Notes for Mary E. Woods
From "My Family History" (by unknown family author)
"Mary began to have trouble with her eyes and about the year 1867 she became blind. Thomas was very kind and considerate of her, and she maintained a cheerful attitude toward life, living until she reached the age of ninety-two. She outlived her husband by eight years."
Clipping from an unknown newspaper:
"Pioneer Woman is Dead. Mrs. Mary Kennedy, Native of Ireland, Came to St. Paul in 1851. Mrs. Mary Kennedy whose death occurred late Friday afternoon at the home of her daugher, Mrs. M. Murray, 749 Armstrong Avenue, was a pioneer resident of St. Paul, having come to this city in 1851. She was born in the County Kilkenny, Ireland, October 7, 1823. In 1852 she was married to Thomas F. Kennedy in the Cathedral of St. Paul, by the late Bishop Cretin, who was pastor of the cathedral, which was then only a small log building. Mrs. Kennedy removed in a few years to Shakopee and returned to St. Paul in 1883. She was the mother of ten children, six of whom survive her. she is survied also by twenty grand children and three great grand children. The children are, Mrs. M. Murray, 749 Armstrong street; J.D. Kennedy, 161 McBoal street, Thomas Kennedy, 757 Armstrong street; Mrs. J. Lynch, 2001 Dayton avenue; R.E. Kennedy, 2083 Dayton avenue and Mrs. Louis Sharpless, 83 Ralston avenue, Minneapolis".
From General Affidavit by Margaret Quigley on behalf of Mary Kennedy to prove Mary was the widow of Thomas Kennedy so Mary could collect his military pension. Pension No. 838827:
"That she is a native of County Kilkenny, Ireland and that she came to the United States of America with her family in 1850; that she knew Mary Kennedy the widow of Thomas Kennedy in Ireland and knows of ther own knowledge that the said Mary Kennedy was never married before her marriage to the said Thomas Kennedy; that the said Mary Kennedy was a Mary Woods before her marriage and that depondent knows her since the said Mary Kennedy was about 18 years of age and knows that the said Mary Kennedy and Thomas Kennedy lived together as man and wife since their marriage and continuously so. Deponend further deposes and says that Thomas Kennedy the deceased soldier and husband of said Mary Kennedy was well known to her before his marriage to said Mary Kennedy, nee Woods, and that his reputation was that of an unmarried man; that the said Thomas Kennedy was a native of Kilkenny County Ireland and that he resided about 5 miles from the home of deponent; that when the said Thomas Kennedy came to America he lived with and boarded with neighbors of the parents of deponent in St. Paul prior to his marriage to the said Mary Kennedy. That deponent has lived continually in Ramsey and Dakota Counties in the state of Minnesota since 1851 and has during all of the said time has known, visited and communicated with Thomas and Mary Kennedy."
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