HISTORY OF JAMES HORACE KENNEDY
by his granddaughter Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
James Horace Kennedy was born Feb. 3 1842 in Adams County, Illinois, the son of Charles Kennedy and Hulda Elvira Clark. When he was about two years old, his family moved to Greenplum or Greenplain where a sister Cornelia Elmina was born Nov. 4 1844.
Nothing much is known of their life there; or when they joined the Mormon Church, but they arrived in Utah Sept. 23, 1848. They were very poor and James, as he was called, had very few clothes. He would tell how he had a shirt and pants made of buckskin and when it stormed his shirt and pants would shrink and get so stiff he could hardly get them on.
The Next spring after they arrived in Utah he said they lived on Sego roots and wild fruit. Later they had obtained a cow or two and he and George Albert Smith would take theirs and some of the neighbors' cows and herd them all day. The friendship he and George Albert Smith had lasted out their life, even unto the time George Albert Smith was made President of the L.D.S. Church.
James's family finally settled in the part of the valley that was later known as Sugar House. Here James and his father helped build a ditch to divert some of the water from the canyon onto the farms. For many years the ditch was known as the Kennedy Ditch.
Sept. 3, 1850 a son Silas Francis was born, then on May 4, 1853 James's mother gave birth to twins, a girl, Hulda Alvira and a boy Henry Edward. On Aug. 3, 1857 his mother gave birth to another set of twins Charles and Chancey. Is is not known if they were still-born or died shortly after birth, but because of the hardships she had endured and having had twins just 4 years before, she died also and was buried with a twin on each arm.
Shortly after her death, her husband, Charles Kennedy became dissatisfied with the church and apostatized and with his two other wives and three of his children; Silas Francis, Hulda Elvira, and Hendry Edward, he returned to Missouri.
James was only fifteen years old, so he went to live with a family by the name of Tanner. It is not known by the family whether his sister went ot Missour with her father and then later returned to Provo, Utah where she married George Scott and lived there the rest of her life.
Later James moved to Provo where he met and married Melissa Jane Curtis on April 9, 1867. They live in Provo eight years, during that time three sons were born to them; James Horace (Jr), June 20, 1868; Charles Arthur, Jan. 5, 1871; and Ezra, Jan. 15, 1874.
In 1875 they were called with about six other families to settle in a place known as Willlow Bed, later known as Aurora in Sevier Co. They built a small two room log cabin on the banks of the Sevier River. Sometime later he helped build a canal farther west. After it was finished, he and his boys moved their house west onto the banks of the canal. The canal was known as the Rocky Ford Canal.
He and his sons, Charles and Ezra spent many summers hauling logs from the canyons, also wood but they also used sage-brush which was plentiful for firewood also.
Their son, James, or Jimmie as he was called, had a crippled leg and arm, so he wasn't able to do the things the other boys did, but he loved the school, and even went to the Academy in Richfield one year. While they lived in Aurora three more children were born to them; Pearl, Jan. 2, 1880; Jane, May 6, 1886; and Ray, Feb. 7 1886. Ray only lived four years. And bother their girls were good seamstresses and made all of their own clothes and also sewed for other people making wedding dresses and L.D.S. garments.
The family was very poor and Melissa's health was very bad so James had to sell his only cow to buy medicine for her. Many days after a hard day's work, all the boys and James would have to eat was bread and water. The girl's would have buttermilk for which one of them had worked all day for their Grandmother Curtis. Or they would work for some family, cleaning house for five cents a day.
Finally, times got better, and James's wife's health improved and James got a job as town Marshall. He then sold the property where they were living and bought about forty acres east of town, there they built as comfortable three room house. Jane decided if the boys would help her get some lumber up into the attic, she could make two small rooms up there. The boys helped and the rooms were quite nice, they even had closets. Later the Grandchildren had fun playing in those attic rooms, dressing up in the old fashioned dresses and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful feathers on.
