When Sadie Ozealer Kerr was born on 17 March 1910, in North Carolina, United States, her father, John Gibson Kerr, was 29 and her mother, Johnsie Beatrice Bell, was 22. She married Donald Earl Jordon on 15 August 1942, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1947. She died on 25 July 1983, in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.
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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