page 420, #1583, made 13 December 1809 and
probated 02 April 1815; Edythe T. Kahn, John and Christiana Nisewanger Kerr, Jr., Their
Ancestry and Descendants, 1745-1991 (LaSalle, MI: E. T. Kahn, 1991), 17, which includes
the text of a letter written by John Kerr, Jr, January 20, 1851, to his grandson, Augustus
Pomeroy Kerr, which states, "my second brother and his wife died about 26 years ago
on Big Darby 10 miles west of Columbus. He left a large family of which I know
nothing."; Marie Dickore, ed., General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio, "Ohio's Lost Senator"
(The Oxford Press, Oxford, OH, 1941), 43; Sons of the American Revolution
Supplemental Ancestor Certificate for Curtis L. Older, descendant of John Kerr, through
his son Samuel, approved November 4, 2015; Curtis Lynn Older, John Kerr, Founder of
Kerrstown and Soldier in the American Revolution, A Journal of Franklin County History,
Volume XXVIII, 2016, Franklin County Historical Society - Kiottochtinny.
Samuel - Decd., 8 Oct 1823. The papers list as a son, Samuel, age 9.
(4) Findagrave.com, Memorial #72189988, Tomlinson Cemetery, Champaign County,

Illinois, tombstone reads: "Samuel Kerr, died July 16, 1852, aged 40 Ys, 5 Ms, 3 Ds".
(5) Findagrave.com, Memorial #72189988, Tomlinson Cemetery, Champaign County,

Illinois.
(6) Indiana Marriages to 1850, Betsey Ann Taylor, Samuel Kerr, 19 Oct 1837, Warren
County, Indiana.
(7) Ancestry.com family trees.
(14) Kentucky Compiles Marriages, 1802-1850, John Taylor, 12 Mar 1798, Mason,
Kentucky, USA, Rachie Cole.
(15) Find A Grave Memorial# 72189988.
(16) Find A Grave Memorial# 72189988.
(17) The (New) Gopher Hill Cemetery, where John Clark Taylor is buried, is located
near W 950 S on S 1000 W in Warren County, IN. The Old Gopher Hill Cemetery is
located about 1 mile north of the intersection of 1100 S and 1000 W, southeast of State
Line, IN.
(18) Findagrave.com, Memorial #7436778, John Clark Taylor Sr., 16 Sep 1838, Gopher
Hill Cemetery, near State Line, Warren County, IN. Tombstone indicates, "aged 63 years
7 months and 28 days".
(19) Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, John Taylor of Fleming
County, Kentucky, acquired 80 acres of land in Warren County, IN, on 2 November
1831.
(20) Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, John Taylor of Warren
Co., IN, also acquired 80 acres on 2 November 1831 in Township 20 North, Range 9
West, Section 18, Warren Co.
(21) Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, John Taylor and
William F. Taylor acquired 80 acres of land on 10 July 1832 in Township 20 North and
Range 9 West, Section 17, Warren Co.
(22) Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records.

(25) This listing is taken from various sources. Some of the information has not been
traced to primary source records and therefore some information may be incorrect.
Some of the information is from Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and
Riley Counties, Kansas (Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1890), pp. 44-5, Biography of
Russell T. Kerr.
(26) Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Champaign County, Chicago: Munsell
Pub. Co., 1905, page 686.
(27) Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas
(Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1890), pp. 44-5, Biography of Russell T. Kerr.
(28) George P. Carrel and Marie Dickore, General Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio: "Ohio's
Lost Senator," (Oxford, Ohio: The Oxford Press, 1941).
(29) Curtis Lynn Older, John Kerr, Founder of Kerrstown and Soldier in the American
Revolution, A Journal of Franklin County History, Volume XXVIII, 2016, Franklin
County Historical Society - Kiottochtinny.
(30) Dixon or Foster Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana, tombstone inscriptions.

Located in the east half of Section 31, Range 9 West, Township 20 North. Joseph Foster,
died 17 April 1866, 71 years, 24 days.
(33) Ancestry.com, family trees.
(34) Ancestry.com, family trees; see Sons of the American Revolution Supplemental
Ancestor Certificate for Curtis L. Older, descendant of John Kerr, approved November
4, 2015.
(37) Dixon or Foster Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana, tombstone inscriptions.

Located in the east half of Section 31, Range 9 West, Township 20 North. Joseph Foster,
died 17 April 1866, 71 years, 24 days.
(38) Illinois Wills and Probate Records, 1772 - 1999, Ancestry.com, Samuel Kerr, Probate
Date: 4 Oct 1852; Probate Place: Champaign, Illinois, USA; Inferred Death Year: Abt
1852; Inferred Death Place: Illinois, USA; Case Number: 104; Item Description: Packets,
No. 102-149, 1852-1855, 23 images.
Also see, 22 September 1857, Champaign County official record, Probate Court
Guardianship Case 105: In the Matter of the Guardianship of Russell, John, Elizabeth,
Matilda, Joseph F., and Rachel Ann Kerr.
Also see, Champaign County Probate Court Guardianship Case 284: In the Matter of
the Guardianship of Joseph F. and Rachel Ann Kerr. Dated February 15, 1867. Other
names in the file were Samuel Kerr, their father, and Jesse Piles, possibly their guardian.
Also see, 1925 - Title: CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT CHANCERY CASE
7353. Bill to Quiet Title. Name(s): Kerr, Elizabeth; Kerr, Joseph Foster; Kerr, Russell T.,
Kerr, Samuel.
No. 102-149, 1852-1855, 23 images.
No. 102-149, 1852-1855, 23 images.
(44) History of Kerr, IL, J. S. Lothrop's Champaign County Directory With History of the same,
and Each Township, Therein, Published by: Rand, McNally & Co., Printers & Binders,
Chicago 1871: KERR TOWNSHIP.
(45) Historic Map Works, Kerr Township, Published by Geo. A. Ogle and Co., in 1893.
(46) 1840 Illinois, Champaign Co., census.
(47) 1850 Illinois, Champaign Co., District 21, census.
(48) Illinois Marriage Index, 1851-1900, Daniel Allhands, Betsy Ann Kerr, 28 November
1856, Vermilion Co. This record is contained in County Court Records, Film #1298746-
1298749.
(49) Illinois County Marriages, 1800-1940, Daniel Awlhands, Elizabeth Wilson, 1860,
Champaign Co., Illinois, film number 000338048; Biography of son Russell: "He
(Samuel) improved the whole of his land and there spent the remainder of his days,
departing this life about 1852. The wife and mother survived her husband only about four
years."
(50) The 1860 census for Champaign Co., Illinois, Post Office - Point Pleasant, page 292,
inhabitants in Township 22 North, Range 11 East and 14 West, lists the following for the
Daniel Abhans family: Daniel Abhans, 43, Farmer, $4,600, $3,880, born OH; Elizabeth,
39, born OH; Elizabeth, 18, IL; Christian, 14; Marshall, 9; Perry, 7; Russell Kerr, 21, farm
laborer, IL.
Biography of Russell T. Kerr
A son of Samuel Kerr / Carr Junior

Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and Riley
counties, Kansas, - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM, pp. 44-
45.
"RUSSELL T. KERR, one of the leading citizens of Hollenberg and an extensive
dealer in grain and live stock, has been a resident of Washington County for a period of
twenty years and is thus identified with its most important interests. Energetic,
enterprising and industrious, he is one of those characters never satisfied when idle and
takes as much pride and interest in the advancement of his community as in the
prosperity of his own private affairs.
A native of Champaign County. Ill., the subject of this sketch was born March 2,
1811. He is the offspring of an excellent family, being the son of Samuel and Betsy Ann
(Taylor) Kerr, who were natives respectively of Ohio and Kentucky. Both parents
removed to Indiana in their youth and in that State were married. In 1836 they settled in
Champaign County, Ill., and were among its earliest pioneers, taking up land from
which the Indians had just departed. Upon the north and west of them there was not a
settler for twenty miles. Deer, wolves and various other kinds of wild animals were
plentiful. The elder Kerr entered 500 acres of land from the (government and when his
township was organized, it was named in his honor. He improved the whole of his land
and there spent the remainder of his days, departing this life about 1852. The wife and
mother survived her husband only about four years. Their family consisted of six
children of whom Russell T. was the eldest born. John C. is a resident of Vermillion
County, Ill. Elizabeth is the wife of Jacob Jones and Matilda married Jonathan Jones,
both being residents of Vermillion County, Ill; Joseph established himself on a farm in
Kerr Township, Champaign Co., Ill., where he now resides; Rachel Ann is the wife of
Prince Evans and they live in Southern Kansas.
Russell T. Kerr was reared to man's estate in his native county, but in the early
part of 1861, before reaching his majority and shortly after the outbreak of the Civil
War, he enlisted in Company I, 2d Illinois Cavalry in which he served over two years.
He was principally engaged as a scout, but fought at the battles of Vicksburg,
Champion Hill, Raymond. Jackson, Holly Springs, Bolivar, Pocahontas, and was also in
numerous skirmishes. He was uniformly found at the post of duty and was promoted
to Corporal. He served until the expiration of his term of enlistment and then receiving
an honorable discharge on account of disability returned to his native county and
resumed the farming pursuits to which he had been reared since boyhood. He also
commenced dealing in livestock. In due time, being ready to establish a home of his
own, he was married, Jan. 24, 1864 to Miss Frances J., daughter of Plina and Eunice
(Sawtell) Lamb. Mrs. Kerr was born in Fountain County, Ind., Oct. 31. 1847. Her parents
were natives of New England which they left early in life, removing each with their
respective parents to Indiana, where they were married. Later they removed to Illinois
and when Frances J. was a small child, changed their residence once more to
Champaign County, 111., where the father died and where the mother is still living.
Mr. Kerr, in 1869, came to Washington County. Kan., and entered land in
Franklin Township. In addition to the cultivation of this he engaged in breaking prairie
a number of years, operating five teams. He effected good improvements upon his land
and lived there until 1874 when he removed to Hollenberg and for two years was the
Station Agent at that town. He also established a store of general merchandise,
officiated as Postmaster, and dealt in grain. He was the first duly elected Trustee of
Hollenberg Township of which Franklin now forms a part. He put up the first
warehouse in the place, also the first hay scales and shipped the first car load of grain
from this point. Having no scales then for weighing that first load of grain it was
measured in a cheese hoop.
In addition to the interests above mentioned, Mr. Kerr also operated an hotel for
a number of years at Hollenberg, Later he abandoned it and for the last two years has
given his attention entirely to his grain and livestock interests. For a time he conducted
a lively real-estate business and has had the selling of nearly all the land in this part of
the county, having, as the record shows, made the largest list of transfers within its
limits. He also officiated as a Notary Public. Politically, during the progress of the Civil
War he supported the Republican party, but voted for Horace Greely in 1872. Since that
time he has been a third-party man and has frequently been selected as the candidate of
the minority party for the various county offices and was given large majorities at
home, his own township giving him 120 votes from a ballot numbering only a few more
than this. In religious matters, he coincides with the doctrines of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
To Mr. and Mrs. Kerr there have been born eight children the eldest of those now
surviving being a daughter, Lilly, who is the wife of John T. Lewis and the mother of
two children Verne A. and an infant unnamed. Samuel P. is living in Montana; Jennie
.M. is the wife of Sheridan Henderson and they have one child, a son, Guy. Ella K.,
James, Belle and Maiy are at home with their parents. The paternal ancestors of Mr.
Kerr were originally from Scotland, and a paternal granduncle served as a soldier in the
Senate. On his mother's side Grandfather John Taylor, was a second cousin of President
Zachary Taylor, and a member of the Kentucky Legislature.
On another page appears a fine engraving of the pleasant home of Mr. Kerr, to
which his amiable wife and accomplished daughters welcome their many friends with
good cheer and hearty hospitality."
ENDNOTES FOR VARIOUS APPENDICES THAT FOLLOW