James had a well dug, which all the neighbors used. They had just used water from the river before. The ground he bought was quite productive and he also go a job hauling cream from all over Aurora to Richfield.
He and his wife were faithful members of the L.D.S. Church and always had room for anyone who wanted to go with them whether it was to church or shopping in Salina or Richfield.
He was always kind and generous to the widows and orphans. One Fourth of July they saw a little boy and girl at the program without shoes and stockings on. After the program they took the two children to the store and bought them shoes and stockings. The children were really happy, but so were James and his wife.
In about 1907 or 1908 his brother Henry Kennedy's wife died leaving him with quite a large family to care for. James went to Missouri by train and brought the two youngest one back home to raise. The little girl Cleta was under two years old and Charles was six or seven. It was quite a task for him to care for these little ones on the return journey. They kept the children until two of their sisters came to Salt Lake City to live. Then Charles or little Charley as he was called and Cleta went to live with them.
James and his wife did lots of temple work for their dead ancesters and left about $1000.00, with their daughter Pearl when they died to be used for research on the Curtis and Kennedy lines. In 1918 or 1919 they sold their farm east of Aurora and moved into a nice little home across the street from their daughter Pearl's home in the center of Aurora. Soon their daughter Jane and her family moved into town in a house across the street east of them.
James's health was failing and the last three or four months of his life he was bedfast. He passed away May 16, 1922 and was buried in Aurora. He left a large posterity. His son Jimie had one daughter. Charles had four girls and four boys, two of the boys were twins and one of his daughters had twins also. Ezra had twelve children, the oldest ones were twin girls but Pearl had only two children but both died young. Jane had seven children, but one was stillborn and one only lived eight hours. One of Janes grand-daughters gave birth to twin boys, so you can say that twins run in the Kennedy family lines.
James was a large man, six feet tall, he was a good worker and seemed to have the gift of healing, as he was called many times to bless the sick. He was eighty years old when he died. Eighty years of trying to do good unto the least of these my brethren, as the Savior commanded.
Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
Granddaughter
by his granddaughter Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
James Horace Kennedy was born Feb. 3 1842 in Adams County, Illinois, the son of Charles Kennedy and Hulda Elvira Clark. When he was about two years old, his family moved to Greenplum or Greenplain where a sister Cornelia Elmina was born Nov. 4 1844.
Nothing much is known of their life there; or when they joined the Mormon Church, but they arrived in Utah Sept. 23, 1848. They were very poor and James, as he was called, had very few clothes. He would tell how he had a shirt and pants made of buckskin and when it stormed his shirt and pants would shrink and get so stiff he could hardly get them on.
The Next spring after they arrived in Utah he said they lived on Sego roots and wild fruit. Later they had obtained a cow or two and he and George Albert Smith would take theirs and some of the neighbors' cows and herd them all day. The friendship he and George Albert Smith had lasted out their life, even unto the time George Albert Smith was made President of the L.D.S. Church.
James's family finally settled in the part of the valley that was later known as Sugar House. Here James and his father helped build a ditch to divert some of the water from the canyon onto the farms. For many years the ditch was known as the Kennedy Ditch.
Sept. 3, 1850 a son Silas Francis was born, then on May 4, 1853 James's mother gave birth to twins, a girl, Hulda Alvira and a boy Henry Edward. On Aug. 3, 1857 his mother gave birth to another set of twins Charles and Chancey. Is is not known if they were still-born or died shortly after birth, but because of the hardships she had endured and having had twins just 4 years before, she died also and was buried with a twin on each arm.
Shortly after her death, her husband, Charles Kennedy became dissatisfied with the church and apostatized and with his two other wives and three of his children; Silas Francis, Hulda Elvira, and Hendry Edward, he returned to Missouri.
James was only fifteen years old, so he went to live with a family by the name of Tanner. It is not known by the family whether his sister went ot Missour with her father and then later returned to Provo, Utah where she married George Scott and lived there the rest of her life.
