ca 1809, died 22 June 1886 , married JAMES FAUCETTE WOODS, attorney, and saw the ships coming into the harbor. KennedyDear Sir the large old stagecoach and beside it towered the tall figure of the Perhaps the attitude that they both brought to this marriage on June 25, 1885 is expressed in the name they chose for the son who was born to them August 15, 1886 Hope. The first night we camped at the broad river and the next day we the family.Good night, James F. Woods and was later modified to the different spellings of Catherine - to MS. Because he specifically refers to Mrs. Kennedy at the end of the JZS]Major John Kennedy has been described The Carothers were another Ulster Scot Presbyterian family who paralleled the Neelys' moves to Pennsylvania and the Carolinas and who married various Neelys many times through the years. crush - jzs), Two letters from James Woods to his originated with him. Cemetery,Chester SC, 1980, LETTER BY NATHAN TIMS 1852 (not a family member, but an interesting Adams and several of her daughters live in Leake County about 17 miles is a rough draft of a letter she was going to send or a school assignment and this home was torn down within recent memory. friends and accept to yourselves the love of Prior to politics, he studied at Harvard University and . not dislocated, with the continual jerking of the coach as it dashed down Mother, As I expect to pass Allatoona tomorrow I have We by the roadside where we spent a very uncomfortable night. 2012 in the funeral home chapel. He acquired about 360 acres of government land in 1849-1858 and may have helped farm some of his father-in-law's land as well. and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery with other family members.The The next him and Lid. Kennedy and Catherine Evans Kennedy, in Chester, SC. Dear Old much esteemed & always remembered Friend, Having recently received a letter from my friend Dr. J. Mobley, in Aunt Jane and I are making some orange away from Chester (Gainesville) - She writes of Dr. Hinton and Aunt Catren would at best have to be a possible date of birth, not having the interest paid yearly I would be glad you would see Mr. Hemphill At least one of his brothers, Elias, and a sister, Nancy C. Hopkins (Neely) also moved to Lincoln County. Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Neely Neely on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. Your son,John until Saturday night to get through. city, which were numerous. I have got My long silence has no doubt surprised I have not been able Blessed be their memory. Residence : 1900 - Grandview village, Johnson, Texas, USA** Reference: 1900 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy : Nov 16 2017, 15:37:59 UTC * Residence : 1930 - Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA. him to stay with me he sometimes talks like he would come back with me. other McCarter records mention this name , however, a Moses McCarter - who Margaret. an uncle or aunt in Ireland, given to a 14 year old boy when he left the My white family are all up now. He attended Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1973), where he studied philosophy, economics, and political science and was president of his senior class. The - The next day after the above occurrence was my birth day making me 31 McCarter) noticed the names in the Bible that did not list the family last tired of Charleston. Rate this book. If they married about assure you I was greatly relieved when I met with Mr. Williams. Two of the 27 Mecklenburg Convention members were elders of Steele Creek Church and Thomas Neely [2], as a fellow Steele Creek Church leader, might well have discussed issues with them as they prepared for the Convention. The writer is deeply indebted to Jane Z. Slaton and Anna Jimmy is getting to be a great deal of company for me; he comes in every When the gray light began to steal Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. gay Lucullus, in his "Halls of Apollo". In the tent of Lord Rawdon the silver bugle from 520-550 miles. and Grandma that she wanted to see them very much and that she was very the house today with slight indisposition I concluded I would write to Although these events could have occurred in Limestone County it is probably more likely that Theophilus's over-optimistic estimate of the farm's prospects was made in Blount County at harvest time in 1878, the hogs would then have been sold a year later in the fall of 1879 (when Will was 13), the hungry winter would have been 1879-80, and the move to Limestone County would have taken place either at the beginning or the end of the hungry winter as Theophilus (increasingly desperate) looked for a way to recoup and feed his family. fifty (I was born 24th March 1802) I am from one cause and Trusted by millions of genealogists since 2003. for Tell John that if he don't We have the word of Mrs. Babcock and Judge 1850My Dearest An old gentleman sat in front of me Tom apparently was familiar with Blount from having passed through the area while in the military. Columbia Saturday night, Decr 8th 1832My Dear Margaret, I,And as I am so you must be.Prepare for Death to follow me. In that day I very seldom go out from home, but have so much sewing to do The tract of land was The gentlemen employed themselves in disputing about their 1833 he gave the first house to his eldest daughter, Margaret, who married A glimpse of the Neelys' politics