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Descendants of WALTER KERRICK "father of Chloe Kerrick"
Generation No. 1
1. WALTER4 KERRICK (HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK) was born Abt. 1746 in
CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND, and died Abt. 1800 in LOUNDON CO. VA. He married MARY BARNES
1768 in UNKNOWN.
Notes for WALTER KERRICK:
WALTER KERRICK was born Abt. 1746 in CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND, and died Abt. 1800 in
LOUNDON CO. VA. He married MARY BARNES 1768 in UNKNOWN.
She was born January 21, 1744/45 in CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND, and died December 20, 1783
in LOUDOUN CO. VA.
Notes for WALTER KERRICK:
Moved to Loundon co. VA in 1778. Mary Barnes Will B1 p262/3
Children of WALTER KERRICK and MARY BARNES are:
1. HUGH KERRICK, b. 1768, LOUNDON, VA; d. January 29, 1845, FAUQUIER, VA.
2. CHLOE KERRICK, b. 1769, MARYLAND; m. JOHN QUEEN II JR.; b. 1755, LOUNDON, VA; d. May
12, 1842, LOUNDON, VA.
3. STEPHAN KERRICK, b. 1771, MARYLAND.
4. BARNES KERRICK, b. 1773, MARYLAND; d. HANCOCK CO, VA.
5. WALTER KERRICK, b. Bet. August 1774 to 1779, LOUNDON, VA; d. November 1851, FRANKLIN
CO, IN.
6. MARY KERRICK, b. 1775, MARYLAND; m. JOSEPH ASHTON; b. October 31, 1798.
7. MARTHA PATTIE KERRICK, b. 1781; m. JOSEPH HOLMES, 1826. Notes: JOSEPH HOLMES and
MARTHA KERRICK were Married: 1826
Information from Joesph Karrick of Lyndhurst, OH
Children of WALTER KERRICK and MARY BARNES are:
2. i. HUGH5 KERRICK, b. 1768, LOUNDON, VA; d. January 29, 1845, FAUQUIER, VA.
ii. CHLOE KERRICK, b. 1769, MARYLAND; m. JOHN QUEEN II JR..
iii. STEPHAN KERRICK, b. 1771, MARYLAND.
iv. BARNES KERRICK, b. 1773, MARYLAND; d. HANCOCK CO, VA.
3. v. WALTER KERRICK, b. Bet. August 1774 - 1779, LOUDON, VA; d. November 1851, FRANKLIN
CO, IN.
vi. MARY KERRICK, b. 1775, MARYLAND; m. JOSEPH ASHTON.
vii. MARTHA PATTIE KERRICK, b. 1781; m. JOSEPH HOLMES, 1826.
4. viii. THOMAS KERRICK, b. February 08, 1781, LOUNDON, VA; d. 1857, DECATUR CO, IN.
ix. JOANNA KERRICK, b. Bef. 1783, VIRGINIA; d. January 13, 1874, INDIANA.
Generation No. 2
2. HUGH5 KERRICK (WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK) was born 1768
in LOUNDON, VA, and died January 29, 1845 in FAUQUIER, VA. He married ELIZABETH NEALE
March 17, 1791 in FAUQUIRE VA.
Children of HUGH KERRICK and ELIZABETH NEALE are:
i. ELIZABETH MARY6 KERRICK.
ii. NANCY KERRICK, b. Abt. 1792, VIRGINIA; m. ELIAS HITCH, April 10, 1812.
iii. WILLIAM NEAL KERRICK, b. Bet. 1794 - 1796; m. DELILA MILLS.
iv. JOHN BARNES KERRICK, b. 1795, FAUQIER, VA; m. NANCY CRAIG, March 02, 1820, FAUQIRE,
VA.
v. FANNY KERRICK, b. 1800; m. BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, January 04, 1821.
vi. EDWIN KERRICK, b. 1802, VIRGINIA; m. HARRIET DRUMMOND.
vii. EDWARD KERRICK, b. 1804.
viii. MATTHEW KERRICK, b. Bet. 1805 - 1807, FAUQIER, VA; m. LUCY ANN, 1840.
5. ix. ABIJAN KERRICK, b. 1808, FAUQIER, VA; d. February 07, 1861, MARION CO, MO.
3. WALTER5 KERRICK (WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK) was born Bet.
August 1774 - 1779 in LOUDON, VA, and died November 1851 in FRANKLIN CO, IN. He married
DEBORAH ROACH May 29, 1805 in LOUNDON CO. VA.
Child of WALTER KERRICK and DEBORAH ROACH is:
6. i. KERRICK6 KERRICK, b. 1810, LOUDON, VA.
4. THOMAS5 KERRICK (WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK) was born
February 08, 1781 in LOUNDON, VA, and died 1857 in DECATUR CO, IN. He married PHOEBE
CARRUTHERS October 11, 1807 in FRED CO. MD.
Notes for THOMAS KERRICK:
THOMAS KERRICK
The Kerrick family are of Irish extraction, but for many generations have been
residents of the United States. In 1824 the family removed from their Eastern home, in
Loudoun County, VA, to what is then considered the far away West, Muskingum County, Ohio.
