Buried beneath original 1st Presbyterian Church, which faced Main St., north of 4th Street, now Federal Reserve Bank, 150 E. 4th St., Cincinnati OH 45202. Multiple persons were not removed.
My 2013 notes briefly state that Francis Kennedy served as a Revolutionary War Soldier with General St.Clair.
Clues:
1. It is Editor Mary Remler, Vol 11, p221 who explains to us what happened to Rebecca Williams Kennedy's husband, Francis Kennedy the 1st. Here editor, Mary writes that he drowned, while he "was ferrying General St Clair's [sic] troops across the Ohio River. Francis and Thomas Kennedy were brothers who owned the first Ferry across the Ohio River. Francis and Rebecca Kennedy arrived at Losantiville (Cincinnati) in the winter of 1788 [Jan. 8, 1789]. He was buried in the old Presbyterian burying ground on 4th Street." Be sure to visit the lovely mural panel, Kennedy Ferry, now painted on the huge wall below the blue Roebling Suspension Bridge, Covington, KY side of OH River.
2. His place of burial is important. I have tediously searched for re-burials of my Moore ancestors from that old Presby cemetery originally on 4th Street (between P&G/Taft Theater and Mercantile Library/Fountain Square area); it took me many years just to understand where this Presby Cemetery was - look for a tiny plaque on low marble slanted slab by sidewalk, on premises of federal bank, a few blocks from Christ Church - many reburials were removed to 12th St (now Washington Park behind the new SCPA school), then up to Wesleyan Cem. on Colerain, some to other places (incl. SpringGrove later.
3. According to this online Rootsweb info posted in 1999 pasted below, Francis the 1st is still buried in downtown Cincinnati (so the bank's garden area, 5th St side with black fence by sidewalk? or under building?):
"OHIO FOOTSTEPS-L Archives, Archiver OH-FOOTSTEPS 1999-05 0928204030, From: MRS GINA M REASONER, Subject: 3 REV. WAR SOLDIERS - HAMILTON COUNTY, Date: Mon, 31 May 1999; [Gina Reasoner's Source cited] OHIO The Cross Road of our Nation, Records & Pioneer Families, January - March 1973, Vol. XIV No. 1, Published by The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1973] "THREE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS, Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio - FRANCIS KENNEDY, SR. b. 1746, Bedford Co., Pa. His parents of Scotch-Irish ancestry came to Pa. Francis m. Rebecca ____?. Her family were Welsh Quakers. Rebecca was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. Francis gave a donation to this church in 1789. Francis d. [c. 1794]. He drowned in the Ohio River while ferrying cattle across from Cincinnati to Covington, Ky. His brother lived in Covington. His body was recovered and buried in the presbyterian church yard, and was never moved when the church was enlarged. Rebecca Kennedy, wife of Francis, is buried at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery on lot of their daughter, Rebecca Kennedy Reeder." [online source naming published source cited above - so thanks to Ohio Genealogy Society!]
The 'Graves Registration Card' posted here was obviously typed (after 1874 when the typewriter was introduced), so the source for the date of death of 1796 is unknown. However, it is possible that Gen. Wayne returned to Cincinnati in 1796 and crossed the Ohio River to Kentucky upon retreating from the region. [Dwight]
4. I have received an edit request from findagraver, Dwight (#48554386) to change Francis Kennedy's location of his birth (altering this from the sources already cited here):
"As we both agree to the year of Francis' birth in 1746, that precedes the date of Bedford County's creation in 1771 (History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, Vol. I, 1906; pg. 1). As Bedford County was taken from Cumberland County, and Cumberland County was carved out of Lancaster County (created 1750; see History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, 1886; 2nd sec., pg. 66). The Daughters of the American Revolution gave Bedford County as Francis' birthplace (Henderson, Frank D., John R. Rea, Daughters of American Revolution of Ohio. The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried In the State of Ohio. 1929. page 209).
