Melissa Ann Kerns

Melissa Ann Gillis Kerans
BIRTH
4 Aug 1843
Oakland, Coles County, Illinois, USA
DEATH
17 Dec 1916 (aged 73)
Charleston, Coles County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL
Ashmore Cemetery
Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois, USA
MEMORIAL ID
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wife of Silas Kerans, married 12 September 1863, Coles Co., IL

name: Melissa Ann Kerans
death date: 17 Dec 1916
death place: Charleston, Coles, Illinois
gender: Female
age: 73
estimated birth year: 1843
birth date: 04 Aug 1843
birthplace: Ill.
occupation: Housekeeping
burial date: 18 Dec 1916
burial place: Ashmore, Ill.

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947

MOTHER MATTOON MAN DIES IN CHARLESTON
Mrs. Melissa Ann Kearns, Mother of Charles Kearns of This City, Succombs Sunday.

Mrs. Melissa Ann Kearns, mother of Charles Kearns of this city, passed away at eleven o’clock on Sunday morning in the Montgomery sanitarium in Charleston. Mrs. Kearns, who was seventy-three years of age, had been to the hospital to submit to an operation for the amputation of one of her legs, which had become infected. However, her condition was such that the operation was deemed inadvisable. Death came in a short time.

Funeral services were held this afternoon from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ashmore cemetery.
Mrs. Kearns was born north of Oakland on August 20, 1843, and had lived all her life in that vicinity, Ashmore and Charleston. The husband, Silas Kearns, died ten years ago. Surviving are five sons and three daughters, John Kearns, Joseph Kerans and Samuel Kearns, Charleston; Charles Kearns, Mattoon; Grove Kearns, Bloomfield, Ind.; Mrs. Charles H. Crim, Charleston; Mrs. Mary Honn, Neoga; Mrs. Sallie Pollard, Charleston.

Journal Gazette Mattoon, Illinois Monday, December 18, 1916
[Note: Kerans was misspelled throughout this obituary]

Family Members
Spouse

Silas Kerans
1833–1905

Children

Sarah Malvina Kerans Pollard
1868–1921

Mary Ellen Kerans Honn
1869–1952

Josiah Rothwell Kerans
1871–1930

John Steele Kerans
1873–1938

Bertha May Kerans Crim
1875–1935

Samuel Kerans
1878–1950