in search of robert kerlin

Today, I found the missing census of 1860. I can now follow Mary Ann Logan Carbis through 60 years of census taking.

The first is that of 1840.

And the second page.

City of Pittsburgh, West Ward, Samuel Corbis’ (Carbis) household includes one male 20, under 30 ( 1810- 1820) and one female, 15, under 20 ( 1820- 1825). One member of the household works in navigation of canals, lakes and rivers.

I have spent many a Sunday afternoon trying to find the Samuel Carbis family in any census taken after 1840 and before 1870.

Today I found them, in the census of 1850, by doing a search on the name Samuel.

And here they all are, including a wee Maggie Carbis and Mary Ann Logan’s mother, Rachel.

Maggie was about 15 when she married Henry Kerlin. An older man, he was about 18 .

I’m feeling a bit discouraged at the moment. The limitations caused by my living in the Netherlands are becoming more and more apparent : I have to access a Family History Center and that is proving difficult.

For now, I am telling myself that my brain needs a break. Perhaps if I leave it alone for awhile- stop wracking it- I might find a solution. And so, for now, I simply work on transcribing Early Ohio Tax records

Perhaps I should simply start preparing a list list of things that I can do when I am in America, things to look for in Mount Pleasant, items to look up at the Family History Center in Jasper ( can you believe my luck ?).

Things that I can do in Pittsburgh- the family lived in Pittsburgh for well over one hundred years, possibly even two hundred. Yes, get the street addresses of the Carbis family, of the Kerlin’s, of the house where Annie was laid out and Dad was born. The cemetery.

Something which might be just the tiniest bit productive.

I rarely wear jewelry, for it simply does not fit into my life style these days. Sometimes, though, when I am feeling a bit overwhelmed, I will put on some fancy, schmancy piece or another, to fortify my soul, perhaps.

Today we went to an opening of an art gallery . We were invited because the owners are our neighbors and, well, that is what ones does, in a small town like this.

Oddly enough, diamonds are terribly expensive in the Netherlands and rarely seen amidst the local folk. I felt the need for a diamond today, not mom’s big old flashy one, but Bucky’s discrete one. She had very slender fingers, size four I do believe, and that ring of hers just fits- very very loosely- on my pinky.

Given her druthers, Bucky would have never have left this ring to me, but she had no choice, that is the sort of ring it is. It had to go to me. The ring contains a diamond which belonged to my mother, one that belonged to Bucky- my grandmother- and one which belonged to Eva- my great- Grandmother. As I sat in the tub this evening, the sparkle of the ring catching my attention, I noticed that there was a fourth large diamond in the ring.

And given the nature of the ring, I knew that one of the diamonds in this ring belonged to my great- great grandmother, Annie O’Neil.

There is no one else it could have belonged to.

Given the nature of the ring.

One day, this ring will be Sally’s, for, that is the nature of this ring.

Index To Deeds No.1- Winchester, VA.
Page 215
US/Can 1954 890

Date of Record
Oct. 3, 1800

Name
Kerlin, Robert

To or From
From

Name
Smith et ux, Mahlin

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
1

Page
196

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Date of Record
Jan. 29, 1802

Name
Kerlin, Robert

To or From
From

Name
Groves, Michael

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
1

Page
249

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Date of Record
Jan. 30, 1807

Name
Kerlin, Robert

To or From
From

Name
Harmer et ux, Jacob

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
2

Page
82

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Date of Record
March 16, 1815

Name
Kerlin, Robert

To or From
From

Name
Young et ux, Lewis

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
3

Page
181

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Date of Record
Nov. 28, 1816

Name
Kerlin et ux, Robert

To or From
To

Name
Carlile, Jonathan

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
3

Page
336

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Date of Record
Nov. 29, 1828

Name
Kercheval et ux Jr., Samuel

To or From
To

Name
Episcopal Church

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
6

Page
255

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Date of Record
Feb. 3, 1846

Name
Kreb’s heirs, Samuel

To or From
To

Name
Bowers, Harrison

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
9

Page
31

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Date of Record
Feb. 2, 1856

Name
Kurtz, Robert J.

To or From
From

Name
Kurtz’s heirs, Adam

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
10

Page
224

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Date of Record
July 30, 1862

Name
Kurtz, Robert J.

To or From
From

Name
Kurtz, Julia

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
11

Page
147

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Date of Record
July 30, 1862

Name
Kurtz et als, Rebecca A.

To or From
From

Name

Kurtz, Julia
Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
11

Page
141

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Date of Record
Dec. 29, 1865

Name
Kurtz, Sally

To or From
To

Name
Dandridge’s Tr., Mary Eliz.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
11

Page
216

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Date of Record
Dec. 11, 1867

Name
Kremer’s Tr., Susannah

To or From
To

Name
Hargest Tr., Thomas S.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
11

Page
401

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Date of Record
Dec. 27, 1869

Name
Kurtz Tr., Robert I.

To or From
From

Name
Williams Sp. Comr., Jas. H.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
12

Page
288

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Date of Record
March 7, 1871

Name
Kern, Sarah A. F.

To or From
From

Name
Kern, James

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
13

Page
56

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Date of Record
March 10, 1871

Name
Kern et vir, Sarah A.F.

To or From
To

Name
Brady’s Tr., Ellennora

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
13

Page
56

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Date of Record
Dec. ?2, 1874

Name
Krebs, R. Scott

To or From
To

Name
Jones, Flavius J.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
14

Page
287

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Date of Record
May 24, 1875

Name
Keenan’s Exor. , R.A.
To or From
To

Name
Keenan’s heirs, R.A.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
14

Page
350

********************

Date of Record
May 24, 1875

Name
Keenan’s heirs, R.A.

