R. Y. Kennedy Family History

CHARLES H. KENNEDY FAMILY

Submitted by Jayne Sweger

Charles H. Kennedy born in 1856 in Clyde Township, Illinois, died 1916 at Coffeyville, Kansas married 30 Nov 1882, in Clyde Township, Whiteside County, Illinois to Emma Kingsbury the daughter of Silvus H Kingsbury and Olive E Pond, of Whiteside County.

Charles & Emma Kennedy

Children of Charles & Emma Kennedy

The children of Charles & Emma Kennedy were as follows:

Pearl, born 1863 in Whitside County, Illinois. She died in 1979 in Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas

Roy L., was born in 1886 in Clyde Township and died in 1953 in Coffeyville, Kansas

Forrest, was born in 1888 in Clyde Township and died in 1910 in Coffeyville, Kansas

Olive, was born in 1891 in Coffeyville, Kansas and died in 1927 in Denver, Colorado

Nona, was born in 1894, in Coffeyville, Kansas and died in 1963 in Spokane, Washington

Doris, was born in 1906 at Coffeyville, Kansas and died before 1963 in California

Charles H Kennedy was a rural mail carrier in the Coffeyville area for many years. He lived on a farm northwest of town. His daughter, Pearl, is the author of the Pearl Kennedy Diary. Charles bought 160 acres at Sandy Ridge, and farmed them successfully for a number of years. He was also a mail carrier on Route 4, and he died of a heart attack while delivering the mail...There are a large number of his descendants living in the Coffeyville area

Charles H and R Y Kennedy are double first cousins; their fathers who were brothers, married two of the Roberts sisters, to wit:

Robert M Kennedy m Martha Piatt Roberts

James L Kennedy m Emira Roberts

Emira died young, leaving six small children. They were "farmed out" with her relatives in Whiteside Co, IL, including Charles H, who lived with his Aunt Lydia Roberts (Mrs Stephen Robinson Libby).

Charles H, Emma and daughter Pearl, moved to Montgomery Co, KS a few years after R Y and family, probably 1900/01.

Emma Kingsbury's sisters, Carrie and May, who married Jacob Mench and George Edison, soon followed the Charles Kennedy's to rural Coffeyville.