Later their residence was in Franklin County, Ind. Thomas Kerrick was a carpenter by
trade, but before leaving his first home in Virginia he met with an accident which
debarred him from working longer in the trade. He had been injured in Virginia by a
run-away horse, and was left a cripple for life. When he left his native State he was
scarcely able to walk, while he carried his arm in a sling for some time,.He had only
$27.50 to carry himself and his family to their new home, but after reaching Muskingum
County he taught school and two of the sons engaged in cutting wood. The wood thus
obtained they exchanged for salt, for which they paid twenty cents per bushel. The autumn
succeeding their arrival they were u!
nable to get the means to continue their westward journey, and with a one horse team,
emigrated to Franklin County. >From that place they again removed in 1840 to Decatur
County, Ind. In this County the boys grew up, obtaining such education as was possible,
which as may be readily imagined was very limited. Their land was rented, and they were
compelled to work very hard to make both ends meet.
Thomas Kerrick for many years employed himself as a teacher, for which position he was
naturally adapted by his thoroughness and patience, as well a by his education. During
the latter part of his life he was quite feaf and almost blind, so that he would consent
to take only very small schools. He Passed away in 1856, at the home-stead in Decatur
County. His wife lived some years thereafter, and during the last portion of her life was
also nearly blind. Thomas Kerrick and his wife had a family of eight children, whose name
are given as follows: Nimrod, a resident of Bloomington, Ill as of 1900.
James, who died in Decatur County, Ind. Walter, who died in Marshall County, ILL. Armisted
Kerrick
Johanna, who died in Decatur County, Ind. Stephen, who died in Decatur County, Ind.
Hugh, who died in Rush County, Ind. Mary, married James Throp of Decatur County, Ind.
Thomas Kerrick served in the war of 1812 under the Virginia Militia as a PVT.
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF WOODFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS and published by Chapman
Bros. of Chicago in 1889.
Children of THOMAS KERRICK and PHOEBE CARRUTHERS are:
7. i. NIMROD6 KERRICK, b. October 13, 1808, LOUNDON, VA; d. December 13, 1897,
BLOOMINGTON, IL.
ii. JAMES KERRICK, b. 1811, LOUDON, VA; m. MARY COMPTON SLOAN, 1843.
iii. WALTER KERRICK, b. Abt. 1815, VIRGINIA; d. Bef. 1900, INDIANA.
8. iv. ARMISTEAD KERRICK, b. February 21, 1819, LOUDON, VA; d. 1873, MINONK, IL.
v. JOANNA KERRICK, b. 1822; d. 1840, INDIANA.
vi. STEPHAN KERRICK, b. Bet. 1824 - 1825.
Notes for STEPHAN KERRICK:
FARMER
vii. HUGH KERRICK, b. Bet. 1827 - 1828.
viii. MARY KERRICK, b. June 21, 1830, INDIANA; d. June 24, 1907; m. JAMES P. THROP, May
30, 1855.
Generation No. 3
5. ABIJAN6 KERRICK (HUGH5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK) was
born 1808 in FAUQIER, VA, and died February 07, 1861 in MARION CO, MO. He married
DELCINCA DEARING October 1832 in FAUQIRE, VA.
Children of ABIJAN KERRICK and DELCINCA DEARING are:
i. MARY ELLAN7 KERRICK, b. 1834; m. EDWARD SHUMATE.
ii. AFRED KERRICK, b. 1836.
iii. MARTHA A KERRICK, b. 1838; m. ELISHA ENGLISH.
9. iv. JOHN KERRICK, b. November 29, 1840, MARION CO, MO; d. March 31, 1922, QUINCY, MO.
v. STEPHAN KERRICK, b. 1842, MARION CO, MO; m. HENRIETTA SCOTT.
vi. LOISA KERRICK, b. 1844; d. 1918, MO.; m. EASTMAN BALLINGER JR..
vii. BENJAMIN KERRICK, b. 1849, MO..
6. KERRICK6 KERRICK (WALTER5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK) was
born 1810 in LOUDON, VA. He married CHARLOTTA 1834.
Children of KERRICK KERRICK and CHARLOTTA are:
i. IRENE7 KERRICK.
ii. CASSIUS W. KERRICK, b. Bet. 1847 - 1849, GREENSBURG, INDIANA; d. March 12, 1918,
PASADENA, CA; m. MARY ROBINSON, 1873.
Notes for CASSIUS W. KERRICK:
CASSIUS W. KERRICK
President of the Kerrick Construction Co. and Pioneer Engineer of the Rail Road,
Cassius Kerrick was
born in Greensburg Indiana in 1847, he went overland by wagon to Des Moines, Iowa when
he was a young man, engaged in railroad construction work there and then came to
Minneapolis as master mechanic for the Great Northern. He later became a railroad
contractor, erecting many bridges for the Great Northern and for Northern Pacific. He
retired from active business in 1913. And moved to Pasadena Ca. He died on March 12,
1918.
Mr. Kerrick had a Town in his name due to his craftsmanship in Architecture in
building bridges for the railroad from coast to coast. Kerrick Town North of Pine Co.
Minnesota.
7. NIMROD6 KERRICK (THOMAS5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK) was
born October 13, 1808 in LOUNDON, VA, and died December 13, 1897 in BLOOMINGTON, IL. He
married MARY MASTERS Bet. May 04 1830 - 1839 in FAIRFIELD, IN.
Notes for NIMROD KERRICK:
REVEREND NIMROD KERRICK
Born October '6, 1808. in Loudon county, Virginia. He was the first born of
Thomas, and Phoebe Kerrick. He died in Bloomington. Illinois, December, 13, 1897 having
completed two months of his ninetieth year. His death resulted from injuries received
three months before by falling upon the brick pavement. as he was walking from his own
to the house of one of his sons near by. Up to the day of this accident he was in good
health, having comfortable use of all of his faculties. Free from bodily pains, clear and
vigorous in mind, he enjoyed the society of his family and friends and books through all
his declining years.
