When Hannah Elizabeth Kennedy was born on 13 April 1837, in Bolton, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, her father, Samuel Barnett Kennedy, was 47 and her mother, Hannah Moseley Morse, was 39. She lived in Vermont, United States in 1870 and Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States for about 30 years. She died on 18 January 1923, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Waterbury, Washington, Vermont, United States.