Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - James Kenner

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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James Kenner, farmer, was born January 27, 1834, in Hawkins County, 
Tenn., and is a son of Wiley B. and Elizabeth (Shanks) Kenner. The 
father was a native of Virginia, who in an early day started for 
Tennessee by wagon, where he engaged in farming in an unsettled 
country. He had but a limited education, and it was in Tennessee that 
he died in 1861. The mother was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., where 
she passed her entire life, dying upon the old homestead in 1887. She 
had ten children, seven of whom are now living: William, Hanson, Mark, 
Dock, Newton, Polly A. and James. Those deceased are Lucinda, Marian 
and Wiley R. Hanson Kenner, the grandfather, was a resident of 
Virginia, and engaged in trading with the Indians. The maternal 
grandparents were both natives of North Carolina, born of German 
parents, and in an early day went to Tennessee. Our subject passed his 
youth upon the farm in Tennessee, receiving only a common-school 
education, but learned the blacksmith's trade. When twenty-four years 
of age he left home and married Adeline Wells, daughter of Newton and 
Susan (Brewer) Wells. Mr. Wells was a soldier in the Mexican War. Mrs. 
Kenner was born and reared in Tennessee. To Mr. and Mrs. Kenner six 
children have been born, all save one living: Susan, Sallie, Minerva, 
Wiley and John. Polly Ann is the one deceased. During the late war Mr. 
Kenner enlisted in Company H, Eighth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, 
First Brigade, Third Division, and served until the close, being 
mustered out in North Carolina. He was in the battles at Burnt 
Hickory, Atlanta Crossing and others, and, besides being on the raid 
through Georgia, participated in a number of other engagements. After 
the war he returned to Tennessee, and twelve years ago came to 
Crawford County, buying land on Cedar Creek, where he lived eight 
years. He then removed to his present farm, which contains 160 acres, 
forty of which he has finely cultivated. He is a member of the 
Missionary Baptist Church, and in politics is a Republican. 

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