Jacob Kerns
In tracing back the genealogy of the above, we can go back to the middle of the eighteenth century, when Stutfel Kerns came to America from Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania. Here he married Barbary Utt. They raised a family of eleven children. Joseph, one of the eleven, was born in Pennsylvania in 1786. Was brought by his father to Ohio in 1794. They located near Cincinnati. While living here he and four of his brothers enlisted in the army, and served under Gen. Harrison. Soon after the war he married Barbary Markley, and immediately moved to Miami County, where he now resides in his ninety-fifth year, having lived on the same farm about seventy years. They raised a family of nine childen. Jacob, the fourth child of the above, was born in 1822. He lived with his father in Miami County until 1843, when he came to Shelby, and, the same year, married Emiline A. Elliott. They have raised a family of four children. viz., Joseph L., Stephen W., Cyrus T., and Cerena M. Mrs. Kerns died in 1873.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883