However [edit by Dwight]:
"We thus ascertain the facts that although Ray and Pendergrass were at one time occupants of the region now known as the central part of the county of Bedford, neither remained permanently, and that both removed just prior to or during the French and Indian war on the borders, which was inaugurated in Pennsylvania by Washington and his Virginia riflemen in the summer of 1754. Thereafter, it is quite apparent, none of the English-speaking whites attempted to locate in the territory now embraced by the two counties, until its occupation by Gen. Forbes' army in 1758."
(History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania. 1884. page 58-59).
Francis was living in Bedford County from 1775 until 1784, according to tax records and the Pennsylvania census of 1784. His son Francis Jr. was reportedly born in Bedford County in 1786, this could be the reason for the DAR's mistake.
Francis' Year of Death must have been 1793 as that is the year that General Anthony Wayne arrived in Cincinnati to begin his expedition against the native tribes who were attacking the European settlers (see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne; Command of the Legion of the United States). The letter that Francis Kennedy's daughter Rebecca Reeder wrote to her children explaining when her father died ferrying Anthony Wayne's troops and livestock is published in The Cincinnati Weekly Times, May 24, 1888, page 6: 'In Pioneer Days'. [end edit]
"Francis, when Anthony Wayne's army was training in Cincinnati in 1794, loaded his boat too full of cattle for the army and was crowded off into the Ohio river where he drowned."
[online pdf, Margaret Strebel Hartman's 1965 typed paper (Mrs. Robert R. Hartman Jr.), archives of Christopher Gist Hist. Soc., Glimpes_of_Covington_Hartman.pdf]
But General Wayne died at age 51 in 1796 only two years after author Hartman's date. [Manuscripts Division, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Finding aid for Anthony Wayne Family Papers, 1681-1913]
5. Francis Kennedy's brother, Thomas Kennedy Jr, (Find A Grave Memorial# 43800509), husband of Dinah Davis Piersel of Philadelphia [p.502, Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, 2015, by Paul Tenkotte, et al.] who had 3 kids from her earlier marriage as well as Kennedy issue.
My 2013 notes briefly state that Francis Kennedy served as a Revolutionary War Soldier with General St.Clair.
Clues:
1. It is Editor Mary Remler, Vol 11, p221 who explains to us what happened to Rebecca Williams Kennedy's husband, Francis Kennedy the 1st. Here editor, Mary writes that he drowned, while he "was ferrying General St Clair's [sic] troops across the Ohio River. Francis and Thomas Kennedy were brothers who owned the first Ferry across the Ohio River. Francis and Rebecca Kennedy arrived at Losantiville (Cincinnati) in the winter of 1788 [Jan. 8, 1789]. He was buried in the old Presbyterian burying ground on 4th Street." Be sure to visit the lovely mural panel, Kennedy Ferry, now painted on the huge wall below the blue Roebling Suspension Bridge, Covington, KY side of OH River.
2. His place of burial is important. I have tediously searched for re-burials of my Moore ancestors from that old Presby cemetery originally on 4th Street (between P&G/Taft Theater and Mercantile Library/Fountain Square area); it took me many years just to understand where this Presby Cemetery was - look for a tiny plaque on low marble slanted slab by sidewalk, on premises of federal bank, a few blocks from Christ Church - many reburials were removed to 12th St (now Washington Park behind the new SCPA school), then up to Wesleyan Cem. on Colerain, some to other places (incl. SpringGrove later.