Mr. Kerricks boyhood was spent on a Virginia farm. Until be was sixteen years old
he had attended school but a few months. From eleven to sixteen he had but three weeks
of schooling; this was a source of regret to hin, all his life. He had a strong natural
thirst for knowledge from early youth. Having learned to read well while a small boy, he
read again and again such few books as were within his reach; some of These he read so
often that he knew them almost as well as if he had himself written them. Probably few
men have lived who knew the Bible as well as Mr. Kerrick: he could repeat from memory,
with astonishing accuracy, a large part of it. Mr. Kerricks most remarkable memory and his
long life together made him a real connecting link between the earlier and modern times of
our country. He well remembered Ceneral LaFayette's visit to the United States in
1824. The general was in Leesburg. not mare than ten or twelve miles away, but young
Nimrod could do ju!
st as good a days work on the farm that day, and he was left to do it while the older
ones went to greet the hero.
In the fall of 1824 Mr. Kerrick moved with his parents to Muskingom county Ohio,
traveling overland in a wagon. He often spoke of meeting on this trip with General
Jackson. near Wheeling. Virginia. who was going to Washington to make his contest in the
House of Representatives for the presidency, the election day having been indecisive. Mr.
Kerrick could describe minutely the general's dress, his
carriage, the number of his horses and attendants, the exact order of travel. etc.
Hearing him relate the circu instances of this meeting one could almost see the great
Tennesseean and his outfit. ("My mother was a comely woman, still young, and the
general bowed graciously to her as he passed.') The Kerricks were not for Jackson for
president,, but that gracious bow to the "comely mother palliated Jackson politics
to a sensible degree one could still see it after seventy years, as Mr. Kerrick related
the incident.
The family remained in Ohio but two years, then pushed on to southeastern Indiana.
which region became their permanent home. The first settlement was made in Franklin
county, but later, lands were taken and a final settlement made in Docatur county.
At about twenty years of age Mr. Kerrick had the only severe, or dangerous sickness of
his long life: recovering from this, but not yet strong, be took a school to teach, and
thus acddentally discovered his talent which was for teaching. About this time be met
Thomas O'Brien, a noted Irish school master, who had received a liberal education in
the old world. Mr. Kerrick became OBrien's pupil and later his assistant; the two
beeame fast friends and inseparable companions. The meeting with Thomas O'Brien was
most fortunate for Mr. Kerrick. It is difficult to conceive how his great desire for
learning and education could have been gratified in that time but for this meeting.
O'Brien patiently and faithfully imparted while the younger man eagerly absorbed the
culture and learning that the former had acquired under more favorable conditions in
Europe.
For twenty years Mt Kerrick was a school master; he was eminently successful. Near
Blooming Grove, Franklin county, enterprising farmers and villagers built a sobstantial
brick house for his school, and her he taught ten consecutive years. He was able to carry
his pupils far beyond the schools of his time and region. In mathematics he took pupils as
far as trigonometry and surveying, and many of them became practical surveyors. His name
became, and is to-day, a household word in all that region. It is probably not outside
the truth to say that the character of no man, high or low, was so deeply impressed upon
the people of the White Water Valley as the character of Nimrod Kerrick. Many of the men
and women of that rapidly growing population received all the schooling they ever had
from Mr. Kerrick, and many more received the larger part of their schooling from him. His
unusual attainments and his pronounced instincts for teaching afforded the young people of
the co!
untry opportunities that were not common in that time. Among Mr. Kerrick's other
attainments he wrote a beautiful, plain, uniform ''hand.' The writer of this
sketch has received letters written within two or three years past, by a man who was a
pupil of Mr. Kerrick in that brick school house, and it would require an expert to tell
that writing now from Mr. Kerrick's. This incident is mentioned to illustrate the
powerful influence of a true teacher and how that influence is perpetuated. Happily for
the great company of young men and young women who came under his influence as a teacher,
Mr. Kerrick's influence was always for good. He was a man of singularly pure
character. Through all his long journey of life he walked uprightly, worked righteousness,
and spoke the truth in his heart.
Although born in a slave state, Mr. Kerrick cherished from boyhood a hearty dislike
for that slavery. He was a Republican in politics-a total abstainer from every kind of
strong drink. He was of medium height and weight - in physical form a model, muscular,
agile, possessing wonderful physical endurance. He was a profoundly grateful man for the
blessings of life-satisfied and thankful always for simple food and plain clothing, but
the best of anything was never too good, in his estimation, for his family.
All men, high and low, rich and poor, were men and brethren to him; he had equal good
will for all of them; he respected men as men, not according to class or condition. He
was strangely oblivious to distinctions among men; he had but one purpose toward them a11,
which was to do them good, and he approached them all, whether of high or of low degree,
in the same respectful and interested spirit, Mr. Kerrick was a member and a minister of
the Methodist Episcopal church. He was first licensed to preach in 1848. In 1858 he
entered the southern Indian conference. His first circuit had nineteen appointments; he
met and preached at all of these at least once a month. His last appointment was Liberty,
Union county. At the close of his ministry there, he moved to Woodford county, Illinois,
and there after his occupation was farming, the same to which he was used when a boy.
This move and change of occupation was made in the interest, wholly, of his family.
Without doub!
t his own inclination would have led him to continue in professional life; but he had now
three good-sized boys, and for them he wisely judged that the farm would offer better
opportunities than the town for a right start in life. No prefrence or wish of his own
could stand for a moment against what he considered to be for the interest of his
family.
