Spotlight On: W.L. and Willie M. Kennedy

Kennedy

Father

W.L.

Kennedy

June 2, 1864

Jan. 8, 1933

Mother

Willie M.

Kennedy

Apr. 28, 1877

Oct. 1, 1948

"All things work together for good to them that love God."

Buried Lola Pentecostal Cemetery, Lola, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 25 January 2018.

According to his death certificate,[1] Wilkes Lee Kennedy was born near Lola to B.S. Kennedy and Martha Utz. His father was born in Crittenden County, Kentucky and his mother was born in Boone County, Kentucky. Byron S. Kennedy was listed as the informant on W.L. Kennedy's death certificate.

The 1880 Livingston County census shows Wilkes L. Kennedy as a family member in the household of Bayless S. and Martha Kennedy.[2] Bayless S. Kennedy (born 1823; died 1913) and Martha Utz Kennedy (born 1829; died 1912) are both buried in Hopewell Cemetery.[3]

Willie May Kennedy, a widow,  was age 71 years, 5 months and 3 days when she died on Oct. 1, 1948. Her parents were John Fowler and Sue Stephens, both of whom were born in Kentucky. Mrs. C.E. Babb was the informant on Willie May Kennedy's death certificate. [4]

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #2130, Wilkes Lee Kennedy, Kentucky Death Records 1852-1965, Ancestry.com.

[2] 1880 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Salem, Roll 429, page 343C, E.D. 81, Ancestry.com.

[3] Kentucky Death Certificate #8942, Bayless S. Kennedy, and Kentucky Death Certificate #13293, Martha Utz Kennedy, Kentucky Death Records 1852-1965, Ancestry.com.

[4] Kentucky Death Certificate #27929, Willie May Kennedy, Kentucky Death Records 1852-1965, Ancestry.com.

Published 21 August 2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Dr. James G. and Ora Glass

Glass

Dedicated Doctor

Husband

James G.

1882 - 1962

Wife

Ora K.

Dec. 11, 1971

Buried Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 2 April 2017.

Dr. James Garfield Glass was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on 12 November 1882[1] to Edward W. Glass and Sallie MacReynolds .[2]  Dr. Glass graduated from Clark Embalming School in Cincinnati and Meharry Medical College (Walden University) in Nashville, Tennessee in 1908. He was in the undertaking business with his father before practicing medicine, first in Hopkinsville and then moved his  practice to Henderson in 1908.[3]

Ora  Kennedy Glass was born to the Rev. P.H. Kennedy and Virginia Dabney in Henderson about 1895. Her mother was the "first  graduate of a Negro school in Henderson and the first licensed Negro teacher in Henderson."[4]

Dr. Glass and Ora Kennedy were married 6 November 1913. They had two children.[5]

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #62-20261, accessed 29 March 2017 through Ancestry.com,  gives the birth year for Dr. Glass as 1885.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Frank Lincoln Mather. Who's Who of the Colored Race, Vol. 1  1915,  (Chicago: n.p., 1915), 116.

[4] "70-Year Resident Dies in Henderson," Evansville Press, 6 April 1950.

[5] Who's Who of the Colored Race, p. 116.

Published 9 May 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/