(1) Will of John Foster, found in the Office of the Probate Judge, Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, signed 11 July 1799 and probated 11 February 1800.
(2) Page 166, Settlements of Estates, Abstracts of Franklin County, Ohio, Records, Mrs.
John M. Titus.
(3) Page 202, Settlements of Estates, Abstracts of Franklin County, Ohio, Records, Mrs.
John M. Titus.
(4) Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850, Benjamin Foster, marriage date 14 Feb 1798,
Catharine Prather, Allegany County.
(5) Dates from tombstone, Aug. 30, 1843, aged 68 y. 6 m. 19 d.
(6) Findagrave.
(7) Per tombstone, Ruppert (or Rob Roy) Cemetery, Attica, Fountain County, Indiana,
Oct. 11, 1844, aged 69 y. 5 m. 10 d.
Records website. Land office Crawfordsville; date 20 April 1826; Foster, Benjamin;
Fountain County, Indiana, 2nd principal meridian: (1) document number 3330, total
acres 80, township 21 north, range 7 west, E half SW quarter of section 10. (2) document
number 3331, total acres 80, township 21 north, range 7 west, W half NW quarter of
section 29. (3) document number 3332, total acres 80, township 21 north, range 7 west, E
half SE quarter of section 29. (4) document number 3333, total acres 80, township 21
north, range 7 west, W half SW quarter of section 28.
(9) 1830 U. S. Federal census, Indiana, Fountain County, Benjamin Foster.
(10) 1840 U. S. Federal census, Indiana, Fountain County, Benjamin Foster.
(11) Findagrave.
(12) Franklin Co. Pioneer Families Lineage applicants, Central Ohio Genealogical Notes
and Queries by Dr. Frank W. Garner. Columbus Sunday Journal and Dispatch
1933-1936. Franklin County Pioneer Settlers Memorial: The Ohio Genealogical
Quarterly July 1919.
(13) Ohio County Formation Maps -

http://www.familyhistory101.com/maps/oh_cf.html
Records website. Land office: Crawfordsville; Chenoweth, Thomas and Joseph;
document number 5885, 30 January 1828, total acres 80, township 19 north, range 9
west, E half SE quarter of section 17, Vermillion County, Indiana, 2nd principal
meridian.
(15) Biographical and historical record of Vermillion County, Indiana : containing portraits of
all the presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with accompanying
biographies of each; a condensed history of the state of Indiana; portraits and biographies of some
of the prominent men of the state; engravings of prominent citizens in Vermillion county, with
personal histories of many of the leading families, and a concise history of the county and its
villages (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1888), 211.
(16) Per tombstone of Cassandra Foster Chenoweth.
(17) Per tombstone.
(18) Per will of her father, John Foster.
(19) Findagrave.
(20) Thomas Chenoweth, Ohio, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-
1890, record type tax list, year 1808, mixed townships, Franklin County, page 007, OH
Early Census Index.
(21) Findagrave.
(22) Findagrave.
(23) Ohio Marriages, 1789-1898.
(24) Per granite monument at Lowe Cemetery, Perrysville, IN.
(25) Tombstones.
(26) Marriage.
(27) 1830 census, Vermillion County, Indiana.
(28) Biography of John Chenoweth; census.

(29) Estate papers of Samuel Kerr, 1823.
(30) Marriage record not found. Findagrave.
(31) Findagrave. Chenoweth Cemetery, Franklin County, Ohio.
(32) Marriage record not found. Findagrave.
(33) History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio, with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, Some of the Prominent Men and Pioneers, published by
Williams Bros., 1880, Biography of Joseph Chenoweth, page 438.
(34) Tombstone photo.
(35) Wills: Franklin Co., OH: dated July 21, 1828.
(36) Findagrave.
(37) "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch.Org, James Davidson and
Ruth Chenoweth, 03 Apr 1828; citing Franklin, Ohio, reference; FHL microfilm 0285142
V. 1-3.
APPENDIX C
Dual Spelling of the Family Last Name or Surname,

i.e., KERR / CARR
An article entitled John Kerr, Founder of Kerrstown and Soldier in the American
Revolution by Curtis Lynn Older published by the Franklin County Historical Society -
Kittochtinny in A Journal of Franklin County History, Volume XXVIII, 2016, identifies
numerous instances where the last name of Lt. John Kerr/Carr (1745 to 02 October 1807)
was alternately spelled either Kerr or Carr. See page 7, where U. L. Gordy, writing in
1934, states, "It was from this Kerr that the part of Chambersburg south of Catherine
Street got its local name--Carrstown (Kerrstown)." Page 8, a quotation from Wm. E.
Gilmore, "General Joseph Kerr", Ohio History Vol. 12 (Chillicothe, OH: Ohio Archives
and Historical Society Publications, 1903), 164-6, states regarding Joseph Kerr Senior
(1766 - 1837), son of Lt. John Kerr, "Almost every person who knew him spelled and
pronounced it Carr."
Also from the Older article, it was Lt. John Carr who was listed in the
Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 6, page 527, but Lt. John Kerr who was listed in
Vol. 6, page 533. These were two references to the same man. The Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission website, Pennsylvania State Archives, Rev. War
Military Abstract Card File, has a card which states: "Jno Carr, Cumberland, 2nd Lt.
March 25, 1778, Capt. William Finley - Duty: served, Fine Book of John Carothers, the
basic record proves active duty." This clearly is a record for Lt. John Kerr of Kerrstown,
PA.
There has been nothing found in the information on Samuel Kerr Senior, son of
Lt. John Kerr, to demonstrate the dual spelling of the Kerr/Carr name. However, there
is abundant material to demonstrate the dual spelling of the family name when
examining information on the children of Samuel Kerr/Carr Senior.
The 08 October 1823 estate records for Samuel Kerr of Franklin County, Ohio, are
found in Abstracted Base Files 1805 1831 from Franklin County, Ohio Court Records with
Geneaalogical Notes, compiled by Blanche Tipton Rings and Mrs. Francis Herbert Obetz
edited by Margaret Hiles Scott, copyright 1932, published by The Franklin County
Genealogical Society, a chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society.
The Samuel Kerr Senior estate papers list Nancy Kerr as age 14 years in 1823. We
find that Nancy Carr married Thomas Gouty in Vermillion Co., Indiana on October 14,
1830. See Indiana State Library, Genealogy Database, Marriages through 1850. There is
no example we have found where Nancy's last name was spelled Kerr. However, she
and her husband, Thomas Gouty, owned land adjacent to Orson Kerr as shown on a
map of First Land Owners of Highland Township, Vermillion Co., Indiana.
The 1823 estate papers of Samuel Kerr Senior include an Orson Kerr, age 18.
According to a biographical sketch of Orson Kerr found in Biographical Record and
Portrait Album of Tippecanoe, Indiana, Orson was born in Pennsylvania, the son of
Samuel Kerr. He lived in Franklin County, OH; moved to Fountain County, IN, in
1827. Land records show Orson Kerr owned land adjacent Thomas Gouty. Orson
married Cynthia Clawson in 1828. The family moved to Tippecanoe County, IN, in
1835. While this source is not well documented, it is corroborated by official
documents and, significantly, was published in 1888, during Orsons lifetime as
indicated on his grave marker.
Fountain Co., IN, marriage records confirm that Orson Carr married Cynthia
Clawson on 5 December 1828. T h e Fountain County 1830 census lists Orson Carr as a
resident. T h e Tippecanoe County 1840 census lists Orson Carr as a resident. T h e
Tippecanoe County 1850 census lists Orson Keer born in Pennsylvania. T h e
Tippecanoe County 1860 census lists Orson Kerr, born in Pennsylvania. Also see,
Fountain County deed book transactions: Book 3, p. 86. April 12, 1832. Thomas Clawson
and Sophia his wife deed of gift to Orson Kerr for dowry, 80 acres in Section 4,
Township 21, Range 7. It is obvious this Orson Kerr/Carr was the son of Samuel Kerr of
Franklin Co., Ohio, who died in 1823.
Samuel Kerr Junior, son of Samuel Kerr Senior, died 16 July 1852. Some of his
estate papers are included in Illinois Wills and Probate Records, 1772 - 1999,
Ancestry.com, Samuel Kerr, Probate Date: 4 Oct 1852; Probate Place: Champaign,
Illinois, USA; Inferred Death Year: Abt 1852; Inferred Death Place: Illinois, USA; Case
Number: 104; Item Description: Packets, No. 102-149, 1852-1855, 23 images. The title
page for his probate papers and most of the pages in the file spell his name Samuel
Kerr. However, page 24 of the file refers to "The Estate of Samuel Carr Dec." We note
that a John Carr, who must have been the son of Samuel Kerr Junior and Betsy Taylor,
was living with the Evertson family in the 1860 Champaign Co., IL census.
We have found nothing in any information related to Joseph Kerr/Carr, son of
Samuel Kerr Senior, which indicates a dual spelling of his last name. Joseph was the
administrator of the Samuel Kerr Junior estate and lived not far from brother Samuel,
but across the county line in Vermilion Co., Illinois, which is adjacent to Champaign Co.
APPENDIX D
Estate Papers of Samuel Kerr Senior
Abstracted Wills 1805 - 1831

Franklin Co., Ohio, Court Records with Genealogical Notes
No. 0422 KERR, Samuel - Decd.

