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Samuel Kersey[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Male 1810 - 1840

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  • Birth  1810  [6, 7] 
    Gender  Male 
    Occupation  East Whiteland Twp., Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cabinet Maker 
    Died  15 Aug 1840  East Whiteland Twp., Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Cause: consumption 
    Buried  Malin Road Cemetery, Frazer, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Kersey, Samuel (1810-1840) Headstone, Husband of Hannah R. Pearce    		 Kersey, Samuel (1810-1840) Headstone, Husband of Hannah R. Pearce
    Status: Located. Died 8th mo. 15th, 1840 in his 31st year.
    Person ID  I2474  Pearce
    Last Modified  05 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Dr Joshua Kersey,   d. Abt Apr 1819, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Phebe B Jacobs,   b. 1785,   d. 1871 
    Married  1807 
    Family ID  F952  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Hannah R Pearce,   b. 1808, , Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Oct 1871, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  11 Feb 1834  Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    • ITEM #3555
      March 12, 1834
      VILLAGE RECORD
      Marriage On Thursday, the 11th of February, at the Yellow
      Springs, by Thomas R. Trimble, Esq. Mr. SAMUEL KERSEY, to Miss
      HANNAH PEARCE, all of East Whiteland, Chester county.
    Children 
     1. Dr. George Washington Kersey,   b. 1834,   d. 11 Mar 1894, Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Jacobs Kersey,   b. 1836,   d. 1882
    Last Modified  05 Dec 2009 
    Family ID  F951  Group Sheet
     
  • Event Map
    		Event
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Cabinet Maker - - East Whiteland Twp., Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 11 Feb 1834 - Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Cause: consumption - 15 Aug 1840 - East Whiteland Twp., Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Malin Road Cemetery, Frazer, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Will and Estate - Pearce, Edward, Chester Co. PA Estate File, 1836    		Will and Estate - Pearce, Edward, Chester Co. PA Estate File, 1836
    Grandson of Edward Pearce the immigrant, son of Cromwell Pearce, husband of Hannah Roberts.

    Estate File #9343 - Administrative Bond filed 27 Jan 1836, Inventory (not transcribed), and Orphan's Court Records, 14 Jun 1836.

    Original image and transcription.
     
  • Notes 
    • excerpt from
      Furniture and its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania by Margaret Berwind
      Schiffer, p. 137:
      SAMUEL KERSEY

      Cabinet Making. THE subscriber takes this method of informing
      his friends and the public, that he carried on the above business,
      in all its various branches, near the 23rd milestone, on the
      Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike; where all orders of his line
      will be thankfully received and promptly attended to.

      Work delivered at any distance not exceeding 20 miles.

      Wanted immediately an apprentice to the above business.

      SAMUEL KERSEY. (1)

      The 23rd mile stone is in East Whiteland township.

      He died in East Whiteland township on August 15, 1840, in the 30th year of his life. (2)

      (1) Village Record (West Chester, Pa.), Aug. 17, 1831.
      (2) American Republic (West Chester, Pa.), Sept. 15, 1840.


      ITEM #4827
      September 15, 1840
      VILLAGE RECORD
      Obituary At his residence in East Whiteland, on the 15th of
      August, in the thirtieth year of his age, Mr. SAMUEL KERSEY,
      son of the late Dr. Kersey, of Philadelphia. Another name to
      add to that long list who have been hurried to the grave in
      the vigor of life by the relentless grasp of consumption...
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S336] Will and Estate - Pearce, Edward Estate File and Orphan's Court Petition of Edward Pearce, (Chester Co. PA Estate File #9343, filed 26 Jan 1836 and Orphan's Court Petition filed 14 Jun 1836.).

    2. [S428] Family History - Brinton Genealogy, The, A History of William Brinton, Gilbert Cope and Jannetta Wright Schoonover, (MacCrellish and Quigley Co, Trenton NJ, 1925), p 239.

    3. [S300] Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, 152 vols., (National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.).
      Volume 69, page 341,DAR ID Number: 68947( Mrs. Esther Kersey Hershey)

    4. [S551] Family History - Jacobs Family, as Descended from John Jacobs of Perkiomen, Richard Wistar Davids, (Philadelphia, PA: Spangler & Davids, 1894.), pp. 10, 18., 4 Jun 2009.
      Samuel Kersey

    5. [S686] Furniture and its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania , Original copyright 1966 edition, Margaret Berwind Schiffer, (Exton, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Copyright 1978.), 137., 25 Aug 2009.
      See notes section for Samuel Kersey.

    6. [S300] Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, 152 vols., (National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.).
      Volume 69, page 341,DAR ID Number: 68947( Mrs. Esther Kersey Hershey) - 1810

    7. [S551] Family History - Jacobs Family, as Descended from John Jacobs of Perkiomen, Richard Wistar Davids, (Philadelphia, PA: Spangler & Davids, 1894.), p. 10., 4 Jun 2009.
      1810

    8. [S300] Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, 152 vols., (National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.).
      Volume 69, page 341,DAR ID Number: 68947( Mrs. Esther Kersey Hershey) - 1840

    9. [S762] "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog," database, Accessible Archives , Accessible Archives Inc., ((http://www.accessible.com : copyright 2007)), ), Item #4827; Village Record, September 15, 1840..
      died 15 Aug 1840, East Whiteland PA

    10. [S702] Find A Grave, digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), accessed 20 Sep 2009<, Samuel Kersey, memorial by Dan Oh, photo contributed by Dan Oh, 20 Sep 2009.
      Text of headstone: Samuel Kersey; Died 8th mo. 15th, 1840 in his 31st year. (hard to read).

    11. [S336] Will and Estate - Pearce, Edward Estate File and Orphan's Court Petition of Edward Pearce, (Chester Co. PA Estate File #9343, filed 26 Jan 1836 and Orphan's Court Petition filed 14 Jun 1836.).
      Hannah R. intermarried with Samuel Kersey

    12. [S762] "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog," database, Accessible Archives , Accessible Archives Inc., ((http://www.accessible.com : copyright 2007)), ), Item #3555; Village Record, March 12, 1834..
      married 11 Feb 1834, at the Yellow Springs

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