Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska
EX-JUDGE S. W. KENNEDY, farmer, P. O. Brownville, was born June 12,
1816, in Montgomery County, Ohio. He is a son of Stephen Kennedy and
Mary McMunn Kennedy, who died in 1818. His father moved, in 1825, to
Tippecanoe County, Ind., where S. W. lived until 1843, that year he
located in Buchanan County, Mo., and made a claim, returning to Indiana
for his family. The steamer on which all his household goods were
shipped sunk to the bottom of the Missouri; his wife died on the way,
and, to crown his misfortunes, he found nothing but a pile of ashes in
the place of the home built on his Missouri claim. In 1856, he moved to
Nemaha County, Neb., making a claim on the Nemaha bottom, which he still
owns. He located where he now lives in 1866, and is the owner of 300
acres of good land. Squire Kennedy, as he is best known, has prospered,
like most of the Nebraska pioneers; has a good home, two valuable farms,
and is about to buy another. He is a Republican, and has served seven
consecutive years as County Commissioner, and over twenty-eight years as
Justice of the Peace. He has been a member of the M. E. Church in an
official capacity since 1836, and is now a local preacher. By his first
wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Frogg, he has three children--Eliza
J., Mary M. and Charles H. By the present wife, formerly Eliza Ware,
whom he married in 1852, he has four children: Margaret A., George L.,
Lydia B. and Etta. Mr. K. takes pride in narrating the facts of his
housing and feeding a party of eleven slaves, who, accompanied by grand
old John Brown and a dozen whites, were making their way North in border
ruffian times.
See Tippecanoe Bio on T.S. Kennedy, brother(?) of the above mentioned
S.W. Kennedy:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/In/TippecanoeBios?read=333