8 Oct 1823 Administrators - Reuben GOLLIDAY, Lawrence FOSTER
and William BEATTY. Guardianship 1824 - Benjamin FOSTER, Elijah
CHENOWITH and Samuel DYER appointed guardians of Orson KERR, age 18
years; Nancy KERR, age 14 years; Clarissa KERR, age 11 years, Jackson KERR,
age 4 years; Robert KERR, age 8 years; Joseph KERR, age 16 years; Samuel KERR,
age 9 years and Elijah KERR, age 6 years, minor children of the deceased.
Note: Clarissa KERR, b Sept 27, 1813, died Feb 11, 1880 md Isaac DEMOREST
(she was his second wife) 24 Oct 1833, probably in Franklin Co., Ohio.
Samuel KERR, father of Clarissa, was married to Nancy CHENOWETH (A
descendant of this line is John H. BELL 235 West St. Louis St., Lafayette, LA
70501, born 28 Apr 1925.)
The above record appears in:

Rings, Blanche Tipton, Francis Herbert Obetz, Margaret Scott, and Ohio
Franklin County, Ohio, Court Records, with Genealogical Notes (Columbus, Ohio: Franklin
County Genealogical Society, 1982).
(Note by Curtis L. Older: Two Notes appear at the bottom of the recorded
listing for the Samuel Kerr will. Each of the two notes appear to have been added by the
authors, Rings, Tipton, and Obetz, to the original estate paper record. One note regards
Clarissa Kerr and the second note regards Samuel Kerr, father of Clarissa. It is my
opinion that there was no woman named Nancy Chenoweth that Samuel Kerr could
have married. Samuel was married in Pennsylvania before the 1800 census. Samuel
Kerr probably was not anywhere near a Chenoweth family until his move to Ohio, and
after the birth of Orson Kerr in 1805 in Pennsylvania.In researching the Chenoweth
genealogy, there is no individual named Nancy Chenoweth to be found. The likely
spouse of Samuel Kerr appears to be a Nancy Gwynn, Guin, or Quinn. More research
needs to be undertaken by the author related to the issue of the spouse of Samuel Kerr.)
Pioneer families of Franklin Co. Ohio

Franklin Co. Pioneer Families Lineage applicants,
Central Ohio Genealogical Notes and Queries by Dr. Frank W. Garner
Columbus Sunday Journal and Dispatch 1933-1936
Franklin County Pioneer Settlers Memorial : The Ohio Genealogical Quarterly July 1919
lists a Nancy Gwynn in 1822.
APPENDIX E
Children of Thomas Gouty
Husband of Nancy Kerr / Carr, Husband of Elizabeth Stutler, and
Husband of Catherine Hoobler

The following court cases, due to its significance in identifying the children of
Thomas Gouty and his three wives is included below in its entirety.
Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et al Book 20, page 261Vermillion County
Court In Partition
On the 2nd day of the August Term 1865 of the Vermillion Circuit Court. The
commissioners appointed by said court to make partition of the lands of which Thomas
Gouty died seized of. Situated in the County of Vermillion and State of Indiana
among the heirs of said deceased made the following report which was received
approved and confirmed to wit - - The undersigned commissioners appointed by an
order of said Court at its February Term 1865 & acting under an order on commission
issued by the clerk of this court and being severally first duly sworn according law and
having examined said lands in the petition mentioned make the following report of
partition among the parties plaintiffs & defendants to wit. We find upon a careful
examination & valuation of said real estate that Elias Gouty having received the sum of
twelve hundred & ninty dollars as an advancement from his Father as found by the
court that said Elias is therefore not entitled to any part of said lands in Partition. We
then severed the interest of William Gouty and Amos Gouty coming to them through
their mother and set off to them in portion twenty acres described as follows Viz
Beginning seventy two rods south of the north west corner of the north east quarter of
Section eighteen in township nineteen north of range nine west and running from
thence east eighty rods -- thence south forty rods -- thence west eighty rods -- thence
north forty rods to the beginning. Of the remainder of said real estate we set off to
Cathrine Gouty - the widow. the west half of the south east quarter of section
seventeen township nineteen north of range nine west eighty acres more or less
together with the homestead improvements thereon also twenty eight acres off the
south end of the west half of the north east quarter of the same section township and
range. Also twenty acres off the north end of the east half of the north west quarter of
section number nine in said township nineteen north of range nine west and also thirty
acres off the south end of the east half of the south west quarter of section four in
township nineteen north of range nine west the same being one third in value according
to quality and quantity of all of said remainder of said real estate. 1. To Ellen Shute we
set off twenty acres the south half of the north west quarter of the north west quarter of
Section seventeen in township nineten north of range nine west and thirty-five acres
bounded and described as follows to wit Beginning four (4) rods east of the south west
Rebecca Gouty versus Elias Gouty et al Book 20, page 262Vermillion County
Court In Partitioncorner of the south east quarter of section five in township nineteen
north of range nine west and running from thence as follows viz. north one hundred
and sixty rods thence east thirty five rods thence south one hundred and sixty rods
thence west thirty five rods to the beginning.2. To Frederick M. Hoobler we set off
twenty acres the north half of the north west quarter of the north west quarter of section
seventeen township nineteen north of range nine west and thirty five acres bounded
and described as follows viz. Beginning thirty nine rods east of the south west corner of
the south east quarter of section five in township nineteen north of range nine west and
running from thence as follows to wit. North one hundred and sixty rods thence east
thirty five rods thence south one hundred and sixty rods thence west thirty five rods to
the beginning.3. To Clara Chezem we set off thirty six acres off the north end of the
west half of the north east quarter of section eighteen in township nineteen north of
range nine west and sixteen acres in the south half of section five township nineteen
north of range nine west bounded and described as follows viz. Beginning four rods
east of the south west corner of the south east quarter of section five township nineteen
north of range nine west and running from thence north one hundred and sixty rods
thence west sixteen rods thence south one hundred and sixty rods. - thence east sixteen
rods to the Beginning.4. To Russell Gouty we set off the north east quarter of the north
west quarter of section seventeen in township nineteen north of range nine west
containing forty acres more or less and six acres off the east side of the west half of the
south east quarter of section five in township nineteen north of range nine west it being
six rods wide from east to west and one hundred and sixty rods from north to south
and the remainder of said west half of the south east quarter of section five township 19
R 9 W.5. To Amos Gouty we set off twenty four acres off the south end of the west half
of the north east quarter of section eighteen in township nineteen north of range nine
west and eight acres off the north side of the north west quarter of the south east
quarter of the same section township and range and also eighteen acres in the east half
of the south west quarter of section five in township nineteen north of range nine west
and bounded as follows viz. Beginning twelve rods west of the south east corner of the
south west quarter of said section five in township nineteen northRebecca Gouty
versus Elias Gouty et al Book 20, page 263Vermillion County Court In Partitionof
range nine west and running from thence north one hundred and sixty rods thence west
eighteen rods thence south one hundred and sixty rods -- thence east eighteen rods to
the Beginning.6. To William Gouty we set off thirty two acres off the south side of the
north west quarter of the south east quarter of section eighteen in township nineteen
north or range nine west and also eighteen acres bounded and described as follows to
wit. Beginning thirty rods west of the south east corner of the south west quarter of
section five in township nineteen north of range nine west and running from thence
north one hundred and sixty rods thence west eighteen rods thence south one hundred
and sixty rods - thence east eighteen rods to the Beginning.7. To David H. Gouty we
set off twenty acres of the north end of the East half of the south east quarter of section
seventeen in township nineteen north of range nine west also thirteen acres off the
north end of the west half of the north east quarter of the same section township and
range and also eight acres bounded and described as follows to wit. Beginning forty
eight rods west of the south east corner of the south west quarter of section five in
township nineteen north of range nine west and running from thence north one
hundred and sixty rods thence west eight rods thence south one hundred and sixty rods
thence east eight rods to the Beginning.8. To Frederick Gouty we set off twenty acres
the south half of the north east quarter of the south east quarter of section seventeen in
township nineteen north of range nine west and thirteen acres bounded and described
as follows to wit. Beginning twenty six rods south of the north west corner of the north
east quarter of said section seventeen township nineteen north of range nine west and
running from thence south twenty six rods thence east eighty rods thence north twenty
six rods thence west eighty rods to the beginning and also eight acres bounded and
described as follows viz. Beginning fifty six rods west of the south east corner of the
south west quarter of section five in township nineteen north of range nine west and
running from thence north one hundred and sixty rods thence west eighty rods thence
south one hundred and sixty rods thence east eight rods to the beginning.9. To Lilly B.
Gouty we set off twenty acres the north half of the south east quarter of the south east
quarter of section seventeen in township nineteen north of range nine west and thirteen
acres bounded and described as follows viz. Beginning fifty two rods south of the north
west corner of the north east quarter of said section seventeen in town-Rebecca
Gouty versus Elias Gouty et al Book 20, page 264Vermillion County Court In
Partition-ship nineteen north of range nine west and running from thence east eighty
rods thence south twenty six rods thence west eighty rods thence north twenty six rods
to the beginning and also eight acres described as follows Viz. Beginning sixty four rods
west of the south east corner of the south west quarter of section five in township
nineteen north of range nine west and running from thence north one hundred and
sixty rods thence west eight rods thence south one hundred and sixty rods thence east
eight rods to the place of the beginning.10. To Mary Alice Gouty we set off the south
half of the south east quarter of the south east quarter of section seventeen in township
nineteen north of range nine west containing twenty acres more or less also thirteen
acres described as follows Viz. Beginning seventy eight rods south of the north west
corner of the north east quarter of said section seventeen township nineteen north of
range nine west and running from thence east eighty rods thence south twenty six rods
thence west eighty rods thence north twenty six rods to the beginning and also eight
acres off the west side of the east half of the south west quarter of section five in
township nineteen north of range nine west it being eight rods wide from east to west
and one hundred and sixty rods long from north to south and the remainder of said east
half of said quarter section the ten share or portions of land or real estate as set off and
herein described by us each being one tenth in value according to quality and quantity
of two thirds of the real estate of said T(h)omas Gouty deceased after severing the
interest of William Gouty and Amos Gouty de(s)cending to them through their
mother out of the lands of William Stutler deceased all of which will more fully
appear by a reference to a plat of said lands hereunto appended and all of which is
respectfully submitted to our Honour for confirmation or rejection as you shall deem
right and proper in the premises. Newport, Vermillion County, Indiana, August 22nd
A. D. 1865.
George H. McNeillJonas MetzgerBenjamin Whittenmyer, Commissioners
State of Indiana, County of Vermillion}I the undersigned Clerk of the Cir. Court
in & for said county do certify that the above and foregoing is a full true and complete
copy of the commissioners report in the above entitled cause and that the same was
received approved and confirmed by the court witness my hand and seal of said court
at Newport this 31st day of August 1865. Wm E. Livengood Clerk of the Ver. Cir Court
(seal)Recorded this 19th day of December A. D. 1865 at 1 clk P. M. R. E. Stephens
Recorder
APPENDIX F
THE FOSTERS
JOHN FOSTER and Three of His Children:

