in search of robert kerlin

Is this the illusive Stanley ? He died, I think, in an insane asylum. Well, I know that he was locked up, how he died, haven´t a clue.

    ( History of Indiana County, Penn’a.. Newark, Ohio: J.A. Caldwell, 1880. )   SAMUEL L. KERLIN was born in 1857, in Louisville, Ky., and was a son of Henry T. and Margaret Kerlin nee Carbis, daughter of Captain Samuel and Mary A. Carbis nee Logan. Captain Carbis, since 1836, has been steamboating in [...]

In the 1880 census, we can see that Mary Ann has taken the boys out of the city and seems to be trying to establish Samuel ( now a Kerlin) as a farmer. Burrell Township, Indiana county, PA, June 16th & 17th: Mary A Carvis ( Carbis), 58 ,W, F, married, Keeping House, born in [...]

In an attempt to find Sam Kerlin in the 1860 census, I look once more for Maggie Carbis, for Henry Kerlin. Nada. While the children eat lunch, I decide to look at the census of 1860 once more. One thing I know about the Carbis family is that they usually live next door to each [...]

On August 19, 1870, 20th Ward of Pittsburgh : Samuel Corbis ( Carbis), 57, M, W, Steamboat Mate, real estate valued at $16, 000, personal estate valued at $ 2,000, born in England, father of foreign birth, mother of foreign birth, male citizen of the U.S. over 21. ( 1813) Mary A. Carbis, 48, F, [...]

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