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This is a sixty year history of the Kerr family by the Federal
Census. The family traveled from North Carolina to South
Carolina to Alabama and back to Georgia during this time. |
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My great
grandparents Anderson & Mahulda Kerr lived in the Maggie Valley area of Haywood county
in North Carolina in the year 1860. |
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My Great uncle Henry Kerr died in the civil war as shown
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He enlisted on 5/4/1861 at Haywood County, NC as a Private. |
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On 5/4/1861 he mustered into "L" Co.
NC 16th Infantry
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He died on 11/25/1861 at Culpeper, VA. |
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The data above is
from civilwardata.com |
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The information
above is from U.S. census reports found on ancestry.com |
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It appears that several died in the civil war or
disappeared. |
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The Kerr family graves in
Telfair county Georgia |
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My
grandparents from the Kerr branch of the family tree. |
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Mary
Curtis Kerr
gravesite
unknown |
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Other
wives of William Henry Kerr |
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Uncles
Sam & Ben son of Mary Curtis Kerr & William Henry Kerr.
and Fred
Kerr, gravesite unknown. |
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Aunt Vida
was my daddy's sister. She is the only member of the Kerr family
that I can remember being nice to me. |
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Old Temperance Post Office
Wiley J.
Williams, Lt. Col., CSA, was once postmaster at Temperance. Does
anyone know if this would be the building existent at the time he
was postmaster? He also belonged to Old Concord Methodist Church
and was mentioned by Rev. Bascom Anthony as being a good citizen.
Col. Williams outlived three wives and died in Eastman, Ga., in
1915. His home still stands there. [Photo Courtesy of Catherine
Fussell Wells]
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| This is the old Kerr barn.
I found this Thursday 04 September 2008. It is from the web site:
http://www.pbase.com/jacksonville_ga/old_jacksonville_ga
I remember going into this
structure as a little boy. I was afraid the building would collapse. My dad picked up a old picture frame and
an old table. We brought these back to our home in Decatur. I
remember my father telling that the
building was not only a post office, it was a dance hall. If I
remember correctly there were railroad tracks nearby. The scuttle
butt is that the train conductors were afraid of traversing the
area. It seems some didn't survive the trip through Temperance,
Georgia. It is a
shame this building was not preserved. |
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