| Kennedy
Family Cemetery Douglas County, Georgia |
Kennedy Family Cemetery
East side of
Mann Road north of Winston, Douglas County, Ga. Transcribed 1978 by Joe Baggett.
1. John Kennedy, April 1791-Oct. 28, 1848
2. Elizabeth Kennedy, Jan. 3, 1796-Jan. 2,
1874
3. Unmarked old vault, top missing
4. Unmarked old vault
5. Tebia Kennedy, March 1846-August 1847
“Gone So Soon”
6. J.J. Kennedy, Sept. 29, 1835-April 25,
1905
7. H.A., wife of J.J. Kennedy, Nov. 25,
1845-July 2, 1895
8. Nellie M. Winn, July 16, 1887-May 30,
1964
9. William W. Winn, Oct. 24, 1883-June 28,
1976
10. Elizabeth K. Winn, 1862-1951
11. A.J., daughter of G.A. Hassell, July 6,
1858-June 15, 1862
12. M.J., daughter of G.A. Hassell, April
25, 1854-May 29, 1854
13. Samuel Leathers, May 20, 1846-Sept. 22,
1855
14. M.P. Leathers, June 7, 1852-Dec. 4,
1852
15. G.E. Alexander, Oct. 9, 1837-April 26,
1929
16. J.M. Alexander, Nov. 2, 1840-May 24,
1915
17. James H. Kirby, Georgia PFC 168
Infantry, WW II, Jan. 25, 1912-Sept. 30, 1944
18. John Byron Kirby, Pvt. Co. L, 129
Infantry, WW I, June 9, 1893-June 29, 1969
19. Bernard H. Brittain, Georgia Pvt. 12
Infantry 8 Div., WW I, Dec. 19, 1894-May 20, 1953
20. Alfred Tyre Brittain, Oct. 15,
1865-Nov. 20, 1942
21. Wife Mary F. Kennedy, Jan. 27,
1873-Jan. 27, 1953
22. Nancy Kennedy Kirby, 1870-1943
23. Aulton K. Brittain, Georgia Pvt. 307
Infantry, 77 Div., WW I, Feb. 27, 1893-Nov. 6, 1918
24. Unmarked child’s grave. (Said to
be William H. Kennedy, son of John J. and Hester A. Kennedy, April 15, 1865-Feb. 27,
1870.)
Notes:
John J. and
Elizabeth Kennedy arrived in present Douglas County from South Carolina in the late 1820s. The name was spelled “Canady” in some
early records. Their children who lived to adulthood included Polly Ann, 1821-1887, who
married Peter Leathers, 1816-1901, buried in the Leathers Cemetery, High Point Road;
Georgia E. who married James M. Alexander; and John J. who married Hester Ann Dorris. John
J. Kennedy’s children included Nancy who married J.J. Kirby and divorced; Mary who
married A.T. Brittain; Elizabeth who married Charles W. Winn and divorced; and Barbara who
married James Pilgrim. J.J. Kirby was the first mayor of Winston as its incorporation in
1906 and died in March 1932.
