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ville, Baldwin County, where he was closely and prominently identified with public affairs for many years, serving as U. S. District Marshal and in various other positions of public trust. He died March 17, 1837.His wife was Mrs. Aurelia (Gray) Powell and their children were: (a) Colonel Augustus Holmes Kenan, (b) Michael Johnston Kenan, (c) Uriah Threat! Kenan, married John T. Lamar and William L. Gordon, (d) Arabella Kenan, married Janies LJ. Horn and left a large and prominent family, (c) Anne Holmes Kenan, married Lam Beecher and William G. Robinson.(12) Major OWEN RAND KENAN, see section 10, was born in Duplin, March 4, 1804. He was a militia officer, member State House of Commons and of the Confederate Congress. His home place Liberty Hall in the town of Ke-mm.iv.ile is still standing and is now owned by his grandson, Col. Owen H. Kenan of New York and Florida. He died March 3, 1887.Major Kenan's wife was Sarah Rebecca Graham, daughter of Dr. Stephen Graham, and their children were: (a) Colonel Thomas Stephen Kenan, 1838-1911, was one of the outstanding lawyers of the State. He entered the service of the Confederacy as Captain of the Duplin Rifles and later became Colonel of the 43rd N, C. Regiment. He was a member of the State House of Commons, Attorney-General of the State, and Clerk of the State Supreme Court. A portrait of him hangs on the wall in Duplin courtroom. Colonel Kenan's wife was Sarah Dortch and they had no children, (b) Captain James Graham Kenan. He was a Confederate officer, Sheriff and Legislator. His wife was Annie H. Hill and their children were: Col. Owen Hill Kenan; Emily Howard Kenan; Thomas S. Kenan, business man of Atlanta; Graham Kenan, lawyer, died in “flu epidemic of 1918; and Fannie Hill Kenan, died in infancy, (c) Captain William Rand Kenan.He was a Confederate officer from Duplin, and later located in Wilmington His wife was Mary Hargrave of Chapel Hill and their children were: Mary Lily Kenan, married Henry Morrison Flagler, Standard Oil capitalist and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway, and after his death she married Judge Robert Worth Bingham, American Ambassador to Great Britain; Jessie H. Kenan, married J. C. Wise; William Rand Kenan, capitalist and philanthropist, of New York City; Sarah Graham Kenan, married Graham Kenan. lt;d) Annie Dickson Kenan, never married.(13) Colonel AUGUSTUS HOLMES ICE-
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