To or From
From

Name
Keenan’s Exor., R.A.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
14

Page
350

********************

Date of Record
Jan. 31, 1876

Name
Kremer, Rosa B.

To or From
From

Name
Moore’s Sp.Comr., T.T.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
14

Page
466

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Date Of Record
Aug. 5, 1878

Name
Kremer, Rosa B.

To or From
To

Name
Barr, James W.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
15

Page
487

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Date of Record
May 31, 1880

Name
Keenan ( Mrs.), R.A. by Comr.

To or From
To

Name
Denny, William R.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
16

Page
346

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Date of Record
Sept. 1, 1881

Name
Kitchen, S.C.

To or From
To

Name
Larew, Samuel L.

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
17

Page
178

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Date of Record
Oct. 3, 1883

Name
Kohlhousen, Sally

To or From
From

Name
Lillis et vir, Ellen

Kind of Instrument
Deed

Book
18

Page
217

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Date of Record
July 1, 1884

Name
Kurtz, Robert I.

To or From
To

Name
Kurtz, Ellan Jane

Kind of Instrument
Deed of Gift

Book
18

Page
406

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Date of Record
Jan.13, 1885

Name
Kohlhausen et vir, Sally E.

To or From
To

Name
Moore Tr., L.T.

Kind of Instrument
Trust

Book
19

Page
77

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Date of Record
Jan. 20, 1885

Name
Kurtz et al, Robert I.

To or From
To

Name
Atkinson Tr., Wm. M.

Kind of Instrument
Trust

Book
19

Page
81

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And here she is, Virginia Carbis Burd. Maggie’s sister.

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 father- in-law ( Sallie’s father) was the Giltner in the Crosswhite Affair.

Short version :

Adam Crosswhite and his family, escaped Kentucky slaves, were tracked to the abolitionist town of Marshall, Michigan, in 1847 by bounty hunters. Both black and white Marshall residents detained the bounty hunters and smuggled the slaves into Canada. Back in Kentucky, the slave master stirred up intense excitement about “abolitionist mobs” in Michigan. In 1848, the slave owner filed and won a lawsuit against Marshall residents, who had to pay the slave owner court costs and the “value” of his missing slaves, or about $2,000. This case influenced the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which gave slave masters the right to retrieve their “missing property” from anywhere in the country. The Fugitive Slave Act helped ignite the Civil War that led to the Fourteenth Amendment.

Giltner v Gorham (aka the Crosswhite Affair) in 1847.

More about it here and here. ( note that a David Giltner was a witness at Sallie’s second marriage)

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.

Here.

# 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 to be educated to the native language of his motherland. He relaxed his rule somewhat, when he allowed Mary to attend 3 sessions of 3 months each of an English school. She moved with her family in 1818 to Hunter’s Bottom, KY, about 8 miles below the mouth of the Kentucky River. She was of a genial, viviacious temperament, and soon became a leading spirit in whichever circle she was a member. She was industrious and energetic and performed her share of the labor of a pioneer household, including spinning, weaving and carding. She also had a taste and skill for embroidery and needlwork. One of her pieces, a large “counterpane” is in a good state of preservation. As of 1908 it is a prized treasure of her family. She was married to Okey Hoagland in 1827 under the forest trees in her parents home. In the attractive and intersting locality of Hunter’s Bottom, Mrs. Hoagland was a prominent figure for 3 decades. If sickness entered a home of friends or strangers, some member of her family was dispatched to relieve the weary mother; and always proved a patient, trusted watcher by the bedside of the sufferer. She was unostentatious in her charity; but if inquired into, in every commendable cause when contributions were made, her gifts were found “to lead the rest.” But the interest that dominated all others were those of the little Methodist Chapel (Hopewell) which she and her husband were principal instruments in the building. The picture which often presents itself to her children is that of their mother on the Sabbath afternoon, seated in her arm chair, with a bouquet of favorite flowers lying beside her and her open folio Testament, reverently reading God’s word. A thought which was oftern the subject of her most serious meditations, was our individual responsibility to God, and that for every idle work, we must give an account at theJudgement seat of Christ. Mrs. Hoagland had reached but little more than three score years, when she was attacked with a disease of the heart. She lingered a few months and died on 6 Jul 1865. In a quiet cemetery at the paternal home with five generations of her kindred, besides her three sons, she was laid to rest.

Father: Francis GILTNER b: 4 NOV 1770 in Lehigh County, PA

Mother: Elizabeth BOYER b: BET. 1748 – 1774 in Hagerstown, MD

Marriage 1 Okey HOAGLAND b: 27 FEB 1791 in Morris County, NJ *

Married: 18 OCT 1827 in Hunter’s Bottom, KY 1

Children 1. Has No Children Moses HOAGLAND b: 19 DEC 1828

2. Has No Children Delia HOAGLAND b: 24 JAN 1831

3. Has No Children Martin HOAGLAND b: 28 FEB 1833

4. Has Children Sarah Jane HOAGLAND b: 12 OCT 1835 in NJ

5. Has No Children Mary Elizabeth HOAGLAND b: 23 OCT 1837 in KY

6. Has No Children Catherine HOAGLAND b: 18 FEB 1840 in KY

7. Has No Children Cornelia HOAGLAND b: 18 MAY 1842

8. Has Children Bernard Giltner HOAGLAND b: 10 SEP 1844

9. Has No Children Benjamin Francis HOAGLAND b: 31 AUG 1847

Sources: 1. from info compiled from “Hoagland Families of America” by Mary Hoagland Wallace of Springfield, IL 1908

From the same source, according to which Sallie Giltner is a sister is Mary Giltner.