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Author: hodagmike
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Samuel Kennedy was born in Nov 1868 in Killygore, Northern Ireland. He immigrated to the
US in 1891. He married Bertha Wendt (daughter of Carl and Wilhelmina Wendt) in Hammond,
Lake, Indiana on 2 Dec 1892 ( I have their license ). Bertha was born in 1877 in Berlin,
Germany and immigrated to the US in 1881 with her parents. Samuel and Bertha had the
following children:
Robert J Kennedy born 23 Jun 1893 in Dolton, Cook, IL (My Great Grandfather, I have his
birth certificate)
Samuel C Kennedy born 29 Jan 1895 in Illinois ( I assume also in Dolton)
Caroline M Kennedy born 6 Jun 1897 in Indiana (I assume Hammond, Lake, IN)
Thomas F Kennedy born Jun 1899 in Indiana (I assume Hammond, Lake, IN)
Matthew J Kennedy born 1 Mar 1901 in Illinois ( I assume in Cook County)
Esther Kennedy born 14 Nov 1902 in Illinois ( I assume in Cook County)
Pearl Helen Kennedy born 16 Aug 1904 in Illinois ( I assume in Cook County)
James W Kennedy born 7 Sep 1906 in Drummond, Bayfield, Wisc. (I have his birth
certificate)
Mildred Emily Kennedy 31 Jan 1910 in Illinois ( I assume in Cook County)
Dorothy Kennedy born 19 Nov 1912 in Wisconsin or Indiana ( census records say both
places)
I have found Sam and Bertha on the 1900 Census in Hammond, Lake, Illinois and on the 1910
Census in Thornton, Cook, Illinois ( Bertha's parents Carl and Wilhelmina live next
door). Hammond, IN is right on the border of Illinois and Indiana as well as Thorton
township, so I don't really know if these children were born in Indiana or Illinois. I
check on
ancestry.com in the Lake Co, Ind, births database from 1871-1930 and none of
these children are listed as being born. I also checked
cookcountygenealogy.com and none
of them are listed there either (but it doesn't seem like there are any births on
there in the 1893-1912 time period, even though it says they are pre-1934)..... so Im
confused. I don't really need to know where they were born, I have their birthdates
from the SSDI.
The 1920 census shows Bertha being remarried to John Cotton and living in Rhinelander,
Wisconsin with all of the children..... So... this means Samuel Kennedy died sometime
between 1912 (Dorothy was born in 1912) and 1914 (I found Mrs. Bertha Kennedy living with
the children in a 1914-1915 Rhinelander city directory). I have checked everything I could
find online for Illinois and Indiana but couldn't find a death for Samuel in this time
period.
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