in search of robert kerlin

From an Atlas of the City of Louisville, 1876.

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His home was on Jacob Street, between College and Brook and Floyd..

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A few years ago, a man descended from Lydia Brown contacted me. He had hemophilia and was trying to track back, oh, *the source* of his , oh, illness. Now, while I haven’t one drop of the Brown sister’s blood running through my veins- so to say- three of the Brown sisters did indeed marry into The Family : Rachel, Cassoline and Hannah. So, he asked if I could pay some attention to the three sisters as I went through the years and see if any of them might also have been a carrier. He suggested what I might look for.

As the third son of Robert Kerlin ( Robert A., my guy) vanishes from the face of the earth as well as all of his and Jane’s children after 1856, I have indeed spent much time tracking down the movements of Robert A.’s brothers : William, Westley and H.T.Kerlin. They were a close family, and had- for the most part – the same skills. Except for Robert A., they were skilled bricklayers, at times with much money. Robert A. was a tailor. Strikes me as a profession for a big city, like Loiusville, not Steubenville, but this is indeed an aside, fueled by my growing frustation- I cannot find them ANYWHERE.

But back to the Brown sisters. Yes, I do indeed think that Cassoline, wife of William B. Kerlin of Steubenville, could have been a carrier.

But my letters to this man remain without response.

Perhaps he has a new email address, but still, after dredging through the sorrows of the descendants of -and-William B. Kerlin and Cassoline Brown , I tend to fear the worst.

American Civil War Soldiers
about Oscar Kerlin

H.T.Kerlin

sex :M

color : white

condition m or s : m

age : 72.3

disease : tuberculosis

duration of disease : 5″

( 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 the Mississippi and western waters.

Henry T. Kerlin was a pilot between Cincinnati and St. Louis. He died in 1858, at the age of twenty-two, and his wife in 1872, at the age of thirty-one. The latter’s second husband was John Joyce. Henry T.’s only child was our subject and he was a second pilot on the western waters. In 1877 ho located on a farm, in Burrell township, where he is also engaged in dealing in country produce.

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The O.B. Kerlin Bible is proving to be a font of information. As well as leading me to Cave Hill, it mentioned the obit of Oscar B. Kerlin

The Senate proceeded to consider the nominations of C. G. Harker, John F. Miller, C. C. Andrews, Guitar Kaemmerling, Cyrus Bussey, John W. Fuller, John T. Hogeboom, John Mendenhall, Henry L. Burnett, Edward R. Platt, Addison A. Hosmer, Charles B. Barlowe, George B. Wright, Algernon S. M. Morgan, Charles H. Veil, Thomas M. Deane, Randolph Monteith, Samuel Gilman, George H. Wallace, Selden A.

Day, Stephen S. Harding, Almon Gage, Nehemiah H. Miller, Richard H. Lee, Regis de Trobriand, Marcus W. McCracken, Louis H. Pelouze, Dudley Chase, Samuel J. Davis, Miles W. Keogh, James W. Forsyth, Robert Des Anges, A. Sidney Alden, Russell Houston, John K. Cilley, John Parks, Amos M. Kellogg, Andrew Y. Carner, A. Patterson Smith, Amos S. Kimball, Alfred J. Lloyd, Andrew Van Bussum, James G. Payne, John V. Fury, Oscar B. Kerlin, N. M. Wardwell, Leroy R. Hawthorn, Angelo Crapo, Frank L. Hays, Freland D. Herbert, Charles T. Sherman, Nicholas L. Humphrey, James H. Buxton, William Irvin, George F. Pinkham, John Fahy, J. A. Crowell, Albert Mason, Edmond J. Thomas, M. D. Wickersham, Alexander Bircaccianti, D. W. H. Day, John W. Clark, Adoniram Austin, Alonzo Kingsbury, H. L. Thayer, Edward P. Graves, Jesse E. Willis, Alonzo S. Gear, Joseph F. Denniston, W. D. Chamberlain, John A. Cottman, Leo Rosenthal, John A. Lewis, Charles H. Parsons, Samuel Drury, David Waldo, Thomas P. Wilson, Jonathan S. Harvey, and Henry C. Lawrence; and

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of the said persons, agreeably to their nominations respectively.

On motion by Mr. Ten Eyck,

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to return to the President of the United States the nomination of “Colonel Joseph B. Carr, of the 2d New York Volunteers, to be brigadier-general in the Volunteer force, September 7, 1862,” with the request that the date of the said nomination may be made to correspond with that of the appointment of the nominee.

On motion by Mr. Fessenden,

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to return to the President of the United States the nomination of “William Krebs, July 7, 1862,” “under the act approved May 20, 1862,” with the request that the date of the said nomination may be made to correspond with that of the appointment of the nominee.

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  • Captains.
    • Second Lieutenant Henry Jayne, of the Seventh Illinois Cavalry (for Major-General McClernand.
    • First Lieutenant Henry C. Robinett, of the First United States Infantry (for Major-General McClernand).
• ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT.
  • Captain James W. Forsyth, of the Eighteenth United States Infantry, to be assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major.
  • Captain Robert Des Anges, of the Ninth Regiment United States Corps d’Afrique, to be assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major.
  • A. Sidney Alden, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant adjutant-general with the rank of captain.
• JUDGE ADVOCATE’S DEPARTMENT.
  • Russell Houston, of Tennessee, to be judge-advocate with the rank of major (for the Eleventh Army Corps).
• QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT.
  • To be assistant quartermasters with the rank of captain.
    • Lieutenant John K. Cilley, of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers.
    • John Parks, of New York.
    • George W. McLane, of Kansas.
    • Amos M. Kellogg, of Michigan.
    • Lieutenant Andrew Y. Carner, of the 134th New York Volunteers.
    • Private A. Patterson Smith, of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteers.
    • Lieutenant Amos S. Kimball, of the — New York Volunteers.
    • Lieutenant Alfred J. Lloyd, of the Tenth Kansas Volunteers.
    • Andrew Van Bussum, of New Jersey.
    • Lieutenant James G. Payne, of the 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
    • John V. Furry, of New York.
• SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.
  • To be commissaries of subsistence with the rank of captain.
    • Oscar B. Kerlin, of Ohio.
    • N. M. Wardwell, of New York.
    • Leroy R. Hawthorne, of Kentucky.
    • Angelo Crapo, of New York.
• MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
  • To be surgeons.
    • Assistant Surgeon Charles S. Frink, of the United States Volunteers.
    • Assistant Surgeon George A. Wheeler, of the United States Volunteers.
    • Assistant Surgeon Edwin Freeman, of the United States Volunteers.