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Genealogy Report and Notes for Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun:
1. SAMUEL3 KERR (SAMUEL2, JAMES1) was born Abt. 29 Nov 1741 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died 1781 in killed in Revolutionary War. He married MARY CALHOUN WFT Est. 1761-1766, daughter of EZEKIAL CALHOUN and JANE EWING. She was born Abt. 1743 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died Bet. 21 Jan - 11 Feb 1805 in Abbeville District, South Carolina. Notes for SAMUEL KERR: This Samuel Kerr MAY be the Samuel Kerr that married Mary Calhoun, daughter of Ezekial Calhoun and Jean Ewing of Lancaster County, PA, Wythe County, VA and Abbeville County, SC. He was killed in service in the Revolutionary War in 1781, and is listed in "Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution", by Bobby Gilmer Moss, pub. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1983, pg. 530. More research is necessary to establish this relationship. (Source: William Lindsey (e-mail: wlindsey@philander.edu)) Note: another researcher, David C. Galloway is doubtful that the Samuel Kerr that married Mary Calhoun is this Samuel Kerr, as that Samuel Kerr appears to have been born in 1759, according to other sources, but since this Samuel Kerr's daughter Jane was clearly born on 8 Oct. 1768 (as verified on her headstone), a Samuel Kerr born in 1759 would have been only 9 years old at the birth of his daughter, which would have been quite impossible. Given the absence of another more credible candidate, this Samuel Kerr (b. 1741) certainly appears to be an excellent fit as the husband of Mary Calhoun. E-mail from another researcher Subj: Kerr-Pickens Date: 06/04/2000 2:50:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: (William D. Lindsey) Dear Jim, I've just seen your posting to the Kerr discussion group at Rootsweb about your Kerr line. I believe we're researching the same family. My line is Samuel Kerr, who was killed as a Revolutionary soldier in 1781. He m. Mary Calhoun. He and several other Kerrs--James, Andrew, William--settled among the Calhouns on Long Cane Creek in Abbeville Co., SC, in the 1760s. I have tracked Andrew with certainty back to Augusta Co., VA, in the region that became Botetourt. You probably know that the Calhouns and Pickens connect. Mary Calhoun's sister Rebecca Floride Calhoun m. Gen. Andrew Pickens. I find all these families clustered together in Augusta Co. in the 1730s and 1740s (Orange before Augusta), and all seem to have come from the Lancaster Co., PA, region. Will gladly swap information. I don't have a complete account of my Kerr line, since I only discovered all this recently, but have been rapidly acquiring information. Maybe my pieces will fit yours, and we can see a more complete picture. Hope to hear from you, W.D. Lindsey
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/bibb/cemetery/green.txt NOTE 1: Jane Kerr was daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun. Samuel Kerr was born abt. 29 Nov. 1741, when he shows up in the baptismal register of Rev. John Craig of Tinkling Springs Presbyterian church, Augusta (later Rockbridge) Co., VA, son of Samuel and Margaret Kerr. Samuel Kerr (younger) was killed as a Revolutionary soldier in 1781. Mary Calhoun was born abt. 1743 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died bet. Jan. 21 and Feb. 11, 1805, in Abbeville Co., SC. Mary Calhoun Kerr was daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jane/Jean Ewing. NOTE 2: On John Green, see James Lee Green's (P.O. Box 8301, Columbia, SC 29202) 27 Apr. 1992 article entitled "The Greens of Bibb Co., AL," pp. 1, 3. See also Rhoda Ellison, Bibb Co., AL, The First Hundred Years (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of AL P., 1984), pp. 48-9, 68; Alton Lambert, History of Tuscaloosa Co., AL, vol. 1 (Centre, AL: Stewart UP, 1977), p. 28; Family Adventures, Bibb Co., AL, Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Family Burial Plots (P.O. Box 290354, San Antonio, TX 78280-1754; 1988), pp. 84, 289; and Rhoda Ellison, Place Names of Bibb Co., AL (Brierfield, AL: Cahaba Trace Commission, 1993), p. 75. John and Jane Green married abt. 1788 in Abbeville Co., SC, and moved to Pendleton Dist., SC, in by 1790, settling on the east side of Keowee beside Jane's uncles Gen. Andrew Pickens (m. Rebecca Calhoun) and John Ewing Colhoun. In 1818, the family moved to Bibb Co. where they opened a plantation of 3400 acres and built a house, still standing, that was lived in by family members until 1939. The house was long known as Halfway House, on the Elyton-Selma Rd. The children of John Green and Jane Kerr were Samuel Kerr Green (b. abt. 1790, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. March 1860, Grimes Co., TX; m. 1]Eliza Jane Smith 2]Elvira Birdwell [Grammer]); Elizabeth B. Green (b. abt. 1791, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 1860-70, Ouachita Co., AR; m. James H. Thompson; Benjamin S. Green (b. abt. 1795, Pendleton Dist., SC; m. Lucinda); Ezekiel Calhoun Green (b. 22 Aug. 1795, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 6 Apr. 1851, Smithland, KY; m. 1]Mary Peet 2]Matilda Harrison 3]Anna Harrison 4]Louisa B. //); Mary Calhoun Green (b. 16 Dec. 1797, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 27 Nov. 1827, Bibb Co., AL; m. Robert W. Woods); Joscelin B. Green (b. abt. 1800, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 1850-60, Bibb Co., AL; m. Elizabeth Nichols); Lucinda Green (b. 10 Sept. 1801, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 13 March 1821, Bibb Co., AL); John Ewing Green (b. 6 Nov. 1803, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 3 March 1843, Bibb Co., AL); James H. Green (b. abt. 1806, Pendleton Dist., SC; m. 1] Sarah Echols James, 2]Sarah E. Randolph); Jane Caroline Green (b. 10 Oct. 1808, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 22 Feb. 1897, Ovilla, Ellis Co., TX; m. Thomas Keesee); and George Sidney Green (b. 2 Aug. 1817, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 10 Nov. 1853, Union Co., AR; m. Mary Ann Clardy).
H. Mary Calhoun, daughter of Ezechial and Jane Ewing Calhoun, mentioned in Kegley's notes as born about 1743 in Lancaster Co., Pa., and died between 1/21/1805 and 2/23/1805 in Abbeville District SC. She had married Samuel Kerr who died 1781. In her will she left the rights of her land to a daughter, Ruth Kerr until Ruth's marriage at which time the land would be divided equally between her siblings Catherine McLain and Jane Green.
The known children of Mary Calhoun and Samuel L. Kerr were: 1. Ruth Kerr married 2. Catherine Kerr married _____ McLain 3. Jane Kerr, 10/8/1768 Abbeville District, SC - 11/2/1855 Bibb Co., Ala., married (between 1785 - 1790) to John Green, 1/21/1768 - 3/18/1837 Bibb Co. Ala. His remains were buried in a family cemetery on the home Plantation and later re-interred at Tannehill State Park. In the 1850 Federal Census widow Jane Kerr Green was living with her son James Green in Bibb Co., Ala.
Children of SAMUEL KERR and MARY CALHOUN are:
2. JANE4 KERR (SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, JAMES1) was born 08 Oct 1768 in Prob. South Carolina. She married JOHN GREEN Abt. 1788 in Abbeville County, South Carolina. He was born 21 Jan 1768, and died 18 Mar 1837 in Bibb County, Alabama. Children of JANE KERR and JOHN GREEN are:
iii. BENJAMIN S. GREEN, b. Abt. 1794, Pendleton District, South Carolina; m. LUCINDA ???.
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