She is married to Zenas Dodridge Kerr.
They got married in the year 1836 at York District, South Carolina, she was 25 years old.
Child(ren):
Mary was an heir to her father's estate along with her siblings, receiving $465.92.
After her husband Zenas Kerr died, Mary eventually moved to Tallahatchie County, Mississippi with her family (by the 1870 census, taken in June of that year). She was admitted to membership of New Hope Presbyterian Church on October 16, 1870
and was a member until moving permanently out of Mississippi in 1876 (to Texas by way of Arkansas). Her final letter of dismissal from the church was granted on November 19, 1876. Mary is listed in the 1880 Census for Faulkner County, Arkansas.
She appears in the membership of Allen's Chapel Methodist Church, Fannin County, Texas, where she obtained dismissal by letter on December 28, 1891. Mary died in Fannin County, Texas and is buried in Allen's Chapel Cemetery in that county.
Note from York County Clerk, February 1999:
In response to my request for a copy of the marriage record for Zenas Kerr & Mary Suggs:
"We are returning your check. Marriages were not recorded in York County until 1911."
Sources: Pat Noble, via e-mail, Pat Noble Home Page Report, 1850 Federal Census, York County, South Carolina, 1860 Federal Census, Lafayette County, Mississippi, ancestry.com search/Suggs,
World Family Tree, Will & Estate Records of Laban Suggs, Kerr Family Association Records
New Hope Church Session Minutes, Note from York County Clerk, York Genealogical Quarterly, March 1990, Louise Jackson, 1870 Federal Census-Tallahatchie County, Mississippi-Tillatoba Beat, dwelling #84, family #87, 1880 Federal Census-Faulkner
County, Arkansas, David Johnson, The Fannin County Genealogical Quarterly, "Fannin County Cemetery Records"
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