Kennedy, Richard McKinne, 1830-1879.

Richard McKinne Kennedy was a farmer in Greene County, Ala. He served with the 11th Alabama Regiment during the Civil War.

Richard McKinne Kennedy, son of Robert William Boyd Kennedy and Angelina McKinne Simpson Kennedy, was born 6 November 1830 near Pleasant Ridge, Green County, Ala. During the Civil War, he fought with Company C, 11th Regiment (Army of Northern Virginia) and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel at the surrender at Appomattox. He married Martha (Mattie) Clayton Hughes on 29 June 1865 at her parents' home, Ingleside. They had eight children, two of whom died in infancy: R.K., H. B., A. B., Mary K. (Buckshaw), Irene K. (Reveley), and Ruby K. (Carmichael). Kennedy died 29 January 1879 in Green County, Ala.

Martha Clayton Hughes Kennedy, daughter of Benjamin Jolly Hughes and Jane Evelyn Going Hughes, was born in 1844 near Aliceville (Bridgeville), Ala. She attended Salem Female Academy in Salem, N.C., from 1858 to 1859 and, the following year, went to Columbus Female Institute in Columbus, Miss., and graduated 2 July 1861. She taught first grade in Bibb County, Ala., in 1882, three years after her husband's death, and later taught in Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties, Ala. In 1896, she began teaching at Elyton Institute with her daughter Irene. She died in October 1906 in Birmingham, Ala.