Brief Life History of James Elliot
When James Elliot Kerr was born on 4 June 1862, in Assumption, Christian, Illinois, United States, his father, Amos Kerr, was 31 and his mother, Mary Sophia Roby, was 22. He married Lulu Mae Adamson on 12 September 1886, in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Elkhorn Township, Lincoln, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 10 April 1937, in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States.
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- James E Kerr, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Elliot Kerr - Memory of Someone: birth-name: James Elliot Kerr
- James Elliot Kerr, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1862–1937 Male
1869–1932 Female
Children (12)
1887–1913 Female
1889–1966 Female
1892–1936 Male
1894–1971 Male
1896–1942 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1831–1908 Male
1840–1888 Female
Siblings (3)
1862–1937 Male
1866–1940 Female
1868–1962 Female
World Events (8)
1863
Age 1
1870
Age 8
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 20
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’.
Irish: variant of Carr .
Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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