Later James moved to Provo where he met and married Melissa Jane Curtis on April 9, 1867. They live in Provo eight years, during that time three sons were born to them; James Horace (Jr), June 20, 1868; Charles Arthur, Jan. 5, 1871; and Ezra, Jan. 15, 1874.
In 1875 they were called with about six other families to settle in a place known as Willlow Bed, later known as Aurora in Sevier Co. They built a small two room log cabin on the banks of the Sevier River. Sometime later he helped build a canal farther west. After it was finished, he and his boys moved their house west onto the banks of the canal. The canal was known as the Rocky Ford Canal.
He and his sons, Charles and Ezra spent many summers hauling logs from the canyons, also wood but they also used sage-brush which was plentiful for firewood also.
Their son, James, or Jimmie as he was called, had a crippled leg and arm, so he wasn't able to do the things the other boys did, but he loved the school, and even went to the Academy in Richfield one year. While they lived in Aurora three more children were born to them; Pearl, Jan. 2, 1880; Jane, May 6, 1886; and Ray, Feb. 7 1886. Ray only lived four years. And bother their girls were good seamstresses and made all of their own clothes and also sewed for other people making wedding dresses and L.D.S. garments.
The family was very poor and Melissa's health was very bad so James had to sell his only cow to buy medicine for her. Many days after a hard day's work, all the boys and James would have to eat was bread and water. The girl's would have buttermilk for which one of them had worked all day for their Grandmother Curtis. Or they would work for some family, cleaning house for five cents a day.
Finally, times got better, and James's wife's health improved and James got a job as town Marshall. He then sold the property where they were living and bought about forty acres east of town, there they built as comfortable three room house. Jane decided if the boys would help her get some lumber up into the attic, she could make two small rooms up there. The boys helped and the rooms were quite nice, they even had closets. Later the Grandchildren had fun playing in those attic rooms, dressing up in the old fashioned dresses and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful feathers on.
James had a well dug, which all the neighbors used. They had just used water from the river before. The ground he bought was quite productive and he also go a job hauling cream from all over Aurora to Richfield.
He and his wife were faithful members of the L.D.S. Church and always had room for anyone who wanted to go with them whether it was to church or shopping in Salina or Richfield.
He was always kind and generous to the widows and orphans. One Fourth of July they saw a little boy and girl at the program without shoes and stockings on. After the program they took the two children to the store and bought them shoes and stockings. The children were really happy, but so were James and his wife.
In about 1907 or 1908 his brother Henry Kennedy's wife died leaving him with quite a large family to care for. James went to Missouri by train and brought the two youngest one back home to raise. The little girl Cleta was under two years old and Charles was six or seven. It was quite a task for him to care for these little ones on the return journey. They kept the children until two of their sisters came to Salt Lake City to live. Then Charles or little Charley as he was called and Cleta went to live with them.
James and his wife did lots of temple work for their dead ancesters and left about $1000.00, with their daughter Pearl when they died to be used for research on the Curtis and Kennedy lines. In 1918 or 1919 they sold their farm east of Aurora and moved into a nice little home across the street from their daughter Pearl's home in the center of Aurora. Soon their daughter Jane and her family moved into town in a house across the street east of them.
James's health was failing and the last three or four months of his life he was bedfast. He passed away May 16, 1922 and was buried in Aurora. He left a large posterity. His son Jimie had one daughter. Charles had four girls and four boys, two of the boys were twins and one of his daughters had twins also. Ezra had twelve children, the oldest ones were twin girls but Pearl had only two children but both died young. Jane had seven children, but one was stillborn and one only lived eight hours. One of Janes grand-daughters gave birth to twin boys, so you can say that twins run in the Kennedy family lines.
James was a large man, six feet tall, he was a good worker and seemed to have the gift of healing, as he was called many times to bless the sick. He was eighty years old when he died. Eighty years of trying to do good unto the least of these my brethren, as the Savior commanded.
Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
Granddaughter
HISTORY OF JAMES HORACE KENNEDY
by his granddaughter Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
James Horace Kennedy was born Feb. 3 1842 in Adams County, Illinois, the son of Charles Kennedy and Hulda Elvira Clark. When he was about two years old, his family moved to Greenplum or Greenplain where a sister Cornelia Elmina was born Nov. 4 1844.
Nothing much is known of their life there; or when they joined the Mormon Church, but they arrived in Utah Sept. 23, 1848. They were very poor and James, as he was called, had very few clothes. He would tell how he had a shirt and pants made of buckskin and when it stormed his shirt and pants would shrink and get so stiff he could hardly get them on.
The Next spring after they arrived in Utah he said they lived on Sego roots and wild fruit. Later they had obtained a cow or two and he and George Albert Smith would take theirs and some of the neighbors' cows and herd them all day. The friendship he and George Albert Smith had lasted out their life, even unto the time George Albert Smith was made President of the L.D.S. Church.
James's family finally settled in the part of the valley that was later known as Sugar House. Here James and his father helped build a ditch to divert some of the water from the canyon onto the farms. For many years the ditch was known as the Kennedy Ditch.
Sept. 3, 1850 a son Silas Francis was born, then on May 4, 1853 James's mother gave birth to twins, a girl, Hulda Alvira and a boy Henry Edward. On Aug. 3, 1857 his mother gave birth to another set of twins Charles and Chancey. Is is not known if they were still-born or died shortly after birth, but because of the hardships she had endured and having had twins just 4 years before, she died also and was buried with a twin on each arm.
Shortly after her death, her husband, Charles Kennedy became dissatisfied with the church and apostatized and with his two other wives and three of his children; Silas Francis, Hulda Elvira, and Hendry Edward, he returned to Missouri.
James was only fifteen years old, so he went to live with a family by the name of Tanner. It is not known by the family whether his sister went ot Missour with her father and then later returned to Provo, Utah where she married George Scott and lived there the rest of her life.
Later James moved to Provo where he met and married Melissa Jane Curtis on April 9, 1867. They live in Provo eight years, during that time three sons were born to them; James Horace (Jr), June 20, 1868; Charles Arthur, Jan. 5, 1871; and Ezra, Jan. 15, 1874.
In 1875 they were called with about six other families to settle in a place known as Willlow Bed, later known as Aurora in Sevier Co. They built a small two room log cabin on the banks of the Sevier River. Sometime later he helped build a canal farther west. After it was finished, he and his boys moved their house west onto the banks of the canal. The canal was known as the Rocky Ford Canal.
He and his sons, Charles and Ezra spent many summers hauling logs from the canyons, also wood but they also used sage-brush which was plentiful for firewood also.
Their son, James, or Jimmie as he was called, had a crippled leg and arm, so he wasn't able to do the things the other boys did, but he loved the school, and even went to the Academy in Richfield one year. While they lived in Aurora three more children were born to them; Pearl, Jan. 2, 1880; Jane, May 6, 1886; and Ray, Feb. 7 1886. Ray only lived four years. And bother their girls were good seamstresses and made all of their own clothes and also sewed for other people making wedding dresses and L.D.S. garments.
The family was very poor and Melissa's health was very bad so James had to sell his only cow to buy medicine for her. Many days after a hard day's work, all the boys and James would have to eat was bread and water. The girl's would have buttermilk for which one of them had worked all day for their Grandmother Curtis. Or they would work for some family, cleaning house for five cents a day.
Finally, times got better, and James's wife's health improved and James got a job as town Marshall. He then sold the property where they were living and bought about forty acres east of town, there they built as comfortable three room house. Jane decided if the boys would help her get some lumber up into the attic, she could make two small rooms up there. The boys helped and the rooms were quite nice, they even had closets. Later the Grandchildren had fun playing in those attic rooms, dressing up in the old fashioned dresses and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful feathers on.
