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KENNEDY, William Mcgee, clergyman, born probably in North Carolina, 10 January, 1773; died in Newberry district, South Carolina, 22 February. 1840. His father lost nearly the whole of his estate in the Revolution, and the son's early education was limited. He entered the ministry of the Methodist church in 1805, and labored as circuit and stationed preacher, as well as presiding elder, for more than thirty years. In 1838 he became agent for the Cokesbury, South Carolina, school, and originated and carried out a plan of contribution which secured to that institution a handsome endowment. In 1839 he was stricken with apoplexy, but he continued to labor till his death, he was eminent among clergymen of the southern Methodist church.
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