How Did I Get Here? My Amazing Genealogy Journey

Image courtesy of the Sampson County History Museum's book   Images of America:  Sampson County,  Kent Wrench, Editor Over the last week, I've been looking through the pages of a book from the Images of America series from Arcadia Publishing. The book is called Sampson County and was created by the Sampson County History Museum and edited by Kent Wrench. I keep coming back to this image of Tomahawk Depot. In my last post, I featured a map that showed where the descendants of my 3rd great grandfather, Jacob Kerr, lived. If you missed that post, click here . I wonder how close the depot was to where their land was. I f I could only ask the folks in the picture a few questions.

If you would have asked me a few years ago if I thought I would ever be able to figure out who my paternal 3rd great grandfather was on my father's side of the family, I am pretty sure I would have answered No. Well, thanks to DNA and my great grandmother's marriage license I now know the names of my 2nd great grandparents and 3rd great grandparents. On my post  Great Grandma's Name Was Ella. After That It Gets Complicated , I featured my great grandmother Ellen "Ella" Kerr Smith Dixon's marriage license to her second husband William Dixon. On it, it revealed the names of her parents, Henry Kerr and Tina Murphy of Sampson County, NC. I wrote about how DNA testing confirmed that I was indeed researching the correct Kerr family in Sampson County in my post,  DNA Proves I've Got The Right Family! For this post, I'm going to review what I know so far about my 3rd great grandfather, Jacob Kerr. 1) It appears he was born around 1820 based on his ...