While on the farm, Mr. Kerrick still continued to preach often. He was sought for
to supply vacancies occasioned by sickness or absence of regular pastors. He was a
Methodist, but not a sectarian. He frequently preached for other denominations, and
always heartily enjoyed attending the preaching services of any Christian denomination.
He preached many funerals, especially of soldiers of the war, for the Union. By younger
ministers he was greatly revered and beloved, and he was often. able to help them, which
gave him the highest pleasure.
Mr. Kerrick was married May 4, 1839, at Fairfield. Franklin county, Indian, to Miss
Mary Masters. Miss Masters was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania but removed
when a young woman with her parents to Indiana. Five children were born to the pair, two
daughters and three sons; the eldest daughter, and the eldest of the family, Mrs. Cyrus
Mull, reside, in Manlla, Rush county, Indiana. The secand daughter, Mrs. W. H. Bracken,
resides in Brookville, Franklin county. The oldest son, William M., was killed in battle,
he fell in the desperate charge of the Union forces upon the Confederate works at
Vicksburg, May 22, 1863. He was barely nineteen years old when he was killed. The second
son, Leonidas H., and the youngest, Thomas C., reside in Bloomington, Illinois. Mr.
Kerrick's last years were spent in Bloomington. Mrs. Kerrick survives, and still
maintains the home in which Mr. Kerrick died. At the advanced age of eighty-three years,
she possesses remarkable he!
alth and strength. Her well-known and exceptionally strong mental characteristics remain
to her unimpaired. We have given herein a brief
and very imperfect account of a remarkable life; a life, it is true, not distinguished
by deeds which startle or which bring renown; but, long, faithful, unselfish life, full of
labors for the enlightenment and uplifting of mankind; a life that touched many other
lives, and always to do them good-never to do them harm.
Mclean County Historical Society - 1900
Children of NIMROD KERRICK and MARY MASTERS are:
i. DAUGHTER7 1.
ii. DAUGHTER 2.
iii. THOMAS C. KERRICK.
iv. WILLIAM M. KERRICK, b. Bet. 1843 - 1844, FRANKLIN CO, IN; d. May 22, 1863, DURING THE
BATTLE CHARGE AT VICKSBURG.
10. v. LEONIDAS H. KERRICK, b. October 14, 1846, FRANKLIN CO, IN; d. March 13, 1900,
BLOOMINGTON, IL.
8. ARMISTEAD6 KERRICK (THOMAS5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK)
was born February 21, 1819 in LOUDON, VA, and died 1873 in MINONK, IL. He married (1)
JANE BURLEIGH SOURES. He married (2) SARAH ANN SLOAN Abt. 1842.
Notes for ARMISTEAD KERRICK:
Armistead Kerrick
Armisted Kerrick is a native of Loudoun County, Va. and was born Feb. 21, 1819. The
principal portion of his boyhood and youth was spent in Franklin county, Ind. At the age
of twenty years he went to Decatur County to clear up some land and prepare it for a
residence for his parents, who removed there the following year. When prepared to
establish domestic ties of his own our subject was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A.
Sloan. He was a brave man, assuredly, for when he formed a home of his own he was
penniless, but with the natural courage of youth he feared no future, how-ever dark. His
wife was born in Union County, Ind. After their marriage he rented land, and begun by
persevering, unremitting work to lay the foundation of future comfort. He was able in
1845 with the assistance of his father, to purchase eighty acres of land in Franklin
County, on which he settled.
Rev. Mr. Kerrick was prevented from assiduous labor for a long period of time on
account of an unfortunate accident which occurred before his marriage. He had his knee
cut by an ax, and it was sufficiently severe to cripple him for some time. He suffered
from poor health often after that, but never allowed it to interfere with his chosen
calling, the preaching of the Gospel.
From Indiana Mr. Kerrick and his family removed to Low Point, Woodford Co., ILL.
He was now the possessor of about $5,000 in money and the first year of his residence in
the new home he cleared 123 acres of land in three different pieces. He has occupied his
present home since 1864, and is now the owner of 566 acres of land, which he has improved
until it is in good condition.
Mrs Kerrick (Sarah A. Sloan) died in March 19, 1870 leaving nine children, two
having already preceded her to rest. Their Names Are: Joanna, wife of Abus Rogers Mary;
Stephen, deceased;
Josiah: Thomas, resides in Kansas; Jacob W., deceased; Harrison: Henry: resides in
Bloomington, ILL.
James, resides in Minonk, ILL. Benjamin B.: Phoebe:
The second wife of Mr. Kerrick (Jane Burleigh Soures Had three children with Mr.
Kerrick: She had one daughter, Minnie Soures in her previous marriage: John B. resides in
Fairfield, Iowa Richard L. resides in Fairfield Iowa. ------ Tazalear ???? Orpha,
deceased;
In politics Mr. Kerrick is a republican and is very proud of the fact that in 1840
he voted for Gen. W.H. Harrison and in 1888 for Benjamin Harrison for the Presidency of
the United States and has 5 boys that voted for Harrison.
Mr Kerrick for many years has been an ornament to the Methodist Church, of the state of
Illinois. He has benefited the church in which he officiates as minster, by the purity of
his life which an example all men might follow. He will be sadly missed when called away
from the ranks, but can rest in the knowledge of the fact that he has been faithful in the
few things which have been committed to his care, and thus will be prepared for the
greater joys that yet remain unto the people of God. In perusing the ALBUM, the
reader's gaze will rest lingeringly and lovingly upon the portraits of Mr. Kerrick and
his wife, WHO HAVE GROWN OLD IN THE LORD'S VINEYARD.
THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of WoodFord County , IL. pub. 1900
Children of ARMISTEAD KERRICK and JANE SOURES are:
i. JOHN B7 KERRICK.
ii. RICHARD L KERRICK.
iii. ORPHA KERRICK.
Children of ARMISTEAD KERRICK and SARAH SLOAN are:
iv. BEMJAMIN B.7 KERRICK.
11. v. HARRISON KERRICK, d. 1937, Loma Linda, CA.
vi. THOMAS KERRICK.
vii. JOANNA KERRICK.
viii. MARY KERRICK, b. 1843; d. 1898, BLOOMINGTON, IL.
ix. STEPHAN KERRICK, b. 1847, LOW-POINT, IL; d. 1857, LOW-POINT, IL.
12. x. JOSIAH KERRICK, b. June 20, 1848, FRANKLIN CO, IN; d. March 18, 1943, MINONK, IL.
xi. JACOB W. KERRICK, b. 1849; d. 1853.
13. xii. JAMES KERRICK, b. February 15, 1858, LOW-POINT, IL; d. December 08, 1932, MINONK,
IL.
14. xiii. WILLIAM H. KERRICK, b. December 13, 1859, FRANKLIN CO, IN; d. July 1946, PEORIA
HOSPITAL.
xiv. PHEBE KERRICK, b. May 02, 1866, Belle Plain, near Pattonsburg, Illinois; d. May 14,
1935, CLAUDE TEXAS buried in Claude Cemetery; m. WILLIAM A.WARNER, February 17, 1898,
CLAUDE TEXAS.
Notes for PHEBE KERRICK:
WARNER, PHEBE KERRICK (1866-1935). Phebe Kerrick Warner, women's club leader, writer,
and candidate for Congress, the youngest of eleven children of Armstead and Sarah Ann
(Sloan) Kerrick, was born on May 2, 1866, in Belle Plain, near Pattonsburg, Illinois.
While growing up on the family farm she earned money by churning butter, selling eggs, and
driving horses. She attended Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, where she was
elected to the Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity. After her graduation in 1893 she taught
science at Illinois Women's University for three years and established the natural
science department. There she became engaged to William A. Warner, a physician, whom she
had met at Illinois Wesleyan. After he established his medical practice at Claude, Texas,
they were married, on February 17, 1898. Mrs. Warner began a lifelong love affair with the
Panhandle'sqv "oceanic plains." The couple had four children. Early in the
winter of 1903, when Dr. Warner re!
turned from making a house call, he remarked that the area women were not sick, but
homesick. Mrs. Warner declared that she would "organize a club and give them
something to think about." Subsequently, she formed the Wednesday Afternoon Club, a
local study group composed largely of young mothers and local school teachers, including
Laura V. Hamner.qv This club met at different homes, and by 1909 the concept had expanded
to neighboring rural communities. In 1913 Warner urged these clubs to unite as the
Armstrong County Federation of Women's Clubs, one of the first of its kind in the
United States. It soon joined the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs.qv In 1916 Phebe
Warner delivered a lecture on dry-land farming at a meeting of the Texas federation in El
Paso. Peter Molyneaux,qv editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,qv was impressed with her
presentation and invited her to submit editorials, feature articles, and news items on
rural life to his paper as a feature writer. Ov!
er the next nineteen years she contributed to the Star-Telegram, Amari
llo News-Globe, and other Texas newspapers, as well as to magazines, and was a member of
the Texas Women's Press Association. Some of her writings were published in Canada and
Australia.
Phebe Warner, who was four feet ten inches tall, won a national reputation as the
"Little Brown Wren of Texas." She championed women's rights, but she also
believed that motherhood was "the best investment of a woman's life." After
lecturing at Peoria, Illinois, in 1917, she was appointed state chairman of the rural life
committee of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs. In 1920 she and Laura Hamner
organized the Panhandle Pen Women's clubs, in which aspiring writers were encouraged
to show their talents. That year Governor William P. Hobbyqv appointed Mrs. Warner the
Texas representative to the National Congress of Farm Women. In her quest to improve the
lot of rural women, she worked particularly for agricultural extension education with use
of county and home demonstration agents. In 1929 President Herbert Hoover appointed her to
a national Home Builders Committee. She supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
National Industrial Recovery Act during the early 1930s and!
in 1932 ran fourth in a slate of ten for the United States Congress. She helped push for
a state park system and became a member of the first Texas State Park Board, on which she
served ten years. Governor Pat M. Neffqv appointed her secretary of the board in 1923. She
was one of the first to advocate making Palo Duro Canyon a state park, a dream realized in
1933. She worked with the young people in the Sunday school department of the Claude
Methodist Church throughout her thirty-seven years in Texas. On May 14, 1935, she died at
her home following a lengthy bout with pneumonia. She was buried in the Claude Cemetery
next to her husband, who had died the previous year. The Phebe Kerrick Warner Home
Management House at West Texas State Teachers' College in Canyon was dedicated in
March 1938. In 1964 a collection of Mrs. Warner's newspaper articles, Selected
Editorials, was published in book form by her children. Her papers are housed in the
Research Center at the Panhandle-P!
lains Historical Museum.qv
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Amarillo Daily News, May 15, 1935. Armstrong County Historical Association,
A Collection of Memories: A History of Armstrong County, 1876-1965 (Hereford, Texas:
Pioneer, 1965).