James had a well dug, which all the neighbors used. They had just used water from the river before. The ground he bought was quite productive and he also go a job hauling cream from all over Aurora to Richfield.
He and his wife were faithful members of the L.D.S. Church and always had room for anyone who wanted to go with them whether it was to church or shopping in Salina or Richfield.
He was always kind and generous to the widows and orphans. One Fourth of July they saw a little boy and girl at the program without shoes and stockings on. After the program they took the two children to the store and bought them shoes and stockings. The children were really happy, but so were James and his wife.
In about 1907 or 1908 his brother Henry Kennedy's wife died leaving him with quite a large family to care for. James went to Missouri by train and brought the two youngest one back home to raise. The little girl Cleta was under two years old and Charles was six or seven. It was quite a task for him to care for these little ones on the return journey. They kept the children until two of their sisters came to Salt Lake City to live. Then Charles or little Charley as he was called and Cleta went to live with them.
James and his wife did lots of temple work for their dead ancesters and left about $1000.00, with their daughter Pearl when they died to be used for research on the Curtis and Kennedy lines. In 1918 or 1919 they sold their farm east of Aurora and moved into a nice little home across the street from their daughter Pearl's home in the center of Aurora. Soon their daughter Jane and her family moved into town in a house across the street east of them.
James's health was failing and the last three or four months of his life he was bedfast. He passed away May 16, 1922 and was buried in Aurora. He left a large posterity. His son Jimie had one daughter. Charles had four girls and four boys, two of the boys were twins and one of his daughters had twins also. Ezra had twelve children, the oldest ones were twin girls but Pearl had only two children but both died young. Jane had seven children, but one was stillborn and one only lived eight hours. One of Janes grand-daughters gave birth to twin boys, so you can say that twins run in the Kennedy family lines.
James was a large man, six feet tall, he was a good worker and seemed to have the gift of healing, as he was called many times to bless the sick. He was eighty years old when he died. Eighty years of trying to do good unto the least of these my brethren, as the Savior commanded.
Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
Granddaughter
by his granddaughter Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
James Horace Kennedy was born Feb. 3 1842 in Adams County, Illinois, the son of Charles Kennedy and Hulda Elvira Clark. When he was about two years old, his family moved to Greenplum or Greenplain where a sister Cornelia Elmina was born Nov. 4 1844.
Nothing much is known of their life there; or when they joined the Mormon Church, but they arrived in Utah Sept. 23, 1848. They were very poor and James, as he was called, had very few clothes. He would tell how he had a shirt and pants made of buckskin and when it stormed his shirt and pants would shrink and get so stiff he could hardly get them on.
The Next spring after they arrived in Utah he said they lived on Sego roots and wild fruit. Later they had obtained a cow or two and he and George Albert Smith would take theirs and some of the neighbors' cows and herd them all day. The friendship he and George Albert Smith had lasted out their life, even unto the time George Albert Smith was made President of the L.D.S. Church.
James's family finally settled in the part of the valley that was later known as Sugar House. Here James and his father helped build a ditch to divert some of the water from the canyon onto the farms. For many years the ditch was known as the Kennedy Ditch.
Sept. 3, 1850 a son Silas Francis was born, then on May 4, 1853 James's mother gave birth to twins, a girl, Hulda Alvira and a boy Henry Edward. On Aug. 3, 1857 his mother gave birth to another set of twins Charles and Chancey. Is is not known if they were still-born or died shortly after birth, but because of the hardships she had endured and having had twins just 4 years before, she died also and was buried with a twin on each arm.
Shortly after her death, her husband, Charles Kennedy became dissatisfied with the church and apostatized and with his two other wives and three of his children; Silas Francis, Hulda Elvira, and Hendry Edward, he returned to Missouri.
James was only fifteen years old, so he went to live with a family by the name of Tanner. It is not known by the family whether his sister went ot Missour with her father and then later returned to Provo, Utah where she married George Scott and lived there the rest of her life.
