James Kerr and Susanna Stephenson

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Husband James Kerr ^{1 2}

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            AKA: James Carr 3
           Born: 1702 - Ireland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1778 - Fitter's Fort, PA 1
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Stewart (      -      ) 2

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Wife Susanna Stephenson ³

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            AKA: Susanna Stevenson 2
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Conococheague, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Father] Stephenson (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M James Kerr ²

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           Born: 30 Dec 1762 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Feb 1818 5
         Buried:  - Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Crawford Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Rankin (Abt 1773-1855) 6

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2 F [Unk] Kerr

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in childhood
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Samuel Kerr ^{2 7}

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           Born: Abt 1767
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Aug 1839 - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA 7 8
         Buried:  - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA

         Spouse: Catharine Coover (Abt 1792-1874/1875) 7 9
           Marr: 1817 1

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General Notes: Husband - James Kerr

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He emigrated from Ireland to America and first settled about 1732 in Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at about the age of thirty. There he married a woman named Stewart, who died there after having borne to him ten children. Not long after her decease he married his second wife. He moved from Lancaster County about the year 1766, and, after stopping a few months in Canogocheague settlement, where he buried his second wife, he continued his course westward to a place on the Juniata River, now in the bounds of Huntington County, where he com-menced a settlement, on a tract of land near to what was called Frankstown, an old town, where he continued to reside until the Indians invaded that neighborhood, when his children all left him alone, he utterly refusing to leave his own house, and fled to Cambria County. This was in December, 1777. He continued alone in his house in very feeble health until some time in January, when he was taken to Fitter's Fort, where he died soon after. He was an elder of the Presbyterian church for about forty years.

He had ten children with his first wife. He had two sons and one daughter with his second.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 565.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 296.

3 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 762.

4 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 554.

5 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 301.

6 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 557.

7 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 565, 566.

8 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 357.

9 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 297.