3. According to this online Rootsweb info posted in 1999 pasted below, Francis the 1st is still buried in downtown Cincinnati (so the bank's garden area, 5th St side with black fence by sidewalk? or under building?):
"OHIO FOOTSTEPS-L Archives, Archiver OH-FOOTSTEPS 1999-05 0928204030, From: MRS GINA M REASONER, Subject: 3 REV. WAR SOLDIERS - HAMILTON COUNTY, Date: Mon, 31 May 1999; [Gina Reasoner's Source cited] OHIO The Cross Road of our Nation, Records & Pioneer Families, January - March 1973, Vol. XIV No. 1, Published by The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1973] "THREE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS, Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio - FRANCIS KENNEDY, SR. b. 1746, Bedford Co., Pa. His parents of Scotch-Irish ancestry came to Pa. Francis m. Rebecca ____?. Her family were Welsh Quakers. Rebecca was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. Francis gave a donation to this church in 1789. Francis d. [c. 1794]. He drowned in the Ohio River while ferrying cattle across from Cincinnati to Covington, Ky. His brother lived in Covington. His body was recovered and buried in the presbyterian church yard, and was never moved when the church was enlarged. Rebecca Kennedy, wife of Francis, is buried at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery on lot of their daughter, Rebecca Kennedy Reeder." [online source naming published source cited above - so thanks to Ohio Genealogy Society!]
The 'Graves Registration Card' posted here was obviously typed (after 1874 when the typewriter was introduced), so the source for the date of death of 1796 is unknown. However, it is possible that Gen. Wayne returned to Cincinnati in 1796 and crossed the Ohio River to Kentucky upon retreating from the region. [Dwight]
4. I have received an edit request from findagraver, Dwight (#48554386) to change Francis Kennedy's location of his birth (altering this from the sources already cited here):
"As we both agree to the year of Francis' birth in 1746, that precedes the date of Bedford County's creation in 1771 (History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, Vol. I, 1906; pg. 1). As Bedford County was taken from Cumberland County, and Cumberland County was carved out of Lancaster County (created 1750; see History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, 1886; 2nd sec., pg. 66). The Daughters of the American Revolution gave Bedford County as Francis' birthplace (Henderson, Frank D., John R. Rea, Daughters of American Revolution of Ohio. The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried In the State of Ohio. 1929. page 209).
However [edit by Dwight]:
"We thus ascertain the facts that although Ray and Pendergrass were at one time occupants of the region now known as the central part of the county of Bedford, neither remained permanently, and that both removed just prior to or during the French and Indian war on the borders, which was inaugurated in Pennsylvania by Washington and his Virginia riflemen in the summer of 1754. Thereafter, it is quite apparent, none of the English-speaking whites attempted to locate in the territory now embraced by the two counties, until its occupation by Gen. Forbes' army in 1758."
(History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania. 1884. page 58-59).
Francis was living in Bedford County from 1775 until 1784, according to tax records and the Pennsylvania census of 1784. His son Francis Jr. was reportedly born in Bedford County in 1786, this could be the reason for the DAR's mistake.
Francis' Year of Death must have been 1793 as that is the year that General Anthony Wayne arrived in Cincinnati to begin his expedition against the native tribes who were attacking the European settlers (see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne; Command of the Legion of the United States). The letter that Francis Kennedy's daughter Rebecca Reeder wrote to her children explaining when her father died ferrying Anthony Wayne's troops and livestock is published in The Cincinnati Weekly Times, May 24, 1888, page 6: 'In Pioneer Days'. [end edit]
"Francis, when Anthony Wayne's army was training in Cincinnati in 1794, loaded his boat too full of cattle for the army and was crowded off into the Ohio river where he drowned."
[online pdf, Margaret Strebel Hartman's 1965 typed paper (Mrs. Robert R. Hartman Jr.), archives of Christopher Gist Hist. Soc., Glimpes_of_Covington_Hartman.pdf]
But General Wayne died at age 51 in 1796 only two years after author Hartman's date. [Manuscripts Division, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Finding aid for Anthony Wayne Family Papers, 1681-1913]
5. Francis Kennedy's brother, Thomas Kennedy Jr, (Find A Grave Memorial# 43800509), husband of Dinah Davis Piersel of Philadelphia [p.502, Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, 2015, by Paul Tenkotte, et al.] who had 3 kids from her earlier marriage as well as Kennedy issue.
