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From: "Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen" <>
Subject: Re: [KERN-L] Re: Jacob Kerns
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:43:25 -0800
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Mr. Kerns: ~ ~ a few years ago we "conversed" of the KERNS family in which
my great grandmother Caroline Kerns marriage record and the newspaper
reference of her marriage to Elisha West Sinex indicated she was the
daughter of the Rev. John KERNS & his wife Edna/Edney SMITH. The following
is from a Memorium that I received from the Methodist Conference in
Minnesota and including this portion in hopes that you might be able to
further help me in "just who" the Rev's father was:

Rev. John Kerns was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, January 2nd, 1809 and
died in Fullerton, Nebraska, August 6th, 1895. He was for sixty-eight years
a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, a pioneer preacher and savior
of men, who has at last received his just recompense of reward. When he was
ten years old his father moved from Kentucky to Jo Daviess county, Illinois.
He was converted when he was sixteen years old, and was licensed to preach
and joined the Illinois Conference in his eighteenth year.
Brother Kerns was married twice, his first wife being Miss Edna Smith,
sister of Rev. Dr. Smith, widely known in the early days of Indiana
Methodism. Mrs. Kerns died in 1876. Of their six children three survive.
Brother Kerns' second wife, Mrs. Dr. McCullough of Winona, Minn., died in
Texas in 1892.

Thank you for any help you might be able to give me.

Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen (Tacoma, Washington)




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