Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Willis Franklin Kennedy ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Kennedy, Willis Franklin
LAST: Kennedy FIRST: Willis MID: Franklin
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 15 Oct 1890 DIED: 26 Mar 1942 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Cairo, Pratt Co, Kansas
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
NOTES: 

1900 KS CENSUS - Willis Kennedy (b May 1890, Kansas) 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  Leroy (b June 1886, KS)   and Danie Breuster [father-in-law of Thomas] (b Apr 1844 [sic, 1814], New York, age 86y, widowed)

WWI Draft Registration Card - Willis Franklin Kennedy, 28, resident of Kingman, Kingman Co, Kansas, currently farming at Hurley, Alberta, Canada; born 15 Oct 1890, Cairo, Pratt Co, Kansas; single

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

1930 WA CENSUS - Willis F. Kennedy (38y, b Kansas, single, occupation longshoreman)

DISCREPANCY - There is also a marker for Willis at the Salem Pioneer Cemetery and his dc says he was buried there

OBITUARY: 

Willis Kennedy, in this city, Monday, March 23, at the age of 51. Late resident of Turner, Ore. Survived by sister, Mrs Floy Honey, Kansas, and a sister-in-law, Mrs Sadie Kennedy, Turner. Funeral announcements later by Clough-Barrick Funeral home.

Oregon Statesman, Tuesday, March 24, 1942, page 5  

INSCRIPTION: 

Uncle
Willis F. Kennedy
Oct, 15, 1890 - Mar. 26, 1942

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1942 Marion Co) #264

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

WWI Draft Registration card (Ancestry.com)

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

1930 WA CENSUS (Jefferson Co, Irondale, ED 10, sheet 10B)

OS, 24 Mar 1942, page 5 

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