H. Allen Anderson
Generation No. 4
9. JOHN7 KERRICK (ABIJAN6, HUGH5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1 KERRICK)
was born November 29, 1840 in MARION CO, MO, and died March 31, 1922 in QUINCY, MO. He
married ELIZA JANE PARKER January 08, 1867 in PALMYER, MO.
Children of JOHN KERRICK and ELIZA PARKER are:
i. FRANCIS FANNY8 KERRICK, b. MARION CO, MO; d. November 27, 1901, ST.LOUIS , MO; m. P.C.
LON HUTCHINSON.
ii. BARNES LEE KERRICK, b. 1828, MO..
iii. ANNE ELLEN KERRICK, b. 1874, MO..
iv. DULCINA DELLACENA KERRICK, b. 1874, MO.; m. CHARLES HICKMAN.
v. GEORGIA KERRICK, b. 1878, MO.; m. FRANK LOWE.
vi. JOHN OWEN KERRICK, b. 1880, MO..
10. LEONIDAS H.7 KERRICK (NIMROD6, THOMAS5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK,
EDWARD1 KERRICK) was born October 14, 1846 in FRANKLIN CO, IN, and died March 13, 1900 in
BLOOMINGTON, IL. He married SARAH ELIZABETH FUNK October 29, 1868 in BLOOMINGTON, IL.
Children of LEONIDAS KERRICK and SARAH FUNK are:
i. DUAGHTER8 KERRICK.
ii. INFANT 1 KERRICK, b. Abt. 1870.
iii. INFANT 2 KERRICK, b. Abt. 1870.
11. HARRISON7 KERRICK (ARMISTEAD6, THOMAS5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK,
EDWARD1 KERRICK) died 1937 in Loma Linda, CA. He married FRANC DAVIDSON.
Children of HARRISON KERRICK and FRANC DAVIDSON are:
i. JOSEPHINE8 KERRICK, b. August 24, 1889, FUNKS GROVE, MCLEAN COUNTY, ILLINOIS; d.
October 1966, LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA.
ii. WILLIAM DAVISON KERRICK, b. October 15, 1891, Harrisonville, MO; d. January 01, 1971,
COLTON, CALIFORNIA.
iii. PAUL HARRISON KERRICK, b. August 16, 1898, Lone Tree, MOSSURRI; d. 1924, SPAIN.
iv. INFANT KERRICK, b. Aft. 1900; d. Bef. 1902.
12. JOSIAH7 KERRICK (ARMISTEAD6, THOMAS5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1
KERRICK) was born June 20, 1848 in FRANKLIN CO, IN, and died March 18, 1943 in MINONK, IL.
He married MARGARET ELLEN HOLLENBACK March 10, 1870 in PATTONSBURG.
Notes for JOSIAH KERRICK:
JOSIAH KERRICK
Josiah Kerrick, 94, a resident of Minonk for nearly 70 years has passed away at
6:50 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter Mrs. Jacob M. Knapp in this
city where he had been making his home for the past few years. Death came peacefully to
the aged man with his daughters, Mrs. Eva Este
Mrs. Florence Cassens. and Mrs. Elsie Knapp, together with Job C. Cassens and Jacob M.
Knapp at his bedside. He was taken quite sick at his stomach yesterday afternoon and this
continued through the night, and being concious at most up to the end. Funeral
services will be held at the Knapp home at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, conducted
by the Rev. C. W. Sedgewick of Farmington, assisted by the Rev. Ross Thornton, the local
Methedist, pastor. The body will be laid to rest beside his wife, In the Minonk cemetery.
Josiah Kerrick was born in Franklin county, Indiana, on June 20, 1843 and at the time
of his passing on March 13, 1948, was age 94 years, seven months and 28 days. He was a
son of Armistead Kerrick and Sarah Sloan Kerrick and came to Illinois in the spring of
1856 and settled on a farm near Low- point. There was no town or railroad there at that
time. In the fall of 1863 the family moved to a farm at Pattonsburg. He attended the log
school of Lowpoint and after moving to the Pattonsburg district attended the Greenbush
school. Later he attended the Wesley. College at Bloomington for. over two years.
The marriage of Mr. Kerrick to Miss Margaret Ellen Hollenback took place on March
'10, 1870 at the home of the parents bride just south-west of Pattonsburg. They were
the parents of four children of whom three of whom survive: Mrs. E. Estes.. of St. Johns,
Mich., Mrs. John C. Cassens and Mrs. Jacob M. Knapp of this city. A son, Col. Harrison
S. Kernlck, died May 15, 1939.
He leaves two grand children, Mrs. LR Starks of Lacon, and Harrison C. Estes of
Flint, Mich., together with seven - great grandchildren. A brother, Henry Kerrick of
Bloomington, and a half brother, John B. Kerrick of El Reno, OK., also survive.
Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kerrick lived one year on the farm where .Frank
Swan now resides and then moved to the farm owned by the Alje Harms' heirs, where
they resided until their coming to Minonk in the, fall of 1874. Civic minded and public
spirited. Mr. Kerrick was called upon by by neighbors and friends early in his life to
serve them in various capacties. His first public office was
that of pathfinder In Clayton town ship (this Job got down to the present-day highway
commisioner); then he was school trustee and town clerk. In Minonk he was elected fi rst
- as assessor; he served on the school board for 18 years and quit voluntarily; he was
mayor of Minonk for two 2-year terms and it was during his regime that the first
waterworks system 'was installed in this city. He was then elected
supervisor which office he held for seven years and until he was elected to the state
legislature. It was while he was supervisor that the new present courthouse was erected
in Eureka.. The county seat had been moved from Metamora, after a bitter contest in
which Minonk threw its lot with Eureka. Mr. Kerrlck was a leading factor in all these
maneuvers and through his strategy the courthouse building cost the
county only 380.000.
