KENNEDY, David Thompson

Name – KENNEDY, David Thompson
Born – 1858
Died – 29/03/1941
Location – No 60 Methodist Section
Mother – Sarah Thompson
Father – John Kennedy

Notes – David Thompson Kennedy was born to Sarah (nee Thompson) and John Kennedy in 1858 in Victoria. David married Christina Mary Hill in 1878 in Victoria. The couple had children Margaret Jane (1879-1905), John 1880 (a Doctor who lived in Melbourne), Charles David 1886, Robert James, Mrs C Cox of Tara and Mrs Laurie who lived in Melbourne.

He was one of the first selectors to come to Tara, and he brought his sons with him. His wife, Christina Mary Hill followed two years later. David developed Dandaraga and lived there from 1908 until his death in 1941. When the Tara railway line was being built he and his sons supplied the workers with meat. After this David started his own butcher shop in Tara.

He sold his property Dandaraga to the Fry family in 1926. His daughter Margaret was married to Frank Fry and had four children with him prior to her untimely death in 1905. For a brief while David and Christina moved to Toowoomba, but returned to Tara and bought a section of Dandaraga back off the Frys and put a house on it.

David is buried in the Methodist Section and has a headstone that he shares with his grandson James who was killed in WWII in Malaysia. It reads – In Loving Memory of David Thompson Kennedy Died 29th March, 1941 Aged 83. Also his grandson and our dear son James Leslie Kennedy. Killed in Action 12th September, 1941 Aged 24 years.

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