He appeared on the census of 1870; "shows living with his mother
Mary Kennedy, of Greenhill, Alabama."361
Children of William Wesley22 Kennedy and Cynthia
W. Palmer all b. AL were as follows:
i. Panthea Narcissus23;
b. circa 1841;362
d. after 1900.363
ii. Oliver Sylvester; b. circa
1842;364
m. Georgia
Foster, daughter of Wm. Lytle Foster and Susan
Cheatham, 27 Jan 1863 Florence,
AL;365
d. after 1900Ft. Worth, TX.366
He was educated between 1859 and 1860; was listed as a Junior at Florence
Wesley University. He was from Ripley, Miss., rooming with John S. Kennedy.
Metaphysical Oration, The Force of Passion, by O.S. Kennedy, Junior Class,
July 3. 1860.367
He and Georgia lived with Benjamin Franklin Foster
on B.F. Foster's home place of thirteen acres was on what now is Wood Avenue,
Hawthorne Street and Circular Road (which then crossed Wood Ave.) B.F.
Foster returned to Nashville, Oliver and Georgia continued to live in his
home and Oliver had power of attorney to settle his affairs here.368,369
He " Oliver married a Mattie E. Kennedy & James M. Kyle" on 27 Feb
1873.370
iii. Adelia Parthenia; b.
circa 1844;371
m. Michael
Danaher circa 1865;372
d. after 1900 Little Rock, AK.373
"Their home was one the kin liked to visit; my first train ride was
to Little Rock in the late autumn of 1896, my first memory is of Christmas
toys in windows there. Their family: May was an artist of note, established
the Art Academy in Little Rock, had a summer studio in such centers as
Gloucester, Mass., her last summer was spent in Spain; five of her paintings
have long been in my home. Michael and Palmer were important lawyers in
Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Lula Bab and Walker remained in the old home. George
moved to Texas and left two sons.374
iv. Ophelia Adrian; b. after
1850;375
m. John Wesley
Kennedy, son of David Lewis Kennedy and Julia
Ann Kennedy, 17 Oct 1876; first cousins.376
He was educated at Lagrange College, studied law, admitted
to Bar in 1831.381
He, when still young was elected a Representative in the Legislature in
1841 and again in 1842, after which he engaged more in the practice of
law in 1841.382
"He was a gentleman of importance in Florence, he and Gov. Patton ran the
town for a while and in 1852 he planted two willow oaks in the park along
Tuscaloosa Street that lived over ninety years; and he and Richard B. Baugh
had a cotton mill on Shoal Creek about a half a mile up the creek from
the bridge on the old Jackson Highway; in 1863 the mill was moved to Tuscaloosa
and produced material for the Confederate Army. When burned by accident
the Confederate States rebuilt the plant; at the end of the War the Yankees
burned it. His homes in Florence: in 1848 he was living on Wood Avenue
above the college in a house known as the Mitchell place; the next year
he bought ten acres on Cypress Street running west to Circular Road (Locust
Street then did not run north of Tuscaloosa Street) and ten years later
he bought ten more acres bringing his property to Tuscaloosa Street. He
planted the same willow oaks on Cypress and Tuscaloosa Streets. His children
grew up in Tuscaloosa."383
"During that period, when the Federal troops invaded that portion of the
State, he became a refugee and made his abode at Tuscaloosa where in connection
with other gentlemen he controlled the cotton factory in that place. Later
he built a factory a few miles from Tuscaloosa called Kennedale. In his
history and success he is a striking example of what may be reached by
preserving industry. He is liberal and public - spirited in the application
of his means. This is to his credit. Kennedy was probably the first lawyer
in Alabama to abandon his profession to engage in other work.
John Kennedy was one of the first organizers and first officials when
Alabama Legislature charted the Tuscumbia, Alabama Railroad Company on
16 January ?? after 1862.384
Children of John Spinks22 Kennedy and Mary E.
Kennedy were as follows:
61. i. Lydia Vernon23,
b. circa 1845 AL; m. Edward
Warren.
