John R. Kennedy

Birth Date

c1839

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Braswell Kennedy and Lucy Kennedy. Resident of Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in Pollards Tan Yard in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as private and teamster from August 19, 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 357B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Pollards Tan Yard, p. 153.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 100-01.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0092.

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