John Hosea McNeill Kerr (1844-1924) and Eliza Catherine Yancey Kerr (1844-1927) had several interesting children. She is a grandniece of Bartlett Yancey (1785-1828).
Born in Yanceyville, NC. John Hosea Kerr (1873-1958): Graduated from Wake Forest (N.C.) College in 1895; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Warrenton, N.C.; mayor of Warrenton, N.C., in 1897 and 1898; solicitor for the third district of North Carolina 1906-1916; judge of the superior court 1916-1923; trustee of the University of North Carolina; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1932 and 1940; chairman, United States delegation to the Inter-American Travel Congress in Mexico City in 1941; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Claude Kitchin; reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1923, to January 3, 1953; chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3 (Seventy-second through Seventy-fifth Congresses).
Mary Graves Miles Kerr (1875-1965): Married Yanceyville Dr. William Oliver Spencer, M.D. (1863-1938). She graduated from Oxford Seminary as valedictorian and taught school in a private school in Yanceyville. In 1921 she was Regent of the Society of the DAR in the State of North Carolina; as vice-president of the NC Society of UDC she was in charge of their scholarship program; in 1921 she was guest speaker for the dedication of the Confederate Monument in Yanceyville. For some years she was society editor of the Winston-Salem Journal. After her husband's death in 1938 she was assistant collector of Internal Revenue for the Winston office. A Democrat, she had been chairman of the Forsyth Party. An ardent Baptist, Mrs. Spencer taught the young adult Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem. She was Mother of the Year for North Carolina. Her initials "MKS" are found on the World War I monument on the Square in Yanceyville. She wrote the "Lest We Forget" inscription.
Albert Yancey Kerr (1878-1942) served as Yanceyville postmaster and owner/editor of "The Caswell News" newspaper that he published in the Azariah Graves storehouse building that still stands in Yanceyville and has been used as a restaurant. See photograph. He is the father of Eliza Katharine Kerr Kendall (1921-1997), Mary Frances Kerr Donaldson (1923-2016), and George Yancey Kerr (1925-1986). The two sisters collaborated on several books documenting Caswell County records. They are must haves for any serious Caswell County researcher.
Martha Frances Kerr (1883-1965) married Milton and Yanceyville merchant Alexander Hampton (AH) Motz (1885-1973). The A. H. Motz building still stands today on the Square in Yanceyville. See 1935 photograph. Their only child, Mary Kerr Motz (1917-2005) was a Yanceyville fixture for many years, and her house still stands.
Nannie Emma Kerr (1885-1978) married much beloved Yanceyville physician Dr. Stephen Arnold Malloy, M.D. (1972-1944). See photoraph. Many children delivered by Dr. Malloy carry his surname as their middle name. After the arrival of Dr. Malloy in Yanceyville in 1897, the town had the benefit of two doctors for only a few years. Around 1906, Dr. William O. Spencer, M.D., moved his practice (and surgery) to Winston-Salem, NC. As Dr. Spencer departed Yanceyville around 1906 and Dr. Houston L. Gwynn did not begin his practice until after graduating from medical school in 1923, Dr. Malloy practiced alone for some 17 years. He undoubtedly was one busy physician!
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