"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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THOMAS A. KENNEDY is the sixth son and tenth child of JOHN and MARY K.
(ALEXANDER) KENNEDY, natives of Virginia, and of Scotch-Irish descent. He
was born, October 18, 1843, in Georgetown, Brown Co., Ind. His parents were
married in or near Greenville, Tenn., about 1825, where they lived for seven
years, removing thence to Indiana. They located in Johnson County, and in
1838,moved to Brown County. Locating in Georgetown, his father followed
merchandizing for several years, and afterward engaged in farming, which he
followed until his death in 1864; his mother is still living in Brown
County at the age of seventy-eight. Thomas, when eighteen years of age,
enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Indiana Volunteers, under COL. JEFF C.
DAVIS. He served for four years, and took part in the fights at Pea Ridge,
Stone River and Mission Ridge, and in almost every encounter from the
last-named battle to Peach Tree Creek, where he was made a prisoner of war,
being placed in Andersonville Prison, and thence removed to Charleston,
S.C.; then to Florence, remaining a prisoner altogether about eight months,
when he was discharged under a general order. He re-enlisted and took part
in the Chattanooga campaign. He went to the relief of Burnside, before
Knoxville, and thence returned to Chattanooga. In June, 1865, he received
an honorable discharge and returned to his home in Brown County, where, in
January following, he was married to SAMANTHA DAVIS, of Virginia. They have
seven children--WILLIAM D., ROSA, CLEMENT R., ORRIN and ODELL (twins), EARL
and PEARL (twins). After his marriage, he farmed in Brown County and then
in Illinois for three years, after which he removed to Johnson County and
became agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. In February, 1878, he
came to Martinsville, where he has since resided, representing the same
company. Mr. Kennedy is a member of the K. of P., and with his wife is an
active member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Politically he is a Democrat.
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