Kerr, Sarah Hollyday Chamberlaine, 1781-1820

Sarah Hollyday Chamberlaine was born on March 31, 1781, at the Boon’s Creek Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, to Samuel Chamberlaine and Henrietta Hollyday. She married John Leeds Kerr on April 8, 1801, and together they had seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood. She was an artist and painted the silk fringe flag of The Juvenile Corps, a company of Maryland Militia from Easton, whom her husband commanded during the War of 1812. She died on April 1, 1820, at the age of 39, and is buried at Belleview Cemetery, Oxford, Talbot County, Maryland.