Of the Pioneers of Tampa

3, 1846.. The old Kennedy home on Washington, Tampa and W4-
ter streets was a landmark in Tampa until recent years.
 The children of Thomas Pugh and Adelaide (Christy)
Kennedy were Jano; Thomas Pugh, second; and Henry P. Jane
was a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Musi: aid
soprano of Dudley Buck's choir, Trinity Church, New York
City. After the war she re-established, and was in charge
of, the iusic department of Wesleyan Female College, Macoi,
Georgia, and was later a leader in the musical life of Tam-
pa. It vas to her that her music teacher, Mr. Butterfield,
dedicated his song, "When You and I '.-ere Young, Maggie."
She married J. '.. Crichton. She died in 1890, leaving no
children.
 Thomas Pugh, second, graduated in 1870 from Washing-i
ton Colleoi, Lexington, Virginia, now Washington and Lee
University, while General Robert w. Lee was president of
the institution. Ho returned to T'pa and engaged in the
mercantile business, which had been loft by his father ih
the guardianship of John Darling and ienry Proseus.
 Thomns Pugh Kennedy, second, married Ida J. Cathcart,
 of Ocala, and their first home was on the site now occupied
 by the First Tational Bank building. "The Heigats" was the
 name given by r. Kennedy to his grove and home on the hill,
 and the name has since been used to designate that section'
 of the city. He took prominent part in the affairs of their
 community, and was chairman of the Board of Public Instruc-
 tion at the time of his death. Ho was admitted to the bar
 with bright prospects, but was cut down by death in 1886,
 at the age cf thirty-six years, leaving a widow and seven
 children.
 Henry P. Kennedy was at one time editor of The Gulf
 Coast Progress, one of Tampa's pioneer newspapers. He died
 in 1882, unmarried, aged twenty-five years.
 The only descendants of the pioneer Kennedy are the ;
 children and grandchildren of Thomas Pugh, second, and Ida
 (Cathcart) Kennedy, and are:
 (1) John D. Kennedy, who died in Mexico in 1906, un-
married.
 (2) Josephine, who married Samuel 3. Moore.
 (3) Thomas Pugh, third, who married Alma Shave, of
 Savannah, They have one child, Thomas Pugh, fourth, and
 live in Savannah.
 (4) William Theodore, unmarried, lives in Colorado.
 (5) Ida J., widow'of Charles Francis Gay, has two chil-
 dren, Charles T. and George Francis.
 (6) Henry P., who married May Jordan, of Mississippi.,
 They have three children, Henry S., Dorothy and Ruth.
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