Person:Mary Kennedy (89)

As written by Jeffrey P. Yoest, DDS: "While at the Deaf School, Leonard met Mary Kennedy, Class of 1893. Mary's family was from Noble County in Eastern Ohio. The two were married May 30, 1894 in Noble County. They had two daughters, Eleonora, born in 1895, and Mary Louise, born in 1898. Supposedly, there was also a son who did not survive childhood. Leonard and Mary both died when they were very young of tuberculosis. Leonard subcummed in 1899. His wife died the following year in 1900. At the time of his death he resided in a home in the rear of 503 Sycamore. His daughter Mary Louise went to live with her grandparents near Quaker City in Noble County. According to a letter Gussie wrote to the Carpenter Family, the Kennedys did not like the Yoests, one reason being that they were Catholics. Mary Kennedy's mother had her daughter's remains reinterred to Mt. Zion Church Cemetery from her original burial in Mt. Calvalry. Eleanora stayed in Columbus and went to school with Gussie. 'Nora' died in 1909 when she was 14 years old of a heart defect, a 'valve that would not close'. Gussie Rudert related a story that a travelling fortune teller was in their neighborhood and Nora had her fortune told. The fortune teller told her she would died before antoher day would pass. They all laughed. Nora died that night. As Mary (her grandmother preferred calling her Mary, rather than Louise, as a reminder of her deceased daughter)was just a baby when her parents died, she had no memory of them or her sister. Evidently her grandmother Kennedy never told her she had a sister in Columbus, nor that she had died. Perhaps the Kennedys wanted to sever all contact with the Yoest side of the family...Many years later, these branches would become reacquainted and have a very cordial relationship."

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Yoest & Kennedy, in Ohio, United States. Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016. (FamilySearch)
   v 7 p 351, 30 May 1894.

   Leonard J. Yoest & Mary E. Kennedy, 07 May 1894, Noble County, Ohio.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Yost, Lenhard, in Ohio, United States. Ohio, County Births, 1856-1909
   v 6 p 208, 11 Oct 1895.

   Son, Lenhard Yost, b. 11 Oct 1895, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio; parents listed as Lenhard Yost & Mary Kennidy.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 History of the Yoest Family, in Yoest, Jeffrey P., DDS
   p 9.