Holyoke, Mass

[Adapted from the Adams County News, Gettysburg, PA; 23 Jan 1909]

Pittsburg, Jan. 21.– The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission at its annual meeting awarded twenty-six medals, $14,750 in cash and pensions aggregating $565 per month for deeds of valor investigated since the last meeting of the commission last October.

The cash awards made by the commission since its organization in May, 1905, amount to $163,452,26 and the pension allowance $16,550 annually.

Among those whose deeds of heroism were rewarded by the commission are two full-blooded Indians living on government land.

Among the awards made are the following:

A silver medal and $250 were awarded to John J. Kennedy of Holyoke, Mass., father of John F. Kennedy thirteen years old, who was drowned in an ineffectual attempt to save Edward A. Pellissier, Jr., ten years old, July 6, 1904.

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[Note: this obituary was adapted from the 28 May 1957 edition of the Holyoke Transcript.  This person happens to be a connection in my own genealogy files, though not a direct one.  Still, if you are related, do drop a line and say hello.]

Mrs. Annie (Halket) Jenkins, 84, of 133 Sargeant St., died this morning in Westfield State Hospital, Westfield after a short illness.  She was the widow of William C. Jenkins.

Mrs. Jenkins, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, was born Septemeber 14, 1872, and came to this country and to Holyoke 64 years ago.  She lived here since.

She held membership in the First Presbyterian church and also belonged to Group W. of the church and the Daughters of Caledonia.

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[From the Holyoke Transcript, December 1882.  How times have changed.]

Thomas Connor, who poured oil on the groceries of Adelide Campagna, a few months ago, was proven guilty of the mean crime yesterday and Peter Connor was convicted of knocking down James Mullins with a stone.

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