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Spy Kenney execution and a widow granted pension
The article recounts a northern spy named Kenney hanged at Tallahoma on February 13 1863 and a pension granted to his elderly widow in Dwight. Alexander Kenney and his brother travel to Tennessee to learn more and hear a local survivor recall the hanging before a fresh riverbank search uncovers two skeletal leg bones of the executed man. The tale mixes recollections from residents and a railway worker who witnessed the hanging as a boy.
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Praey
Washington
Veter
Woodman
Ils City
War Department
Kenney
Tallahoma
Tenn
Dwight
Alexander Kenney
John
Tennenses
Talinndmna
Tullahoma
Bragg
Archibald Smith
Beales
Uttle
Frank 8. Pizley
Chicago Times-Herald
Bath County
Warm Springs
Richmond
Col
Farnsworth
Buckhannon
Parkersburg
Miss Richards
Mamma
Gen. McClellan
Elvin Palms
Detroit Free Press