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Kennedy, Willis Franklin
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| LAST NAME: Kennedy
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FIRST NAME: Willis
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MIDDLE NAME: Franklin
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 15 Oct 1890
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DIED: 26 Mar 1942
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BURIED: (Spring Valley Cemetery)
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| BIRTH PLACE: Cairo, Pratt Co, Kansas
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
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NOTES:
1900 KS CENSUS - Willis Kennedy (b May 1890, Kansas) enumerated with father Thomas (b Jan 1846, Ohio, widowed, married 18 years, occupation farm laborer) and 3 siblings, Curtis (b Aug 1882, Kansas), Luley (b May 1884, Kansas) and Leroy (b June 1886, KS) and Danie Breuster [father-in-law of Thomas] (b Apr 1844 [sic, 1814], New York, age 86y, widowed)
WWI Draft Registration Card - Willis Franklin Kennedy, 28, resident of Kingman, Kingman Co, Kansas, currently farming at Hurley, Alberta, Canada; born 15 Oct 1890, Cairo, Pratt Co, Kansas; single
1921 Alberta Census - William Kennedy (29y, b US, immigrated 1916, alien, occupation farmer); living with family of his brother Roy Kennedy (36y, b US, immigrated 1917, alien, occupation farmer), wife Sadyie (22y, b US, immigrated 1917) and 3 daughters, Lillian Hattie (5y, b US, immigrated 1917), Isabell Marie (3y, b Alberta) and Martel Irine (1y, b Alberta)
1930 WA CENSUS - Willis F. Kennedy (38y, b Kansas, single, occupation longshoreman)
DISCREPANCY - There is also a marker for Willis at the Salem Pioneer Cemetery and his dc says he was buried there
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
OSBH DC (1942 Marion co) #264 Willia [Willis] Kennedy, male, farmer, single; b Nov 1890, Kingman, Kan; father Thomas Kennedy (b Kan); mother Brewster; d 23 Mar 1942, Salem hosp, of Rt 2, Turner, age 51y 3m; lived 2y in town, 15y in Ore; bur Salem IOOF [or Zena]; informant Louis Butler, Zena, Ore
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OBITUARY:
Willis Kennedy, in this city, Monday, March 23, at the age of 51. Late resident of Turner, Ore. Survived by sister, Mrs Floy Honey, Kansas, and a sister-in-law, Mrs Sadie Kennedy, Turner. Funeral announcements later by Clough-Barrick Funeral home.
Oregon Statesman, Tuesday, March 24, 1942, page 5
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INSCRIPTION:
Uncle
Willis F. Kennedy
Oct, 15, 1890 - Mar. 26, 1942
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SOURCES:
Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (1942 Marion Co) #264
1900 KS CENSUS (Kingman Co, Kingman, ED 113, sheet 10A)
WWI Draft Registration card (Ancestry.com)
1921 Alberta Census (Bow River, Ghost Pine, page 5)
1930 WA CENSUS (Jefferson Co, Irondale, ED 10, sheet 10B)
OS, 24 Mar 1942, page 5
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