62. ii. Logan Pascal,
b. circa 1847 AL; m. Hannah
Lithgow.
63. iii. John Robie,
b. 9 Jun 1848 Florence,
Lauderdale Co, AL; m. Joanna M McLester.
iv. Edward Jennings
b. circa 1850, never married, was a musician and played the organ (about
twenty years) at the First Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, said to be the
first pipe organ in the state.
He was given credit for raising $1,200.00 to buy an organ for the church.
March 1880, the Samuel S. Hammill Company of East Cambridge Mass. arrived
to install the organ. Mr. Hammill, himself, superintended the installation
and was a guest for ten days of Mr. John Spinks Kennedy.385
Of Mr. Hammill, "he was a little man who wore thick glasses" circa
1880.386
v. Hiram Percy died young;
b. 9 Oct 1850;387,388
d. 15 Aug 1851.389
64. vi. David Patton,
b. 2 Jan 1855 Tuscaloosa,
Tuscaloosa Co., AL; m. Sallie Brantley Mitchell.
65. vii. Mary Spinks,
b. circa 1856 AL; m. Julian
C. Perkins.
49. Patsey
(Martha) Person22 Kennedy (Hiram21,
David20, Alexander19,
John18, Alexander17,
Alexander16, Alexander15,
Thomas14, Gilbert13,
Gilbert12, David11,
John10, Gilbert9,
James8, Gilbert7,
John6, Gilbert5de
Carrick, Gilbert4,
Roland3, Nicol,2,
Duncan1) was born on
8 Mar 1821Moore Co., N.C; moved as
a small child to Alabama.390
She married Paschal
Palmer on 26 Oct 1837.391
She died on 28 Jul 1850 Lauderdale
Co., AL, at age 29; killed when she jumped from the carriage taking her
from Florence to her Father's home near Green Hill; it seems two of her
brothers were on horseback and ahead of the carriage and when they got
out of sight the carriage horses broke into a run down the hill of Jackson
Highway going into Royal Avenue, and she became frightened.392
Children of Patsey (Martha) Person22 Kennedy and Paschal
Palmer both b. AL were as follows:
i. Orlando23
was raised by Hiram Kennedy and Mary his wife; he was a Captain in the
Confederate Army, was wounded at Shiloh, took a gallant part in every battle
of the Army of Tennessee and died January 19, 1865 of wounds received at
the Battle of Franklin and was buried in Rose Hill cemetery, Columbia;
b. circa 1838;393
d. 19 Jan 1865.394
66. ii. Armissa,
b. before 1840; m. Thomas Brown Winton.
50. Enoch
Riley22 Kennedy (Hiram21,
David20, Alexander19,
John18, Alexander17,
Alexander16, Alexander15,
Thomas14, Gilbert13,
Gilbert12, David11,
John10, Gilbert9,
James8, Gilbert7,
John6, Gilbert5de
Carrick, Gilbert4,
Roland3, Nicol,2,
Duncan1) was born circa
23 Nov 1823 NC.395
He married Louisa
J. Chisholm, daughter of John Chisholm, on 25 Dec
1844 Lauderdale Co., AL; they
made their home on cowpen creek near Milners Chapel Church.396,397
He died on 8 Apr 1886 AL.398
He was buried after 8 Apr 1886Greenhill,
AL; east of Tabernacle Church. Inscription on tombstone is as follows:
Joined the M.E. Church South in 01839, elected elder by the North Alabama
Conference, 20 November 1875.399,400
He was a signer of the deed of Old Milners Chapel Church along
with Rufus K. Chisholm, Ben I. Bretherick, John Lemaster and John McGee
on 27 Sep 1872.401
Children of Enoch Riley22 Kennedy and Louisa J.
