Description: A Catholic and Aspiring Contemplative's Journey, Genealogy, Odds and Ends . . .
This week’s writing prompt is Last One Standing . This led me to want to write about my 2nd great-grandmother Susan Palmer Kennedy who died at the age of 106 1/2 years old and was the oldest living resident in Perry County and in southeastern Ohio at the time of her death. In her obituary it states she died of senility, that must have come on only in the last months or year of her life, for she was still quite sharp on her 104th birthday. I had read she was blind the last year of her life, and that led to h
On her 106th birthday, she received a letter from then President Herbert Hoover, and also from the then Governor of Ohio, George White.
At the age of 102, it was written in a newspaper article about her that she claimed to be the oldest living mother of a son who fought and died in the US Civil War. Her oldest child, a son, John Davis Kennedy, Jr. fought and died in the Civil War on the Union side.