Monroe County PA Archives Obituaries.....Kerr, Eleanor DePuy Stroud June 10, 1865
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Jeffersonian Republican. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911: July 13 1865
Died, in Stroudsburg, Pa., June 10, Eleanor De Puy, daughter of the late John
Stroud, and wife of Joseph H Kerr, in the seventy-first year of her age. In
announcing the death of one so much loved while living, and so deeply mourned when
dead, it is proper to say something of her character. Her maternal ancestor was one
of the noble Huguenot Protestants of France, who, denied religious liberty by the
indignant act of Louis XIV, in revoking the "Edict of Nantes," fled from his native
land, first to Holland, and then to America, that he might have freedom to worship
God according to the faith of his fathers. That faith has been securely held by his
descendants, and by none more faithfully than Mrs. Kerr. God had, for near, two
centuries, watched over the "covenant line,'' and gave to her the tokens of his
continued faithfulness in the hopeful conversion of all her children, who lived to
the age of maturity. Some of those children have preceded her to the heavenly
reward; three are left in the church militant to serve her Master, and honour her
name and training. In 1829 she united with the church here, of which her husband
was, and is still, an elder; and for the thirty-six years of her profession she has
"lived religious"... 

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