Cleone Lenore Kerr

Brief Life History of Cleone Lenore

When Cleone Lenore Kerr was born on 31 January 1899, in Richland, Ohio, United States, her father, Marion Cook Kerr, was 26 and her mother, Anna Viola Matthews, was 24. She married William Boyd Kunkel on 24 September 1915, in Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Butler, Worthington Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1940 and Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1950. She died on 7 October 1955, in Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Bellville Cemetery, Bellville, Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Boyd Kunkel
1894–1962
Cleone Lenore Kerr
1899–1955
Marriage: 24 September 1915
Gerald Kerr Kunkle
1916–1987
William Rexford Kunkel
1918–2002
Marion Robert Kunkel
1922–1998

Sources (16)

  • Cleone Kunkle, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Lenore Kerr, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Cleone Kerr, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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