William Kennedy
(circa 1910)
Born on September 16, 1889 in Pontotoc, Mississippi, William Kennedy was the tenth child born unto John P. Kennedy and Mary S. McClusky. His mother was a native of Mississippi and his father an Irish immigrant. As a young man, he farmed cotton in southeastern Oklahoma in McIntosh County. It is here where he eventually meets and marries his wife Ollie Drucilla Jones on January 29, 1911 in the town of Eufala. As I discussed in my last post, William and his wife Ollie would have eleven children during their marriage.
William Kennedy
(circa 1920's)
Just prior to 1920, he would relocate his family to northeastern Oklahoma near the town of Mounds, where he would continue to farm. On the evening of December 9, 1931 after a supposed night of drinking and gambling, he was shot in the abdomen during a dispute with another local farmer named J. L. Sanders. He was brought to Morningside Hospital in Tulsa, where he would eventually die from his wound the following day. The incident was front page news in the Tulsa Tribune newspaper and his assailant would eventually be charged with murder. William was buried in Duck Creek Cemetery in Mounds, Oklahoma. His grave remained unmarked and lost until 2010 when I personally located it and arranged for a gravestone to be placed on the grave.
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