Troy Times

May 27, 1847 

KERR, HAMILTON JR. - Died - At his residence in Monroe Township, on Wednesday evening, the 19th inst., Hamilton Kerr, Jr., aged about 25 years.  He had a severe attack of Pleurisy, about the first of March, from which he never recovered.  He was cut down in the prime of life, and in the midst of activity and usefulness.  He was a young man of talent and worth, and enjoyed to the fullest extent the respect and confidence of all who knew him; and his loss will be severely felt; by an affectionate wife, and a child (three or four months old,) and a large circle of relatives and friends, among whom are his father and mother.  He had been married but little more a year when he died; and but few men appear more favorably situated to enjoy life than he--the prospects before him were fair and cheering.  But the all-wise disposer of events knows best when to call his children away; and may all submit to his dispensations with becoming fortitude and resignation.

                                        May 25, 1847                         J. W.  May 27, 1847