Brief Life History of Anna Jane
When Anna Jane Kerr was born on 9 September 1842, in Templemore, Londonderry, County Londonderry, Ireland, her father, Caldwell Kerr, was 28 and her mother, Eliza Jane Kirk, was 23. She married Pleasant Elbert Croushorn on 10 March 1870. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Lee District, Fauquier, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Aurora Township, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 13 February 1908, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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- Anna Cronshorne in household of Pleasant Cronshorne, "United States Census, 1870"
- Annie, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Anna J. Kerr, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
1845
The Irish Potato Famine. Many Irish emigrate to America. Irish population drops from 8 million to 6 million due to death from starvation or emigration.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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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