The ER got lost after the first generation Theses are the Kern(e)s that settled in the German coast in the 1750s. Some of them moved to upper Bayou Lafourche. The romantic story was he was a guard taking the Jacob to the coast to be put on ships for Louisiana. We are told he fell in love with Marie Eve during the trip and threw his lot in with her family. BUT she was only about 9 years old at the time. Who else had that story? I have heard both ways float maker Blane Kern is or is not of the family.