Frances C. Kennerly

She was a daughter of Dr. John Hanger (1792-1862) and Mary Allen (1797-1882). On June 1, 1850 in Augusta County, VA she married Dr. Samuel Kennerly (Feb. 1, 1828- Apr. 5, 1904).

Dr. Kennerly was born in what is now Clarke County, VA on Feb. 1, 1828 to Rev. Samuel L. Kennerly, a Methodist minister and Anna A. Durham. Samuel grew up in Augusta County and as a very youngt man became a teacher in the county schools. At the age of 20, he beganthe study of medicine under Dr. John Hanger, who lived near New Hope, and soon entered the Medical College of Virginia, from which he graduated in the class of 1850. In that year he married Dr. Hanger's daughter, Frances C. Hanger, and after graduation he practised medicine as a partner of his father-in-law until after the outbreak of the Civil War. After Dr. Hanger's death in 1862, Dr. Kennerly became assistant-surgeon to Col. John B. Baldwin's brigade of mounted rifelemen in the Confederate service. These men equipped and mounted themselves, and served without pay. After the close of the war, Dr. Kennerly resumed his practice in Augusta County his home located on the hilltop at Hermitage. He was a prominent citizen in Augusta County.

Dr. and Mrs. Kennerly suffererd sorrow and loss. On March 30, 1866, their Hermitage home burned to the ground with many of their personal possessions. They buried an infant daughter and a four-year-old son in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery near Waynesboro with the family of Dr. John Hanger.

In 1866 he began as the first Worshipful Master of Lee Lodge No. 209, A.F. & A.M. in Waynesboro and served until 1870. He had previously been an active member in Staunton Union Lodge No. 13. In 1869 he became an officer in UnionRoyal Arch Chapter No. 2 there.

In the fall of 1876 the Kennerlys and their four surviving children moved with other members of the family to Shelbina, Shelby County, Missouri, where he practised medicine, served as county coroner, and was secretary of the Shelby County Medical Society. He was described as a man greatly esteemed by all who knew him, "an earnest, zealous member" of the Methodist Church, a "leading member of the Masonic Order at Shelbina and High Priest of the Royal Arch Chapter of that City.

After the death of his wife, Frances, in 1889, re remarried about 1894/5 to Mrs. Eleanor "Ellen" (Brittingham) Hickman, widow of Hugh Layfayette Hickamn of Hannibal, MO. She was native to Maryland. They were still in Hannibal on 1900 census.

Dr. Kennerly died in a hospital in St. Louis, MO the first week of April, 1904 at the age of seventy-six years.

Children of Samuel and Frances: (1) Mary Ann Kennerly (1852-1884) wife of Michael Scott Schindel. (2) Emma Virginia Kennerly (1854-1921) wife of William Springer Moxley. (3) Dr. John Hanger Kennerly (1856-1926), dentist, who married Alice V. Stark. (4) Charles Allen Kennerly (1862-1953) married Nora Baker (1870-1920) in 1890 and had two children. (5) an unknown male Kennerly who died aged four years. (6) an unknown who died in infancy.

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