BENJAMIN FOSTER, CASSANDRA FOSTER,
AND RACHEL FOSTER
Reverend John Foster was born in 1735 in Cumberland, Prince George's County,
Maryland. He died 1 January 1800 in Oldtown, Allegany County, Maryland. He
married Elizabeth Lewis in 1758 in Prince George's County, Maryland. Elizabeth was
born in 1738 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, and died in 1783 in Bedford
County, Pennsylvania.
The will of Reverend John Foster, signed 11 July 1799 and probated 11 February
1800, indicates the estate was disposed of as follows, in part: To sons Benjamin and
Joseph and daughters Cassandra Chenworth and Rachel Chenworth property in Ross
County, O.(1)
The parents of Cassandra Foster, Rachel Foster, and Benjamin Foster were Reverend
John Foster and Elizabeth Lewis.
Reverend John Foster was born in June 1731 in Prince George's County, Maryland. He
died 1 January 1800 in Oldtown, Alleghany County, Maryland.
Elizabeth Lewis was born in 1738 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. She
died in 1783 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Foster was born 13 June 1775 in Maryland. He died 10 October 1844 in Attica,
Fountain County, Indiana.
Benjamin Foster was named as an administrator, along with John Harvey and
Reuben Golliday, on 28 October 1812, for the estate of Thomas Lewis, deceased.
Appointed on 17 November 1812 were Elijah and Thomas Chenoweth.(2) Elijah
Chenoweth had married Rachel Foster. Thomas Chenoweth had married Cassandra
Foster. Benjamin Foster was named as a security for the estate of Elijah Chenowith, Apr.
7, 1829. The administrator appointed was Elijah Chenowith, assumed to be a son.(3)
Benjamin Foster was born 1 May 1775 in Allegany County, Maryland. He died 11
October 1844 at Attica, Fountain County, Indiana. Benjamin married Catherine Prather
on 14 February 1798 in Allegany County, Maryland.(4), She was the daughter of
James Prather and Sarah Beatty. She was born 11 February 1775 in Alleghany County,
Maryland, and died 30 August 1843 in Warren County, Indiana.(5) She is buried at
the Ruppert Cemetery (also perhaps known as Rob Roy Cemetery), Attica, Fountain
County, Indiana.(6) Benjamin Foster is buried in the Ruppert (or Rob Roy) Cemetery,
Attica, Fountain County, Indiana. His tombstone indicates he died Oct. 11, 1844, aged
69 y. 5 m. 10 d.(7)
Benjamin Foster was appointed Guardian in 1824 for the children of Samuel
Kerr. Difficulty in tracing the children of Samuel Kerr, in part, is due to the move by
most of the children to western Indiana in company with the Benjamin Foster family.
Benjamin bought 320 acres of land in Fountain County, Indiana, on 20 April 1826.(8)
This land was in Sections 10, 28, and 29 of Township 21 North, Range 7 West.
Section 10 East Half of the Southwest Quarter
Section 28 West Half of the Southwest Quarter
Section 29 West Half of the Northwest Quarter
Section 29 East Half of the Southeast Quartr
The 1830 and 1840 census records of Fountain County, Indiana, each show a
household headed by Benjamin Foster. The 1830 U.S. federal census for Shawnee,
Fountain, Indiana, lists a Benjamin Foster age 40-50 and wife of the same age range.
Both Benjamin and his wife should have been age 55 in the 1830 census.(9) The 1840
U.S. federal census for Shawnee, Fountain, Indiana indicated Benjamin Foster was 60 to
69 years of age. His wife was listed as 60 to 69 years of age. This agrees with the dates
shown on their tombstones.(10)
Book 1, p. 424. July 10, 1829. Thomas Clawson and Sophia his wife to Benjamin
Foster for 300 dollars. 80 acres in Section 27, Township 21, Range 7.
Book 3, p. 163. April 24, 1832. Thomas Clawson and Sophia his wife sold to
James Foster for 500 dollars. 80 acres. Part of Section 29, Township 21, Range 7.
January 20, 1838. Received of Timothy Clawson one of the Administrators of

Thomas Clawson deceas. the sum of twelve dollars. /s/ Orson Kerr.
Received of Thomas Clauson one of the Administrators of the Estate of Thomas

Clauson deceased, Eight hundred dollars this 7 day of April AD 1837. /s/Sophia
Clawson. Appears to have been witnessed by Orson Kerr.
In the 1888 Tippecanoe County History biography of Thomas' daughter Cynthia

and her husband Orson Kerr, Thomas is described as: "one of the old and honored
pioneers of Fountain County".
Children of Benjamin Foster and Catherine Prather who were born in Ross or
Franklin County, Ohio, and who are buried in Fountain County, Indiana:
1. James Foster was born April 3, 1803 in Ross County, Ohio and died 13
August 1845 in Fountain County, Indiana, buried at Rob Roy Cemetery.(11) James
Foster purchased 80 acres of land on 5 January 1831 in Range 7 West, Township 21
North, Section 9, Fountain County, Indiana. He would have been 27 years old at the
time of this purchase. He appears in the 1850, 1860, 1870 Shawnee Township,
Fountain County, Indiana, census records.
2. John I. Foster was born 08 March 1805 in Ross County, Ohio, and died 08
September 1874 in Fountain County, Indiana, buried in Beulah Shawnee Cemetery,
Fountain County, Indiana. John (J. or I.) Foster purchased 82 acres of land on 1
September 1826 in Range 7 West, Township 21 North, Section 9, Fountain County,
Indiana. He would have been 21 years old at the time of his first purchase. He also
purchased land jointly with John Lopp on 15 May 1827 in Section 30. John Foster, age
45, born about 1805, was living in Shawnee Township, Fountain County, Indiana, in
the 1850 census. His wife's name is Abigal, age 30, and she was born in Connecticut.
3. Basil Prather Foster was born 14 February 1816, in Franklin County, Ohio
and died 02 May 1872 in Fountain County, Indiana. No patent records for Basil
Prather Foster have been found. A Basel Foster is in the 1850 Shawnee Township,
Fountain County, Indiana census, age 34, born in Ohio. His wife is Eliza, age 30. See
page 611 of Past and Present of Fountain and Warren Counties, Indiana, edited by
Thomas A. Clifton of the Covington Republican, 1913, B. F. Bowen & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
A Benjamin Foster was born about 1825 in Ohio. Listed in 1850 Shawnee
Township, Fountain County, Indiana, census
A Joseph Foster, age 40, living in Richland Township, Fountain County,

Indiana, in 1850 gives his state of birth as Pennsylvania.
A number of Fosters born in the 1820s are listed in the 1850 Shawnee
Township, Fountain County, Indiana, census.
Pioneer Families of Franklin County, Ohio, lists the following individuals and their
arrival dates in the county: Chenoweth, Elijah 1799; Chenoweth, John 1799; Chenoweth
Nancy 1827; Chenoweth II Elijah 1800; Benjamin Foster 1801; Rachel Foster 1799.(12)
In 1809 to 1810 Madison and Pickaway counties were formed from Franklin and
Ross Counties.(13) It seems possible that Thomas Gouty of Pickaway County met
Nancy Kerr/Carr while she was living in Franklin County, Ohio. Pickaway County
came into existence March 1, 1810, the General Assembly of Ohio, in session at
Chillicothe, having on the 12th day of January, 1810, passed an act establishing the
county, the full text of which is as follows :
An act for erecting a part of the counties of Ross, Franklin and Fairfield, into a
separate county, by the name of Pickaway
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, etc., That all that part of the counties of Ross, Franklin
and Fairfield, within the following boundaries, be, and the same is hereby
erected into a separate county, to be known by the name of Pickaway:
Beginning on the east side of the Scioto river, at the intersection of a line between
township two and three, of range twenty-two, Worthington's survey; thence east
with the township lines, to the southeast corner of township number eleven, and
range twenty; thence north with the range line, to the northeast corner of section
number one, of township eleven, in range twenty; thence west with the township
line, to the northwest corner of said township; thence with the range line, to the
northeast corner of section number thirteen, in township ten, of range twenty-
one, Matthew's survey; thence west to the Scioto river, thence west from the
Scioto river, twelve miles; thence south twenty miles; thence east to the Scioto
river; thence down said river to the place of beginning.
Thomas Chenoweth and Joseph Chenoweth jointly acquired land before either
Orson Kerr or Thomas Gouty. They purchased 80 acres of land on 30 January 1828
which consisted of the east half of the south east quarter of section seventeen in
township nineteen north and range nine west.(14) Thomas Chenoweth, Justice of the
Peace, June 19, 1829.(15)
APPENDIX G
An Analysis of Several Children of

Thomas Chenoweth and his wife, Cassandra Foster
Thomas Chenoweth II was born 12 September 1753 Baltimore County, Maryland,
and died 17 August 1814 in Franklin County, Ohio. The parents of Thomas Chenoweth
II (1753-1814) were Thomas Chenoweth I and Mary Prickett. He married Cassandra
Foster on 17 August 1785 in Allegheny County, Maryland. The parents of Cassandra
Foster were Reverend John Foster and Elizabeth Lewis.
Cassandra Foster, a sister of Benjamin, was born 30 Dec 1762 in Cumberland,
Allegany County, Maryland.(16) She died in January 1850 and was buried in the Lowe
Cemetery at Perrysville, Vermillion County, Indiana.(17) She was the daughter of John
Foster and married a Thomas Chenoweth as indicated in her fathers will probated 11
February 1800 in Ross County, Ohio.(18) Thomas Chenoweth, husband of Cassandra
Foster, was born 10 September 1753 in Frederick County, Virginia, and died 17 August
1814 in Franklin County, Ohio, and is buried in the Chenoweth Cemetery there.(19)
There is a Thomas Chenoweth listed in the Ohio tax list for 1808 in Franklin County.(20)
Cassandra was the mother of a Thomas Chenoweth III and a Joseph
Chenoweth.(21) We believe her sons owned an 80 acre tract of land next to Orson Kerr
and Thomas Gouty in Section 17, Highland Township, Vermillion County, Indiana. A
Thomas Chenoweth III is buried at the Lowe Cemetery in Perrysville, Vermillion
County, Indiana. His date of birth was 2 November 1800 in Franklin County, Ohio, and
he died 13 February 1859 in Highland Township, Vermillion County, Indiana. His
wifes name was Rachel.(22) Thomas Chinoweth married Rachel Perrin on 27 January
1825 in Franklin County, Ohio.(23)
A monument at Lowe Cemetery, Perrysville, IN, entitled Highland Township
Pioneers, interred in Lowe Cemetery 1832 1866, reinterred in Hicks Cemetery July 3,
1968 includes the names of Thomas Chenoweth (1801-1859) and Rachel Chenoweth
(1806-1866) and Cassandra Chenoweth (17??-1850)(24) It seems reasonable to believe
that Cassandra Foster Chenoweth accompanied her sons to Vermillion County, Indiana,
in the late 1820s.
A sister to Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth was a Ruth Chenoweth.(25) She
married an Ira Wingfield Parish on 29 December 1814 in Franklin County, Ohio.(26) An
Ira Parrish is listed in the 1830 Vermillion County, Indiana, census. Both he and his wife
are listed as age 30 to 39.(27) Ira Parish and his wife Ruth are listed in the 1850 census
for District 71, Polk County, Missouri. Iras age is given as 59 and Ruths age as 53. If
she married Ira in 1814 at age 18, she would be age 54 in 1850.
Another yet another child of Thomas Chenoweth and Cassandra Foster, John
Chenoweth (23 December 1785 to 04 October 1865) may have accompanied Orson Kerr
to Tippecanoe County, Indiana. John Chenoweth is buried at the Dayton Cemetery in
Tippecanoe County, Indiana.(28)
It is very clear that Benjamin Foster, his wife, and children moved to Fountain
County, Indiana, from Franklin County, Ohio, in the late 1820s. Cassandra Foster
Chenoweth, a sister of Benjamin Foster, and at least some of her children moved to
Fountain and Vermillion Counties in Indiana, from Franklin County, Ohio, in the late
1820s or early 1830s.
Thomas Chenoweth II and Cassandra Foster were the parents of

