This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KERNS HIX HAMMOND BEASLEY WEIDNER SHEWMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FEC.2ACE/892.3.1 Message Board Post: I, TOO, AM RELATED TO THESE FAMILIES. I COME DOWN THROUGH HENRY KERNS, THEN CHARLES A. (WHO CAME TO OHIO), THEN HIS DAUGHTER GRACE MYRTLE KERNS, AND ETC. HAS ANYONE HEARD OF A LADY NAMES OLLIE FOUTZ? SHE GAVE MY GRANDPA A PACKET OF INFO (GENERATION CHARTS) THAT SHE HAD WORKED ON HER WHOLE LIFE. I HAVE THOSE AND HAVE BEEN WANTING TO SHARE THEM FOR A FEW YEARS NOW. WHAT SHE HAS LISTED STARTS WITH JOHN HENRY KERNS. HENRY ALLEN IS WHO SHE HAS AS HIS SON. WOULD LOVE TO SWAP INFO WITH ALL YOU COUSINS. HERE ARE A COUPLE OF PARAGRAPHS SHE WROTE. THESE ARE NOT THE GOLD MINE, THE GEN CHARTS ARE- AND I THINK I HAVE MOST OF THEM. ANYWAY, HERE'S HER WRITINGS. when the kerns' came to this country from ireland some time before 1819, they settled in berkeley springs w. va. then was known as bath va. john henry kerns was born in ireland in 1777, but don't know if his son henry allen kerns was born in ireland or america. the kerns' lived on a farm about 2 miles out of town,on a farm known in my day as the barker farm in the scott store section. i have often heard my grandfather john w. kerns tell me about coming to town with his brothers and going to school in the basement of the old methodist church. he also told me about the things they did for what they called fun in those days. there was a large family and all who died here in bath before 1871 all are buried in the old english graveyard located in the southwest part of berkeley springs, at the foot of warm springs mountain. at that time it was a well kept graveyard and many people are buried there. but to the sorrow of the town it has completely grown up in trees and und! erbrush. quite a number of stones are still there, and that is where i got a lot of my information. the kerns' lot at one time was enclosed with an iron fence, but that has all fallen down over the many years, as most of all the other stones of other people, but they are still there. written by ollie m. foutz granddaughter of john w. kerns ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ the kerns family came to this country from ireland some time before 1819 and settled in virginia, florida and ohio near cincinnatti. but i only have records of those settling in virginia. part of which later became west virginia 1863. in the Old English Graveyard located in the southwest part of the town of Bath (now known as berkeley springs) at the foot of warm springs mountain are the tombstones of the kerns' graves of which i have gotten a lot of records. according to one tombstone John Henry Kerns was born in 1777 in ireland and died in berkeley springs oct. 13, 1819, at the age of 42 years. he was married to nancy hix of scotland. (no record of when she died or where she is buried. john henry and nancy hix kerns son henry allen was born oct 12, 1815 or 18. (different dates in 2 different records.) and died oct 12, 1873 in berkeley springs w. va. and is buried in frienship graveyard about three miles out of town. no record whether he was born in this country or in ireland. john henry kerns' offspring are the only ones i have records of, but there are a lot of kerns' through this section of the country that i don't know about. written by ollie foutz