Buried beneath original 1st Presbyterian Church, which faced Main St., north of 4th Street, now Federal Reserve Bank, 150 E. 4th St., Cincinnati OH 45202. Multiple persons were not removed.
My 2013 notes briefly state that Francis Kennedy served as a Revolutionary War Soldier with General St.Clair.
Clues:
1. It is Editor Mary Remler, Vol 11, p221 who explains to us what happened to Rebecca Williams Kennedy's husband, Francis Kennedy the 1st. Here editor, Mary writes that he drowned, while he "was ferrying General St Clair's [sic] troops across the Ohio River. Francis and Thomas Kennedy were brothers who owned the first Ferry across the Ohio River. Francis and Rebecca Kennedy arrived at Losantiville (Cincinnati) in the winter of 1788 [Jan. 8, 1789]. He was buried in the old Presbyterian burying ground on 4th Street." Be sure to visit the lovely mural panel, Kennedy Ferry, now painted on the huge wall below the blue Roebling Suspension Bridge, Covington, KY side of OH River.
2. His place of burial is important. I have tediously searched for re-burials of my Moore ancestors from that old Presby cemetery originally on 4th Street (between P&G/Taft Theater and Mercantile Library/Fountain Square area); it took me many years just to understand where this Presby Cemetery was - look for a tiny plaque on low marble slanted slab by sidewalk, on premises of federal bank, a few blocks from Christ Church - many reburials were removed to 12th St (now Washington Park behind the new SCPA school), then up to Wesleyan Cem. on Colerain, some to other places (incl. SpringGrove later.
3. According to this online Rootsweb info posted in 1999 pasted below, Francis the 1st is still buried in downtown Cincinnati (so the bank's garden area, 5th St side with black fence by sidewalk? or under building?):
"OHIO FOOTSTEPS-L Archives, Archiver OH-FOOTSTEPS 1999-05 0928204030, From: MRS GINA M REASONER, Subject: 3 REV. WAR SOLDIERS - HAMILTON COUNTY, Date: Mon, 31 May 1999; [Gina Reasoner's Source cited] OHIO The Cross Road of our Nation, Records & Pioneer Families, January - March 1973, Vol. XIV No. 1, Published by The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1973] "THREE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS, Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio - FRANCIS KENNEDY, SR. b. 1746, Bedford Co., Pa. His parents of Scotch-Irish ancestry came to Pa. Francis m. Rebecca ____?. Her family were Welsh Quakers. Rebecca was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. Francis gave a donation to this church in 1789. Francis d. [c. 1794]. He drowned in the Ohio River while ferrying cattle across from Cincinnati to Covington, Ky. His brother lived in Covington. His body was recovered and buried in the presbyterian church yard, and was never moved when the church was enlarged. Rebecca Kennedy, wife of Francis, is buried at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery on lot of their daughter, Rebecca Kennedy Reeder." [online source naming published source cited above - so thanks to Ohio Genealogy Society!]
The 'Graves Registration Card' posted here was obviously typed (after 1874 when the typewriter was introduced), so the source for the date of death of 1796 is unknown. However, it is possible that Gen. Wayne returned to Cincinnati in 1796 and crossed the Ohio River to Kentucky upon retreating from the region. [Dwight]
4. I have received an edit request from findagraver, Dwight (#48554386) to change Francis Kennedy's location of his birth (altering this from the sources already cited here):
"As we both agree to the year of Francis' birth in 1746, that precedes the date of Bedford County's creation in 1771 (History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, Vol. I, 1906; pg. 1). As Bedford County was taken from Cumberland County, and Cumberland County was carved out of Lancaster County (created 1750; see History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, 1886; 2nd sec., pg. 66). The Daughters of the American Revolution gave Bedford County as Francis' birthplace (Henderson, Frank D., John R. Rea, Daughters of American Revolution of Ohio. The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried In the State of Ohio. 1929. page 209).
