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R. M. Kennedy of Clyde says: "I was born January 30, 1823, in Tell Township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. I lived in Franklin County, near Fannetsburg four years, and on November 3, 1839, left with my parents, two sisters and one brother for Dearborn County, Indiana. John Kegerise moved us to Pittsburg, a distance of 140 miles, in an old-time wagon which was drawn by five horses. We averaged twenty miles per day. We waited at Pittsburg eight days for a rise of water, and when it came we boarded the old VIRGINIA steamboat which ran aground several times on the way. About 11 o'clock one night, while a few miles above Cincinnati, another boat ran into the VIRGINIA and tore one of the side wheels and the cookhouse off, but we managed to get to the city with one wheel. In the morning we shipped on a packet boat for Aurora Indiana, thirty miles south, where we arrived about 2 o'clock Sunday, November 24th. We walked eight miles to Manchester, where we had relatives. R M Kennedy and Martha P Roberts were married January 25, 1844, in Manchester, Ind. Mrs Kennedy's parents were natives of Maine and migrated to Indiana in 1817. Mr & Mrs Kennedy left Indiana in May, 1855, and moved to St Paul, Minnesota with ox teams. Not being pleased with that country, we came down by steamboat and arrived at Fulton, September 28th of the same year. We stayed all night at Wilson Wright's hotel there. The family had an excellent supper and breakfast and two rooms and only $2.50 to pay. We arrived in Clyde Sept. 29, 1855, and have resided there ever since, save thirteen months spent in Morrison. We have had ten children, six of whom are living: Wm. E., leader of the drum corps in Sterling; Mrs Alice E Sayres of Dayton, Wash.; Mrs Kate C Brown of Waitsburg, Wash.; Mrs Clara Crom of Westlake, Idaho; Mrs Ed Janvrin of Clyde, and R. Y. of Coffeyville, Kansas. Joseph R, the first, a member of the 46th Reg of Ill Volunteers, died at Natchez, Mississippi in 1863." Robert M and his brother, James L married sisters; Robert M married Martha Piatt Roberts and James L married her sister Emira.
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