Lucy Matilda (Thompson) Kenney (1842 - 1925)

Born 21 Nov 1842 in Bladenboro, Bladen, North Carolina, United States

Wife of Joseph Patrick Kenney — married 1866 in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States

Died 22 Jun 1925 at age 82 in Nicholls, Coffee, Georgia, United States

Biography

Lucy Matilda Thompson born 21 Nov 1842 in Bladenboro, North Carolina. ^[1]

Lucy married in 1861 to Bryant Gauss.

Lucy disguised as a man, enlisted in Company D 18th North Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America.

Masquerading as Private Bill Thompson, Lucy participated in a number of battles, including the Seven Days Battle June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia.

Bryant Gauss died of wounds received at the Battle of Fredericksburg. ^[2]

Lucy bore her first child, Mary Caroline Gauss, on January 21, 1864.

Lucy married 2nd in Savannah, Georgia to Joseph P. Kenney.

Children included:

Patrick Kinney 96 yrs old, farmer, wife Matilda 72 yrs old, mother of 11, 6 still living, John P. 17 yrs, Joseph 15 yrs resided in 1900 in Blackshear, Pierce, Georgia, US. ^[3]

Lucy Gauss Kenney is buried in the Meeks Cemetery near Nicholls. Joseph Kenney died September 7, 1913 at the age of 107 years 5 months and I day.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61075205/lucy-matilda-kenney
2. ↑ "They fought like demons : women soldiers in the American Civil War" by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, publ 2002 p 31 https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_o8j5/page/31/mode/1up/search/gauss
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6Q23-DS7?cc=1325221&wc=9BWM-3Y9%3A1030554001%2C1031520001%2C1034385401 : 5 August 2014), Georgia > Pierce > ED 80 Militia District 584 Blackshear town > image 11 of 57; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

See also:

• Confederate Records, CMSR, 18th North Carolina Infantry, Gauss Bryant, record group 16 US National Archives.