Biography

Sources

• The will of father-in-law Francis Reese is transcribed in the notes of the following Rootsweb tree: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=reas_family&id=I015 "I also give and bequeath to my son-in-law William Kennedy..."

• Note that elsewhere in the notes above are transcriptions of several other legal records involving William Cannady (various spellings) - plus, on one occasion, wife Mary Ann - and Francis Rease (various spellings).

• United States Federal Census. 1820. Indiana. Harrison County. Page 72. Presumed to be in the household of William Kennedy. Image of original document at Ancestry.com: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1820usfedcenancestry&h=1362345&indiv=try

• United States Federal Census. 1850. Iowa. Wapello County. Page 465b. William Cannady household. Image of original document at Ancestry.com: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=2654427&indiv=try

• Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925. William Cannady. 1854. Green, Wapello County, Iowa. Image of original document at Ancestry.com: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=IAstatecen&h=7709276&indiv=try

• United States Federal Census. 1860. Iowa. Wapello County. Page 737. William Cannon household. Image of original document at Ancestry.com: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=5791482&indiv=try

• United States Federal Census. 1870. Iowa. Davis County. Page 162a. Francis M. Kennedy household (son). Image of original document at Ancestry.com: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=35855681&indiv=try

• Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959. William Kennady and Mary Ann Reace (or Rease). FHL 1404750. Records from the Harrison County (Indiana). Clerk of the Circuit Court. Digital folder 4455449. Record number 675. Image number 00129. Also: FHL 549383. Scans of images (92 and 122 in this database) are of a typed ledger with abstracts, available at FamilySearch.org: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11000-27062-45?cc=1410397 (Scans of a handwritten ledger are or were available from a similar database at FamilySearch.)

• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900. William Canaday and America Jane Young. Vermilion County. A:54 and A:58. 21 August 1838. Vermilion County, Indiana. Database is searchable at http://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/marriagesrch.jsp.

• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900. William Canaday and Nancy J. Caughon. Vermilion County. A:130. 26 April 1847. Vermilion County, Indiana.

• The Ancestral Families of Alison Cannady. Bruce Cannady. Gateway Press. Maryland. The source of birth and death dates as well as burial location at Kingdom Cemetery in Belknap, Davis County, Iowa, USA. This source and The History and Genealogy of the George W. Cannady Family (link is to digital copy), also by Bruce Cannady, are the reason that descendant Shari S created a memorial page for William at FindaGrave; unfortunately, no volunteer has been able to find his marker.