Later James moved to Provo where he met and married Melissa Jane Curtis on April 9, 1867. They live in Provo eight years, during that time three sons were born to them; James Horace (Jr), June 20, 1868; Charles Arthur, Jan. 5, 1871; and Ezra, Jan. 15, 1874.
In 1875 they were called with about six other families to settle in a place known as Willlow Bed, later known as Aurora in Sevier Co. They built a small two room log cabin on the banks of the Sevier River. Sometime later he helped build a canal farther west. After it was finished, he and his boys moved their house west onto the banks of the canal. The canal was known as the Rocky Ford Canal.
He and his sons, Charles and Ezra spent many summers hauling logs from the canyons, also wood but they also used sage-brush which was plentiful for firewood also.
Their son, James, or Jimmie as he was called, had a crippled leg and arm, so he wasn't able to do the things the other boys did, but he loved the school, and even went to the Academy in Richfield one year. While they lived in Aurora three more children were born to them; Pearl, Jan. 2, 1880; Jane, May 6, 1886; and Ray, Feb. 7 1886. Ray only lived four years. And bother their girls were good seamstresses and made all of their own clothes and also sewed for other people making wedding dresses and L.D.S. garments.
The family was very poor and Melissa's health was very bad so James had to sell his only cow to buy medicine for her. Many days after a hard day's work, all the boys and James would have to eat was bread and water. The girl's would have buttermilk for which one of them had worked all day for their Grandmother Curtis. Or they would work for some family, cleaning house for five cents a day.
Finally, times got better, and James's wife's health improved and James got a job as town Marshall. He then sold the property where they were living and bought about forty acres east of town, there they built as comfortable three room house. Jane decided if the boys would help her get some lumber up into the attic, she could make two small rooms up there. The boys helped and the rooms were quite nice, they even had closets. Later the Grandchildren had fun playing in those attic rooms, dressing up in the old fashioned dresses and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful hats with flowers and beautiful feathers on.
James had a well dug, which all the neighbors used. They had just used water from the river before. The ground he bought was quite productive and he also go a job hauling cream from all over Aurora to Richfield.
He and his wife were faithful members of the L.D.S. Church and always had room for anyone who wanted to go with them whether it was to church or shopping in Salina or Richfield.
He was always kind and generous to the widows and orphans. One Fourth of July they saw a little boy and girl at the program without shoes and stockings on. After the program they took the two children to the store and bought them shoes and stockings. The children were really happy, but so were James and his wife.
In about 1907 or 1908 his brother Henry Kennedy's wife died leaving him with quite a large family to care for. James went to Missouri by train and brought the two youngest one back home to raise. The little girl Cleta was under two years old and Charles was six or seven. It was quite a task for him to care for these little ones on the return journey. They kept the children until two of their sisters came to Salt Lake City to live. Then Charles or little Charley as he was called and Cleta went to live with them.
James and his wife did lots of temple work for their dead ancesters and left about $1000.00, with their daughter Pearl when they died to be used for research on the Curtis and Kennedy lines. In 1918 or 1919 they sold their farm east of Aurora and moved into a nice little home across the street from their daughter Pearl's home in the center of Aurora. Soon their daughter Jane and her family moved into town in a house across the street east of them.
James's health was failing and the last three or four months of his life he was bedfast. He passed away May 16, 1922 and was buried in Aurora. He left a large posterity. His son Jimie had one daughter. Charles had four girls and four boys, two of the boys were twins and one of his daughters had twins also. Ezra had twelve children, the oldest ones were twin girls but Pearl had only two children but both died young. Jane had seven children, but one was stillborn and one only lived eight hours. One of Janes grand-daughters gave birth to twin boys, so you can say that twins run in the Kennedy family lines.
James was a large man, six feet tall, he was a good worker and seemed to have the gift of healing, as he was called many times to bless the sick. He was eighty years old when he died. Eighty years of trying to do good unto the least of these my brethren, as the Savior commanded.
Pearl Ardean Palmer Hatch
Granddaughter
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