Chisholm were as follows:
"was one of the early industrialists of Lauderdale County,
having as his partner Samuel Milner (brother of Joseph and Isaac) in a
wool factory at Cowpen, important enough to have a post office, "Lauderdale
Factory, Alabama". In February 1855 he sold his interest and moved to Madison
County, Florida, where he died in the summer of 1863.406
He left a will on 19 Apr 1868; "as recorded in Lauderdale County,
Alabama and Madison County, Florida:
In the name of God Amen ! I David L. Kennedy of the county
of Madison and State of Florida being of soun mind Do Make this
my last will and testament. It is my desire that all my just debts should
be paid. I here by will give and bequeath to my beloved wife Charlotte
M. Kennedy and my youngest daughter Mary Wardlaw Kennedy - All that part
of the Land upon which we now reside purched from T.A. Livingston lying
East of the public Road known as the "Rockey ford" Road imbracin all the
building; containing something over (200) Two hundred acres and all the
furniture household and kitchen furniture all the bedding and bed clothing
except a few articles kept by my first wife's children as relic all the
stock cows, hogs, horses and pultry with all the farming utensels, waggons
carriages & that are on the place. Provided that she my said wife shall
take the same in view of her Powers in my estate And it for ever keep and
retain the negroes belonging to her my said wife at the time of our marriage
to wit, Fanny and Gercie. and furthur that they my said wife and youngest
Daughter have all the supplies and provisions the farm the present year
and supported out of the provisions laid in for a bountiful supply be set
apart of everything raised on the farm for the use of my wife and family
during the next year and if there is any thing over let it be sold and
divided in five parts equally between my wife and four children.
And I desire that my wife take and use all the money I may
have on hand and all that may be yet coming to me from the Drug
store account after paying my burial expenses.
And I desire this property will to my said wife Charlotte M. and Daughter
Mary W. be kept together until the marriage of my said wife - then I desire
the property should be divided equally between my wife and her Daughter
Mary. And unto my three oldest children by my first wife Joanna B. Kennedy,
John W. Kennedy and Fannie O. Kennedy I give and bequeath all my real and
personal Estate and all my interest in the Estate of my father Hiram Kennedy
Deceased of Lauderdale County, Alabama not mentioned and bequeathed in
the foregoing the portion of my will to wit; Three negroes George
Randolph and Adaline and her increase all that portion of the tract of
land upon which we now reside lying
West of where the Ricky Ford
Road now runs, which is from the front of the Baptist church in a north
east direction facing to the left of a pond near the corner of the field
- containing (250) two hundred and fifty acres mor or less one note on
Baugh, Kennedy and Co. of Lauderdale County, Alabama. I desire and consent
to its being sold at public sale as soon as these troublesome times will
allow. Out of this property willed to my Three oldest children Joanna B.
John W. and Fannie O. Kennedy I desire my Executor for this property to
pay the amount due from me to the Estate of my Father in division of the
negroes.
I give to John W. Kennedy my gun watch Flute and theological Books.
I desire that the property willed to my Three oldest children should be
kept together until necessary to divide when one of them marries of becomes
of age.
I appoint as me Excutors to take charge of the property willed
to my wife Charlotte M. and daughter Mary W. I appoint Thomas J. Livingston
2nd. I appoint Elias W. Kennedy or John S. Kennedy of Lauderdale
Co., Alabama. as my Executor to take charge of that portion willed to my
three oldest children to take the moveable property to Alabama or not as
he think best.
Codicil In place of dividing the present crop mentioned above
I want my wife to have it all. Let my Excutors sell the land together if
they think best.
April 19, 1868 D.L. Kennedy (seal)
William B. Stevens, Joel Phillips
Elias Davis, Elkanah Cottingham
This is written just as it appears on the will."
I have made 3 spelling corrections I believe were mistakes of
the transcriber, they are in superscript. RML3.407
Children of David Lewis22 Kennedy and Julia Ann Kennedy
were as follows:
iv. Fanny Olive; b. after
1853;412
d. after 1900.413
Children of David Lewis22 Kennedy and Charlotte M. Livingston
were:
i. Mary Wardlaw23
may have married a Cubbage as Mary Wardlaw Cubbage is named in the Bible.
