DEATH CLAIMS CIVIL WAR VET AT NASHVILLE
Gideon Kennedy Fought At Gettysburg and Witnessed Lee's Surrender.
Death last night took one of Nashville's five surviving Civil War veterans when Gideon Kennedy, 95, died at his home there after a long period of failing health. Funeral services will be held at the veteran's late residence in Nashville tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C. L. Roach, of Vermontville, will officiate and interment will be made in Lakeview cemetery at Nashville. Mr. Kennedy was born in Monongahela county, West Virginia, and with his parents moved to Ohio at an early age. Later the family moved to Indiana and there young Kennedy enlisted in Company A, Nineteenth Indiana infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War. He fought in the battle of Gainsville, the Wilderness and Gettysburg and was wounded in the second Battle of Bull Run. He also witnessed Lee's surrender. At the close of the war Mr. Kennedy mraried [sic] and he and his bride settled a littler later on a farm in Michigan. At the time of Mrs. Kennedy's death in 1915, they were living near Nashville. In 1918, Mr. Kennedy was married to Mrs. Esther Maxson, of Nashville, and in 1923 they moved to that village. Besides a widow, Mr. Kennedy is survived by a son, Claud, and two grandchildren, living in Hastings. A brother lives in Portis, Kans. The death of Mr. Kennedy leaves as surviving Nashville Civil War veterans, Charles Cruse, "Cap" Potter, Barney Brooks and Dick Wickwire.
