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  1. Camilla Kennedy: Birth: 16 AUG 1922. Death: 30 JUL 1964 in Philadelphia, PA.

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  3. Alexander Kennedy: Birth: 1 MAR 1925. Death: 23 FEB 1982

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Notes
a. Note:   Alexander Kennedy wrote this poem in 1899 after his sister, Camilla, died in 1898 at age 7. It appears below as it looked on the paper he typed it on: CAMILLA IN THE SPRING OF NINTY-ONE SUNDAY WITH A BRIGHT MORN TO KIND AND LOVING PARENTS A DARK EYED CHILD WAS BORN
  AND THEIR LIFE TO THEM GREW BRIGHTER AS THE CHILD IT LEARNED TO TALK AND IT MOTHER'S CARES WERE LESSENED WHEN UPON IT'S FEET IT WALKED
  WHEN SIX SUMMERS THIS CHILD HAD LIVED TO YEARN FOR SCHOOL SHE BEGAN AND BRIGTNESS GLOWED IN HER CHEEKS THE FIRST DAY TO SCHOOL SHE RAN
  SISTERS AND BROTHERS SHE LOVED WELL AND WHEN TO THEM HER LESSONS BROUGHT WITH WILLING HEARTS THEIR TIME THEY LENT HELPED HER THROUGH WITH MURMERS NAUGHT THE DAYS WENT BYE AND WINTER CAME STILL THE LOVE FOR SCHOOL SHE KEPT AND ALL HER HOPES IN LEARNING FLED WHEN SICKNESS INTO HER CREPT
  BUT A DOCTORS AND A MOTHERS CARE BROUGHT BACK LIFE TO HER AGANIN WITH JOYFUL HEART SHE TRODDED OFF TO SCHOOL TO LEARN AGAIN
  AND WHEN A MONTH HAD SPED AWAY SICKNESS TO HER CAME ONCE MORE YET LIGHT FELT HER LITTLE HEART SHE SURE WOULD CONQUER AS BEFORE
  BUT EACH DAY GREW HER SICKNESS WORSE AND HERY ROSY CHEEKS TO PALE AND INCREASED THE PAIN AND ANGUISH WRECKING HER BODY SO FRAIL
  THOUGH HER MOTHERS LIFE WAS TOILING FOR ON EARTH HER LONGER STAY THE STRONG HAND OF DEATH WAS CRUSHING HER LITTLE LIFE A MERCILESS WAY
  WITH SADENED HEARTS WE SAID GOOD BYE BUT SORROW TO ALL SHE MADE LIGHT AS THESE WORDS SHE FAINTLY MURMERED NOT GOOD BYE BUT JUST GOOD NIGHT
  GOD THE ALMIGHTY ABOVE US HAS HER IN HIS HEAVENLY CARE AND FROM THEM HE PLUCKED THIS FLOWER TO BLOOM FOREVER IN HEAVEN THERE CAMILLA KENNEDY WRITTEN BY HER BROTHER AL DIED 1898 7 YEARS OLD 1899 _______________________________________________________________________
  One of many little ditties Alexander was fond of repeating:
  He mixed his peas with his potatoes He did it all his life It's not because he liked it But it kept 'em on his knife.


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