Wardlaw is the middle name in David Kennedy's will; b. after 1858;414
d. after 1900.415
52. Olive
Elizabeth22 Kennedy (Hiram21,
David20, Alexander19,
John18, Alexander17,
Alexander16, Alexander15,
Thomas14, Gilbert13,
Gilbert12, David11,
John10, Gilbert9,
James8, Gilbert7,
John6, Gilbert5de
Carrick, Gilbert4,
Roland3, Nicol,2,
Duncan1) was born on
9 Aug 1836Lauderdale Co., AL.416
She married John
Jesse Westmoreland Brookes, son of John Brookes
and Susan Ingram Westmoreland, on 24 Nov 1857 Lauderdale
Co., AL.417
She died on 3 Jul 1896 Kemp,
TX, at age 59; In the summer of 1896, while on a visit to her son John
Preston Brookes, she died. Her son Benj. Taylor Brookes had gone to help
nurse her and brought her body back to Florence for burial in the Brookes
lot of the Florence cemetery.418
"was the yuoungest of this large family. She attended the Synodical
College in Florence; this fime institution provided a proper education
for young ladies. The whole block where the post office now stands was
college property; the dormitory was a handsome building with columns on
all four sides and was taken down to build the post office on the spot,
and the class rooms and chapel were in the building now occupied by the
Elks.
Her photographs show that she was an unusually beautiful woman;
she had charm and graciousness. She was quite talented in music; her first
piano was sold and in 1874 another, rosewood, was bought for her in Louisville
by her brother Elias; on this one Mother learned to play. In April 1954,
eighty years to the month after the piano was sent to the Brookes home,
it went to the Gorgas Home on the campus of the University at Tuscaloosa.
Her brother John Spinks Kennedy, eighteen years her senior lived in Florence
when she attended the college; after he became a widower he used to spend
a large part of the summers at the Brookes place; in fact all the relatives
seemed to love being there. She knew at the college Elizabeth Koger, a
first cousin of Jesse W. Brookes whom she met in this way; they were married
November 24, 1857 at the Kennedy plantation home by Rev. Isaac Milner who
married a Kennedy himself. She lived her entire life in Lauderdale County."419
Children of Olive Elizabeth22 Kennedy and John
Jesse Westmoreland Brookes all b. Lauderdale
Co., AL, were as follows:
i. John Preston23;
b. 15 Sep 1858;420
m. Victoria
Parmlee 4 Dec 1884;421
d. 9 Sep 1899 at age 40.422
ii. Martha Vernon; b. 21
Sep 1860;423
m. Frank
Jackson 19 Feb 1879;424
d. 14 Mar 1935 at age 74.425
iii. Jesse Westmoreland never
married; b. 10 Feb 1863;426
d. 22 Sep 1887 at age 24.427
iv. Hiram Kennedy he was
unmarried; b. 14 Apr 1866;428
d. 27 Jan 1927 at age 60.429
75. v. Mary Sue,
b. 9 Jan 1869; m. James Josephus Douglass.
vi. Mary Sue; b. 9 Jan 1869;430
d. 10 Apr 1947 at age 78.431
vii. William Orlando; b.
1 Oct 1871;432
m. Pearl
Springer 3 Jul 1911;433
d. 22 Nov 1953 at age 82.434
viii. Benjamin Taylor was
unmarried; b. 25 Nov 1874;435
d. 18 Jan 1938 at age 63.436
ix. Spinks Mason; b. 21 Jul
1877;437
d. 2 Feb 1893 AL at age 15.438
x. Dr. Percy Franklin; b.