First elected to the state legislature in 1898, Mr. Kerrick was re-elected each two
years until 1912, when he was defeated in the Democratic landslide. In many of these 14
years he was forced to contest for nomination but he always won easily. He 'was a
great admirer of Lawrence Y. Sherman and Chas. S. Deneen.
As a man of integrity, Mr. Kerrick stood at the highest pinnacle, an the principal
fault found 'with him by. constituents was that he did not .~"bargain and
trade" and get enough for the district. There was never a taint upon his public
career.
When he first moved to Minonk. he purchased an interest in the Minonk Flouring Mills,
owned by Dobuon: later he sold a half intrest to John M. Humphrey and this partnership
continued for many years and almost up to the time the old mill burned in 1910. He
organised the Minonk Light and Power Co. in 1889, giving Minonk its fiirst electric
it's first electric lights. He sold out to Frank Z. Ames and S. C. Kipp in
1910,' who in turn sold to the Public Service Co. Since that time he has not had any
business interests but devoted considerable time to a farm in Michigan, where he spent
part of each year.
With his daughter, Mrs. Estes, and Mrs. George DoWries, Sr., he was one of the three
remaining charter members of the Minonk Rebecca lodge, and had been a member of the Odd
Fellows' lodge since 1877. A lifelong Republican, and a man who devoted most of his
years to public servlce has gone. He had the respect of even those who disagreed with
him because they knew he was honest' in his
convictions. Minonk and community are much better and have benefitted from his life.
Mclean County Historical Society and Bloomington Pantagraph - march 19, 1943
More About JOSIAH KERRICK:
Elected: 1898, Repulican State Representative until 1912.
Children of JOSIAH KERRICK and MARGARET HOLLENBACK are:
i. EVA L.8 KERRICK.
ii. FLORENCE E. KERRICK.
iii. ELSIE E. KERRICK.
iv. HARRISON S. KERRICK, b. October 13, 1873, MINONK, IL; d. May 15, 1939, NATIONAL ARMY
NAVY HOSPITAL HOTSPRINGS, ARK.; m. LENA MAE CLARK, October 21, 1903, POSS. URBANA.
Notes for HARRISON S. KERRICK:
Col. Harrison S. Kerrick
MINONK- CoI. Harrison Summers Kerrick, 66, retired army officer, died at 8 p.
m. Monday at the Nationia1 Army and Navy, hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. He' had been
I'll for about, a week, following a heart attack.
The body will arrive here Thursday; Where services will be held. Arrangements
are Incomplete. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery at Washington, D. C.
Colonel Kerrlck was born Oct 13, 1873, in Minonk, son of Josiah and Margaret Hollenback
Kerrick. He graduated from Minonk high school in 1890 and attended Illinois Wesleyan
Bloomington for two years. He received his degree from Northern Illinois State Normal
school at Dixon in 1894.
He was principal and teacher of schools at Lostant and Benson in 1898, he
enlistted in Company G, Second Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served in the Spanish
American War, rising to the rank of captain. After the war, he went to tho Philippine
Islands, where he was named divisional superintendant of schools in 1901 and was
apointed , head of the artillery corps in the same year.
He married Miss Lena Mae Clark of Urbana, Oct 2I, 1903. He graduated from the
artillery schoo1 at Fort Monroe,Va in 1906 and served in the .A.E. F. In France in 1918.
He again served in the Phillippines in 1925-1927, during which time, he was commissioned
colonial in the artillery.
On his return to the United States, he resigned his commission and was named cheif
co-ordinator of the sixth area army bureau of the budget, which position he held until the
time of his death. He had been a patient at the Hot Springs hospital about two months.
Surviving are his wife, his father, Josiah Kerrick of Minonk. three sisters, Mrs.
John C. Cassens, and Mrs. Jacob M. Knapp, both of Minonk and Mrs. Eva Estes, St. Johns
Mich; three nephews and two nieces.
He was a member of two millitary societies and of Sigma Chi fraternaty. From 1928
to 1932 he was national executive commandor of the American Legion department of the
Phillippine Islands. He as a member of the Methodist Church and was a 32nd degree
Maston. A lecturer, he was also the Author of two books " Military and Naval
America," and " The Flag of the United Statets.
Col. Harrison Kerrick was the creator of the code of conduct for the U.S flag which was
adopted by the United States Congress on proper display and handling of the U.S flag.
THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH 1939
Col. Harrisison S. Kerrick retired United States Army Officer and nephew of W. H.
Kerrick of this city is credited with being the author the government flag code in large
measure. These rules and regulations were recently published in the Pantagraph . Col.
Kerrick now reside in Columbus, and his part in framing the flag code is thus told by the
Columbus newspaper.
Adoption of a code of rules for the proper civllan using of the flag, at a
conference held in Washington last week brings to Ohio the distinction of having
originated many of the regulations accepted at the conference, and for that reason, Ohio
is represented on the permanent committee appointed at the conference to enforce the new
flag rules. There are 11 members on this committee.
The Ohio representative on it is Lt. Col. Harrison S. Kerrick, commanding office of
the Columbus General Reserve Depot, member of Chamber of Commerce and member of the
American Legion. It was Col. Kerrick who originated the flag rules contest.
