PVT. KENNY FORBES, TANGIPAHOA PARISH, LA
Transcribed and Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Dr Belford Carver, Aug. 2000

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KENNY FORBES

KENNY FORBES is one of eight Union veterans buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, 
Hammond, LA.  The information was taken from records from state and National 
Archives, and personal contact with his great-grandson, H. P. Forbes.

Forbes served in Co. C, 30th Indiana Infantry.  He was a private in Company C of the 
30th Regiment for a three-year term.  He enlisted on September 24, 1861 at Fort 
Wayne, Indiana, by Captain Braden.  He was mustered in on the same date and place by
Major Carpenter.  He was 25 years of age, with blue eyes, fair hair, and was 5 feet 
10 3/4 inches in height.  His complexion was fair, a native of Onondays (Onondaga), 
New York, and his occupation was listed as farmer.

He was discharged on June 23, 1862 because of wounds received in the Battle of 
Shiloh, April 7, 1862.  According to his pension application, he was born April 1, 
1837 in Onondaga County, NY.

He and his wife moved to Hammond after 1886.  He stated (in 1898) that he was a 
widower; his wife was Harriett A. Wadell.  There were married in Lisbon, Kendall 
County, Illinois on June 30, 1867.  They were married by Rev. Richard Waite, M.E. 
minister.  He stated that the marriage certificate was recorded at the county seat, 
and that he had no previous marriages.  They had one son, Ebner A. Forbes, born to 
them January 26, 1873, living at the time of application.

According to the pension record, he was discharged at Indianapolis, IN on the 28th 
day of July, 1862.  He was in the Captain Braden Company and was wounded on or 
about April 7, 1862.  He received an injury to his right foot by a spent grape shot in 
the battle of Pittsburg Landing.  There was a contusion of the foot and was very much
 swollen; so he was unable to march.  His disability was given as one-third.  His last 
pension payment of $15 was to 4 January 1911, was dropped due to his death, 
January 24, 1911.

General affidavits from two of  his neighbors were available.  One was from Edward 
Hyde, 52, dated 28 July 1900, that he had known Kenny about eight years, and that 
Kenny's rupture and piles were not due to vicious habits.  He was exemplary in his 
habits, does not use alcoholic drinks or tobacco in any form, and is a member of the 
M.E. Church.

The second affidavit was signed by John D. Kemp, 59, 27 July 1900, also at Hammond.
 He had known Kenny since 1869, and that his rupture of left-groin and piles were 
not due to vicious habits, that he was perfectly temperate in all things, and did not 
drink alcohol in any form.

His own affidavit indicated that his injury to the left groin occurred about 1879 at 
haying time in the month of July at Loda, Illinois.  He was pitching hay from the 
wagon and slipped through it causing the injury.  The date of this document was 24 
May 1906.  The notary was R. Lillie, Hammond, LA.

His Declaration for Pension, dated April 1, 1907, was witnessed by Harry M. Herbert 
and E. Richardson.

Kenny Forbes died in 1911.  His wife, Hattie A. Forbes (9/10/1840-7/13/1897) is 
buried next to him.  On the top of her stone are 5 sheaves of wheat with 3 of them 
broken for the 3 deceased children, which I learned from H. P. Forbes.  These children 
died prior to their moving to Hammond.  George, or Georgie, was killed at the age of 
13 in an accident while riding a horse.  William, called Eddie, died at the age of 3.  
Their daughter, Harriet, died at the age of one.  All three of them are buried in Loda, 
IL.

The Edward Hyde that signed an affidavit in behalf of Kenny was his brother-in-law. 
Both of them married Waddells.  George Hyde at one time had a dairy on land sold to 
him by Kenny.  Descendants of this set of Hydes are operators of Hyde Meat Plant in 
Robert, LA.

Kenny and his son, Ebner, were among the fifteen or so founders of the First 
Presbyterian Church in Hammond.  H. P. stated that his great-grandfather believed in 
having a minimum of worldly possessions.  In addition, Kennyís daughter-in-law, 
Maude Gould Forbes, and her children lived with him while her husband, Ebner, served 
in the Spanish American War.  Maude and Ebner had seven children from 1898 to 1916.

A Forbes family reunion was held  in Hammond at the home of H. P. and Nancy Forbes 
on May 30, 1995, with 150 family members attending.  H. P. stated that this was the 
first time such a gathering of the descendants of Kenny  Forbes had taken place.  It 
was a joyous time for all of them.

Belford E. Carver
August 22, 2000