MAURY COUNTY NATIVES AND
FORMER RESIDENTS INTERRED ELSEWHERE
Alice Rebecca Harlan-Kennedy-Trask-Witherill
Born Aug 12, 1862 Tennessee
Death: May 2, 1957.
Alice Rebecca Harlan-Kennedy-Trask-Witherill, daughter of James Pouncy Harlan
and Mary Ann Caruthers was born at Cathy's Creek, Tennessee. She married David
O. Kennedy on May 7, 1882 in Columbia, Tennessee. 7 children; Eva, Rosa, Mary,
Archie, Loyd & Roy (Twins) and David Jr. were born of that union.
George E. Trask Jr., was born of Alices's second marriage to George E. Trask.
Alice outlived 3 husbands and 6 of her 8 children.
Alice Rebecca
Harlan-Kennedy-Trask-Witherill
with her Grandson Kenneth Roy Kennedy.
Photo taken sometime between 1942 & 1945
Bio and Photo contributed by
Roy Kennedy
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Oregon Mail Tribune Friday May
2, 1937
Obituaries
Mrs. Alice R. Witherill
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Rebecca Witherill, 74, of 230 North Ivy St.,
Medford, Ore., who died Thursday, will be held at Conger-Morris at 11 a.m.
Saturday. The Rev. William C. Piper of the First Christian Church will
officiate. Committal will be in Sterling Cemetery.
Mrs. Witherill was born Aug 12, 1862 in Columbia, Tenn. She had lived in the
Applegate valley for many years prior to moving to Medford in 1926. She was a
member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors include sons, Roy Trask, Cottage Grove; and George Trask, Sutter,
California; daughter, Mrs. Eva Baxter, Brussels, Belgium; and Mrs. David
Kennedy, Banning, California; eight grand children and 14 great grandchildren.
Contributed by Roy Kennedy ggg-grandson of David O. Kennedy, brother of James W. Kennedy of Maury Co., Tn.; transcribed by Mary Bob McClain. 09/04/2007