Sally was the first of 2 children born to Hannah Sparhawke Town Kenney/Kinney and Reuben Kenney/Kinney, found in Early Vital Records. There is no death record for her to be found there, but she was alive in her parents household in the 1790 Census as there were 2 females, 1 male head of household, and 1 male under 16 (her brother Reuben Jr.)
She is not in their household in the 1800 census, and while this doesn't offer definitive proof she died and simply wasn't married (of which no record exists either), but in Reuben's will in 1811 he leaves nothing to either of his natural born children, only $50 to his step daughter Hannah Burnap, and his personal effects to his 2 nephews Nathan and Alpheus Kinney, sons of his sister Eunice with whom he was living with in Union Ct. Surely if his own flesh and blood children were alive he would have included them
As stated there is no definitive proof of when she and her brother Reuben Jr. died, but there was a smallpox epidemic outbreak in Central Massachusetts in 1792 that took many lives. In this same cemetery are 2 young children of John Kenney that died 19 days apart within the same month of April of 1792, and while undocumented what their cause of death was, it isn't a stretch to believe that it was this documented smallpox epidemic. This is also a realistic possibility for the cause and year of Sally and her brother Reuben Jr. deaths.
There are at least 2 spaces, if not 3, without benefit of headstones next to Sally's mother Hannah's stone, and there is no doubt Hannah would have been buried when she died in 1808 next to her 2 children she had with Reuben.
She is not in their household in the 1800 census, and while this doesn't offer definitive proof she died and simply wasn't married (of which no record exists either), but in Reuben's will in 1811 he leaves nothing to either of his natural born children, only $50 to his step daughter Hannah Burnap, and his personal effects to his 2 nephews Nathan and Alpheus Kinney, sons of his sister Eunice with whom he was living with in Union Ct. Surely if his own flesh and blood children were alive he would have included them
As stated there is no definitive proof of when she and her brother Reuben Jr. died, but there was a smallpox epidemic outbreak in Central Massachusetts in 1792 that took many lives. In this same cemetery are 2 young children of John Kenney that died 19 days apart within the same month of April of 1792, and while undocumented what their cause of death was, it isn't a stretch to believe that it was this documented smallpox epidemic. This is also a realistic possibility for the cause and year of Sally and her brother Reuben Jr. deaths.
There are at least 2 spaces, if not 3, without benefit of headstones next to Sally's mother Hannah's stone, and there is no doubt Hannah would have been buried when she died in 1808 next to her 2 children she had with Reuben.
Sally was the first of 2 children born to Hannah Sparhawke Town Kenney/Kinney and Reuben Kenney/Kinney, found in Early Vital Records. There is no death record for her to be found there, but she was alive in her parents household in the 1790 Census as there were 2 females, 1 male head of household, and 1 male under 16 (her brother Reuben Jr.)
She is not in their household in the 1800 census, and while this doesn't offer definitive proof she died and simply wasn't married (of which no record exists either), but in Reuben's will in 1811 he leaves nothing to either of his natural born children, only $50 to his step daughter Hannah Burnap, and his personal effects to his 2 nephews Nathan and Alpheus Kinney, sons of his sister Eunice with whom he was living with in Union Ct. Surely if his own flesh and blood children were alive he would have included them
As stated there is no definitive proof of when she and her brother Reuben Jr. died, but there was a smallpox epidemic outbreak in Central Massachusetts in 1792 that took many lives. In this same cemetery are 2 young children of John Kenney that died 19 days apart within the same month of April of 1792, and while undocumented what their cause of death was, it isn't a stretch to believe that it was this documented smallpox epidemic. This is also a realistic possibility for the cause and year of Sally and her brother Reuben Jr. deaths.
There are at least 2 spaces, if not 3, without benefit of headstones next to Sally's mother Hannah's stone, and there is no doubt Hannah would have been buried when she died in 1808 next to her 2 children she had with Reuben.
She is not in their household in the 1800 census, and while this doesn't offer definitive proof she died and simply wasn't married (of which no record exists either), but in Reuben's will in 1811 he leaves nothing to either of his natural born children, only $50 to his step daughter Hannah Burnap, and his personal effects to his 2 nephews Nathan and Alpheus Kinney, sons of his sister Eunice with whom he was living with in Union Ct. Surely if his own flesh and blood children were alive he would have included them
As stated there is no definitive proof of when she and her brother Reuben Jr. died, but there was a smallpox epidemic outbreak in Central Massachusetts in 1792 that took many lives. In this same cemetery are 2 young children of John Kenney that died 19 days apart within the same month of April of 1792, and while undocumented what their cause of death was, it isn't a stretch to believe that it was this documented smallpox epidemic. This is also a realistic possibility for the cause and year of Sally and her brother Reuben Jr. deaths.
There are at least 2 spaces, if not 3, without benefit of headstones next to Sally's mother Hannah's stone, and there is no doubt Hannah would have been buried when she died in 1808 next to her 2 children she had with Reuben.
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