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Robert Kerwin

Male 1859 - 1914  (54 years)


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  • Name Robert Kerwin 
    Born 22 Dec 1859  County Killkenny, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 25 Oct 1914 
    Buried 27 Oct 1914  Holy Cross Cemetery, Emmett, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4756  Rossville
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2018 

    Mother Catherine Kerwin,   b. 1836, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5965  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Katherine Murry Kerwin 
    Married 23 May 1888  Emmett, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Robert Emmett Kerwin,   b. 10 Aug 1891, Delia, Jackson County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1989, St. Marys, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 97 years)
    +2. Margaret Clare Kerwin Close Hamilton,   b. 1 Apr 1900, Delia, Jackson County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1982, Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
    +3. Walter Leo Kerwin,   b. 1889,   d. 1925  (Age 36 years)
     4. Cletus Wilford Kerwin
    Documents
    Marriage- Kerwin, Robert and Kate
    Marriage- Kerwin, Robert and Kate
    Mr. Robert Kerwin and Miss Kate Murray, Cross Creek, were married at Holy Cross on May 23 by Reverend Father Dunning. At 8 that evening, friends of the party assembled to the amount of 40 couples and enjoyed themselves in keeping time to the well-rendered musical notes of the celebrated Jackson Brothers String Band. To say they all enjoyed a good time is putting it mild.

    A long list of the wedding gifts, and those who sent the gifts, is also given in the accounts.
    Last Modified 12 Dec 2017 07:56:15 
    Family ID F3716  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 22 Dec 1859 - County Killkenny, Ireland Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Obituary- Kerwin, Robert
    Obituary- Kerwin, Robert

    The many friends of Robert Kerwin will be grief stricken to learn that so staunch and true friend has departed this life into that which knows no sorrow or pain, Oct. 25, 1914. His death was the termination of several months of patient suffering caused from laryngitis, although the best of medical skill in Topeka and St. Margaret's hospital of Kansas City was of no avail to him. He was well prepared to meet his God.

    Mr. Kerwin was born in County Killkenny, Ireland, Dec. 22, 1859. While a youth came to America and resided in Colorado a few years, then moved to Kansas and was married to Miss Katie Murry of Cross Creek, Jackson county, and resided there until his death.

    Besides his wife, Mrs. Katie Kerwin, he leaves three sons, Walter Leo, Robert Emmett and Cletus Wilford and one daughter, Margaret Close; also two brothers, John Kerwin, County Killkenny, Ireland, and Mike Kerwin, Burlington, Wash., and one sister, Mrs. Morris Calloghlin of County Killkenny, Ireland, all of whom mourn the loss of their beloved husband, father and brother.

    Funeral services and Solemn Requiem mass was held at Sacred Heart church, Delia, Kansas, Oct. 27, conducted by Rev. Fathers O'Sullivan, Broddely and Fitzgerald. The remains were interred in Holy Cross cemetery.

    Those who attended the funeral from out of town were: Miss Anna Murry, Kansas City; Mrs. Mike McCabe, Onaga; Mrs. Pat Tobin, Kansas City; Jas. Murry, Jr., Hutchinson; August Erbacher, Victoria Erbacher, Mrs. Lew Blalock, all of St. Marys.

    The pall bearers were Noel Cowan, Geo. Ehrhart, Jo[ ] Charles, Steve Hanrahan, [ ] Flanagan, Gottlieb [ ]ouer.


    Robert Kirwin [sic] died Sunday morning Oct. 25, after an illness of long standing. He leaves a wife three sons and daughter to [missing rest]