He is married to Catherine Evans.
They got married on January 29, 1807, he was 36 years old.
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Maj John Kennedy
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Birth: Feb. 12, 1770, Ireland
Death: Apr. 7, 1867
Chester
Chester County
South Carolina, USA
John Kennedy emigrated from Ireland to America at 14 years of age and initially lived in a home near Old Purity with his brother George Kennedy, who according to his grave monument on the same row arrived in three years or so before. Despite this Purity connection, John Kennedy was primarily a Baptist as an adult, whose last remains were still buried at Old Purity even after 1797 when John purchased a lot where one of the earliest homes were built in the newly established "Chesterville" or "Chester court-house" as it is sometimes denoted in the early decades. Due to this early connection with a barely existing county seat/county court-house site, a prominent positive civic attitude and longevity of a sort rare in the frontier areas, Major John Kennedy came to be called the "Father of Chesterville" during his last few decades.
John Kennedy helped raise company of men in response to the Mexican War in case there proved any local need and was elected their Major from which title Major Kennedy is now most commonly known
It seems clear Major John Kennedy was a noted and much-respected citizen of town and county. Upon his death on the 7th of April, 1867, presumably but not assuredly in his own bed in Chesterville, Major Kennedy returned to his childhood neighborhood and was buried with two of his children who died young and his brother and other family at Old Purity, then still just Purity Cemetery. The location of his wife's grave is undetermined. Likewise the likely kinship to the other Kennedy families at Purity is uncertain. The coincidences of so many of that surname locating in one small area of Chester District suggests possible kinship among them.
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Burial::
Old Purity Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Chester
Chester County
South Carolina, USA
Plot: Row 6, far grave by two graves of his young children
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Record added: Jan 26, 2007
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