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Thomas Davis Kennedy (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer, enslaver, engineer)

b. 1795-08-06 d. 1869-08-10

Kenton County, Kentucky, resident. Ohio native. Son of Joseph Kennedy and Nancy Cummins Kennedy. Married to Nancy Davis Kennedy. Father of Thomas Howell Kennedy and Joseph Davis Kennedy. Engineer and farmer in Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1840. Employed one free person of color in Kenton County in 1840. Owned eight enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1840. Resident of Kenton County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1860. Resident in Kenton County in 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, p. 261.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 318B.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #7742.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution_, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) Vol 107: 1914, 112.

"Thomas Davis Kennedy (1795-1869)," Find A Grave, Memorial #49958425, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49958425 (accessed May 9, 2020).

KYR-0001-004-0375.

Citation

Kennedy, Thomas Davis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205836 (November 12, 2026).

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