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MRS. ONEY (KERRICK) MERCER
The subject of this sketch was born
June 23, 1853, on the Platte River, while her parents, Harrison and Oney (Stubblefield) Kerrick, were
en route to California via the Sonora route.
Harrison Kerrick was born in Kentucky and from there removed to
Missouri. In 1851 he came to California
and mined in Tuolumne County near Chinese Camp, returning to Missouri in 1852,
and in 1853 brought his family to California; the paternal grandfather and
grandmother of our subject were also members of the party. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Kerrick: James, Mary Ann, now Mrs. Walrod, who resides in Stockton; and our subject. Mrs. Kerrick passed away at the birth of her
youngest child, the subject of this sketch.
Harrison Kerrick resided near Jamestown, California, and engaged in
ranching and teaming from Sonora to Stockton; later he removed to San Joaquin
County and farmed a quarter section of land near Stockton. He passed away at the age of seventy
years. After the death of her mother,
our subject was reared in the home of her grandparents. She received her education in the
Collegeville district school, with a two years’ course at the Catholic School
in Stockton.
On March 20, 1876, Miss Kerrick was
married to Charles Alexander Mercer, born at Greenville, Tennessee. Charles Alexander Mercer came to California
in 1874 and owned a ranch of a quarter section near
Collegeville, where he took his bride and there they resided for twelve years;
they then removed to Tulare County, settling near Hanford, where they remained
but a short time, then came back to San Joaquin County, where Mr. Mercer died
in 1911. Five children were born to
them: Frank H. is married and his three
children – Frank, Jr., Dorothy and John; Etta, Mrs. Bourland
resides in Woodland and they are the parents of three children – Clarence,
Alice and Percy; Mrs. Effie Walker resides in Sonora and has three children –
Luella, Ruth and Leslie; Mrs. Lulu Cowell resides in Oakland and has one son –
Stanley Kerrick Cowell; Merle Leslie is a seafaring man. Mr. Mercer was a Democrat in politics; he was
nineteen years old when he enlisted on January 27, 1863, in Company A, 4th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, being
honorably discharged August 2, 1865. He
was a member of the G. A. R., and his wife is a member of the Relief Corps and
the auxiliary to the Pioneers of California.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1517. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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