Family History, Curtis Chart 0302 James Horace Kennedy and Melissa Jane Curtis

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James Horace
KENNEDY
born about
20th June
1868
Utah Territory
Utah, USA
died
27th December
1907
Utah, USA
buried
1907
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Block 3
Grave 18

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Charles Arthur
KENNEDY
born about
5th January
1871
Utah Territory
Utah, USA
died
1st September
1957
buried
1957
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Black 18
Grave 36

married
4th May
1892
Manti
Sanpete County
Utah, USA
Emily
ANDREWS
born
3rd September
1874
died
26th June 1944
buried
1957
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Black 18
Grave 36

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Ezra
KENNEDY
born about
16th June 1874
Utah Territory
Utah, USA
occupation
1900
Lumber Hauling
1910
Farmer (General)
died
10th August 1966
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
County
Utah, USA
buried
1966
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plt: Block 3
Grave 9

married
28th November
1894
Manti
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Elizabeth
HARVARD
born
3rd August 1875
Springville
Utah County
Utah, USA
died
6th December 1946
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
buried
1946
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Block 3
Grave 8

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Pearl
KENNEDY
born about
2nd January
1880
(5 months on the 1880
Census
Utah Territory
Utah, USA
died
22nd February 1970
buried
1970
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Black 2
Grave 18

married
11th December
1907
Manti
Sanpete County
Utah, USA
William
John
WALL
born
19th July 1868
Mani
Sanpete County
Utah, USA
died
18th April 1960
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
buried
1960
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Block 2
Grave 17

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Jane
KENNEDY
born about
6th May
1883
Utah, USA
died
10th July
1953
buried
1953
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Block 3
Grave 2

married
25th March
1904
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
James
Lindsy
PALMER
born
13th May
1873
died
31st March
1942
buried
1942
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Block 3
Grave 3

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Ray
KENNEDY
born about
7th February
1886
Utah, USA
died
12th October 1890
buried
1890
Aurora Cemetery
Aurora
Sevier County
Utah, USA
Plot: Block 3
Grave 17

