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| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Alfred Benjamin Fontaine Kerr, Methodist minister, the son of Hugh and Lucy (Thomson) Kerr, was born in Giles County, Tennessee, on January 1, 1823. |
 | | In company with forty other families, the Kerr family arrived at Harrisburg, Texas, on April 21, 1831, and proceeded to the area of present western Washington County to take up land. |
 | | On March 10, 1847, at the seventh session of the Texas Conference of the Methodist Church, Kerr was admitted on trial. |
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