Note: The Rootsweb Mailing Lists will be shut down on April 6, 2023. (More info)
RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Monroe and Floyd County: Henry C. Kenney/Kennedy Died
    2. Randi Richardson via
    3. Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, June 30, 1914, p. 4. NOTE: The surname was variously spelled Kenney and Kennedy, as shown, through the article. MONON CONDUCTER, ONCE RESIDENT, DEAD AT NEW ALBANY News from New Albany of the suicide of Henry C. Kenney, a former resident of Bloomington, was received by The Telephone last night. Kenney was a former Monon conductor and for years has held a like position with the Southern running between New Albany and Lexington. Death was caused by a shot through the head. Kennedy arose at four o'clock in the morning saying that he could not sleep. He talked to his wife and to his son, Elbert, shortly before going upstairs to him room where he shot himself. Members of the family who heard the shot and rushed upstairs to find Kennedy dying, called Dr. Erni, but death occurred at 7:45, a few minutes after the doctor arrived. Besides his wife, Mr. Kenney is survived by four sons, Henry, Elbert, Roy and James of New Albany; Charles of Chicago, and Philip of Terre Haute, and three sisters, Mrs. Ida Brown of Monon; Mrs. Ada Dickerson and Mrs. Jean DeWitt of Waverly, Mo. Mr. Kennedy was a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors and of the New Albany Lodge of Masons. He had been in failing health for three years.

    09/22/2014 05:21:29