KENNEDY
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KENNEDY
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WALL
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PALMER
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1850 Not found 1880 Willow Bend, Sevier, Utah, USA. 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. (I have another child Ray born 1886 who does not appear on this census) 1910 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. With them was a Charles S KENNEDY aged 16 a Nephew born Missouri, USA 1920 Census still to look for. Information for James from findagrave.com HISTORY OF JAMES HORACE KENNEDY by his granddaughter Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch James Horace Kennedy was born Feb. 3 1842 in Adams County, Illinois, the son of Charles Kennedy and Hulda Elvira Clark. When he was about two years old, his family moved to Greenplum or Greenplain where a sister Cornelia Elmina was born Nov. 4 1844. Nothing much is known of their life there; or when they joined the Mormon Church, but they arrived in Utah Sept. 23, 1848. They were very poor and James, as he was called, had very few clothes. He would tell how he had a shirt and pants made of buckskin and when it stormed his shirt and pants would shrink and get so stiff he could hardly get them on. The Next spring after they arrived in Utah he said they lived on Sego roots and wild fruit. Later they had obtained a cow or two and he and George Albert Smith would take theirs and some of the neighbors' cows and herd them all day. The friendship he and George Albert Smith had lasted out their life, even unto the time George Albert Smith was made President of the L.D.S. Church. James's family finally settled in the part of the valley that was later known as Sugar House. Here James and his father helped build a ditch to divert some of the water from the canyon onto the farms. For many years the ditch was known as the Kennedy Ditch. Sept. 3, 1850 a son Silas Francis was born, then on May 4, 1853 James's mother gave birth to twins, a girl, Hulda Alvira and a boy Henry Edward. On Aug. 3, 1857 his mother gave birth to another set of twins Charles and Chancey. Is is not known if they were still-born or died shortly after birth, but because of the hardships she had endured and having had twins just 4 years before, she died also and was buried with a twin on each arm. Shortly after her death, her husband, Charles Kennedy became dissatisfied with the church and apostatized and with his two other wives and three of his children; Silas Francis, Hulda Elvira, and Hendry Edward, he returned to Missouri. James was only fifteen years old, so he went to live with a family by the name of Tanner. It is not known by the family whether his sister went ot Missour with her father and then later returned to Provo, Utah where she married George Scott and lived there the rest of her life. Later James moved to Provo where he met and married Melissa Jane Curtis on April 9, 1867. They live in Provo eight years, during that time three sons were born to them; James Horace (Jr), June 20, 1868; Charles Arthur, Jan. 5, 1871; and Ezra, Jan. 15, 1874. In 1875 they were called with about six other families to settle in a place known as Willlow Bed, later known as Aurora in Sevier Co. They built a small two room log cabin on the banks of the Sevier River. Sometime later he helped build a canal farther west. After it was finished, he and his boys moved their house west onto the banks of the canal. The canal was known as the Rocky Ford Canal. He and his sons, Charles and Ezra spent many summers hauling logs from the canyons, also wood but they also used sage-brush which was plentiful for firewood also. Their son, James, or Jimmie as he was called, had a crippled leg and arm, so he wasn't able to do the things the other boys did, but he loved the school, and even went to the Academy in Richfield one year. While they lived in Aurora three more children were born to them; Pearl, Jan. 2, 1880; Jane, May 6, 1886; and Ray, Feb. 7 1886. Ray only lived four years. And bother their girls were good seamstresses and made all of their own clothes and also sewed for other people making wedding dresses and L.D.S. garments. The family was very poor and Melissa's health was very bad so James had to sell his only cow to buy medicine for her. Many days after a hard day's work, all the boys and James would have to eat was bread and water. The girl's would have buttermilk for which one of them had worked all day for their Grandmother Curtis. Or they would work for some family, cleaning house for five cents a day. Finally, times got better, and James's wife's health improved and James got a job as town Marshall. He then sold the property where they were living and bought about forty acres east of town, there they built as comfortable three room house. Jane decided if the boys would help her get some lumber up into the attic, she could make two small rooms up there. The boys helped and the rooms were quite nice, they even had closets. Later the Grandchildren had fun playing in those attic rooms, dressing up in the old fashioned dresses and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful feathers on. James had a well dug, which all the neighbors used. They had just used water from the river before. The ground he bought was quite productive and he also go a job hauling cream from all over Aurora to Richfield. He and his wife were faithful members of the L.D.S. Church and always had room for anyone who wanted to go with them whether it was to church or shopping in Salina or Richfield. He was always kind and generous to the widows and orphans. One Fourth of July they saw a little boy and girl at the program without shoes and stockings on. After the program they took the two children to the store and bought them shoes and stockings. The children were really happy, but so were James and his wife. In about 1907 or 1908 his brother Henry Kennedy's wife died leaving him with quite a large family to care for. James went to Missouri by train and brought the two youngest one back home to raise. The little girl Cleta was under two years old and Charles was six or seven. It was quite a task for him to care for these little ones on the return journey. They kept the children until two of their sisters came to Salt Lake City to live. Then Charles or little Charley as he was called and Cleta went to live with them. James and his wife did lots of temple work for their dead ancesters and left about $1000.00, with their daughter Pearl when they died to be used for research on the Curtis and Kennedy lines. In 1918 or 1919 they sold their farm east of Aurora and moved into a nice little home across the street from their daughter Pearl's home in the center of Aurora. Soon their daughter Jane and her family moved into town in a house across the street east of them. James's health was failing and the last three or four months of his life he was bedfast. He passed away May 16, 1922 and was buried in Aurora. He left a large posterity. His son Jimie had one daughter. Charles had four girls and four boys, two of the boys were twins and one of his daughters had twins also. Ezra had twelve children, the oldest ones were twin girls but Pearl had only two children but both died young. Jane had seven children, but one was stillborn and one only lived eight hours. One of Janes grand-daughters gave birth to twin boys, so you can say that twins run in the Kennedy family lines. James was a large man, six feet tall, he was a good worker and seemed to have the gift of healing, as he was called many times to bless the sick. He was eighty years old when he died. Eighty years of trying to do good unto the least of these my brethren, as the Savior commanded. Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch Granddaughter 1880 Willow Bend, Sevier, Utah, USA. 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. (I have another child Ray born 1886 who does not appear on this census) 1910 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. With them was a Charles S KENNEDY aged 16 a Nephew born Missouri, USA 1880 Willow Bend, Sevier, Utah, USA. (Possibly another child as on 1900 Census he is down as John H aged 30 not James H aged 32) 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. (I have another child Ray born 1886 who does not appear on this census) 1880 Willow Bend, Sevier, Utah, USA. 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. (I have another child Ray born 1886 who does not appear on this census) On findagrave there are three children for this couple Hazel born 1893 died 1978, Irene born 1896 died 1926 and Charles Arthur born 1903 died 1954. 1880 Willow Bend, Sevier, Utah, USA. 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. Ezra is down with family, but when looking at Census he has been crossed through and he actually appears in the next property with his wife Elizabeth as follows: 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA Children Ester aged 4, Lora aged 2 and Edgar aged 1 1910 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. Children Ester aged 14, Loura aged 12, Edgar aged 11, Violet aged 9, Ruby aged 6, Arvilla aged 3 and Ava aged 1 all born Utah, USA 1880 Willow Bend, Sevier, Utah, USA. 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. (I have another child Ray born 1886 who does not appear on this census) 1910 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. With them was Gladys S aged 18 a daughter born Utah (must be a child from first marriage of William) there is also a William STEVENS aged 73 with the family. 1920 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. They have a son Rex W WALL aged 5 born Utah, USA Information for William John WALL findagrave states that William John had been married before to a Jensine MORTENSEN born 1869 and died 1904. According to Western State Marriage Record Index this marriage took place on 17th December 1890 at Manit, Sevier County, Utah, USA 1900 Aurora, Sevier, Utah, USA. (I have another child Ray born 1886 who does not appear on this census) findagrave lists the following children for this couple Pearl Ardene born 1905 died 1983 and James William born 1914 died 2010. The information on finda grave came from a daughter of Pearl Ardene who married a Hugh J HATCH Ray born 1886 does not appear on this census, but I have on information given to me. Again a lot more detail that I originally had, only having the names and rough birth dates from the 1900 Census. Still a lot more to be found. There is an extra child Ezra, marriages for four of the children and families for all four of these. Death and burials for everyone on the chart. Will add further details when I put on charts on from his one. Still to look for on quite a few census returns.

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