Aria Kennedy was born in 1781 at Bedford County, Virginia. She was the daughter of
John Kennedy Jr. and
Esther Stille. Aria Kennedy married
Capt. Nicholas Reagan Talbott, son of
Samuel Talbott and
Constance Reagan, on 19. May. 1799 at Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Aria Kennedy appeared on the census of 21. Aug. 1850 at with her son Charles, Bourbon County, Kentucky; real estate value 6,500.00. She died bt Jan. 1861 - Apr. 1861 at near, Clintonville, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Aria (Kennedy) Talbott and her husband, Nicholas are buried on the Prichard farm
owned in 1969 by E. R. Davis, Jr., four miles south
of Paris, KY., on the east side of the Paris-Clintonville Road, back near the
railroad.
Aria Kennedy, was probably given the name Ariabelle, but called Aria for short. Also Ari and Ary are in the records. She was born in 1781 in Bedford County, Virginia, probably in the same year her father died. She was mentioned in Perrin’s History of Fayette County, Kentucky, page 803:
(Nicholas Talbott’s) wife’s name was Aria, daughter of John Kennedy, who had emigrated from Ireland and lived in Virginia during the Revolution. He was taken as a soldier by the draft of “the fifteenth man,” and served his time in the ranks. Turning out again to repel an English attack, he was captured by the enemy at Guildford Court House, N.C., on March 5, 1781, and his death, on board a British prison-ship on June 26, is said to have been from starvation. His daughter subsequently came to Kentucky, where an uncle, after living in the fort at Strode’s Station with his wife and family for five years, on account of Indian incursions, had located, in 1785, on the stream now known as Kennedy’s Creek.
Perrin erred in the above account by not distinguishing between the John Kennedy, Sr., who came from Ireland, and the John Kennedy, Jr., who died on the prison ship.
Aria Kennedy married Nicholas Reagan Talbott on May 19, 1799, in Bourbon County. They settled on Kennedy Creek, and had fifteen children. One of the children, Courtney Talbot, was featured in a biographical sketch in the History of Montgomery County, Indiana, pages 232-234. Here is an abstract of Kennedy material:
Nicholas Talbot...removed to Kentucky while young and married Miss Aria Kennedy, a daughter of John Kennedy, who was captured by the British at the battle of Guilford Court House, in North Carolina, March 15, 1781, and died soon after on board of a British prison-ship, from the effects of the bad treatment he received from his captors. The day before he started on the campaign, which resulted in his capture and death, he wrote a letter from Virginia to his brother Thomas, then in Kentucky, the original of which, in a beautiful plain hand, is yet preserved, and is now in the possession of Eli M. Kennedy, of Dover, LaFayette County, Missouri. In this letter he breathes a spirit of the most fervent patriotism and devotion to the cause of the colonies, but expresses some misgivings as to the final result of the contest for independence...
Nicholas Talbott died in Bourbon County on May 1, 1828. Aria Kennedy Talbott died between January and April 1861. They are ancestors of this writer. For more, see the chapter on the Talbotts.