Seventh Generation

6410. Ella Coffey was born on 30 September 1869 in Russell Co., KY. Ella died at of cancer of the cecum at home on Lebanon Ave. in Taylor Co., KY on 19 July 1951 and was buried at Brookside Cemetery in Campbellsville, Taylor Co., KY on 22 July 1951 .^{21166,21167,21168}

Obituary, The News-Journal, Thur., Jul. 26, 1951

Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Kerr, 81 years of age, were held Sunday, July 22 at 2:30 p.m. from the Campbellsville Baptist Church with Dr. J. Chester Badgett and the Rev. J. L. Robinson in charge. Burial was in Brookside Cemetery. The pallbearers were George Sapp, Robinson Young, George Monson, J. A. Jones, Garnett Dowell, and Henry Mardis. Mrs. Kerr, daughter of the late Cyrus R. and Nancy Wright Coffey, was born September 30, 1869 in Russell County, Ky.; she died Thursday, July 19 at her home on Lebanon Avenue. She had been in ill health for some time. She was a member of the Baptist church. She united in marriage to Jim Will Kerr, who preceded her in death in 1932. Mr. Kerr was associated in the insurance business with his brother, Sam Ed Kerr, also deceased, known as the Kerr Insurance Agency. She is survived by two brothers, Clarence Coffey of San Antonio, Texas and Russell Coffey, city; two sisters, Mrs. B. J. Skaggs, city and Mrs. Paul Sanders of Greensburg, also many other relatives and friends. One brother and one sister, Arthur Coffey and Mrs. Lina Graham, preceded her in death.

Ella Coffey and James William Kerr were married. James William Kerr, son of Robert L. Kerr and Malinda Mardis, was born on 5 January 1869 in Kentucky. James died in Campbellsville, Taylor Co., KY on 6 July 1932 of a cerebral embolism and was buried at Brookside Cemetery in Campbellsville, Taylor Co., KY on 8 July 1932 .^8504,21169

Obituary, The Central Kentucky News Journal, 1932

Senator James William Kerr died at his home in this city Wednesday morning [July 6, 1932] at 9:40 from bad heart action complicated by hypostatic pneumonia. Mr. Kerr had not been in the best of health for some time, but retained his active interest in his business until Friday when he was forced to submit to the retirement of his room, and since that time he gradually lost strength until the end came yesterday morning. Mr. Kerr was sixty-three years of age at the time of his death, and had been actively engaged in the insurance business in this city for more than thirty years. He was a member of the Kerr & Kerr Insurance Agency and had during the past few years devoted his time principally to life insurance, a line in which he was remarkably successful and frequent prizes and special honors from the companies he represented for meritorious work in this line. Mr. Kerr was an active member of the Campbellsville Baptist Church, deeply interested in all civic affairs as a public spirited citizen; he was an active member of the Masonic fraternity and a thorough believer in the tenets of the order. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Campbellsville College and ever manifested the deepest interest in the institution's affairs. Mr. Kerr is survived by his widow; one brother, S.E. Kerr, of this city; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Stearman, of Hooker, OK. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. at the Baptist Church, and interment in the the Brookside Cemetery.