Julius Franklin Kerr

Obituary of Julius F. Kerr

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GOOD CITIZEN, correspondent of the LANDMARK

The imprint of many human feet, a freshly made mound strewn with flowers yet unwithered, a home shorn of its strength and fatherly care, a neighbor gone - Julius Kerr lies sleeping.  All the people in the neighborhood came to pay their last sad respects - the men with somber, subdued faces, the women with tears and flowers.  Not in all their lives had the people been called on to witness so tragic an end to a good man's life.

Mr. Kerr was a man of good common sense, a successful man in his calling, a staunch liberal supporter of the church: a good neighbor, a kind, indulgent husband, and a fond loving parent.

The ravages of desease had wrought so much havoc on the nerve and brain forces that, in the end, reason had been disenthroned and to find surcease from bodily suffering the weak flesh succumbed to the act of an irresponsible, unaccountable hand that through a life of 57 years had been held firmly and faithfully on the helm of a well regulated life.

There is left a wife, three sons and three daughters. What mortal has the right to judge harshly? It is reasonable that after a life of 57 years of unswerving fidelity abd faithful service to the Master, that in the last dark, sad hours of agony a God of love and mercy would forsake such a one? Ah, no. Ymo.

Troutman's NC, May 20, 1901.

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Description Obituary of Julius Kerr

Date 20 May 1901

Location Troutman, North Carolina

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Suicide of Julius Kerr

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The LANDMARK mentioned briefly in its last issue that Mr. Julius F. Kerr, a farmer living in the neighborhood of Perth Church, below Troutman's, had been found dead on his premise Friday morning. Investigation disclosed that Mr. Kerr had committed suicide by cutting his throat with his knife.

Coroner Geo. M. Foard and Dr. R. A. Campbell conducted the investigation and found the following facts were developed: early Friday morning Mr. Kerr went out to feed his hogs some distance from the house. He did not return as soon as expected and some of his family went to look for him. He was found dead, lying face down in a pool of blood with his pocket knife in his hand. A severe gash had been cut in his throat and death resulted from the wound. It was very evident that the wound was self-inflicted and the coroner's jury, composed of J. M. Patterson, G. M. Young, G. W. L. Cavin, F. K. Oswalt, P. H. Collins, and W. H. Evans, found that the deceased came to death by his own hand.

Mr Kerr had been a great sufferer from dyspepsia for a long time and was much depressed on this account. Some time recently he had said to his wife that he believed he would kill himself, but she did not take the remark seriously. Thursday night he was very restless and it is supposed that his physical suffering had so affected him that his mind was temporarily unbalanced.

Mr. Kerr was a prominent and well to do farmer and was highly esteemed in his neighbiorhood. He was about 57 years old and his wife and several children survive him.

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Description Suicide of Julius Kerr

Date 12 May 1903

Location Troutman, North Carolina

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Activity of NC 7th Regiment during Civil War

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7th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry

7th Infantry Regiment State Troops was organized at Camp Mason, near Graham, North Carolina, in August, 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Iredell, Alexander, Cabarrus, Rowan, New Hanover, Mecklenburg, Nash, and Wake. The unit took an active part in the fight at New Bern, then moved to Virginia. It was assigned to General Branch's, Law's, and Lane's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. After fighting at Hanover Court House, it participated in the various campaigns of the army from the Seven Day' Battles to Cold Harbor, then was involved in the Petersburg siege south and north of the James River. The regiment sustained 51 casualties at New Bern, 253 out of the 450 engaged during the Seven Days' Battles, 69 at Second Manassas and Ox Hill, 52 at Sharpsburg, and 86 at Fredericksburg. There were 37 killed and 127 wounded at Chancellorsville, and of the 291 in action at Gettysburg, thirty-one percent were disabled. It lost 5 killed, 62 wounded, and 37 missing at The Wilderness and 11 killed and 28 wounded at Spotsylvania. On February 26, 1865, the unit was sent to North Carolina where it surrendered with the Army of Tennessee with 13 officers and 139 men. A detachment surrendered at Appomattox with 1 officer and 18 men. The field officers were Reuben P. Campbell, William L. Davidson, and Edward G. Haywood; Lieutenant Colonel Junius L. Hill; and Majors Edward D. Hall, James G. Harris, Robert B. McRae, John M. Turner, and Robert S. Young.

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Description 7th Regiment, NC In fantry activity during Civil War

Date Aug 1861

Location Virginia

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1843

14 Sep

Birth

, Iredell, North Carolina, USA

1850

Age: 7

Residence

Iredell, North Carolina

1860

Age: 17

Residence

School District 62, Iredell, North Carolina

1862

22 Feb

Age: 18

Military

, , Iredell, North Carolina, USA

Co I, 7th NC Infantry: Enlisted 2-22-62. Private, age 18. Wounded in his arm and shoulder 5-3-63 at Chancellorsville, VA. Returned to duty 9-30-63. Detailed as a Provost Guard on 2-11-64 at Gordonsville, VA. Paroled 5-26-65 at Statesville, NC.

1867

abt

Age: 24

Marriage to Isabell V. Nesbit

married by John Young, Justice of the Peace

1870

Age: 27

Residence

Fallstown, Iredell, North Carolina

1880

Age: 37

Residence

Fallstown, Iredell, North Carolina, United States

1887

28 Jul

Age: 43

Marriage to Sarah Jane Hethcox

Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

Married by D.Z. Caldwell, ARP Minister in Statesville. Witnesses: J. M. Grier and C. A. Caldwell.

1900

Age: 57

Residence

Fallstown, Iredell, North Carolina

1901

17 May

Age: 57

Death

Troutman, Iredell, North Carolina, USA