Volume 16 , Issue 40

100 Years Ago, 24 Nov. 1914, Tuesday

One hundred years ago today, 24 November 1914, The Guthrie Daily Leader had the following front page headlines: "Oklahoma Pioneer Dead." J. W. Kennedy was the only veteran of Mexican war in the state.

Hobart, Nov. 24 (1914) -- J. W. Kennedy, 90 years old, said to be the only survivor of the Mexican war in Oklahoma, died at the home of his daughter, in Hobart, Oklahoma. He was lieutenant in a Tennessee volunteer company and also was said to be one of the few surviving members of the Texas Alamo association.
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