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1232 Mumford Kenyon, b 17 Oct. 1765; d Jan. 1854; m Mary (“Polly)” Gilbert, 1787.

Simplified:
1232 Mumford Kenyon 1765-1854
12321 James kenyon 1789-1860
James "Smith" Kenyon Sr 1816-1878
James Smith Kenyon Jr 1841–1928
Daughter:
Anna Jane Kenyon 1867–1942
1st married Mathew Mcdougal
Daughter: Mary Etta Kenyon 1895-1992
2nd married Luke E. Reynolds 1857–1942

Breakdown:
1232 Mumford Kenyon 1765-1854 may be buried here brother of 1236 James Kenyon b 6 Sept. 1779; d 14 Nov. 1853

Children: 
12321 James kenyon 1789-1860 m Betsey Smith may be buried here
12322 John Kenyon b 22 June 1792; d 17 Mar. 1867; m 15 Dec. 1818, Catherine Scheunneman b 29 Apr. 1799; d 15 Oct. 1826. 
12323 Gilbert Kenyon b-; d-; m Polly Smith. 
12324 Samuel Kenyon b-; d-; m-. Went to Texas. 
1232a Sally Kenyon b-; d-; m John Reynolds. 
1232b Phebe Kenyon b-; d-; m-Goodrich. 
1232c Maria Kenyon b-; d-; unmarried. Died at 19 years of age. 
1232d Ruth Kenyon b-; m-; m Jasper G.-. 

    In the census of 1790 in Clinton, Dutchess County, N. Y., he had in family 1 male over 16, one male under 16 and 1 female. His name was spelled “Mulford” in the census list. 

Descendants of  1232 Mumford Kenyon 1765-1854
1232 Mumford Kenyon 1765-1854
12321 James kenyon 1789-1860 m Betsey Smith
son:
James "Smith" Kenyon Sr 1816-1878 m. Statira Webb Kenyon 1816–1876 (Statira was an Indian) Great Grandfather of  Mary Etta Kenyon
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James "Smith" Kenyon Sr 1816-1878 buried here
m. Statira Webb Kenyon 1816–1876
son:
James Smith Kenyon Jr 1841–1928 buried here
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James Smith Kenyon Jr 1841–1928
Daughter:
Anna Jane Kenyon 1867–1942 buried here
1st married Matthew McDougal Father of Mary Etta Kenyon 1895-1992 Mary Etta Marriage Records Matthew McDougal Listed as father.
2nd married Luke E. Reynolds 1857–1942


Mary Etta Kenyon 1895-1992 m George Cassidy Davis 05 Oct 1916 in Manhattan, New York, New York



Etta Kenyon 1895-1992 from Chorus Girl to Goat Lady 
Listed as the great grandaughter of James "Smith" Kenyon Sr 1816-1878 m. Statira Webb
highlighted in red below:

   On a high hilltop between Davenport Center and Maryland one comes [in 1956] to the solitary domain of Mary Etta Kenyon, a remarkable woman.  Etta, that’s what her friends call her, owns six farms totaling 1000 acres.  She runs Lilac Farm, raises goats, sheep, cows, pigs, chickens.  She shears the sheep with household scissors, and she once performed an autopsy on a mare, Dolly, finding a rusty nail in a collapsed left lung.  She calls a buck goat and doe “Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler.”  Twin does were named “The Dolly Sisters.”  Once she had 100 purebred Toggenberg goats—“the finest herd in New York State, bar none”—and most all had theatrical names. 

   For this is the second of Etta Kenyon’s two lives.  Once she was spoken of as “the prettiest chorus girl on Broadway.”  She was in a Minsky Burlesque chorus line when burlesque was respectable musical comedy.  She toured the vaudeville circles, was married to George C. Davis before he died in Bellevue Hospital.  She ultimately returned to Davenport’s hills to look after her mother, taking over the 1000 acres when her mother died, and then living alone in one of the houses.  “I haven’t seen a movie in 20 years,” she said in 1956.  “Now wait, Tess Sherman took me to one six or seven years ago, that’s right.  But I get ‘The Billboard’ once in a while and keep up with the business.”  (Adapted from Francis Forrest, “’Prettiest Chorus Girl on Broadway’ Raises Goats, Runs 1,000 Acre Farm,” The Oneonta Star, undated clipping in DHS scrapbook SCR-V, p. 77.  See CD-ROM for original article.) 

  Many people connected with the theater discovered Davenport’s beautiful hills and valleys through visits to Sherman Lake.  Among those to make Davenport their permanent home were Jessie A. and Edward Martz (singers), Harry Barrett and daughter, Virginia and Frank McDonald, Robert LaSalle, Robert and Anna Lemke, Al Lydell, Etta Kenyon, and Tom Mahoney.  Theresa (Tessie) Sherman, affectionately known as “Aunt Tessie,” and two nephews lived in Davenport Center in the 1970s.  So, too, did Sherman Lake’s Dan Sherman, Mabel DeForest Sherman, and son Dan, all of whom now lie with Tessie and other vaudevillians in the Charlotte Valley Cemetery.  Some say that when passing that cemetery at night they can still hear the tinkle of distant laughter and fragments of half forgotten songs.  After all, it was said that in life Dan Sherman “could make a stone wall laugh.”  Why not a gravestone, too?

  A Davenport Center resident of the time remembers Etta Kenyon as having been in the chorus line with Lottie DeForest, Fern Briggs’ grandmother.  Etta had been born and brought up on Webb Hill, a part of South Hill.  Mary Etta Kenyon’s great grandfather, Smith Kenyon (1816-1878) had married a “full-blooded Indian,” Statira Webb (1816-1876).  The Webbs at one time had owned “this whole [Webb] hill.”[19]  At one time Etta had been a teacher in the Webb Hill School.  As a farmer she proved more caring of animals than of housekeeping, living “on almost nothing” and keeping goats in the house.  Neighbors would make sure she was safe and had what she needed.  Lawyers ultimately managed to take her land. 

  The first time the author saw Etta Kenyon was in the Davenport Center store.  Etta wore a large farmer’s coat—with a baby goat in each side pocket.

Webb Hill Road is named for her ancestors Webb Indians who settled the hill shortly after the Revolutionary War.




Mary Etta Kenyon 1895-1992 - buried here (not 100% this is her)














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