Norman Kenyon was a son of Giles and Polly (Palmer) Kenyon, whose father was among the first -settlers of Hinesburg. She was born in Hinesburg, Vt, in 1786, and Giles was born in Sterling, Conn., in 1784. He died on September 23, 1879, and she died on September 25, 1879, and were both buried in the same grave on the same day, aged respectively ninety-three and ninety-five years. They were married in 1805 and had nine children born to them, eight of whom are now living — Heman, Mandana, Norman, Ursula, Grant P., Robert, Helen and Ellen •(who are twins).
