Orange John Kennedy was the son of Jonathan Ralston Kennedy and his second wife, Mary E. Jones Kennedy. Three of their four children were deaf.
He was the grandson of William Hugh Kennedy and Margaret Jane Ralston Kennedy of Brown County, Ohio, with Margaret Jane, as a widow, of Douglas County, Kansas.
He was the great-grandson of Jonathan "John" Ralston and Elizabeth "Betsy" Pitzer Ralston of Brown County, Ohio.
In 1855, his father and his widowed grandmother Margaret Jane, in a group of about twenty-five family members, made the trek from Brown County, Ohio to Douglas County, Kansas, where they settled in the Kennedy Valley on the Wakarusa River. There, they could stake claims for land at $1.00 per acre.
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Mr. Kennedy was struck by an engine near Cherokee Station, AZ
Orange John Kennedy
Posted 2013-04-26 by Pat R :: [email protected]
News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ)
Saturday, May 17, 1902, p 1
A printer named Kennedy, who was both deaf and dumb, was run over and killed by a train at Hackberry last Friday. Kennedy was so deaf he could not hear the thunder crack, and started for an evening walk upon the railroad track. The locomotive came just like a lightning driven plow, and reached poor Kennedy"unawares; he's with the angels now.--Williams News
From the original memorial: I have posted a death notice for Orange Kennedy at obits.arizonagravestones.org if you wish to copy it or link to it. According to the 1860 & 1870 US census he was born in 1859 or 1860.
He was the grandson of William Hugh Kennedy and Margaret Jane Ralston Kennedy of Brown County, Ohio, with Margaret Jane, as a widow, of Douglas County, Kansas.
He was the great-grandson of Jonathan "John" Ralston and Elizabeth "Betsy" Pitzer Ralston of Brown County, Ohio.
In 1855, his father and his widowed grandmother Margaret Jane, in a group of about twenty-five family members, made the trek from Brown County, Ohio to Douglas County, Kansas, where they settled in the Kennedy Valley on the Wakarusa River. There, they could stake claims for land at $1.00 per acre.
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Mr. Kennedy was struck by an engine near Cherokee Station, AZ
Orange John Kennedy
Posted 2013-04-26 by Pat R :: [email protected]
News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ)
Saturday, May 17, 1902, p 1
A printer named Kennedy, who was both deaf and dumb, was run over and killed by a train at Hackberry last Friday. Kennedy was so deaf he could not hear the thunder crack, and started for an evening walk upon the railroad track. The locomotive came just like a lightning driven plow, and reached poor Kennedy"unawares; he's with the angels now.--Williams News
From the original memorial: I have posted a death notice for Orange Kennedy at obits.arizonagravestones.org if you wish to copy it or link to it. According to the 1860 & 1870 US census he was born in 1859 or 1860.
Orange John Kennedy was the son of Jonathan Ralston Kennedy and his second wife, Mary E. Jones Kennedy. Three of their four children were deaf.
He was the grandson of William Hugh Kennedy and Margaret Jane Ralston Kennedy of Brown County, Ohio, with Margaret Jane, as a widow, of Douglas County, Kansas.
He was the great-grandson of Jonathan "John" Ralston and Elizabeth "Betsy" Pitzer Ralston of Brown County, Ohio.
In 1855, his father and his widowed grandmother Margaret Jane, in a group of about twenty-five family members, made the trek from Brown County, Ohio to Douglas County, Kansas, where they settled in the Kennedy Valley on the Wakarusa River. There, they could stake claims for land at $1.00 per acre.
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Mr. Kennedy was struck by an engine near Cherokee Station, AZ
Orange John Kennedy
Posted 2013-04-26 by Pat R :: [email protected]
News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ)
Saturday, May 17, 1902, p 1
A printer named Kennedy, who was both deaf and dumb, was run over and killed by a train at Hackberry last Friday. Kennedy was so deaf he could not hear the thunder crack, and started for an evening walk upon the railroad track. The locomotive came just like a lightning driven plow, and reached poor Kennedy"unawares; he's with the angels now.--Williams News
From the original memorial: I have posted a death notice for Orange Kennedy at obits.arizonagravestones.org if you wish to copy it or link to it. According to the 1860 & 1870 US census he was born in 1859 or 1860.
He was the grandson of William Hugh Kennedy and Margaret Jane Ralston Kennedy of Brown County, Ohio, with Margaret Jane, as a widow, of Douglas County, Kansas.
He was the great-grandson of Jonathan "John" Ralston and Elizabeth "Betsy" Pitzer Ralston of Brown County, Ohio.
In 1855, his father and his widowed grandmother Margaret Jane, in a group of about twenty-five family members, made the trek from Brown County, Ohio to Douglas County, Kansas, where they settled in the Kennedy Valley on the Wakarusa River. There, they could stake claims for land at $1.00 per acre.
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Mr. Kennedy was struck by an engine near Cherokee Station, AZ
Orange John Kennedy
Posted 2013-04-26 by Pat R :: [email protected]
News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ)
Saturday, May 17, 1902, p 1
A printer named Kennedy, who was both deaf and dumb, was run over and killed by a train at Hackberry last Friday. Kennedy was so deaf he could not hear the thunder crack, and started for an evening walk upon the railroad track. The locomotive came just like a lightning driven plow, and reached poor Kennedy"unawares; he's with the angels now.--Williams News
From the original memorial: I have posted a death notice for Orange Kennedy at obits.arizonagravestones.org if you wish to copy it or link to it. According to the 1860 & 1870 US census he was born in 1859 or 1860.
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