The Birmingham News
Sun, Apr 9, 1972
Robert B. Kennedy, 83, of New Castle, died Saturday. A Tennessee native, Mr. Kennedy lived in Birmingham most of his life. He was retired from the U. s. Postal Department. Funeral will be 2p.m. today at Brown-Service, Norwood, with burial in Moncrief Cemetery. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Helen Lais and Mrs. Ruth Allen, both of Birmingham, Mrs. Imogene McCulley, Fultondale, and Mrs. Lois Cook, Huntsville; a son, James Robert Smith, Birmingham, and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Edith Howard, Birmingham.
*****Alabama Portraits prior to 1870
compiled by the Historical Activities Committee
Mrs. Orville Lay, State Chairman for the
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama
pg 16
Mrs Armstead Barton (Amanda Cook) 1809-1884, of Huntsville, Tuscumbia & Dickson, AL, lived in Huntsville where she married in 1829, moved to Franklin Co (now Colbert), built Barton Hall.
Emma Barton 1840-1908 and William Barton 1841-1910, of Dickson, AL, children of Armstead Barton and Amanda Cook Barton.