Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Allen County. REV. DANIEL F. KERR ws born in White County, Tenn., March 1, 1847. His father, William Kerr, was a native of the Old Dominion, born near Richmond, January 1, 1795. He married Nancy Yates some time in the year 1825; she is living, aged eighty years, having been born in 1805. William Kerr through life was engaged in agricultural pursuits; in 1857 he located in Grayson County; his death occurred on the 6th of August, 1884. He was a son of John B. Kerr, who was a Scot by birth, emigrated from his native country to America at an early day and settled in Virginia, and later removed to Tennessee, and located in White County, where he was engaged in agriculture at his death in 1848; he left one son and a daughter who never married. Rev. D. F. Kerr was born and reared on a farm, receiving in early life such schooling as could be obtained in the common schools of that period. In July, 1863, he joined the Federal Army, enlisted in Company B, Thirty-fifth Kentucky Mounted Infantry. His command participated in many engagements, most notable of which were those of Saltworks and Gladesville, in Virginia. After receiving his discharge from service in December, 1864, he returned home and engaged in the saw-mill business, in which he continued for nine years. In 1874 he traveled in Kansas in the capacity of State lecturer in the interest of the I. O. G. T., and in the same year was licensed as a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1880 he was ordained by Bishop Merrill at Catlettsburg, Ky.; and has continued in the ministry up to the present time. His preaching is earnest, and his labor constant and zealous, and through his instrumentality many have been brought into the "Fold of Christ." He has been twice married; his first wife, Mary A. Davis, of Grayson County, whom he maried 14 of July 1867, died in 1873, leaving two children, one son, Robert H., and a daughter who died in April, 1873. On the 10th of August, 1874, he married his second wife, Mary E. Quisenberry, of Grayson County, Ky.; this marriage is blessed by the birth of one son, George B. Mrs. Kerr is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Kerr is a Master Mason, and a member of Graham Lodge, No. 208. Politically he was a Republican until the year 1876. In that year he supported Green Clay Smith, and in 1880 voted for Lorenzo Dow; he is now a Prohibitionist. Kerr Yates Merrill Davis Quisenberry Graham Smith Dow = White-TN VA Grayson-KY Scotland KS Catlettsburg-Boyd-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/allen/kerr.df.txt