Allen B. Kennedy born 4/5/1824, in Tennessee, died 3/20/1909 buried in

Cedar Co. Missouri. Allen married three times and fathered 16 children

with two of his wives. He married Nancy Nichols in 1846, no children,

Harriett Hance in 1850, children were Mary Jane, 1852, Andrew H. 1856,

Thomas Daniel 1858, Harriet 1859. His marriage to his third wife

Matilda Elizabeth Gilmore Smith Kennedy, born 2/4/1841 in Warren Co. KY,

died 3/26/1913, buried in Cedar Co. MO. their children were, James

Lincoln, 1863, Amanda P. 1864, Samuel Grant, 1865, Asa P. 1868, John

Young, 1869, Elisha McGradier, 1870, Nancy J. 1873, Allen Jr. 1876,

Martha E. 1876, Lucy Ann, 1879, Mary Jane, unknown, Lillie May, 1880.

Allen was the son of Thomas Kennedy and Mary/Polly Young. They brought

Allen and his sibblings from Tennessee in 1830 to southwestern

Missouri. Allen was born with a club foot, but it did not hold him back

from being a farmer, home builder and a father of many children. His

children grew up to be doctors, lawyers, teachers and farmers. My

grandmother Lucy told me stories about her growing up in Missouri. She

taught school at age 16, met a young man that she was taken with, that

didn't meet with the approval of her father, so was sent to live in the

Indian Territory with her married brother, Samuel Grant Kennedy. She

met and married my grandfather Walter Albert Lombard, an Osage/Cherokee

Indian, mixed with French. They had three daughters, one of which is

my mother, Samie Lombard Wood.

Submitted by Barbara Wood Kesel, 2/26/1999

barb@aub.com P.O. Box 848 Weimar, California