Hickory County, Missouri Biographies--E. M. Kerr

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Page 596

E. M. Kerr, one of the worthy residents of Hickory County, Mo., and a successful 
farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Marion County, Ohio, born in 1841, and 
is a son of E. and Jane (Madden) Kerr, who were born in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 
in 1807 and 1806, respectively.  The father was reared to manhood in his native 
State, but was married in Ohio, and soon after located in Indiana, and, after 
residing successively in Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana, died in the latter State 
in 1870, having been a faithful soldier in the Federal Army in Company G, Twelfth 
Kentucky Cavalry, and was also promoted to hospital steward.  His wife died in 
1869, also in Indiana.  The paternal grandfather was an Englishman who came to 
America prior to the Revolution, and took an active part in that struggle.  He 
died in Pennsylvania.  The maternal grandfather was born and spent his life in 
Virginia.  E. M. Kerr is the only one of his parents' four children who is living.  
He attained manhood in Indiana, and received his education in the common schools.  
He was married there to Miss S. Elmira Keen, who was a native of the State, born 
in 1845, and was engaged in farming in that State until 1870, when he sold out 
and came to Missouri, purchasing his present farm in Hickory County in 1883.  
During the war he joined Company B, Fifty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, 
under W. Q. Gresham, as a private, but was promoted to second lieutenant in the 
same company, and participated in the siege of Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, 
Atlanta, in which battle he saw Gresham immediately after he was wounded, and saw 
McPherson fifteen minutes before he was killed; siege of Savannah, being with 
Sherman on his march to the sea, and was discharged at Louisville, K., and 
mustered out of service at Indianapolis, Ind.  He has ever since been a strong 
Republican, and is a member of the G. A. R.  He belongs to the Agricultural Wheel.

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