Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Kennedy Building at 25 East Main; the story and the family behind the name. Recent color photos by Joe Drazan, news clips from the Valley Times in Milton-Freewater, and the family photos courtesy of Becky Bush Wright, descendant.





Robert Porter Kennedy & Margaret Jackson wedding photo, 1879


Robert Porter Kennedy framed in doorway


Sarah Jane Lewis Kennedy (Becky's grandmother)

William Boyd Kennedy (Becky's grandfather)

Jean, Martha, and Jule (Martha is Becky's mother)

Kennedy family reunion on the Coppei near Waitsburg

Kennedy family members, ca1886


Sevier Kennedy (1836-1914) house near Waitsburg