When Phillip H. Kennett was born in 1857, in McDonough, Illinois, United States, his father, Charles C Kennett, was 41 and his mother, Susan Caroline Broady, was 39. He married Gouthilde Goeppinger on 24 December 1891, in Bushnell, McDonough, Illinois, United States. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Bushnell Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 17 September 1909, at the age of 52, and was buried in Bushnell Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States.
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English (southeastern): habitational name from East and West Kennett (Wiltshire) or Kennet in Cambridgeshire. Both are named from the rivers on which they stand: the Kennet in Wiltshire and Kennett in Kent.
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