George A. Kerns ^{1 2 3 4 5}

  Death Notes:

Name: Geo A. Kerns
Event Date: 20 Dec 1921
Event Place: Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia
Gender: Male
Age (Expanded): 85 years
Birth Date: 1836
Father's Name: Jacob Kerns
Affiliate Repository Type: County Records

Citing this Record
"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NML7-YQK : 10 March 2018), Geo A. Kerns, 20 Dec 1921; citing Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia, County Records, 109, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 834,817.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1860 US Census in , Monongalia County, VA on 11 August 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 185, Family 1331, Roll 1364
Monongalia, Virginia, United States
George Kerns..23..Virginia..Farmer

(Living with wife and 3 sons.)
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• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Winfield District, Marion County, WV on June 1880. ¹

1880 US Census
Page 518C, District 93, Family 26, Roll 1407
Winfield District, Marion County, West Virginia
Georg Kerns..Self..45..WV..Farmer

(Living with wife and 3 children.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 25 Jul 1836, then his age should have been 43 instead of 45.
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• He appeared on the 1900 US Census in Fairmont District, Marion County, WV on 15 June 1900. ³

1900 US Census
Sheet 10B, District 49, Family 211
Fairmont Magisterial District, Marion, West Virginia, United States
Home owned, no mortgage
George Kerns..Father..Apr 1837..63..West Virginia..Widowed

(Living at the home of his married son, Joshua, and his family.)

NOTE - It is believed that his birth date was 25 Jul 1836 instead of Apr 1837.
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• Death Image: 20 December 1921, in Fairmont, WV.

• He was buried after 20 December 1921 in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Fairmont, WV.

Find A Grave Memorial 125415831
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George married Florenda Fast, daughter of John Adam Fast and Nancy Ann Lyman, about 1856 in Winfield, VA.¹ (Florenda Fast was born in 1833 in , Monongalia County, VA,^{1 2 6} died on 7 November 1898 in Fairmont, WV ^{6 7} and was buried after 7 November 1898 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairmont, WV ⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in , Monongalia County, VA on 11 August 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 185, Family 1331, Roll 1364
Monongalia, Virginia, United States
George Kerns..23..Virginia..Farmer
Florinda Kerns..27..Virginia
Harman Kerns..8..Virginia
Joshua Kerns..4..Virginia
Jacob Kerns..2..Virginia
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• They appeared on the 1880 US Census in Winfield District, Marion County, WV on June 1880. ¹

1880 US Census
Page 518C, District 93, Family 26, Roll 1407
Winfield District, Marion County, West Virginia
Georg Kerns..Self..45..WV..Farmer
Florinda Kerns..Wife..44..WV..Keeps House
Joshua Kerns..Son..23..WV..Labor
Jane Kerns..Daughter..19..WV
James L. Kerns..Son..17..WV..Farm Labor
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