"The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, September 21, 1902 (page 3) DEATH UNDER DRAY'S WHEEL. An inquest over the body of John KERR, 8 years old, stepson of Edgar F. BRIERTON, a butcher employed at Second and Locust streets, who was killed yesterday morning by being run over by a dray belonging to Renne Bros., will be held tomorrow morning. The little boy lived with his parents, 804 East Fifteenth street, and he was playing with his toy wagon on Charlotte street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets when the accident occurred. In an attempt to get out of the way of another dray he feel under the front wheel of the one driven by F. R. HUNSTON. The driver tried to stop in time to save the boy, but the wheel passed over his head, crushing it and killing him instantly. The driver was not arrested as the evidence seemed clear that he had done all in his power to prevent the accident. The boy's body was taken to Carroll- Davidson's undertaking rooms. ========================================================== "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Monday, September 22, 1902 (page 2) The funeral of John KERR, the 8-year-old boy who was killed by a heavy moving van on Charlotte street Saturday morning, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of his parents, 804 East Fifteenth street. The Rev. Frank B. CRISSMAN, pastor of Dundee Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will take place in Forest Hill cemetery. ====================================================== ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen K" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:06 PM > Subject: [OLD-MISSOURI-NEWS] Obit and Crime Record Kansas City > > >> Could someone please tell me if there is an obit for a >> young boy,8yrs old, in Sept 20, 1902? His name was >> John S. Kerr and he died in some sort of accident. His >> name dob and dod, and cause of death (accident), are >> listed in our Family Bible, but we do not know who his >> parents were. In 1900 he and his older brother >> Charles A. Kerr born in 1889 are on the census living >> with Egard Priester and Elizabeth H. Priester. They >> are listed as stepsons. >> Elizabeth must have been married to either Clarence >> or Clyde Kerr and remarried to Priester? >> * Also-- we think that we have found Charles A. Kerr >> on the 1930 census, but he is an inmate at San Quentin >> with a lengthy record in Mo. Could there be any >> records of his crime wave there in perhaps the 1920s? >> Thank you for any assistance in finding these >> missing pieces of our family puzzle. >> Karen Moore Kerr >>