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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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.
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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.
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