However [edit by Dwight]:
"We thus ascertain the facts that although Ray and Pendergrass were at one time occupants of the region now known as the central part of the county of Bedford, neither remained permanently, and that both removed just prior to or during the French and Indian war on the borders, which was inaugurated in Pennsylvania by Washington and his Virginia riflemen in the summer of 1754. Thereafter, it is quite apparent, none of the English-speaking whites attempted to locate in the territory now embraced by the two counties, until its occupation by Gen. Forbes' army in 1758."
(History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania. 1884. page 58-59).
Francis was living in Bedford County from 1775 until 1784, according to tax records and the Pennsylvania census of 1784. His son Francis Jr. was reportedly born in Bedford County in 1786, this could be the reason for the DAR's mistake.
Francis' Year of Death must have been 1793 as that is the year that General Anthony Wayne arrived in Cincinnati to begin his expedition against the native tribes who were attacking the European settlers (see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne; Command of the Legion of the United States). The letter that Francis Kennedy's daughter Rebecca Reeder wrote to her children explaining when her father died ferrying Anthony Wayne's troops and livestock is published in The Cincinnati Weekly Times, May 24, 1888, page 6: 'In Pioneer Days'. [end edit]
"Francis, when Anthony Wayne's army was training in Cincinnati in 1794, loaded his boat too full of cattle for the army and was crowded off into the Ohio river where he drowned."
[online pdf, Margaret Strebel Hartman's 1965 typed paper (Mrs. Robert R. Hartman Jr.), archives of Christopher Gist Hist. Soc., Glimpes_of_Covington_Hartman.pdf]
But General Wayne died at age 51 in 1796 only two years after author Hartman's date. [Manuscripts Division, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Finding aid for Anthony Wayne Family Papers, 1681-1913]
5. Francis Kennedy's brother, Thomas Kennedy Jr, (Find A Grave Memorial# 43800509), husband of Dinah Davis Piersel of Philadelphia [p.502, Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, 2015, by Paul Tenkotte, et al.] who had 3 kids from her earlier marriage as well as Kennedy issue.
My 2013 notes briefly state that Francis Kennedy served as a Revolutionary War Soldier with General St.Clair.
Clues:
1. It is Editor Mary Remler, Vol 11, p221 who explains to us what happened to Rebecca Williams Kennedy's husband, Francis Kennedy the 1st. Here editor, Mary writes that he drowned, while he "was ferrying General St Clair's [sic] troops across the Ohio River. Francis and Thomas Kennedy were brothers who owned the first Ferry across the Ohio River. Francis and Rebecca Kennedy arrived at Losantiville (Cincinnati) in the winter of 1788 [Jan. 8, 1789]. He was buried in the old Presbyterian burying ground on 4th Street." Be sure to visit the lovely mural panel, Kennedy Ferry, now painted on the huge wall below the blue Roebling Suspension Bridge, Covington, KY side of OH River.
2. His place of burial is important. I have tediously searched for re-burials of my Moore ancestors from that old Presby cemetery originally on 4th Street (between P&G/Taft Theater and Mercantile Library/Fountain Square area); it took me many years just to understand where this Presby Cemetery was - look for a tiny plaque on low marble slanted slab by sidewalk, on premises of federal bank, a few blocks from Christ Church - many reburials were removed to 12th St (now Washington Park behind the new SCPA school), then up to Wesleyan Cem. on Colerain, some to other places (incl. SpringGrove later.
