From collection Member List
EDUCATION: Member, Phi Kappa Society. Member, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta and of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1884. In 1884, Kennon left The University of Georgia before graduation to enroll at Eastman’s Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
CAREER: By 1886, he was the owner and operator of an “extensive saw mill and lumber business” at Hoboken, Georgia, near Waycross, according to the Phi Gamma Delta magazine, April 1886, p. 147. Later he entered the Atlanta Medical College, Atlanta, Georgia, antecedent of Emory University’s School of Medicine, graduating on March 4, 1889.
For 50 years, Brother Kennon was a physician practicing in McRae, Telfair County, Georgia. He also operated a pharmacy there. Member, Medical Association of Georgia and the Ocmulgee Medical Association. Mason. Methodist.
KENNONS AND PHI GAMMA DELTA
His parents were John William Kennon and Sarah Cobb Moore. She was a daughter of Thomas Moore, a native of Prince Edward County, Virginia, born about 1782 and who died in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, and Martha Susannah Benning, his second wife; Miss Benning was a daughter of John Benning and Sarah Cobb. Sarah Cobb (Moore) Kennon’s brother, Robert Hughes Moore, married Mary Ann Matilda Kennon.
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Brother William Augustus Kennon was Benning Kennon’s nephew and a son of Benning’s brother Henry Thomas Kennon and his wife Mary Rachel Crawford.
Benning Moore Kennon’s father, John William Kennon, was a son of Warner Lewis Kennon and Ann Gartrell. Her father was John Gartrell, who died in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1827. A brother of John Gartrell, Jeremiah, was the father of Ann Eliza Gartrell who married William Sammons Grady, and they were the parents of Henry Woodfin Grady and Martha Nicholson (Mattie) Grady, wife of William Augustus Kennon who was also nephew of Benning Moore Kennon. Henry Woodfin Grady III married Kappa Deuteron 1980s “sweetheart” Kim Kilgo.
A brother of Benning’s grandfather Warner Lewis Kennon, William Warner Kennon was the great-grandfather of Virginia Mamie (Kennon) Walker, wife of Kappa Deuteron Brother Henry Bradford Walker. [See “Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of A Family,” by Merrow Egerton Sorley, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1935.]
The Kennons, the Cobbs, the Gradys, the Lamars family trees are all intertwined with one another (a daughter of John Benning and Sarah Cobb, Sarah Cobb Benning, married Peter Lamar, related to the Lamar family that produced Kappa Deuteron’s Lavoisier Ledran Lamar, for example.)
The world’s largest army base, Fort Benning, near Columbus, Georgia, is named for Confederate General Henry Lewis Benning (UGA 1834), a son of Pleasant Moon Benning and Matilda Lewis White, he being son of John Benning and Sarah Cobb. Henry Lewis Benning was temporary chairman of the Georgia State Convention that adopted the resolution to succeed from the Union in 1861.
Some researchers trace this Benning family to Huguenot Francois Benin (born around 1675 in France, died 1710 in what place later became a part of Goochland County, Virginia.)
CAREER: By 1886, he was the owner and operator of an “extensive saw mill and lumber business” at Hoboken, Georgia, near Waycross, according to the Phi Gamma Delta magazine, April 1886, p. 147. Later he entered the Atlanta Medical College, Atlanta, Georgia, antecedent of Emory University’s School of Medicine, graduating on March 4, 1889.
For 50 years, Brother Kennon was a physician practicing in McRae, Telfair County, Georgia. He also operated a pharmacy there. Member, Medical Association of Georgia and the Ocmulgee Medical Association. Mason. Methodist.
KENNONS AND PHI GAMMA DELTA
His parents were John William Kennon and Sarah Cobb Moore. She was a daughter of Thomas Moore, a native of Prince Edward County, Virginia, born about 1782 and who died in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, and Martha Susannah Benning, his second wife; Miss Benning was a daughter of John Benning and Sarah Cobb. Sarah Cobb (Moore) Kennon’s brother, Robert Hughes Moore, married Mary Ann Matilda Kennon.
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Brother William Augustus Kennon was Benning Kennon’s nephew and a son of Benning’s brother Henry Thomas Kennon and his wife Mary Rachel Crawford.
Benning Moore Kennon’s father, John William Kennon, was a son of Warner Lewis Kennon and Ann Gartrell. Her father was John Gartrell, who died in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1827. A brother of John Gartrell, Jeremiah, was the father of Ann Eliza Gartrell who married William Sammons Grady, and they were the parents of Henry Woodfin Grady and Martha Nicholson (Mattie) Grady, wife of William Augustus Kennon who was also nephew of Benning Moore Kennon. Henry Woodfin Grady III married Kappa Deuteron 1980s “sweetheart” Kim Kilgo.
A brother of Benning’s grandfather Warner Lewis Kennon, William Warner Kennon was the great-grandfather of Virginia Mamie (Kennon) Walker, wife of Kappa Deuteron Brother Henry Bradford Walker. [See “Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of A Family,” by Merrow Egerton Sorley, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1935.]
The Kennons, the Cobbs, the Gradys, the Lamars family trees are all intertwined with one another (a daughter of John Benning and Sarah Cobb, Sarah Cobb Benning, married Peter Lamar, related to the Lamar family that produced Kappa Deuteron’s Lavoisier Ledran Lamar, for example.)
The world’s largest army base, Fort Benning, near Columbus, Georgia, is named for Confederate General Henry Lewis Benning (UGA 1834), a son of Pleasant Moon Benning and Matilda Lewis White, he being son of John Benning and Sarah Cobb. Henry Lewis Benning was temporary chairman of the Georgia State Convention that adopted the resolution to succeed from the Union in 1861.
Some researchers trace this Benning family to Huguenot Francois Benin (born around 1675 in France, died 1710 in what place later became a part of Goochland County, Virginia.)