Joseph, Thomas, Ruth, and Cassandra Chenoweth.
Thomas Chenoweth II (1753-1814) died 17 August 1814 in Pleasant Township, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Cassandra Foster Chenoweth (30 December 1762- January 1850) died in Vermillion
County, IN.
Joseph Chenoweth, son of Thomas and Cassandra, born 29 May 1805, Franklin County,
Ohio, and died 5 December 1865 in Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri. He was married to
Roseann (or Rose Ann) Mitchell on 24 October 1837 in Vermillion County, Indiana.
The 1830 Vermillion County, Indiana census lists a Joseph Chenoweth family
with 1 male 20 to 30, 1 female 5 to 10, 1 female 50 to 60.
He was buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, in Burns Township, Polk County,
Missouri.
Thomas Chenoweth III, son of Thomas and Cassandra, was born 2 November 1800 in
Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio. He died 13 February 1859 in Perryville,
Highland Township, Vermillion County, Indiana. He married Rachel Perrin on 27
January 1825 in Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio. The 1830 Vermillion
County, Indiana, census lists a Thomas Chenoweth family with: 2 males under 5, 1 male
30 to 40, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5 to 10, 1 female 20 to 30. The 1850 Highland,
Vermillion, Indiana census lists him as age 49, born in Ohio; Rachel as age 44, born in
Ohio; Mary age 25 born in Ohio, Ruth age 20 born in Indiana.
Ruth Chenoweth, daughter of Thomas and Cassandra, born 21 April 1787 in Mason,
Ohio. Married 14 April 1814 Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio, Ira Parish.
Died 1854 in Polk County, Missouri. 1850 District 71, Polk County, Missouri census, Ira
Parish age 59, Ruth age 53. An Ira Parrish (ancestry.com says Joa Parrish) is listed in the
1830 Vermillion County, Indiana, census. A female is listed as age 30 thru 39 who could
be Cassandra Chenoweth Parrish age 39 or 40.
Cassandra Chenoweth (1790 to 1839), daughter of Thomas and Cassandra, died in

Warren County, Indiana. Married first a Clark. Married second James B. Perrin, 19 June
1828, in Warren County, IN.(Indiana Marriage Index, 1806-1861) There is a James
Perrin age 50, born in Ohio, living in Mound Township, Warren County, Inidiana, in
the 1850 census. Oldest female is Julia Perrin age 30. Appears Cassandra Chenoweth
Clark Perrin had died by 1850.
Benjamin Franklin Chenoweth, son of Thomas and Cassandra (16 March 1795 - 11 July
1885) Born in Mason, Kentucky and died in Forsyth, Taney County, Missouri. Acquired
land in Warren County, Indiana, on 10 April 1826, 20 April 1826, and 2 tracts on 18
March 1837. He acquired two tracts in Vermilion County, Illinois. One tract on 16 March
1837 and one on 1 November 1839. He married Fanny McKenzie/McKinsey (1800-1872)
on 16 March 1817 in Franklin County, Ohio. Benjamin Chenoweth is listed in the 1830
Warren County, Indiana, census.
APPENDIX H
An Analysis of Several Children of

Elijah Chenoweth and his wife, Rachel Foster
The parents of Elijah Chenoweth(1762-1828) were Thomas Chenoweth and Mary
Prickett. The parents of Cassandra Foster and Rachel Foster were Reverend John Foster
and Elizabeth Lewis.
Elijah Chenoweth was named as a guardian for the Samuel Kerr children in
1823.(29) Elijah Chenoweth married Rachel Foster, a sister of Benjamin Foster.(30)
Rachel Foster was born August 11, 1769 in Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland and
died April 17, 1825 in Harrisburg, Franklin, Ohio.(31) She married Elijah Chenoweth
in 1785 in Frederick, Virginia.(32)
Elijah and Rachel (Foster) Chenoweth, natives of Maryland, were early settlers
in Kentucky, and about 1795 emigrated to Pike County, and settled near what is now
the southern boundary of Ross. They removed, in the fall of 1799, to Pleasant township,
Franklin county, being its first pioneers.(33) Elijah died 05 December 1828, aged 66 yrs.
5 mo. & 23 Ds. Also engraved on the tombstone is the following: Rachel Chenoweth,
died 17 Apr. 1825, aged 56 yrs. 8 mo. & 6 ds. They are buried in the Chenoweth
Cemetery in Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio.(34)
Elijah's will was probated on April 7, 1829, mentioning all his living
children: Thomas, John F., Joseph, Rachel, Cassandra, Elizabeth, and Elijah. His son,
Lewis, as well as his wife, Rachel, had preceded him in death. Some of Elijah's children
went to Vermilion Co., IL, others lived on in Franklin County.(35)
The will of Elijah Chenoweth names among his heirs, Thomas, Joseph, and Elijah
Chenoweth. Elijah is named as the youngest son and, according to his gravestone, was
born in 1806.(36) I do not believe that Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth, sons of Elijah
Chenoweth, are the Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth who jointly purchased a tract of
land adjacent to Orson Kerr and Thomas Gouty in Highland Township, Vermillion
County, Indiana. I believe they were the sons of Cassandra Foster Chenoweth.
Elijah Chenoweth and Rachel Foster were the parents of Joseph, Thomas, Ruth, and
Cassandra Chenoweth.
Elijah Chenoweth was born 12 June 1762 in Frederick County, Virginia and died 05
December 1828 in Franklin County, Ohio.
Rachel Foster was born 11 August 1768 in Frederick County, Virginia and died 17 April
1825 in Franklin County, Ohio.
Joseph Chenoweth, son of Elijah and Rachel, was born 05 September 1798 in
Chillicothe, Ross County (now Pike), Ohio, and died 09 January 1869 at Harrisburg,
Franklin County, Ohio, and is buried in Chenoweth Cemetery, Franklin County, Ohio.
He married Margaret Heath (1796 to 1861).
Thomas Chenoweth, son of Elijah and Rachel was born 22 May 1786 in Allegany Co.,
Maryland and died 16 September 1849 in Vermilion County, Illinois. He married Rachel
Morgan on 9 September 1811 in Fayette County, Ohio. She was born in 1785 in Virginia
and died after 1860 in Illinois.
Ruth Chenoweth, daughter of Elijah and Rachel was born 19 November 1809 in
Franklin County, Ohio, and died 9 April 1835. She married James Davison on 3 April
1828 in Franklin County, Ohio. James Davison was born 3 June 1805 in Ohio and died 3
January 1875 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. (37)
Cassandra Chenoweth, daughter of Elijah and Rachel, was born 9 December 1800 at
Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio, and died before 1880. She married John
Morgan, 1816, in Franklin Co., OH. He was born 28 September 1794 in Montgomery
Co., VA and he died 28 February 1849 in Vermilion Co., IL.
Elizabeth Sally Chenoweth, daughter of Elijah and Rachel, was born 22 June 1789 in
Mason Co., Kentucky. She died 12 February 1875 in Center Township, Fayette Co.,
Iowa. She married John Kerr on 6 December 1804 in Ross Co., OH. He was born 10
October 1785 in Virginia and died 30 December 1848 in Iowa City, Johnson Co., IA.
Findagrave.com: George Cemetery, Fayette Co., IA, tombstone - Elizabeth wife of John
Kerr died Feb 12, 1875.
APPENDIX I
Will of Elijah Chenoweth

(12 June 1762 to 05 December 1828)
Elijah of Franklin Co., OH s/o Thomas

Franklin Co, OH: dated July 21, 1828, filed April 7, 1829
copy procured for the website Cinda Lou Justice, transcribed by Jon D. Egge
Franklin Common Pleas Term 1829, The State of Ohio

Elijah Chenoweth of the County of Franklin in the State of Ohio do make and publish
this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say, first it is my
will that all funeral expenses and all my just debts be fully paid. And I give and devise
to my youngest son Elijah Chenoweth the farm on which I now reside, situate and being
in the County of Franklin in the State of Ohio containing two hundred and fifty acres
supposed to be lying in the Virginia Military lands unto his heirs and assigns forever
and all my Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs and farmer tools. Also all my household
furniture and other items of my personal property and my son Elijah is to pay the
amount of one hundred dollars to each of my other children. Thats to pay my son
Thomas Chenoweth one hundred dollars. To my daughter Elizabeth Kerr one hundred
dollars to my son John F. Chenoweth one hundred dollars to my daughter Sarah
Haines one hundred dollars to my son Joseph one hundred dollars to my daughter
Cassandra Morgan one hundred dollars to my daughter Rachel Wood one hundred
dollars to my daughter Ruth Davidson one hundred dollars to be had 4 years after my
decease.
Elijah Chenoweth (Seal).
July 21st 1828, Witnesses present:

Jacob Grubb
Jonathan B. Perrin
Franklin County Pleas April term 1829 The State of Ohio, Franklin Co.
Personally appeared before the open court the within named Jacob Grubb and Jonathan
B. Perrin who examined by the court touching the within instrument depose and swear
that they did in the presence of Elijah Chenoweth and the presence of each other and
subscribe said instrument as the last will and testament of said Elijah and at his request
that Elijah was at the time of subscribing the same of sound and disposing mind and
memory at the time said and did declare the above to be his last will and testament
and the said Elijah Chenoweth subscribe the same
April 7th 1829
Attest A, McDowell, Clerk.
APPENDIX J
Senator and General JOSEPH KERR

A Brother of Samuel Kerr
BY WM. E. GILMORE, CHILLICOTHE, OHIO.
Volume 12, pages 164 - 166, Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications
[The following article from the pen of Mr. Gilmore appeared in the columns of
The Daily Scioto Gazette of March 21, 1903. As this article presents the history of Senator
Kerr, nowhere else to be found, it is thought sufficiently valuable to deserve permanent
preservation and is therefore herewith re-published.- E. O. R.]
At length my inquiries and correspondence, begun in 1886, for the purpose of

