Samuel Maxson Kenyon and Eliza Jane Kincaid

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Husband Samuel Maxson Kenyon ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Jul 1801 - Westerly, Washington Co, RI 3
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           Died: 12 Sep 1869 4
         Buried:  - Dickinson Presbyterian Church, Penn Twp, Cumberland Co, PA

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         Father: Roger Kenyon (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Esther Maxson (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 15 Nov 1827 3

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Wife Eliza Jane Kincaid ²

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            AKA: Sarah Jane Kinkaid 1
           Born: 14 Mar 1806 3
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           Died: 21 Sep 1856 4
         Buried:  - Dickinson Presbyterian Church, Penn Twp, Cumberland Co, PA

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         Father: John Kinkaid (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Mary Lee (Abt 1771-1866) 3

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Children

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1 F Mary Lee Kenyon ²

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           Born: 10 Nov 1828 - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: John Clendenin Eckels (1824-1896) 5
           Marr: 1 May 1851 2

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2 F Ellen J. Kenyon ¹

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            AKA: Jane Ellen Kenyon 4
           Born:  - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA
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           Died: 28 Dec 1854 1
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         Spouse: Adam Fishburn (1826-      ) 6
           Marr: 26 Jan 1854 1

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3 F Esther Elizabeth Kenyon ⁴

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4 F Anna Grizzelle Kenyon ⁴

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5 M John Roger Kenyon ⁴

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6 M Charles Cummins Kenyon ⁴

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7 M James Woodburn Kenyon ⁴

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8 M Benjamin Franklin Kenyon ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Maxson Kenyon

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He was born Rhode Island, and was very young when his parents moved to Connecticut, and only a youth when they located in Pennsylvania. His boyhood days were spent with his parents on the farm, but he also lived several years with "Judge" Neely, who was a farmer near Gettysburg. When about sixteen years of age he came to Carlisle, and attended a select school taught by a famous teacher named Gad Day. About the time he reached his twentieth year he began teaching at a schoolhouse situated on the York road, in Dickinson township, at a place which was frequently known as Kenyon's Cross Roads. Later the place was known as Weakley's. Here he taught a long time, and after some years bought a lot and built himself a house. Along with his teaching he also did farming, and for seven years farmed the farm later owned by John Monroe. Afterward he moved to a point on the Walnut Bottom road, where he lived during the latter years of his life. He taught for over forty years, and with the exception of one term all his teaching was done in Dickinson township. He began teaching long before the free school system was created and his schools, though raised by subscription, were nearly always large, and included a winter and a summer term. After an interruption of several years he taught at "The Savannah," which he taught against the advice and protests of his family. In 1849 he was elected justice of the peace, and afterward, at the expiration of each term, re-elected until his death.
The religious predilections of the Kenyons were Baptist, but on locating in Cumberland County he united with the Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, then in charge of Rev. George Duffield, of whom he was a great admirer. He continued in this church until after he became permanently settled in Dickinson township, when he transferred his membership to the Dickinson Presbyterian Church because of it being nearer and more convenient.

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Notes: Marriage

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Six of their eight children became teachers, several of them teaching for a long while and with distinguished success.

1 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 374.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 123.

3 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 124.

4 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 125.

5 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 121.

6 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 373.