Allan Ralph Andrews, born September 13th 1939, Long
Beach California, St. Mary’s Hospital, 4:03 AM, father
Ralph B. Andrews, mother, Jean Thompson Andrews,
now remarried as Jean Colaluca.
In an attempt to trace the ancestors of my mother, Jean
Thompson Andrews, born Jean Thompson, of Hugh
Monroe Thompson, father, and Mary Lingenfelter
Thompson, mother, discovered links to the Pyle family
tree through the parents of Mary Lingenfelter Thompson,
born Mary Lingenfelter to Henrietta Kennedy
Lingenfelter and Benjamin Harrison Lingenfelter. Both
Henrietta and Benjamin came from Missouri and there
were a number of links to their ancestors in Missouri
records. Henrietta was born Henrietta Kennedy to Judge
Samuel T. and Lucretia (Smith) Kennedy. The Missouri
Genealogy Trails website has an extensive biography
section for Andrew County Missouri and the discussion of
Henry Newton Kennedy gives the link to his father
Samuel T. According to this link, Samuel was born on a
farm in Fayette County, Indiana, September 29th 1830 to
a farmer named John Kennedy, born in North Carolina of
a mother with the maiden name of Charity McMichael,
also from North Carolina. Further links indicate that John
Kennedy was born as John Bennett Kennedy 26 July 1782
in Orange, NC and died 31 August 1863, buried in the
Cain Cemetery in Nodaway, Missouri. His wife, Charity
was born 9 May 1790 in Guilford, North Carolina. John’s
father is given as James Kennedy (died 1808 in Guilford)
and his wife is given the maiden name of Elizabeth
Bailelet, born 1752 in North Carolina. Charity McMichael
was the daughter of Archibald McMichael, who died in
Guilford 23rd of September 1818. Her mother’s name was
also Charity. The James Kennedy link appears to connect
to a Hugh Kennedy, born 1725, died 1814 and Catherine
Hughes. This takes the Kennedy linage out of North
Carolina and into Pennsylvania, where James Kennedy
appears to have been born. Apparently Hugh Kennedy
was born 1725 in Ireland and died in Mifflin, in Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania. Hugh married a Catherine Hughes
in 1746 in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Martin Hughes,
born sometime in 1725 in Maryland and died in Butler
County, Pennsylvania. Hugh Kennedy appears to be the
son of Jane Gray and William Kennedy. William Kennedy
was born in Charlesont Ireland in 1690 and christened 17
September 1692 in Dublin, Ireland. He married Jane Gray
on 3 November 1721 in Dublin. William ended up with
land at the fork of the Youghiogheny and Monongehela
rivers and lived there from 1773 till his death in 1793.
Williams father, given as William T. Kennedy, was born in
Scotland sometime around 1670 and apparently served
with William of Orange in the “Siege of Derry and Ennis
Killen 1689 Battle of the Boyne.” Notes available in
various genealogical references seem to indicate that he
married a woman named Ann and had a large family that
included the William Kennedy that came to America.
On reference available on the web, “Bill Roy’s Genealogy
Page” gives the following information on Hugh Kennedy
son of William and grandson of William T.. It claims that
he came to America when he was only 17 and was
disowned by his Presbyterian father for becoming a
Methodist. This would explain the difficulty of tracing
this line and the tendency for the children to wander
since religious affiliation was an important element of
settlement at this time. Apparently Hugh served as a
private for the colonial army of Pennsylvania in the
Revolution in 1777 and 1778. It also states that Jane
Gray, mother of Hugh, died 9 September 1781, in
Pittsburgh, PA.
But, Henrietta’s mother was Lucretia Webster Smith.
How do you go about tracing that line? Fortunately
Barbara Leimback did a very good job of researching the
Ezekial W. Smith line and posted it April 2005. According
to this source Lucretia Webster Smith was the daughter
of John Payton Smith, born 5 December 1799 and
Elizabeth Crittendon (1800 -1839). Lucretia Webster was
born 1833 and died 1920. Apparently Ezekial W. Smith,
Sr. was born in Tennessee 28 November 1806, son of
Vincent Smith (1778 – 1857) and Anna Dolin (1775).
Now there is a Bedford Tennessee Deed Book, page 334
12/11/1826 in which William Crittendon lists his heirs
and one is Elizabeth Crittendon, wife of John P. Smith.
Apparently William Crittendon changed the spelling of
his name when he moved from Anson (Montgomery
County) North Carolina where he was born in 1765. His
father is given as William C. Crittenden of Essex County,
Virginia and his mother as Sarah Lee. William C.
Crittenden of Essex County is given as the son of Henry
Crittenden and Frances F. Upshaw, born in Gloucester
County Virginia and died 9 November 1716 in Essex
County Virginia, Henry is listed as the son of Richard
Crittenden and Ann Forrest. Sarah Lee married William
C. Crittenden in Virginia in1761 apparently and died
November 9th in 1766 in Montgomery, North Carolina.
Among the Children of Henry Crittenden is a son born
about 1708 (also named Henry) who was the father of
John Lee Crittenden who was the father in turn of John
Jordon Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, Attorney
General of the US, and Governor of Kentucky, another
son Robert Crittenden, served as secretary and governor
of Arkansas when it was a territory. This connection is
probably the source of the family story that the governor
of Missouri, Thomas Crittenden, was a cousin, since he
was a nephew of John Jordon Crittenden, a very distant
cousin of Elizabeth Crittenden Smith mother of Lucretia
Webster.
The Sarah Lee connection is also difficult to trace. Robert
Lee gave a will that is in book I, page 14, Anson County
North Carolina in which he gives items to his wife Sarah
Lee and his daughter Sarah Crittenden, the date is 1766.
This may be the Sarah Lee that married William C.
Crittenden, the son of Henry Crittenden and Francis F.
Upshaw and was the mother of William C. Crittenden
born 1765 in Anson County and father of Elizabeth
Crittenden, wife of John P. Smith, mother of Lucretia
Webster Smith. Apparently Robert Lee was the son of
James Lee who died in 1732 (his will dated 14 January
1731 in Bertie Precinct, NC, proved in Edgecombe
Precint, NC, November Court, 1732). Apparently he
married a Sarah (Moore?), perhaps born in 1702 in
Nansemond County Virginia, He was, apparently the son
of John Lee of Liecaster England, born around 1670, and
migrated to Nansemond County, where John is found in a
4/20/1694 land patent that gives him the right to
transport 20 persons from England. John had 960 acres
on the upper part of Nansemond County, East side of
Somerton Creek, beginning on a small island on the East
Side of the Creek to the Northeast side of Cyprus Swamp.
These early roots in Virginia, North Carolina, and
Pennsylvania are difficult to trace, particularly when the
mother’s line is what you are after. John Bennett
Kennedy, appears to have married a Charity McMichael
sometime in 1806 in Guilford North Carolina. She
appears to have been born 9 May 1790 in Guilford. The
family appears to have moved to Fayette County Indiana
in 1825 and then moved to Rush County Indiana in 1834,
finally moving to Nodaway County. Charity McMichael to
have been the daughter of Archibald McMichael who
died in Guilford 23 September 1818. His wife was named
Charity but there seems to be no record of her maiden
name.