recovering something of the personal history of General Joseph Kerr, a very early
resident of Chillicothe, and in his day a very prominent and important one, has met
with some success through the kind assistance of Mr. Henry Clay Carrel, an eminent
architect, of 1123 Broadway, New York, who is a son of the well-known Captain
Hercules Carrel, formerly of Cincinnati, and a great-grandson of General Kerr.
It has been strangely difficult to get information in regard to this notable person,
owing to many peculiar causes. In the first place he himself was utterly indifferent as to
whether his fellow citizens or any others knew anything about him or not. In the second
place, while his correct name was Kerr, almost every person who knew him spelled and
pronounced it Carr, and this fact gave infinite trouble to his descendants afterward, in
proving up title to a large land grant, made by the Republic of Texas to soldiers of its
revolutionary war with Mexico.
He was defeated in long litigation for that magnificent farm just east of this city,
known as the Watts farm, and the defeat almost impoverished him, and greatly
embittered him. He had been unjustly treated, he thought, in large contracts for
supplies to the army of the U. S., operating under General Hull. He had quarreled with
Gov. Thomas Worthington, to whose remnant of senatorial term he had been elected by
the General Assembly of Ohio, and finally he, with his family, had made two or three
changes of residence after leaving Chillicothe in 1824, and if he ever wrote a single letter
back to anyone here, I never could hear of it, although I have made diligent search for
such. And so "his trail" was lost, and so completely lost, that even so intelligent,
industrious and resourceful an investigator as Col. W. A. Taylor, of Columbus, gave it
up, and in his list of Ohio Statesmen, simply designates him as "the lost Ohio Senator."
Therefore, when I, this morning, received the documents. which enable me to give the
salient points of General Kerr's personal history, as herein given, from his great-
grandson, Mr. H. C. Carrel, I was inclined to echo the old Greek's shout, "eureka!
eureka!"
General Joseph Kerr was born of Scotch ancestry in Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1765, and was married in that city, to Nancy Daugherty, a young lady
of Irish descent, in 1788. He removed to Ohio with his young family "in the year 1792,"
according to the statements of his son, James D. Kerr, (who was still living on a part of
the homestead farm, in Carrel Parish, near Lake Providence, Louisiana, in 1887-and I do
not know how much later) "and settled on an highly improved and large tract of bottom
land, one mile below Chillicothe on the Scioto river, but the title was disputed by a
Virginian by the name of Watts, who, after 18 years of litigation, gained the land from
my father."
This date, 1792, must be wrong, for it is four years earlier than the advent of
Nathaniel Massie's party of original settlers in this valley, or the occupancy of this
region by any white people. But certainly Kerr came very soon after Massie's party did,
i. e., very soon after April 1st, 1796. I can myself remember that a lane, which led from
the northeastern part of this city, eastward to the race track on the Watts farm, was
known as "Carr's Lane." The oldest powder-house was located upon it, near its eastern
end.
He was elected to the legislature as a representative from Ross County, in 1804.
When Thomas Worthington resigned his place in the United States senate in 1814, to
accept the governorship of Ohio, to which he had been elected. Mr. Kerr was elected to
fill out the unexpired part of his term, which, however, only lasted from December 10th,
1814, to March 4th, 1815. At that time he and Worthington were decidedly "at outs"
with each other, and I never could understand how and why he was selected to succeed
to Worthington's remnant of a senatorial term. It may be that it was as a peace-offering
from the friends of the governor-elect in that General Assembly.
Senator Kerr held a commission as brigadier general of volunteers in 1812-1815,
and is reported to have seen some service in the field, during the war, but I am not able
to say what or how much it was. In 1824, Kerr, with his family, left Ohio, intending to
remove to Mexico, but stopped at Memphis, Mississippi, and having bought land near
there, for a few seasons followed farming. But this location, not proving satisfactory, he
moved further south and settled finally in Louisiana, a little below Lake Providence, in
what is now known as Carrel Parish. Here his wife died in 1833, and he followed her to
the grave in 1873.
Nine children had been born to General Kerr and his wife during their union.
These were, in order of their births, named Aletha, Harriet, Chambers, Elie, Clara,
Susan, Nathaniel, James and Joseph. I am unable to follow the story of these children
beyond the fact that Elie was appointed a West Point cadet about 1816, and that Joseph
and Nathaniel early enlisted in the Revolutionary army of Texas, and were both killed
by the Mexicans under Santa Anna, in the assault and capture of the Alamo.
Both Joseph and Nathaniel were born here in Chillicothe, as were also several of
their brothers and sisters. In consequence of the confusion which always existed
between the names, Kerr and Carr, great trouble ensued in settling the identity of the
two sons killed in the Alamo, and securing the land grants which the Republic of Texas
gave to the personal representatives of her soldiers who were killed or died in that war.
Testimony was taken in the case, here in Chillicothe, notably the depositions of Dr.
William Waddle and of his mother, Mrs. Nancy Mann Waddle, and of Col. James
McLandburg.
BOOK REVIEWS 85
General Joseph Kerr, of Chillicothe, Ohio--"Ohio's Lost Senator."

From the Carrel manuscript collection, edited by Marie Dickore. (Oxford, Ohio,
Oxford Press, 1941. Cloth. 112p. $1.50.)
General Joseph Kerr was a very colorful figure in the early history of Ohio, living
in Ohio for thirty years and leaving the State in 1826. His interests were varied. As
brought out in this book, he was an early surveyor, the fifth United States Senator from
the State, an industrial tycoon of the Scioto Valley, an exporter, a provisioner of the
Army of the Northwest at Upper Sandusky in the War of 1812, active in political affairs
and opposer of the United States Bank.
After his financial reverses in Ohio, he left the State for the Southwest and
proceeded to build anew. The absence of information concerning him after he left Ohio
gave rise to the expression "Ohio's lost Senator." As a result of interest taken in him by
his great-grandchildren--Henry Clay Carrel, J. Wallace Carrel, Eleanora P. Carrel and
George P. Carrel--much original material, including letters, deeds, surveys and other
manuscripts covering the years 1786 to 1824 was found. This collection, supplemented
by materials in possession of the Illinois Historical Survey, the Wisconsin State
Historical Library and private collections, has furnished the data for this interesting and
valuable contribution to one phase of Ohio's history.
The task of organizing and editing this material into the present volume was
entrusted to Miss Marie Dickore, an experienced research student and writer of history.
The result of her labors is embodied in this book, divided into ten chapters with
bibliography and index. Much source material is included. Thanks are due to George P.
Carrel in making this book possible. It is a valuable contribution to the State's history
and another illustration of the possibilities for valuable research work which may be
made available to the public in book form. H. L.
APPENDIX K
JOSEPH KERR, JR. - Alamo Defender
Nephew of Samuel Kerr / Carr Senior

and
First Cousin, 5 Times Removed, of Curtis L. Older
Documents in the Texas Archives Related to

Joseph Kerr Junior and Nathaniel Massie Kerr
1.
Republic of Texas }
County of Harrisburg} I do herby certify that the within is a true copy of the original
letters of administration issued from this office on the 16th inst.
Houston Dec 16, 1837
Witness my hand and seal

this 16th day of Dec 1837
Clerk of Probates?? ???
2.
Republic of Texas
County of Harrisburg
Probate Court, } On the 6th day of November
Dec. 16 1837 } last James D. Kerr
appeared in open court and applied for the administration of the Estate of Nathaniel M.
Kerr deceased: And the said James D. Kerr having complied with all the requisitions of
the law, and there being no legal objection filed to his appointment, it is ordered by the
Court that the said James D. Kerr be, and he is hereby appointed the administrator of
said Estate, with full and ample power to settle the same according to law-always
subject to the decrees and orders of this Court.

?? (SS) A? ?Briscoe?
Clerk of Probate Judge of Property
?Justice

3.
Department of State
Republic of Texas
I the undersigned Secretary of State in and for the Republic of Texas do hereby certify
that James Collinsworth who administered the oath to the offiant? W H Patton as stated
with in was at the time and still is chief justice of this Republic with full power to
administer oaths and that all of his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and
credit
Given under my hand
and seal of Office at the
City of Houston this 22nd
day of March 1837 and in
(not legible)
J. Pinckney Henderson
Secy of State
4.
Houston Dec 3, 1837
This is to certify that I was acquainted with N. M. Kerr and Joseph Kerr of Louisiana
and that the former died in February and the latter Joseph Kerr I have no doubt was
massacred at the Alamo on 6th of March 1836 he at this time was Orderly Sergeant.
J. C. Neill then
Col. of Artilery and
Comd of Bexar
5.
City of Houston Republic of Texas
May 21st 1837
Personally appeared before the under?? Chief Justice of the Republic of Texas William
H. Patton Quartermaster General of the Texas Army and made oath that he was at San
Antonio in Texas on or about the 17th of February 1836 at which place he was ?? ??? ???
?with? Nathaniel M. Kerr and Joseph Kerr who had entered the Texas army. He
understood that they were from Louisiana. Nathaniel M Kerr died after a very short
illness on or about the 17th of February 1836 and was ?supposed to be poisoned? and
this officiant assisted to bury him - and this officiant is ?informed? ?are? ?this? attack
and massacre at the Alamo.
Sworn to ??? }
?? the date ?? } W. H. Patton
written }
Jas Collinsworth
Chief Justice
M days
N. M. Kerr 3 11
Joseph Kerr 4 00
(Calculations at the bottom of the document appear to arrive at totals of $47.19 and
$42.13 which may have been the amounts due to Joseph Kerr and Nathaniel Massie
Kerr respectively.)
KERR, JOSEPH (1814-1836). Joseph Kerr, Alamo defender, son of General Kerr, was
born at Lake Providence, Louisiana, in 1814. He and his brother, Nathaniel, traveled to
Texas with Capt. S. L. Chamblis's Louisiana Volunteers for Texas Independence. In
early February 1836 they were honorably discharged from Chamblis's company because
their horses were disabled. The brothers continued on to San Antonio de Bxar, where
Nathaniel died of a sudden illness. Joseph remained with the Texan garrison, entered
the Alamo on February 23, 1836, and died on March 6 in the battle of the Alamo.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and
Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders
(Austin: Eakin, 1990). Amelia W. Williams, A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo
and of the Personnel of Its Defenders (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1931; rpt.,
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 36 (April 1933), 37 (July, October 1933, January,
April 1934).
Joseph Kerr, brother of Samuel Kerr, His life is well told in a book entitled "General
Joseph Kerr of Chillicothe, Ohio. Ohio's Lost Senator". There is also a biography of him
in the Ohio Archaelogy and Historical Socity Publication XII,p 16 4. Two of his sons,
Nathaniel and Joseph Kerr, were in Col. James Bowie's group of 100 men who gave up
their lives March 6, 1836, at the Alamo.
Joseph KERR, b. 1814, LA; d. Mar., 6, 1836
residence: Lake Providence LA
son of Gen. Kerr of Lake Providence, LA
brother of Nathaniel Kerr (d. Feb. 19, 1836)
uncle of James D. Kerr and Harriett Kerr Davison
Joseph Kerr Junior (1814-1836). Joseph Kerr, Alamo defender, son of General Kerr, was
their horses were disabled. The brothers continued on to San Antonio de Bxar, where
the Alamo on February 23, 1836, and died on March 6 in the battle of the
Alamo.qvBIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes
and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo
Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). Amelia W. Williams, A Critical Study of the Siege of
the Alamo and of the Personnel of Its Defenders (Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Texas, 1931; rpt., Southwestern Historical Quarterly 36 (April 1933), 37 (July, October
1933, January, April 1934).
Joseph Kerr Senior (1765 August 22, 1837) was a Democratic-Republican politician
from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate. Born in Kerrtown, Pennsylvania (now
Chambersburg), Kerr (pronounced "car") moved to Ohio in 1792. He served in a
number of positions as clerk, judge and justice of the peace in the Northwest Territory.
After statehood was declared, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in
1808, 1816, 1818, and 1819 and the Ohio State Senate in 1804 and 1810. He also served as
a brigadier general of Ohio Volunteers during the War of 1812, in charge of supplying
provisions to the Army of the Northwest. Kerr was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1814 to
fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Thomas Worthington. Kerr served from
December 10, 1814, to March 3, 1815. He did not seek re-election. Kerr's extensive farm
went bankrupt in 1826, and he moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then to rural
Louisiana, where he purchased a homestead.

