Kennedy - Benjamin Scott
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 26 April 1912 p 6
After an illness of several months' duration, Benjamin Scott
Kennedy passed away at his home, 122 Lafayette avenue, Geneva, N.
Y., April 25, 1912. Short services were held at the home the
following day at three p.m. Immediately after the services, his
wife and little daughter, accompanied by Miss Sarah Wheat, sister
of Mrs. Kennedy, left with the body for Crawfordsville, Ind.,
where the body was taken to the home of the Misses Wheat, on east
Market street, where the funeral services were conducted April
29th by Rev. B. E. Antrobus, pastor of the First Baptist church.
Mrs. O. H. Jones and Mrs. Haines sang the following songs:
"Nearer, My God, to Thee,' "Some Day We'll Understand,' and
"Silently Bury the Dead.' The pall bearers were: Captain H. H.
Talbot, George Welty, H. D. VanCleave, Dumont Kennedy, Charles
Cadwallader and Earl Johnson. Interment was at Oak Hill
Cemetery.
The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful,
coming from friends in his home town, and this city. Mr. Kennedy
was born Feb. 3, 1852, near Paris, Bourbon county, Ky. He was
the son of George and Sarah Scott Kennedy, both natives of that
state. At the age of six years he with his parents moved to
Lexington, Missouri where he grew to manhood. In his early life
he united with the Baptist church in Lexington and always lived
an honest, upright Christian life.
Mr. Kennedy was also a Mason, belonging to lodge No. 364 of
Higginsville, Mo. The greater part of his life was spent as a
traveling salesman, and for the past eleven years was engaged
with the International Stock Food Co., of Minneapolis, Minn.,
being their agent for the state of New York. On June 10, 1903,
he was married to Alice L. Wheat, daughter of the late Milton K.
Wheat, of this city. To this union one daughter, Cora Elizabeth,
was born. Besides the widow and daughter, he is survived by the
following named sisters: Mrs. E. K. Wallace of Lexington, Mo.;
Miss Anna B. Kennedy of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Mrs. A. W. Dunnigan
of Nowata, Okla.; two brothers, James T., of Dallas, Tex.,, and
William W. Kennedy, of Higgins, Mo. His father, mother, one
sister, Mrs. Lillian Van Hoy, and a brother, Thomas, having
preceded him to the grave. He was a great lover of home and
although his business was such that compelled him to spend the
greater part of his time away, his one desire was that he might
become independent so that he could be at home with his loved
ones and was never happier than when entertaining his friends and
looking after the comforts of others. He was a man who was well
informed upon the current events of the day. He was a lover of
fiction and poetry. "There is No Death' was one of his favorite
poems, and was read at the service held at his
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