Obituary of Everett Kerr ********************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008 ********************************** Everett Kerr Bath County News-Outlook Thursday, April 7, 1938 Everett Kerr Killed In Cincinnati Crash Was A Native Of Bath County Everett Kerr, 47 years old, of 1317 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, was fatally injured Sunday night when his automobile crashed into a College Hill street car at Monmouth and Colerain streets, Cincinnati. Mr. Kerr was taken to a Cincinnati hospital where he died a few minutes after arrival. The body was brought to Shrout, Piper & Shrout's funeral home here Monday and prepared for burial. According to Louis Jenkel, street car motorman, Kerr crashed into the front of the street car in attempting to pass another automobile. Mr. Kerr was a native of this county, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kerr. He attended school in Owingsville and when quite young married Miss Ida May Young, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Young of Peeled Oak, who survives him. Shortly after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kerr went to Shelby county to make their home. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Misses Jessie and Virginia May Kerr; one son, George Kerr; three sisters, Mrs. Bertie Steele, and Mrs. W. R. Wells, Owingsville, and Mrs. A. E. Stewart, Shelbyville, and one brother, James Kerr, Owingsville. Funeral services were held at the chapel at the Shrout, Piper & Shrout funeral home here Wednesday afternoon, April 6, at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. George C. Frey. Interment was in the Shrout Cemetery near Ore Mines. Pall bearers were A. G. Shrout, Walter Razor, Clyde Staton, Omer Burke, Ralph Shrout, Brooks Wells, Watson Thomas, Edgar Denton, W. C. Lacy, J. A. Richards.