James Kennedy

Birth Date

1824

Death Date

1903-10-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, flour miller and dealer. Kentucky native. Married to Kate E. Kaye Kennedy in Jefferson County on July 15, 1856. Father of Walker Kennedy, Catherine Kennedy, James Kennedy, and Everett Kennedy. Livery stable keeper in 1850. Owner of Kennedy Mills in 1859 and 1861. Owned seven enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Signed a petition as a flour dealer in May 1861 to appoint W. G. Timberlake as flour inspector.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 314B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 494.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 285A and 287B (pp. 54 and 59 of microfilm).
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 99B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482708, p. 133 of microfilm.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007130, Jefferson County Deaths, Books 12-13. p. 101 of microfilm.
Find A Grave, "James P Kennedy (1825-1903)," Memorial 98776889, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98776889 (accessed January 16, 2020).
KYR-0001-017-0163.

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