Kersey, James

(from newspaper clippings and obituaries)

James Kersey (1834–1882) was born in Canada. He married Susannah Clark (1842–1890) in 1861. They had ten children: Joseph (1862–1951), William John (1864–1944), Edward James (1866–1890), Jane (1869–1890), Sarah Ann (1871–1947), Mary (1873–1902), Tobias (1875–1960), Benjamin (1878–1952), Hannah (1880–1880) and Susannah (1881–1967). James died when his oldest child was only 20 years old.

The Kerseys farmed on the 2nd Line SER (Zion Line). Mother Susannah and two of the children, Edward and Jane, died within a month of each other in the typhoid fever epidemic of 1890. With both parents gone, the oldest son, Joseph, took his siblings to Michigan. Tobias remained in Warwick Twp.

There is also an obituary of John Kersey (1841–1931), referred to as one of the early settlers of Warwick Twp. He was survived by three sons, Robert of Ravenswood, Arthur of Watford, and George of Owosso, Michigan. John may have been a brother of James.

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