Name: Kennie, Ella Hughes
Occupation:
aka:
Sex: F
Birth: 10 Feb 1867
Death: 13 Dec 1942
Marker: No
Spouse(s): William Kennie
Parents: Mary Jefferson Hughes
Children: Ada Kennie, Lenora Kennie
Affiliations:
Notes: Undertaker – J F Bell
NEW JOURNAL AND GUIDE
(Norfolk, Virginia)
December 26, 1942
Page 19
THE DAILY PROGRESS
(Charlottesville, Virginia)
Tuesday December 15, 1942
Page 9
Mrs. Kennie’s obituary in the New Journal and Guide mentioned that she was the sister of the well-known Fountain Hughes, whose recorded 1949 interview is available online through the Library of Congress.
THE BALTIMORE SUN
(Baltimore, Maryland)
Friday May 11, 1956
Page 36
NEW JOURNAL AND GUIDE
(Norfolk, Virginia)
June 3, 1933
Page 4
Ella Hughes Kennie and Eliza Jefferson Kennedy, the wife of Rev. I. A. J. Kennedy, were first cousins. Ella’s mother, Mary Jefferson Hughes, was the sister of Eliza’s father, Walker Jefferson. Mary and Walker Jefferson were the children of Arthur Jefferson.
On December 2, 1895 the Daily Progress reported in a page one article entitled “Visit of a Centenarian” that Arthur Jefferson, who “was in town today, looking “spry as a cricket” claimed to be 111 years old. “He claims to have seen Jefferson, for whom he was named, and many other statesmen. He belonged to Major Wood, the grandfather of Warner Wood, Esq.”
When Arthur Jefferson died three years later, the paper reported that “The old gentleman claimed to be one hundred and fifteen years old. There is no question that he was 100 or more.”
THE DAILY PROGRESS
(Charlottesville, Virginia)
Thursday December 22, 1898
Page 1