3. According to this online Rootsweb info posted in 1999 pasted below, Francis the 1st is still buried in downtown Cincinnati (so the bank's garden area, 5th St side with black fence by sidewalk? or under building?):
"OHIO FOOTSTEPS-L Archives, Archiver OH-FOOTSTEPS 1999-05 0928204030, From: MRS GINA M REASONER, Subject: 3 REV. WAR SOLDIERS - HAMILTON COUNTY, Date: Mon, 31 May 1999; [Gina Reasoner's Source cited] OHIO The Cross Road of our Nation, Records & Pioneer Families, January - March 1973, Vol. XIV No. 1, Published by The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1973] "THREE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS, Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio - FRANCIS KENNEDY, SR. b. 1746, Bedford Co., Pa. His parents of Scotch-Irish ancestry came to Pa. Francis m. Rebecca ____?. Her family were Welsh Quakers. Rebecca was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. Francis gave a donation to this church in 1789. Francis d. [c. 1794]. He drowned in the Ohio River while ferrying cattle across from Cincinnati to Covington, Ky. His brother lived in Covington. His body was recovered and buried in the presbyterian church yard, and was never moved when the church was enlarged. Rebecca Kennedy, wife of Francis, is buried at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery on lot of their daughter, Rebecca Kennedy Reeder." [online source naming published source cited above - so thanks to Ohio Genealogy Society!]
The 'Graves Registration Card' posted here was obviously typed (after 1874 when the typewriter was introduced), so the source for the date of death of 1796 is unknown. However, it is possible that Gen. Wayne returned to Cincinnati in 1796 and crossed the Ohio River to Kentucky upon retreating from the region. [Dwight]
4. I have received an edit request from findagraver, Dwight (#48554386) to change Francis Kennedy's location of his birth (altering this from the sources already cited here):
"As we both agree to the year of Francis' birth in 1746, that precedes the date of Bedford County's creation in 1771 (History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, Vol. I, 1906; pg. 1). As Bedford County was taken from Cumberland County, and Cumberland County was carved out of Lancaster County (created 1750; see History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, 1886; 2nd sec., pg. 66). The Daughters of the American Revolution gave Bedford County as Francis' birthplace (Henderson, Frank D., John R. Rea, Daughters of American Revolution of Ohio. The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried In the State of Ohio. 1929. page 209).
However [edit by Dwight]:
"We thus ascertain the facts that although Ray and Pendergrass were at one time occupants of the region now known as the central part of the county of Bedford, neither remained permanently, and that both removed just prior to or during the French and Indian war on the borders, which was inaugurated in Pennsylvania by Washington and his Virginia riflemen in the summer of 1754. Thereafter, it is quite apparent, none of the English-speaking whites attempted to locate in the territory now embraced by the two counties, until its occupation by Gen. Forbes' army in 1758."
(History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania. 1884. page 58-59).
Francis was living in Bedford County from 1775 until 1784, according to tax records and the Pennsylvania census of 1784. His son Francis Jr. was reportedly born in Bedford County in 1786, this could be the reason for the DAR's mistake.
Francis' Year of Death must have been 1793 as that is the year that General Anthony Wayne arrived in Cincinnati to begin his expedition against the native tribes who were attacking the European settlers (see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne; Command of the Legion of the United States). The letter that Francis Kennedy's daughter Rebecca Reeder wrote to her children explaining when her father died ferrying Anthony Wayne's troops and livestock is published in The Cincinnati Weekly Times, May 24, 1888, page 6: 'In Pioneer Days'. [end edit]
"Francis, when Anthony Wayne's army was training in Cincinnati in 1794, loaded his boat too full of cattle for the army and was crowded off into the Ohio river where he drowned."
[online pdf, Margaret Strebel Hartman's 1965 typed paper (Mrs. Robert R. Hartman Jr.), archives of Christopher Gist Hist. Soc., Glimpes_of_Covington_Hartman.pdf]
But General Wayne died at age 51 in 1796 only two years after author Hartman's date. [Manuscripts Division, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Finding aid for Anthony Wayne Family Papers, 1681-1913]
5. Francis Kennedy's brother, Thomas Kennedy Jr, (Find A Grave Memorial# 43800509), husband of Dinah Davis Piersel of Philadelphia [p.502, Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, 2015, by Paul Tenkotte, et al.] who had 3 kids from her earlier marriage as well as Kennedy issue.
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