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Sarah Idella Gann Kennedy

5 Jan 1859 – 13 Aug 1929

Birth5 Jan 1859
Death13 Aug 1929
CemeteryEdgemont Cemetery
Anniston , Calhoun County , Alabama , USA
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112822088

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Sarah Idella Gann was about three years old when the Civil War began. Her father enlisted and fought for the CSA mostly in Georgia. He, like many southern soldiers with wives and children, slipped off on occasion to check on his family. He was home when the Union commander, Gen. Thomas marched his army south from Tennessee Through their area of Georgia on the way to the siege of Atlanta. Sarah's family heard the sounds of battle at New.Hope for three days and three nights and then silence. Sarah's father went to the battle field to help with the wounded and bury the dead. The horrors of that experience returned to haunt him as an old man. After the war, the family moved west across the Georgia state line and into Alabama. Here Sarah grew up and married, James Walker Kennedy. Times were hard after the war and there was a great movement of covered wagon trains to Texas. In 1878, Sarah's parents and married brothers formed their own wagon train and left for Texas. They were on the trail three months. Sarah stayed with her husband in Alabama and never saw her parents or siblings again. They did write and some of Sarah's correspondence and a photograph of her Kennedy family were kept in her mother's trunk in Texas. Sarah was seventy years old when she died August 13, 1929. Her death certificate is recorded in Calhoun County and states she was born January 5, 1859, Georgia; died Aug 13, 1929, Anniston, Calhoun Co. Alabama; information provided by husband, James Walker Kennedy. - Blanche Keating Collie

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