Biography of Samuel Kennedy, pages 772 / 773.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.  

Samuel Kennedy, section 23, Smithfield Township.  His father, John Kennedy, 
was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, June 10, 1810, and subsequently went 
with his parents to Stark County, where he married Sarah Oberlin, and in 
1844 removed with his family to Wayne County.  In 1852 he came to De Kalb 
County, and bought a farm on section 23, Smithfield Township, forty acres of 
which was improved, where he died Oct. 10, 1854.  He had a family of ten 
children, seven of whom are living---Samuel, William, Benjamin F., and 
Philip are in De Kalb County; Josiah, of Kansas; Joseph, also in the West, 
and Mary J., wife of A.S. Blake, of Colorado.  Five of the sons were 
soldiers in the war of the Rebellion.  Samuel enlisted in 1864 in the Ninth 
Illinois Cavalry, and served till the close of the war.  Josiah enlisted in 
1861, in the Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry. Philip enlisted in the Thirtieth 
Indiana, and was transferred to the Mississippi Marine Brigade.  He was 
severely wounded twice.  Benjamin F.  enlisted in 1863, in the Eighty-
eighth Indiana Infantry and served till the close of the war.  Joseph 
served in the First Indiana Heavy Artillery, serving in the Mississippi 
Marine services.  Samuel, the only son living in Smithfield Township, owns 
and occupies the old homestead.  He was born in Stark County Ohio, in 1830, 
and was therefore a young man when he came with his parents to Indiana.  
He was married in De Kalb County, to Annette Holmes, a native of Seneca 
County, Ohio, born in 1838, a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (Knapp) 
Holmes, natives of New York.  To Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have been born two 
sons---Jay S., born March 14, 1863, and one that died in infancy.  Mrs. 
Kennedy’s father moved to De Kalb County in 1843, and in 1867 sold his 
farm and removed to Tiffin, Ohio, where he died the following March.  He 
was married three times, his third wife is living in Kansas.  Five of his 
nine children are living, three in De Kalb County:  Mrs. Flora McTaffin, 
Mrs. Olive Kennedy, and Mrs. Annetta Kennedy.

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