in search of robert kerlin

Last week, I finally cleaned up all of my sites, which had been bashed to bits last summer. And now I find my thoughts returning to Robert Kerlin. For you see, last summer my family went on a road trip, which included visiting cemeteries in Kentucky, Pittsburgh and Mount Pleasant, Ohio. As the children put [...]

While I haven’t put that information up here yet, I have known for a long time that Wesley had slaves. I was rather surprised, for that did not seem to fit in with the image I had formed of the Kerlins as a family. Imagine my surprise when I tumbled upon the possibility that Wesley’s [...]

GILTNER, Frances 4 Apr 1843 Carroll County Will Book 2, Page 7 Sons: Michael, David and Phillip. Daughters: Elizabeth and heirs, Sarah, and Mary Hoagland. Executor: Michael and David.

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# ID: I0050 # Name: Mary M. GILTNER # Sex: F # ALIA: Polly /Giltner/ # Birth: 7 MAR 1804 in Bourbon County, KY 1 # Death: 6 JUL 1865 1 # Note: Daugher of Francis & Elizabeth (Boyer). She first attended the German schools of this Pennsylvania-German settlement, since her father wanted his children [...]

# ID: I0314 # Name: Sarah (Sallie) GILTNER # Sex: F # Birth: BET. 1792 – 1826 1 # Death: SEP 1896 in Hunter’s Bottom, KY # Note: Youngest daughter of Francis & Elizabeth Giltner, married her cousin, John, of Bourbon County, KY, thus returning to the home of her early childhood. She was a [...]

Trying to locate an uncle or some other older relative that Wesley might have followed up into Kentucky, I looked through the 1840 census for Carroll County. Lot’s of Giltners, no Kerlins. Then I stumbled upon this : The Hoaglands’ ancestor, Okey, married Mary Giltner, who was John Francis and Catharine’s g-granddaughter. Okey Hoagland was [...]

Today I received an email from Dad containing scans of the information that I had requested of the Clerk of Carroll County, Kentucky. The first is of Wesley’s marriage to Sarah Giltner. It tells me no more than that they were married October 7, 1844 by a Methodist minister named I. Sollard. The second is [...]

# ID: I25814 # Name: Sarah Kerlin # Sex: F # Note: From Margaret Samland’s Carroll County Marriage Index. Appears in the 1850 Carroll County, KY Census at 37, living in household of Okey Hoagland. She is probably connected to the H. T. Curlin household next door. Marriage 1 John Giltner * Married: 1854 in [...]