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Evva Kenney Heath Papers Photograph Series
Description: From left to right, this portrait shows John, Evva and Bessie Kenney, ca. 1884. The photograph comes from the collection of Evva Kenney Heath, the youngest of the siblings who were born to David and Louisa Kenney in Cardington, Ohio. Their father passed away when the children were young, and they were raised in Cardington by their mother. All three attended and graduated from the predominantly white Cardington-Union Schools. John held jobs in West Virginia and New York before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for health reasons in October 1902. Bessie married William "Billy" Brimbee in 1898, and the two had a daughter born in 1902. Evva began her career as a teacher but later attended Howard University Law School and went on to be an attorney in Washington, D.C., with her husband Henry Heath, as well as a prominent advocate for women's rights. All three siblings died at young ages--John and Bessie around 1902, and Evva in 1909. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03661
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Families--Ohio; Children
Places: Cardington (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)