Jackson County, Kentucky:   Martha Jane (Brockman) Kerby

Submitted to the KyGenWeb by:  	Cissy Thompson
				cissy1963@aol.com 
                              	01 Jun 2002

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Mrs. Martha Kerby passed away in a Brighton Colorado Hospital on 
August 20, 1973. Funeral services were held in the Strasburg Community 
Presbyterian Church on Thursday ; August 23 with Rev. Arnold J. 
Blomquist officiating. Burial was in Mount View Cemetery in Bennett.

Mrs. Martha Jane Kerby was born September 8, 1885 in Grand Lick, 
Kentucky, the seventh of eleven children of Mr. Ambrose and Mrs. 
Kaziah Brockman. In this place of her birth she grew to maturity and 
on March 23, 1907 she was united in marriage with Charles Franklin 
Kerby in Sand Gap, Ky.

With her husband, Mrs. Kerby came to Colorado in 1909 to settle on a 
homestead north of Bennett, Colorado. Here they maintained their home 
together for 43 years working diligently and living frugally to surmount
the many hardships of pioneering in the settling of this community. Mrs. 
Kerby and her husband were dedicated and faithful Christians being charter 
members of the Wolf Creek Community Presbyterian Church and remained 
constructively active and faithful in that fellowship while the lived 
on this homestead place. Mr. Kerby was an Elder in the church and always 
close by his side was Martha, faithful and devoted in the life and fellowship 
of the church.

Following their retirement from the farm in 1952 , Mrs. Kerby and her husband 
built a home in Strasburg where they were highly esteemed for their lives of 
faith and hope and love in active participation in the Strasburg Church for 
the rest of their lives.

The Kerbys celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary in March 1969. Mrs. Kerby 
was preceded in death by her husband on August 29, 1969. Surviving in her 
immediate family are: one brother - Mr. Noah Brockman, Dayton, Ohio, many 
nieces and nephews and a wide circle of friends.

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