This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gross, Kerns Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.westvirginia.counties.morgan/1363.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The parents of Marion Gross were Peter Gross (son of Abraham Gross) and his first wife Sophia Kerns. Martha was Peter's second wife, and was not Marion's mother. Sophia Kerns was a daughter of Frederick and Margaret (Kesler) Kerns of Hampshire County. Sophia was born circa 1819 and died in the 1870s in Morgan County, WV. I have not yet located a death record for her.