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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Leroy Kennedy ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Kennedy, Leroy
LAST NAME: Kennedy FIRST NAME: Leroy MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 8 Jun 1886 DIED: 5 Feb 1942 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Pratt Co, Kansas
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1900 KS CENSUS - Leroy Kennedy (b June 1886, KS) enumerated with father Thomas (b Jan 1846, Ohio, widowed, married 18 years, occupation farm laborer) and 3 siblings, Curtis (b Aug 1882, Kansas), Luley (b May 1884, Kansas) and Willis (b May 1890, Kansas) and Danie Breuster [father-in-law of Thomas] (b Apr 1844 [sic, 1814], New York, age 86y, widowed)

MARRIAGE - LeRoy Kennedy (of Snohomish Co, Wash) & Sarah Wilton (of Snohomish Co, Wash) md 15 Mar 1915, Everett, Snohomish Co, Washington

WWI Draft Registration Card - LeRoy Kennedy, 31y, resident of Kingman Co, Kansas; farming at Elnora, Alberta; born 8 June 1887, Pratt Co, Kansas; dependents wife & 2 children

1921 Alberta Census - Roy Kennedy (36y, b US, immigrated 1917, alien, occupation farmer), enumerated with wife  Sadyie (22y, b US, immigrated 1917), 3 daughters, Lillian Hattie (5y, b US, immigrated 1917), Isabell Marie (3y, b Alberta) and Martel Irine (1y, b Alberta); also with family was Roy's brother William (29y, b US, immigrated 1916, alien, occupation farmer)

1930 OR CENSUS - Roy Kennedy (42y, b Kansas, married at age 27y, occupation truck driver) enumerated with wife   Sadie S. (32y, b Michigan, married at age 17y) and 4 children, Lillian H. (14y, b washington), Isabel M. (12y, b Canada), Myrtle I. (10y, b Canada) and Arthur C. (1y, b Oregon) 

NOTE - wife Sadie later married Carl Carlson

DISCREPANCY - there is also a marker for LeRoy Kennedy in the Salem Pioneer Cemetery, and his dc says he was buried there

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1942 Marion co) #107 LeRoy Kennedy, male, laborer, married, spouse Sadie Kennedy; b 8 June 1889, Kingman, Kan; father John Kennedy (b Kan); d 5 Feb 1942, Salem hosp, of Rt 2, Turner, age 52y 7m 27d; lived 2y in town, 15y in Ore; bur Salem IOOF [or Zena]; informant Sadie Kennedy, Rt 2, Turner

 

  

OBITUARY: 

LeRoy Kennedy, of Rt 2, Turner, at a local hospital Thursday, February 5, aged 52 years. Husband of Mrs Sadie Kennedy of Turner; father of Mrs Isabell Butler of Zena, Mrs Milton Albin of Toledo, Ore, Miss Evelyn, Miss Darliene Fay, Arthur and Lee Ray Kennedy, of Turner; brother of Mrs Floy Honey of Kingman, Kansas, and Willis Kennedy of Turner. Services will be held Saturday, February 7, at 10 am, from the Clough-Barrick chapel with interment in IOOF cemetery.

Capital Journal, Friday, February 6, 1942, page 12

INSCRIPTION: 

Father
Leroy Kennedy
June 8, 1886 - Feb. 5, 1942

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (1942 Marion Co) #107

1900 KS CENSUS (Kingman Co, Kingman, ED 113, sheet 10A)

Washington Digital Archives

WWI Draft Registration Cards (Ancestry.com)

1921 Alberta Census (Bow River, Ghost Pine, page 5)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 2A)

CJ, 6 Feb 1942, page 12

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