MICHAEL AND ELLEN BRENNEN KENNEDY Michael KENNEDY was born on September 29, 1834 in New York. He died on July 31, 1905 in Illinois. He was buried in August 1905 in Odell Illinois. Oral tradition states that Michael KENNEDY was born near Ogdensburg in St Lawrence County, New York. Ellen BRENNEN was born on April 19, 1846 in New York. She died on March 16, 1914 and was buried in Odell, Illinois. Michael and Ellen married in about 1863 and Ellen gave birth to James Bernard Kennedy 11 December, 1863 near Potsdam, New York. John Kennedy was born in New York in 1866. The family moved to Illinois prior to 1868.