Adam Billings Kern (1762 - 1838)

Born 2 Jun 1762 in Rowan, Colony of North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (Ribelin) Kern — married 1785 in Nicholas County, Kentucky

Husband of Mary (Lay) Anderson — married 20 Oct 1825 in Lawrence County, Indiana

Descendants

Died 24 May 1838 at age 75 in Monroe, Indiana, USA

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Biography

If Conrad Kem was the prototype of the immigrant in the great influx from Germany, his oldest son, Adam, Sr., is a good example of the early American pioneer. Bom in 1762 in Rowan County, N. C, he left as a young man, going up through the Cumberland Gap into Nicholas County, Ky. After residence there for some twenty years, he migrated into the southern part of Indiana and died in Monroe County, near the small town of Stanford, Ind., in 1838. Four children of Adam Kern Sr settled in Lawrence County, IN not far from what is now the city of Bedford. These were Abraham and William, the older sons, Anna and Elizabeth, the second and third daughters. Also settling here were three children of Simeon Kern, Adam's brother. These were Alexander J., Phebe and Edward. Today, descendants of these various branches still live in the Bedford area, most knowing they are related "way back", but not knowing exactly how. (1)

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited. Father: Coonrod KERN b: 1736 in , , Germany Mother: Mary Magdalene UNKNOWN b: ABT. 1745 in Of Salisbury, Rowan, NC

Marriage 1 Mary UNKNOWN b: 1755 in Of Monroe, IN Married: 21 SEP 1811 Children Has Children Mary M KERNS b: BET. 1787 - 1788 in Of Green, IN Marriage 2 Catherine REBBIN Marriage 3 Catherine RIBLIN Married: ABT. 1785 in Rowan Co, N.C.

Marriage 1 Catherine Riblin b: 6 Nov 1762 in Rowan Co, North Carolina

Married: ABT 1785 in Rowan Co, North Carolina 1

Children

Herewith, misspellings and all, are names of the children of Adam, Sr. and Katharine Riblin Kern, from a handwritten document in possession of Adam Kern, Jr.'s descendants. 1st son - Abraham Kern 1st daughter - Poly Kern - Eep Owen 2d daughter - Annie Kern - David Series 2d son - William Kern 3d son - Adam Kern 3d daughter - Elizabeth Kern - John Younger 4th son - Conrad - Poly Bery 4th daughter - Sarah Kern - Stever Younger 5th daughter - Susan Kern - Adam Series one son died in infancy

Marriage 2 Mary Anderson b: 1770/1780 in Monroe Co, Indiana

Married: 20 Oct 1825 in Lawrence Co, Indiana 1 "Adam Kern, Sr. married a second time on Oct. 20, 1825, his bride being Mary Anderson of Lawrence County, Ind., apparently a widow (see the marriage agreement, page 2k this booklet). The MG (minister of God) who performed the ceremony was Abraham Kem, Adam's son." (Lawrence County Clerk's records, Book A, page 138.)

"According to information about Adam Kern's grave, which is located in section 22, Van Buren Township, Adam lived on this spot when he died and was buried there at his request so as to be in 'the beloved fields and woods where he hunted and trapped.' Isaac Dunlap, current (1965) owner of the farm on which the grave stands, says he understands the entire field surrounding the grave was once a grove of sugar maple trees and when he plows a certain spot, some 100 yards from the grave, he finds evidence of a sugar maple camp." His grave is known as Kern Cemetery in Monroe County, Ind. records. However, it is a single grave. The farm of Isaac Dunlap, whose house faces State Road 45, just northeast of the small town of Stanford. The grave is in an open field, near a fence and not far from a road know as the Dunlap Road, is also about 2-300 yards from the Dunlap barn. The grave us surrounded by a stone curbing over which is laid a stone slab 5 ft. long by 2 1/2 ft. wide. This type of marker is unusual for Monroe County, possibly was planned by someone with memories in the east or in Europe. Actually the stone is to have been placed there, not by family, but by a friend, at least this is the story recalled by Isaac Dunlap as having been told by a neighbor who was a Civil War veteran and who had heard the story from a friend. The site of the grave (said the friend) was among the beloved fields and woods where Adam hunted and trapped and where he was buried at his own request." ('The Kern Family of Rowan County, North Carolina, Nicholas County, Kentucky, Boone, Clinton, Lawrence, Monroe Counties, Indiana, Hancock County, Illinois, Lee County Iowa' by Mary Margaret Kern, 1968)

Sources

1. ↑ Kern-687 was created by Cully Williams through the import of Williams Family Tree (1).ged on Oct 9, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

• (1) The Kern Family Garrad, 1968
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• The Kern Family of Rowan County, NC page 17[[1]]
• The Kern Family of Rowan County, NC page 30[[2]]
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV26-5JRR : 5 August 2020), Adam Kern, ; Burial, Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, United States of America, Harmony Cemetery; citing record ID 67727902, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes[[3]]
• Book: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT; Page: 1317624 item 3 & 1317625[[4]]
• Birth year: 1762; Birth city: Rowan Co; Birth state: NC[[5]]
• 1830; Census Place: Monroe, Indiana; Series: M19; Roll: 30; Page: 156; Family History Library Film: 0007719[[6]]
• Will Record, 1830-1929; Author: Indiana. Circuit Court (Saint Joseph County); Probate Place: St Joseph, Indiana [[ https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9045/records/1464031
• "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFXJ-88W : 13 January 2020), Adam Kern, 1825.
• "Find A Grave Adam Kern Sr.

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