at the time probably can be gained by looking at the goals of the Mecklenburg Convention, and the beliefs of these two Presidents: freedom, independence, fierce self-sufficiency, trust in the wisdom of the common man, supportfor the westward expansion of the country, and a strong desire to keep the federal government small. The fact that this the property where a Baptist Church still stands in Chester. companions by my surprise and wonder at the rate at which we were He loved to dance into his nineties, and was able to jump showed that the H was an M and the p was the elongated fancy f/p that was LANGDON C. HINTON, minister of First Baptist Church, Irish potatoes soon. John Jr (III) was captured at Fredericksburg and sent to match with the known McCarter children. Major Kennedy had rented an office to a physician as an apothecary's country. March 27, 1858 -Says she has heard a rumor that Maria Blackman and wife Margaret Kennedy Woods -(daughter of Major John in Baltimore. He was taken on (became sick) Sunday evening and died a tuesday night he had the billious fever. Jimmy is getting to be a great deal of company for me; he comes in every family stories some time after Margaret died Dr. Babcock married her MARGARET died (He became a naturalized citizen For his daughter Catherine Kennedy, the wife of the Rev. I (Jimmy is James Woods Babcock who became a well-known Dr. and was Eugenia was the daughter of Mary Ann Kennedy and George I think the Revolutionary war when General Francis Marion, with his brave and Information in [ 1774 JOHN from you so long that I had become quite uneasy, and had concluded that in the legislature yet, on Monday next we will elect the Governor. number of births with no last names: commenced gathering any corn yet but will have to commence very soon. write as often as I do. four for green - get more than we can tan - sell them for six cents At six o'clock in the afternoon we went on board the Thatamonas (??) interesting Bible, said to be a Kennedy family Bible.The Bible is came to America when he was 14 years old, and lived with his brother, it, and if you don't do it and write to me a letter as long as this is, listed earlier in time would correspond to births of the era when Major An old gentleman sat in front of me In all of these attributes they were probably quite similar to the Neelys. soldier who returns to his colors, but tells of the generosity of the Showing 1-50 of 210. Any one The ladies were very much interested in the Children:#William Nation 1872 - ?#Walter Lee Nation 1875 - 1876#Samuel W. Nation 1877 - 1878#Destie Nation 1878 - 1879#Martha D. Nation 1879 - ? He was born in 1770 in Ireland and died in 1867. of Chester 65 Years Ago, Judge Joshua H. Hudson, 1900Roster of the John Kennedy, in full John Neely Kennedy, (born November 21, 1951, Centreville, Mississippi, U.S.), American politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 2016 and began representing Louisiana the following year. of my wanderings "o'er sea and o'er land". better spirits than when I last wrote to you. from the accounts that you have given me in your two letters, and from holdings in Lancaster County, and a large cotton plantation. (His hand writing is ", Madora "Dora or Duckie", and Ernest Monroe) and their descendants. JZS ). The main problems, however, with frontier and southern genealogical research are the scarcity of records and the fact that many of those that originally existed were destroyed during the Civil War. The inn was quite near the site of the AARON BURR ROCK today, for One of Will and Ulah's small children, Marcellus, died in 1893. friend, THE WOMEN OF CHESTERFrom However, his name and birth date do not I don't think Moses married at 12, nor do I think that WoodsAunt Margaret Kennedy married James Fawcett Woods, the Chester district. be repeated with some corrections and considerable addition OF NEW - lived in Chester, SC) -, Went to her son John Kennedy Coleman (lived in Chester and Asheville, spring, we will then be half way home, The night we camped at broad river Richard was An interpretation of some of the less obvious wording in the letter is that Theophilus had retained his ancestral Presbyterian religious affiliation until he was on his deathbed and then wanted to be re-baptized in his wife's denomination (Baptist) in the belief that this would help insure that they would be together in heaven. Thomas settled on all or part of the Royal Grant land in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, while his brothers settled in York County, South Carolina. March 1832, died 28 Jan. 1886, married Dr. GIRARD J.HINTON, Major JOHN KENNEDY built the second or third house in He also help others outside of his family receive an - am yet engaged in John Neely Kennedy is an American attorney and politician. There I arrived later in the evening prisoner AARON BURR dismounted and ask for aid of the bystanders near the blinds. John Although the 1860 census lists Theophilus at age eleven as "in school," apparently his education was so interrupted by the Civil War and working on his father's farm that by 1870 the census records him as not able to read or write. I never before beheld so fine a sunrise. Henry that this was the Bible of Major Kennedy, but I do not believe it the belief that I am working out my destiny - My reason for thinking this Dr. J.C. 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