Josephine Elizabeth Kerr was the eldest daughter of Jennings Bankson Kerr and the former Miss Arpeliza Jane Walkup of Charlotte, North Carolina. Her father was the 5th Mayor of Charlotte at the start of the Civil War 1859-61. And the revolution Battle of the Waxhaws was fought on the plantation owned by her great-grandfather, Capt James Alexander Walkup.
On January 2nd 1851, Josephine Kerr married Rev. Henry T. Sloan, son of James Sloan and the former Miss Jane Thompson of Newberry, South Carolina. Rev. Sloan would become minister of the A.R.P. congregations at Lone Cane and Cedar Springs for the next 40 years. Here they made their home, though never having children of their own.
In the spring of 1874, Josephine and Rev. Sloan became the guardians of her brothers three young sons: John, Franklin and David; whom they reared as their own. The three Kerr brothers called Cedar Springs home through their adulthood raising their own families near by. They all are buried in the churchyard near their Aunt Josephine and the devoted Rev. Sloan.
Josephine Kerr Sloan departed this life at the home of her nephew, John Kerr on the 14th day of May 1914. She is buried beside her husband under the large magnolia just outside the church she loved.
On January 2nd 1851, Josephine Kerr married Rev. Henry T. Sloan, son of James Sloan and the former Miss Jane Thompson of Newberry, South Carolina. Rev. Sloan would become minister of the A.R.P. congregations at Lone Cane and Cedar Springs for the next 40 years. Here they made their home, though never having children of their own.
In the spring of 1874, Josephine and Rev. Sloan became the guardians of her brothers three young sons: John, Franklin and David; whom they reared as their own. The three Kerr brothers called Cedar Springs home through their adulthood raising their own families near by. They all are buried in the churchyard near their Aunt Josephine and the devoted Rev. Sloan.
Josephine Kerr Sloan departed this life at the home of her nephew, John Kerr on the 14th day of May 1914. She is buried beside her husband under the large magnolia just outside the church she loved.
Josephine Elizabeth Kerr was the eldest daughter of Jennings Bankson Kerr and the former Miss Arpeliza Jane Walkup of Charlotte, North Carolina. Her father was the 5th Mayor of Charlotte at the start of the Civil War 1859-61. And the revolution Battle of the Waxhaws was fought on the plantation owned by her great-grandfather, Capt James Alexander Walkup.
On January 2nd 1851, Josephine Kerr married Rev. Henry T. Sloan, son of James Sloan and the former Miss Jane Thompson of Newberry, South Carolina. Rev. Sloan would become minister of the A.R.P. congregations at Lone Cane and Cedar Springs for the next 40 years. Here they made their home, though never having children of their own.
In the spring of 1874, Josephine and Rev. Sloan became the guardians of her brothers three young sons: John, Franklin and David; whom they reared as their own. The three Kerr brothers called Cedar Springs home through their adulthood raising their own families near by. They all are buried in the churchyard near their Aunt Josephine and the devoted Rev. Sloan.
Josephine Kerr Sloan departed this life at the home of her nephew, John Kerr on the 14th day of May 1914. She is buried beside her husband under the large magnolia just outside the church she loved.
On January 2nd 1851, Josephine Kerr married Rev. Henry T. Sloan, son of James Sloan and the former Miss Jane Thompson of Newberry, South Carolina. Rev. Sloan would become minister of the A.R.P. congregations at Lone Cane and Cedar Springs for the next 40 years. Here they made their home, though never having children of their own.
In the spring of 1874, Josephine and Rev. Sloan became the guardians of her brothers three young sons: John, Franklin and David; whom they reared as their own. The three Kerr brothers called Cedar Springs home through their adulthood raising their own families near by. They all are buried in the churchyard near their Aunt Josephine and the devoted Rev. Sloan.
Josephine Kerr Sloan departed this life at the home of her nephew, John Kerr on the 14th day of May 1914. She is buried beside her husband under the large magnolia just outside the church she loved.
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JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH
SLOAN
wife of
REV. HENRY
THOMPSON SLOAN, D.D.
Born
April 3rd, 1828
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May 14th 1914
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