Hiram KENNEDY^[1]

1792 - 1862  (69 years)

• Name	Hiram KENNEDY  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
  Born	22 Oct 1792	Moore County, North Carolina   [4, 8, 9, 10, 14, 17]
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Aug 1862	Kennedy-Stutts Cemetery, Lauderdale County, Alabama   [10, 17]
  Died	20 Aug 1862	Lauderdale County, Alabama   [8, 9, 10, 17]
  Person ID	I-2144834694	Our Family Tree
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	David KENNEDY,   b. 20 Jan 1768, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ,   d. 2 May 1837, Lauderdale County, Alabama  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Joanah MOORE,   b. 17 Jul 1766, Orange County, North Carolina ,   d. 12 Oct 1857, Lauderdale County, Alabama  (Age 91 years)
  Married	24 May 1788	Orange County, North Carolina
  Family ID	F679	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary SPINKS,   b. 20 Jan 1793, Randolph County, North Carolina ,   d. 22 Jan 1875, Lauderdale County, Alabama  (Age 82 years)
  Married	28 Jan 1813	Moore County, North Carolina
  Children	1. Asa KENNEDY,   b. 18 Mar 1814   2. William Wesley KENNEDY,   b. 1 May 1816, Moore County, North Carolina ,   d. 14 Nov 1875, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas  (Age 59 years)   3. John Spinks KENNEDY,   b. 18 Oct 1818, Mechanic's Hill, Moore County, North Carolina ,   d. 02 May 1899, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama  (Age 80 years)   4. Martha Person KENNEDY,   b. 8 Mar 1821, Mechanics Hill, Moore County, North Carolina ,   d. 28 Jul 1850, Lauderdale County, Alabama  (Age 29 years)   5. Enoch Riley KENNEDY,   b. 23 Nov 1823,   d. 8 April 1886, Green Hill, Lauderdale County, Alabama  (Age 62 years)   6. David Lewis KENNEDY,   b. 2 Mar 1826, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama ,   d. 1863, Madison, Madison County, Florida  (Age 36 years)   7. Lydia Joanna KENNEDY,   b. 23 Jul 1828,   d. 21 Sep 1832, Green Hill, Lauderdale, Alabama  (Age 4 years)   8. Mary Ann KENNEDY,   b. 23 Jul 1828, Green Hill, Lauderdale County, Alabama ,   d. 27 September 1832, Green Hill, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States  (Age 4 years)   9. Elias Windsor KENNEDY,   b. 10 Aug 1831, Green Hill, Lauderdale County, Alabama ,   d. 14 November 1875, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky  (Age 44 years)   10. Hiram Franklin KENNEDY,   b. 19 Jul 1834,   d. 30 Jan 1854, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States  (Age 19 years)   11. Olive Elizabeth KENNEDY,   b. 9 Aug 1836, Green Hill, Lauderdale County, Alabama ,   d. 3 July 1896, Kemp, Kaufman County, Texas  (Age 59 years)
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2021
  Family ID	F477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Hiram Kennedy and his family moved to Lauderdale County, Alabama about 1824; at this time, they had four children. He was one of the first to buy land in Lauderdale County; the Government first sold land grants in Lauderdale County on March 5, 1818, and he bought a land grant on June 19 of that year (the earliest grants were signed by the President). Eventually, he owned over two thousand acres in this county near the village of Green Hill, about fifteen miles from Florence on the Military Road -- now Jackson Highway. The Kennedy home was east of the highway before Green Hill, and other land was west of the home on Shoal Creek at a community called Cowpens. The home stood until about 1944, but as none of the family had lived in it since 1875, it had greatly deteriorated. Originally, it was a fine house of considerable size. The woodwork -- mantels, door, and window frames and wainscoating in the principal rooms were all hand carved. There is still evidence of a gun factory northeast of where the home stood. The family cemetery is south (and across a dirt road) from where the home stood; in 1957 a new fence was placed around it. In it, Hiram and his wife Mary were buried; he died August 20, 1862 and she died January 22, 1875. After his death, she continued to live on the Kennedy Plantation, although toward the end of her life she lived with her youngest child, on the Brookes Plantation. Although only six when her grandmother died, Mary's granddaughter recalls seeing her grandmother reading her Bible by candlelight. Hiram and Mary Spinks Kennedy were considered exceedingly fine and gentle people, living the good life and providing well for their large family. When they settled far from other like families, they lacked social contacts, but they maintained their standards of culture and education. There was no ostentation, unless sending to London for the wedding trousseau of a granddaughter they raised was that; and life was so pleasant, a grandson, John Robie Kennedy, when he was married in Tuscaloosa brought his bride to visit his widowed grandmother on their honeymoon. "Matthew, Wilson, and Hiram Kennedy took the census of the county in 1850. They were required to list a real estate evaluation for each property owner. Less than $1,000 was the value of the majority of most peoples' real estate. The enumerators were also required to make a list of all persons who had died in the county ending 1 June 1850. Only the list kept by Hiram Kennedy was available."

  
  

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