Brief Life History of Lela Mae
When Lela Mae Kennedy was born on 10 August 1899, in Squaw Creek Township, Warren, Iowa, United States, her father, John Ellsworth Kennedy, was 33 and her mother, Emma Jane Lucas, was 29. She married John Blueford Aldridge on 28 July 1920, in Indianola, Warren, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Virginia Township, Warren, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Ackworth, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1950. She died on 27 January 1972, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Beymer Cemetery, New Virginia, Warren, Iowa, United States.
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- "United States 1950 Census"
- Lela Kennedy, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Lela Kennedy, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1913 · The Completion of the Keokuk Dam
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’ (from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’); or from the Scottish Gaelic Mac Cinnèidigh, consisting of mac ‘son’ with an equivalent name. Compare Canaday , Cannady , Cannedy , Kannady , and Kenedy .
History: Kennedy ancestral lands are found both in Ireland and in Scotland, where the family's medieval ancestral seat is sited on the Ayrshire coast, facing the Irish Sea. — The great-grandparents of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) came to North America as immigrants from Ireland in the 1840s. His paternal great-grandparents were Patrick Kennedy (1823–58), born in Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland, and Bridget Murphy, who was born probably in Owenduff, County Wexford, Ireland c. 1827; they came to Boston, MA, in 1849. His maternal great-grandparents were Thomas Fitzgerald (1823–85), who was born in Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, and Rose Anna Cox, who was born probably in Tomregan or Kinawley, County Cavan, Ireland, c. 1835; they came to Boston, MA, in 1857. — An early Scottish Kennedy forebear of a quite different family was British colonial official Archibald Kennedy (1685–1763), the son of Alexander Kennedy of Craigoch, who emigrated to NY c. 1710.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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