Nathaniel Massie (1763 November 3, 1813) was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio
Country who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier. He founded
fifteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio, including its first capital,
Chillicothe. In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly declared him the winner of the election
for governor, but he refused the office.A native of the colony of Virginia, Massie
served briefly in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. He
platted the town of Chillicothe on his own land. Massie was one of the largest
landowners in early Ohio, and served as a major general in the Ohio militia.He served
as a delegate to the 1802 Ohio Constitutional Convention and was a leader of the
Jeffersonian faction that supported statehood. He was a leader of the Chillicothe Junto,
a group of Chillicothe Democratic-Republican politicians who brought about the
admission of Ohio as a state in 1803 and largely controlled its politics for some years
thereafter. Massie served in the General Assembly and was the first president of the
Ohio Senate.Massie led troops in the War of 1812, but died of pneumonia in the late
autumn of 1813 at the age of 50.

A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and MemoryBy Randy Roberts, James S.
OlsonPublished by Simon & Schuster, 2001ISBN 0743222792, 9780743222792352
pages
Ohio's Founding Fathers By Fred J. Milligan

I have the book if you would like more information. "Two of General Kerr's sons,
Nathaniel Massie Kerr and Joseph Kerr, were in Col. James Bowie's group of 100 men
who joined in the Texan fight for liberty and with him gave up their lives, March 6,
1836, at the Alamo where a bronze tablet marks their last resting place. Their brother,
James D. Kerr, was appointed their adminstrator because both died intestate and
unmarried and Texas granted them and their heirs vast tracts of lands for their services.
Some of this land was lost to the heirs but some was held for their brothers and sisters."
Renee Kerr

Hi: Joseph Kerr and his brother Nathaniel died at the Alamo after joining a group of 30
volunteers. There is a plaque with both of their names at the site. Their father was one
of most famous Kerrs, General Joseph Kerr, later referred to as the "Ohio's Lost
Senator." He was born 1765 in Chambersburg, PA and died in LA in 1837. He married
Mary Daugherty. They had: Aletha, Harriet, Chambers, Elie Williams, Susan Blair,
Nathaniel Massie, James D., and Joseph. They all descend from John Kerr, 1745-1807
and Mary Doherty, both from PA. I descend from the General's brother John Kerr and
Christena Nisewanger. Hope this helps Bob

KERR, JOSEPH (1814-1836). Joseph Kerr, Alamo defender, son of General Kerr, was
their horses were disabled. The brothers continued on to San Antonio de Bexar, where
the Alamo on February 23, 1836, and died on March 6 in the battle of the Alamo.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 4:
Footnote 18

On January 9, 1875, before Robert W. Walton, Notary Public of Navarro County, Texas,
S. L. Chambliss swore that on or near the first of February, 1836, he as captain of the
Louisiana Volunteers for Texas Independence, honorably discharged Nathaniel and
Joseph Kerr from his company, because of the disability of their horses. He sent them to
join the Texas troops at San Antonio, Texas. He further swore that their names appear
as citizens of Bexar County on abstracts of land certificates, but says that is a mistake,
for they were volunteer soldiers from Louisiana, fighting for Texas independence, and
that they fell at the Alamo.

On the same day and before the same Notary, Mary E. Martin swore that in February,
1836, she saw and read a letter, written to General Kerr of Lake Providence, Louisiana,
by his son, Nathaniel Kerr, who was then stationed at the Alamo in San Antonio. In this
letter Nathaniel Kerr stated that he and his brother, Joseph, were honorably discharged
from their original company in the Texas service, on account of the disability of their
horses and that they were then stationed at the Alamo. It was later believed by all their
friends that both brothers had died at the Alamo.

Both these men were unmarried, and their heirs were a niece, Harriett Kerr Davisson,
and a nephew, James D. Kerr. In their Power of Attorney, made February 24, 1855, the
claimants state that Nathaniel Kerr died from a sudden disease at the Alamo on
February 19, 1836. Likewise Bounty Warrant, Nacogdoches 416, states the same and
gives the man--Nathaniel Kerr--an honorable discharge by death.

Bounty Warrant, Nacogdoches 417, shows that Joseph Kerr "died with Travis at the
Alamo, March 6, 1836." These warrants were granted by Barnard E. Bee, December 19,
1837, and were approved by James S. Gillett, June 21, 1854.
The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 March 6, 1836) is the most famous battle of the
Texas Revolution. After an insurgent army Texan settlers and adventurers from the
United States drove all Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas, Mexican President
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led an invasion to regain control of the area. Mexican
forces arrived in San Antonio de Bexar on February 23 and initiated a siege of the Texan
forces garrisoned at the Alamo Mission.In the early morning hours of March 6 the
Mexican army launched an assault on the Alamo. The outnumbered Texans repulsed
two attacks, but were unable to fend off a third. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls,
most of the Texan soldiers retreated into the long barracks or the chapel. Several small
groups who were unable to reach these points attempted to escape and were killed
outside the walls by the waiting Mexican cavalry. The Mexican soldiers fought room-to-
room and soon had control over the Alamo. Between five and seven Texans may have
surrendered; if so, they were quickly executed on Santa Anna's orders. Most eyewitness
accounts reported between 182 and 257 Texan dead, while most Alamo historians agree
that 400600 Mexicans were killed or wounded. Of the Texans who fought during the
battle, only two survived: Joe, spared because he was a slave, and Brigido Guerrero, a
Mexican Army deserter who convinced Mexican soldiers he had been imprisoned.
Women and children, primarily family members of the Texan soldiers, were questioned
by Santa Anna and then released. On Santa Anna's orders, three of the survivors were
sent to Gonzales to spread word of the Texan defeat. After hearing this news, Texan
army commander Sam Houston ordered a retreat; this sparked the Runaway Scrape, a
mass exodus of citizens and the Texas government towards the east (away from the
Mexican army). News of the Alamo's fall prompted many Texas colonists to join
Houston's army. On the afternoon of April 21 the Texan army attacked Santa Anna's
forces in the Battle of San Jacinto. During the battle many Texans shouted "Remember
the Alamo!" Santa Anna was captured and forced to order his troops out of Texas,
ending Mexican control of the area, which subsequently became the Republic of
Texas.By March 24 a list of names of the Texans who died at the Alamo had begun to
be compiled. The first history of the battle was published in 1843, but serious study of
the battle did not begin until after the 1931 publication of Amelia W. Williams's
dissertation attempting to identify all of the Texans who died at the Alamo. The first
full-length, non-fiction book covering the battle was published in 1948. The battle was
first depicted in film in the 1911 silent film The Immortal Alamo, and has since been
featured in numerous movies, including one directed by John Wayne. The Alamo
church building has been designated an official Texas state shrine, with the Daughters
of the Republic of Texas acting as permanent caretakers.
James Clinton Neill (c. 1790 March 31, 1848) was a 19th century American soldier and
politician, most noted for his role in the Texas Revolution and the early defense of the
Alamo. He was born in North Carolina. Neill was born in North Carolina. He enlisted
on 20 September 1814 and was discharged on 10 April 1815. He fought in the Creek War
and was wounded at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. In the military he
commanded a company in Major William Woodfolk's Battalion of Tennessee Militia
Infantry. He lived in Tennessee with his wife Margaret Harriett, who bore him three
children George Jefferson Neill (b. 1808), Samuel Clinton Neill (b. 1815) and Harriett
(b. 1820). After time in Tennessee he moved his young family to Alabama, Neill served
in the state legislature, then on to Texas. The family moved to Texas in 1831 with
Stephen F. Austin's third colony where he received a league of land(4,428) acres. They
settled in (Viesca District) what is now Milam County. Neill served as a district
representative in the Convention of 1833. On January 17, 1836, James Bowie arrived
with the suggestion from Sam Houston to remove the artillery and blow up the Alamo.
Houston had written the Provisional Government asking for approval of his orders.
Houston sent Bowie to San Antonio because he trusted Bowie's opinion. Instead of
leaving the Alamo and falling back to Gonzales or Copano Bay, Bowie and Neill
became committed to its defense. Bowie, impressed with Neill's leadership, wrote, "No
other man in the army could have kept men at this post, under the neglect they have
experienced." Despite Houston's orders to have the Alamo destroyed as indefensible,
Neill and Bowie vowed "... we will rather die in these ditches than give it up to the
enemy." However, Neill was soon badly in need of supplies, as well as soldiers.On
February 11, Neill left the Alamo, likely to recruit additional reinforcements and gather
supplies for the garrison.[6] He transitioned command to Travis, the highest-ranking
regular army officer in the garrison. Neill was heading back to the Alamo when the fort
fell to Mexican troops on March 6 (the Battle of the Alamo). By the day of the battle,
Neill had reached Gonzales, where he signed a personal voucher for ninety dollars to
buy medicine for the Alamo garrison.On March 13, he joined the withdrawal of Sam
Houston's army to Groce's Retreat on the Brazos River. Unable to transport their
cannons, Houston ordered them dumped into the Guadalupe River before abandoning
Gonzales. That changed on April 11 when the "Twin Sisters" two matched six-
poundersreached the Texan camp. The brass cannons were a gift from the people of
Cincinnati, Ohio. Since Neill was a ranking artillery officer, Houston named him to
command the revived artillery corps. On April 20, Neill commanded the Twin Sisters
during the Battle of San Jacinto. During this fight, his artillery corps repulsed an enemy
probe of the woods in which the main Texan army was concealed. Neill was seriously
wounded when a fragment of a Mexican grapeshot caught him in the hip.
King, C. Richard, James Clinton Neill, The Shadow Commander of the Alamo (Eakin Press;
ISBN 1-57168-577-4)
COLLINSWORTH, JAMES (1806-1838). James Collinsworth, lawyer, jurist, and signer

of the Texas Declaration of Independence,qv was born in Davidson County, Tennessee,
in 1806, the son of Edmund and Alice (Thompson) Collinsworth. He attended school in
Tennessee, studied law, and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1826. He was an ally
of Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston,qv and other leading Tennessee politicians. From
April 30, 1829, until early 1834, Collinsworth served as United States district attorney
for the Western District of Tennessee. By 1835 he had moved to Matagorda, in the
Brazos Municipality, Texas, and begun the practice of law. Along with Asa Brigham,
John S. D. Byrom, and Edwin Wallerqqv he represented Brazoria in the Convention of
1836.qvAt the convention Collinsworth signed the Texas Declaration of Independence,
introduced and guided to adoption a resolution making his fellow Tennessean Sam
Houston commander in chief of the Texas army, became chairman of the military affairs
committee, and served on the committee appointed to draft a constitution for the new
Republic of Texas.qv After the convention adjourned, Houston, on April 8, 1836,
appointed Collinsworth his aide-de-camp with the rank of major. After the battle of San
Jacintoqv Gen. Thomas J. Ruskqv commended him for his bravery and chivalry.From
April 29 to May 23, 1836, Collinsworth served as acting secretary of state in President
David G. Burnet'sqv cabinet. On May 26, 1836, because of his intimacy with President
Andrew Jackson, he was designated a commissioner to the United States to seek
assistance and possible annexation.qv The mission failed. Later in the year Collinsworth
declined Houston's offer to make him attorney general of the Republic of Texas.
Instead, on November 30, 1836, he was elected to a term in the Senate of the
republic.When the judiciary of the republic was organized, Collinsworth, on December
16, 1836, was appointed the first chief justice, a post he held until his death. Also in 1836
he helped organize the Texas Railroad, Navigation, and Banking Company,qv and the
following year he helped found the city of Richmond. He was a charter member of the
Philosophical Society of Texas,qv founded in 1837.

