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James Harvey Kerr

James Harvey Kerr[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1865 - 1893  (27 years)

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  • Name James Harvey Kerr 
    James Harvey Kerr
    James Harvey Kerr
    Born 11 Sep 1865  Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Gender Male 
    Died 20 Jan 1893  Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7, 8
    • died in an explosion while blasting a gravel pit.
    Person ID I6356   Main Tree
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2009 

    Father Robert Marion Kerr,   b. 14 Jul 1829, Sparta, White, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Aug 1891, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Margaret Elzirah Rawlins,   b. 30 Apr 1848, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Sep 1865, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 17 years) 
    Married 27 Mar 1863  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10
    Notes 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Family ID F865  Group Sheet

  • Photos
    James Harvey Kerr and Abigail Huff
    James Harvey Kerr and Abigail Huff
    James was killed in a gravel pit in Richmond, 1893. Abigail was his girl. She was the first white child born in Lewiston, 28 Dec 1871.
    Robert Marion Kerr
    Robert Marion Kerr
    Margaret Elzirah Rawlins
    Margaret Elzirah Rawlins

  • Notes 
    • James Harvey Kerr and Abigail Huff. James was killed in a gravel pit in Richmond, \ 1893. Abigail was his girl. She was the first white child born in Lewiston, 28 Dec., 1871

      Web_Links: \http://www.rawlins.org/histories/graphics/fullsize/1000aB0.p1.jpg

      SOURCES: History of Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins Margaret E. attended a conference meeting in Richmond, January 20, 1893 and while she was up speaking word came to the meeting that her grandson James H. Kerr (her eldest daughter's son) was killed in a gravel pit.

      James Harvey Kerr and Abigail Huff. James was killed in a gravel pit in Richmond, \ 1893. Abigail was his girl. She was the first white child born in Lewiston, 28 Dec., 1871

      Web_Links: \http://www.rawlins.org/histories/graphics/fullsize/1000aB0.p1.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S206] Sara Young, 33351 E. Punkin Center Road Hermiston, OR 97838 Phone 503-567-4209, Robert Marion Kerr FG Sheet.

    2. [S41] Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins Autobiography, Margaret and Granddaughter Eulalia L. McCaslin.

    3. [S149] Harvey M. and Margaret Frost Rawlins, Compiled by Nellie Rawlins.

    4. [S29] Family Records: Young, Sara -- CD, Sara Young, (Receive on CD January 2001).

    5. [S8] Family Records: Rawlins, Julia Whitney, Julia Whitney Rawlins.

    6. [S148] Rawlins, Harvey McGalyard - History of, Lyle Rawlins, compiler, (From "Glimpses"), in Oct. 1865 they returned to Draper to learn the sad news of the death and burial of their.

    7. [S41] Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins Autobiography, Margaret and Granddaughter Eulalia L. McCaslin, January 20, 1893 my oldest grandson, James Harvey Kerr was killed in an explosion. They we.

    8. [S63] Journal of Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins, January 20, 1893 my oldest grandson, James Harvey Kerr was killed in an explosion. They we.

    9. [S148] Rawlins, Harvey McGalyard - History of, Lyle Rawlins, compiler, (From "Glimpses"), In March 1863 their daughter Margaret Elzira married Marion Kerr and moved to Richmond to l.

    10. [S28] International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 1997, data as of February 1997), Source Batch Number M183395.