Patrick Kennedy's Funeral

Patrick Kennedy's Funeral

This is the funeral photograph of Patrick Kennedy, Sue Eickhoff's great-grandfather. An emigrant form Ireland, Patrick Kennedy homesteaded in the town of Coleridge in Cedar County, NE. Funeral photographs used to be much more common then they are now, made to preserve the likeness of the deceased, and to keep the memory of the dead children. The family sent funeral photos to those who could not attend, and in many cases in the second half of the 19^th century, these photos were the only likeness of the person surviving in the family archives.

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Sue and Charlie Eickhoff, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

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