PATTON, WILLIAM HESTER (1808-1842). William Hester Patton, soldier, surveyor,
and legislator, was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1808. He moved to Brazoria
County, Texas, in March 1832. As an early advocate of Texas independence, he served
as a sergeant in Capt. John Austin'sqv company at the battle of Velascoqv in June 1832.
He enlisted in the Texas army on September 28, 1835, at the beginning of the revolution;
commanded a company at the siege of Bexar,qv December 5 through 10, 1835; and was
appointed to receive the weapons surrendered by Gen. Martn Perfecto de Cos'sqv
army. On December 21, 1835, Gen. Sam Houstonqv appointed Patton acting assistant
quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant and ordered him to Velasco to supply
arriving volunteers and forward them to Houston's army. Patton was still at San
Antonio on February 5, however, when he and the other officers of the Alamo garrison
signed a memorial requesting that the soldiers under their command be represented at
Washington-on-the-Brazos by Samuel A. Maverick and Jesse B. Badgett.qqv On March
13, 1836, Patton was elected captain of the Fourth Company of Col. Sidney Sherman'sqv
Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers, also known as the Columbia Company. Patton was
attached to Houston's staff as an aide-de-camp with the rank of major, and his company
was led at the battle of San Jacintoqv by Lt. David Murphree.qv After the battle Patton
was given custody of Antonio Lpez de Santa Annaqv and was one of the
commissioners selected to escort him to Washington, D.C. On July 14, 1836, Patton was
one of eighteen officers who testified against President David G. Burnetqv on charges of
usurpation and treason. In 1837 Houston appointed him quartermaster general of the
Army of the Republic of Texas,qv and his nomination was confirmed on May 22. On
August 26, 1837, Patton resigned from the army and settled in Bexar County, where he
worked as a surveyor and served as justice of the peace. On September 25, 1837, he was
elected to represent Bexar County in the House of Representatives of the Second
Congress of the Republic of Texas; he served until May 25, 1838. An energetic and
aggressive Indian fighter, Patton was severely wounded in an Indian fight on Leon
Creek near San Antonio on October 28, 1838. He was murdered at his home on the San
Antonio River, some thirty miles below the city of San Antonio, by Mexican bandits on
June 12, 1842. Patton's West Columbia sugar plantation was purchased after his death
by James Stephen Hoggqv and is now maintained by the state of Texas as the Varner-
Hogg Plantation State Historical Park.qv
Proof of adjacent land ownership of Orson Kerr and Thomas Gouty:
1. Upper left center of First Land Owners of Highland Township map

indicates
R 10 W separated by line from R 9 W - Range 10 West is on the left and

Range 9 W on right
therefore land of Orson Kerr and Thomas Gouty is in Range 9 West. They
are in Range West because the Principal Meridian line is east between
Crawfordsville and Indianapolis. Map attached below.
2. Both owned land in Township 19 North. Will not take time here to prove
they are both in Township 19 North but they are. Township 19 would run
six miles or six section to the right of the division line between Range 10
and Range 9. They are in Township North because they are north of the
base line which is in southern Indiana.
3. Attached Section 17 area I claim contains land of both Orson Kerr and
Thomas Gouty. Section 17 is the one mile square that is the second section
east of the west side of Township 19.
Land owned by Thomas Gouty and Orson Kerr/Carr
Orson Kerr land obtained 10 April 1829:

east half of the North east quarter of section seventeen
in Township nineteen, North,
of Range nine, West, in the
District of lands offered for sale at Crawfordsville,
Indiana, containing 80 acres
Lands of Thomas Gouty at time of death in 1863:

to Cathrine Gouty - the widow.
the west half of the south east quarter of section seventeen
township nineteen north of
range nine west eighty acres more or less with the homestead
improvements thereon
I have colored the area on the example Divisions of a Section map for the
above two land descriptions of Orson and Cathrine Gouty.
This agrees with the Section Map taken from Highland Township Land
Owners
Volume 8, Franklin County, Ohio, Record of Deeds, Recorder's Office
Page 24
Joseph Kerr of the County of Vermillion and State of Indiana

to Joseph Cheneweth County of Franklin and State of Ohio
08 September 1828
Volume 8, Franklin County, Ohio, Record of Deeds, Recorder's Office
Page 26
1830 Indiana Census, Fountain County, Orson Carr
1840 U. S. Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, Roll 96, Page 448
Thos Goutty household
males under five years of age 1

males 5 years old and under 10 1
males 30 years old and undero 40 1
females under five years of age 2

females 10 years old and under 15 1
Total in Household 7
1840 U. S. Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, Roll 96, Page 448
Henry Goutty household


females 30 years old and under40 1
Zachariah Goutty household


John Goutty household


1850 U. S. Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, Page 63, Roll M432_177,
enumerated October 26, 1850, by Thomas C. W. Sale
Dwelling Number 234, Family Number 236

1850 U. S. Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, Page 63, Roll M432_177,
enumerated October 26, 1850, by Thomas C. W. Sale
Thomas Gouty, age 44, male, farmer, real estate = $3,000, born in Maryland
Catharine Gouty, age 25, female, born in Ohio
Clarissa Gouty, age 18, female, born in Indiana
Elias Gouty, age 17, male, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
Mary Gouty, age 14, female, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
Elenor Gouty, age 12, female, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
Russell Gouty, age 10, male, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
William Gouty, age 6, male, born in Indiana
Amos Gouty, age 5, male, born in Indiana
1860 U. S. Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, Post Office - Perrysville,
Roll M653_303, Page 63
1860 U. S. Census for Indiana, Vermillion County, Highland Township, Post Office - Perrysville,
Roll M653_303, Page 63
Thomas Gowty, Senr, age 53, male, farmer, real estate = $8,800, personal = $1,200, born in Ohio
Catharine Gowty, age 31, female, born in Ohio
William Gowty, age 17, male, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
Amos Gowty, age 14, male, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
David H. Gowty, age 11, male, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
Fredrick Gowty, age 9, male, born in Indiana, attended school during the year
Sarah R. Gowty, age 5, female, born in Indiana
Lilly Gowty, age 4, female, born in Indiana
John W. Villers, age 12, male, born in Indiana, attended school during the year

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Documentation for Samuel Kerr/Carr Senior

[Note: See Appendix A for a discussion of the dual spelling, i.e.

Son Joseph 400 pounds.

Samuel Kerr married Nancy Guin (perhaps Gwyn) in Pennsylvania in 1799

[Substantiation of the preceding information provided in the two history books

Children of Samuel and Nancy Kerr / Carr Senior:

2) (Possible - Not Proven) Moses Kerr, born 1801-1804, Franklin County,

ORSON KERR, a prosperous and highly respected farmer of Tippecanoe

5) Joseph Kerr - See APPENDIX A - Documentation for Joseph Kerr

6) Samuel Kerr Junior - See APPENDIX B - Documentation for

A second biography of Robert Floyd Kerr states:

Another "Biography of Robert Floyd Kerr [1898], source unknown, states:

Andrew J. Kerr was born in Franklin Co. OH. A farmer by occupation,

i. Clarissa Gouty, 5 born July 1832 in Indiana.(79)

ii. Elias B. Gouty, born 11 September 1833 in Highland Township,

iv. Eleanor Gouty, born about 1838 in Indiana.(17)

ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL to support the RELATIONSHIP between

See Sons of the American Revolution Supplemental Ancestor Certificate, Curtis

2) According to DAR RC#722981, Elijah Chenoweth married Rachel Foster,

3) According to DAR RC#842921, Benjamin Foster was a son of John Foster of

6) On 31 Jan 1828, Thomas and Joseph Chenoweth purchased land in

7) According to a biographical sketch of Orson Kerr found in Biographical

8) In a biographical sketch of Robert Floyd Kerr from a compendium of

(4) Kahn, John Kerr, Jr., 3.

(7) Virginia Shannon Fendrick, compiler, American Revolutionary Soldiers of Franklin

(11) Kahn, John Kerr, Jr., 17.

(14) www.wikipedia.org, Big Darby Creek.

(17) unknown source

(20) 1800 U. S. Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Guilford Township, Franklin County,

(22) Moses Carr, 1830 Fountain County, Indiana census.

(24) A History of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Biographical Sketch of Orson Kerr;

(27) 1830 Fountain County, Indiana, census, Orson Kerr.

(29) 1840 Tippecanoe County, Indiana, census, Orson Kerr.

(35) "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch.Org, James Davidson and

(36) International Genealogical Index (TM) (IGI) entry, FamilySearch.org.

(49) U. S. Bureau of Land Management.

(64) Findagrave. Tombstone at Wheelers Grove Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe

(65) 1850 U. S. census, Jackson Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, enumerated 1

(77) OneWorldTree, Wolfe Family Tree of Vernon County, Missouri.

Documentation for Joseph Kerr, son of Samuel Kerr Senior

(1 April 1807 to 12 February 1872)

Joseph Kerr of Vermillion Co., Indiana, purchased 80 acres of land on 1 December

The above statement appears to refer to Lt. John Kerr of Chambersburg/Kerrtown,

An O. Kerr, an A. J. Kerr, and an Andrew Kerr purchased several items at the

2) Samuel H. Kerr, born unknown, died 30 October 1832, Gundy Cemetery

ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL to support the RELATIONSHIP between

2) According to DAR RC#722981, Elijah Chenoweth married Rachel Foster,

4) James Davison married Ruth Chenoweth, daughter of Elijah Chenoweth, on 3

7) The S. A. R. Supplemental Ancestor Certificate of Curtis L. Older, descendant

8) Joseph Kerr of Vermillion Co., IN, purchased 80 acres of land on 1 December

REFERENCES for APPENDIX A

(9) Bureau of Land Management, Joseph Kerr, Vermilion Co., IL:

16 May 1831 - Township 21 N, Range 12 West, Section 13, W Half of SW Quarter;

(13) Bureau of Land Management, 5 November 1830, Andrew Davison of Vermillion

(21) Bureau of Land Management, Samuel Kerr of Fountain County, Indiana, 16

Documentation for Samuel Kerr Junior,

ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL to support the RELATIONSHIP between

4) James Davison married Ruth Chenoweth, daughter of Elijah Chenoweth, on 3

7) The S. A. R. Supplemental Ancestor Certificate of Curtis L. Older, descendant

8) Joseph Kerr of Vermillion Co., IN, purchased 80 acres of land on 1 December

REFERENCES for APPENDIX B

(4) Findagrave.com, Memorial #72189988, Tomlinson Cemetery, Champaign County,