O.S. KENNEDY, the son of Thomas Corwin and Mary Kennedy, was born in 1871, near Knoxville, Marion, Iowa. He was the oldest child and only son of seven living children. Oll moved to Pottawattamie County in 1894 where he worked on a road crew. While in Carson, he met Miss Grace Braden and on March 14, 1900 they were married. Together they had two children, Mildred and Nina. The newly wed couple lived for a year in Des Moines where O.S. worked at a lumber yard. They returned to Carson and took up farming. Oliver was a member of the Carson Methodist Church, when in 1897 he rushed into the burning church to save the new alter bible just as the floor and one wall began to collapse. He was also a member of the IOOF lodge at Macedonia since 1911 and had been past grand of his lodge since 1927.
O.S. KENNEDY, the son of Thomas Corwin and Mary Kennedy, was born in 1871, near Knoxville, Marion, Iowa. He was the oldest child and only son of seven living children. Oll moved to Pottawattamie County in 1894 where he worked on a road crew. While in Carson, he met Miss Grace Braden and on March 14, 1900 they were married. Together they had two children, Mildred and Nina. The newly wed couple lived for a year in Des Moines where O.S. worked at a lumber yard. They returned to Carson and took up farming. Oliver was a member of the Carson Methodist Church, when in 1897 he rushed into the burning church to save the new alter bible just as the floor and one wall began to collapse. He was also a member of the IOOF lodge at Macedonia since 1911 and had been past grand of his lodge since 1927.
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