22 Feb 1881;439
m. Bessie
Williams 10 Jan 1906;440
d. 4 Apr 1952 at age 71.441
Children of General Robert E.22 Lee and Mary Anne
Rutherford Custis were as follows:
i. George Washington Custis
(Boo)23; b. 16 Sep 1832 Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA;457
d. 18 Feb 1913 Fairfax, VA,
at age 80.458
ii. Mary Custis; b. 12 Jun
1835Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA;459
d. 22 Nov 1918 Lexington,
VA, at age 83;460
bur. after 22 Nov 1918 Lexington,
VA.461
iii. William Henry(Rooney)
Fitzhugh; b. 31 May 1837 Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA;462
m. Charlotte
Wickham circa 1860;463
d. 15 Oct 1891 Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA, at age 54;464
bur. after 15 Oct 1891 Lexington,
VA.465
iv. Anne ( Annie); b. 18
Jun 1839 Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA;466
d. 20 Oct 1862 Jones Springs,
NC, at age 23;467
bur. after 20 Oct 1862 Lexington,
VA.468
v. Agnes; b. 1841 Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA;469
d. 15 Oct 1873;470
bur. after 15 Oct 1873 Lexington,
VA.471
vi. Robert Edward; b. 27
Oct 1843 Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA;472
d. 1914;473
bur. 1914 Lexington, VA.474
vii. Mildred; b. 1846 Alexandria,
Fairfax, VA;475
d. 5 Nov 1873 Arlington, VA;476
bur. after 5 Nov 1873 Lexington,
VA.477
Children of John Lee22 Leland and Mary Pusey both
b. VA were as follows:
i. Rebecca Rathbun23;
b. 24 Aug 1808;481
d. circa 1880.482
J.A.C. Leland reports "I have no record of Rebecca Rathbun Leland"
she was raised by her uncle Baldwin Mathews Leland after 1810 VA.483
ii. John Baldwin; b. 15 Jan
1810;484
d. circa 1826 VA; John Baldwin Leland became insane
while quite young and died at about 16. He was confined in a small stone
house on the plantation.485
He born after father's death, ward of Baldwin Mathews Leland in 1810.486
58. Baldwin
Mathews22 Leland (Judith21Smith,
Baldwin20, Philip19,
Mary18Warner,
Augustine17, Augustine16,
Elizabeth15Southerton,
Augustine14, Elizabeth13(Stewart)
Steward, James12Stewart,
Janet11Kennedy,
John10, Gilbert9,
James8, Gilbert7,
John6, Gilbert5de
Carrick, Gilbert4,
Roland3, Nicol,2,
Duncan1) was
born on 11 Mar 1780.487
He married Elizabeth
Haggoman, daughter of John Haggoman (III) and Mary
Anne Jamison, on 6 Mar 1806.488
He married Rebecca
Ann Travers, daughter of Henry Hicks Travers,
on 25 Jan 1828 VA.489
He died on 27 Aug 1832 Northumberland,
VA, USA, at age 52.490
He was buried after 27 Aug 1832 in the family burial ground inNorthumberland
Co., VA. He, his first wife and her mother Mary Jamieson Haggoman
are buried there. The graveyard is badly overgrown (1940's), but
two slabs are visible, Thomas Banks died 1684, and William Keene died 1697.
They both married the same woman. She evidently outlived her two husbands
and was not given a stone.491
He was a lawyer and a planter and furnished supplies for the
United States Army in the War of 1812.492
If he had lived a few more years, he would have been a resident of the
State of Ohio as he was negotiating for land near Cincinnati at the time
of his death. His intention was to free his slaves and come to the free
state to bring up his children. After his death the family separated, some
going to Illinois, some to Kentucky and later Alabama, and some to Ohio.493
Children of Baldwin Mathews22 Leland and Elizabeth
Haggoman were as follows:
77. i. Judith Smith23,
b. 10 Apr 1807 VA, USA; m. Elijah
Stevens.
78. ii. Mary Jamieson,
b. 28 Jun 1809 VA, USA; m.Edward
Cox.
79. iii. Dr. William
Archibald, b. 29 Apr 1811 Northumberland,
VA, USA; m. Margaret Warren Ish.
iv. Elisabeth Lombard; b.
15 Feb 1813 VA, USA;494
d. before Sep 1817 Winchester,
VA, USA.495
80. v. Ann Maria,
b. 29 Dec 1814 Northumberland,
VA, USA; m. Peter P. Cox.
81. vi. Sarah Moore,
b. 13 Jan 1817 VA, USA; m. Rev.
Amos Wiley.
82. vii. Baldwin
Mathews Jr., b. 20 Jun 1819 VA,
USA; m. Elisabeth Frances Stevens; m. Rebecca
Danford.