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November Term 1825

Joseph Gill + John
Watson Admts of
Robert Kerlin dec.

Petition for leave to sell real estate.
The administrators of said Kerlin dec. reports to the Court as per report on file, that they have made sale at public vendue of the property particularly described in their said report + in their petition heretofore filed in this Court, and that the same was sold on the twelfth of November last in the town of Mount Pleasant and pursuant to public notice and struck off to John Alexander for the sum of two hundred and sixty six Dollars that being the highest and best bid therefor and more than ( crossed out : two thirds of) the minimum price fixed on by this Court at their last August term ( crossed out : and the Court being satisfied at their last August term). And the Court being satisfied that all the provisions of the law had been complied with. On motion it is ordered that the said report be accepted and the sale confirmed. And that the Administrators make to the purchaser a Deed. And the Court allow to the said Administrators the following items attending said sale to wit Appraisers for $2.50 Attorney for $8.00 Administrators allowance $ 8.00- Printers Bill $6.25 Clerk $ 3.27 Shff-96-

Joseph Gill and Watson Administrators of Robert Kerlin deceased having reported to the Court that the real estate of said deceased heretofore ordered by the Court to be sold at and for the sum of three hundred Dollars has been offered for sale at public auction since the last term and would not sell for said sum of money and praying leave to sell said property for a less sum. It is ordered by the court that the said Administrators have leave to sell said real estate for the highest sum which can be procured for the same + not less than one hundred and fifty dollars upon a credit of not more than one year.

One of the things mentioned in the O.B.Kerlin bible was a permit to visit Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

A search of the burial database at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky for Kerlin :

KERLIN, HENRY T.
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / / 10/25/1888

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *7

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KERLIN, HENRY T. CHILD OF
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / /

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *8

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KERLIN, JAMES H.
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / / 3/24/1895

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *1

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KERLIN, LIZZIE H.
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / /

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *6

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KERLIN, MARY ELIZA
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / /

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *9

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KERLIN, MARY RIDDLE MRS.
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / / 7/5/1933

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *10

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KERLIN, MARY S. MRS.
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / / 3/14/1880

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *2
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KERLIN, ROBERT
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / / 2/12/1877

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *11

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KERLIN, WESTLEY B.
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / / 10/3/1876

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *3

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KERLIN, WILLIAM R.
Important Dates
Birth Death Service
/ / / /

Cemetery Information
Section Lot Number Part Range Grave
SECTION A 2 *4

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Henry T. and Westley ( ah, that is how to spell it !) are there. These are the Louisville Kerlins. And Westley must indeed be one of the brothers, a son of Robert Kerlin.

Today I received a thick envelope from the Mormons, filled with copies of Virginia Land Deeds from the early 1800′s. Each and everyone of them mentions Robert Kerlin. This is a big break.

Bad news is that between the poor quality of the scan and the handwriting, I can barely read them. Wait, I cannot read most of them at all. It’s like being at ebay.de yesterday, all over again.

I predict that I will be spending a lot of time in a well lit room, forcing language to reveal itself from these over sized pieces of paper.

The B. is for Brooks. His obit states that Henry T. is his brother. I have found a link- although a weak one- between the 1799 marriage of Robert Kerlin and Hannah Brooks and my slew of Kerlins in Ohio. For I know, from Hannah Stephens Kerlin’s will that Henry T. was her son, as well as Robert A.

William B. was Henry T.’s brother… which means that my guess was indeed correct, that William was the older brother to Robert A.

And so I am guessing that Wesley B. Kerlin, who ends up as a bricklayer in Louisville ( and a stinkin’ slave owner) and then in Abilene, Texas, is another brother.

The rogue one.

Now, how to find that bible, those pictures and clippings that it contains ?

O.B.Kerlin Bible
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