Col. Kerrick addressed the conference in Washington Thursday on Flag Day, just
after President Harding had given his views and understanding of "Old Glory" to
the delegates.
KERRICK, TEXAS. Kerrick is on U.S. Highway 287 near the Oklahoma border in northeastern
Dallam County. It was established on the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway and was named for
Harrison S. Kerrick, a railroad official and colonel in the United States Army, who owned
land in the vicinity. Although William Murdock and his family had settled on the site as
early as 1906 and later established the first school there, the town was not actually laid
out until 1931. Its leading business was the grain elevator erected by Dan T. Wadley. By
1933 the town had a post office; in 1976 it became a contract post office and it was still
in operation in 2002. Sporting events and a community band provided the chief means of
recreation and entertainment. During World War IIqv Kerrick reportedly had the only
designated airport between Amarillo and Denver, Colorado. After its schools were
consolidated with those of Stratford in 1950, the old Kerrick school building was turned
into a community cen!
ter. In 1949 five businesses and a population of 100 were reported, but between the 1980s
and 2000 the population was sixty. In 2002 the grain elevator was still in operation and
the community church occupied a building that had formerly been a café. The community
center was used for various programs.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Sherman County Historical Survey Committee, God, Grass, and Grit (2 vols.,
Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer, 1971, 1975).
H. Allen Anderson
The Daily Pantagraph, July 14, 1923
Note: Most of the article was omitted.
13. JAMES7 KERRICK (ARMISTEAD6, THOMAS5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK, EDWARD1
KERRICK) was born February 15, 1858 in LOW-POINT, IL, and died December 08, 1932 in
MINONK, IL. He married MISS EMMA HOLLENBACK August 05, 1883.
Notes for JAMES KERRICK:
JAMES KERRICK IS CALLED TO ETERNITY.
Services Are Held at Home and M. E. Church Monday Afternoon. Burial In Minonk
Cemetery.
James Kerrick, a citizen of Minonk for nearly half a century, passed away at
his home in this city -at 2:20 o'clock last Saturday morning. He has been in poor
health the past year. And had gradully been sinking since early this fall.
The deceased was born on a farm near Lowpoint on Feb. 15, 1858, the sixth son of Rev.
.Armisted Kerrick and Sarah Ann Sloan Kerrick When only a few years of age the family
bought and moved to a farm 2 1/2 miles east of Pattonsburg, where he grew.to manhood.
On August 5, 1883, he was married to Miss Emma Hollenback, daughter of George and
Malinda Hollenback who were also pioneers at Pattonsburg. The young couple moved to
Minonk immediately and have occupied but two houses during their entire wedded life.
Last August, while their daughter, Mrs. Edna Denson, and children were here from Arizona,
they celebrated their - 49th wedding
anniversary with all the children and grandchildren present.
Besides a host of sorrowing friends. Mr. Kerrick. leaves a most devoted wife and
four children: Mrs. Orpha Yarger of Peoria; Mrs. Wayne Denson of Mesa, Ariz.; Mrs. F.
Wylie of Minonk, and Walter Kerrick of Pekin. There are also eight grandchildren. Besides
there are five brothers and. a sister and One half-brother, viz: Josiah Kerrick of Minonk.
Thomas Kerrick of Washburn; Harrison Kerrick of Riverside, Calif. Henry Kerrick of
Bloomington; Benj. B. Kerrick and Mrs. Phoebe Warneir of Claude, Tex, and John B. Kerrick
of El Reno, Okla. There is also a stepsister, Miss Minnie Sauer of Los Angeles, Calif.
The subject of this sketch joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Pattonsburg
many years ago but later transferred membership to the Minonk church. He loved to sing
and for many years sang tenor in the church choir. In politics he was a staunch.
Republican and was elected assessor of Minonk township on that ticket back in 1898 and
filled the place well.
He was always fond of horses and followed the trade of~buying and selling horses
for many years, erecting a large feed barn in this city where many large horse sales were
held. For years he was considered one of the best judges of horses in Central Illinois.
About twenty years ago Mr. Kerrick fell from the haymow in his barn. and landing
upon his head, since which time he had never been quite active or as well as before the
accident. Later years he was employed by many who were building homes, to do the grading
on their lawns. He took great interest and pride in this work and many of the finest
lawns in our city are the product of his handiwork.
In Mr. Kerricks passing not only the family will feel the loss but the entire
community. He had no enemy and was charitable with the short comings of others. He was
honest and generous almost to a fault. And often let the unscruplous impose upon him in
business and in other matters.
Funeral services were held from the late residence at 2 o'clock on Saturday
afternoon and at 2:30 at the M.E church;'conducted by Rev. Fleture DeClark of
Cropsey, former Minonk pastor. Rev. W. E. Williams, the present pastor.
THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH DEC 8, 1932
Children of JAMES KERRICK and MISS HOLLENBACK are:
i. RUTH8 KERRICK.
ii. EDNA KERRICK.
iii. DAUGHTER KERRICK 3.
iv. WALTER KERRICK.
14. WILLIAM H.7 KERRICK (ARMISTEAD6, THOMAS5, WALTER4, HUGH3, HUGH KARRICK2 KARRICK,
EDWARD1 KERRICK) was born December 13, 1859 in FRANKLIN CO, IN, and died July 1946 in
PEORIA HOSPITAL. He married CARRIE EVERLY September 25, 1890 in BLOOMINGTON, IL.
Children of WILLIAM KERRICK and CARRIE EVERLY are:
i. LUCILLE8 KERRICK.
ii. DR. C.E KERRICK.
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