W. R. Kenney Circuit Court Records

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Nicholas Circuit Court
County of Nicholas
14th day of April 1941
Commonwealth of Kentucky Plaintiff versus W. R. Kenney Defendant
To the Judge of Nicholas Circuit Court.
The undersigned petitioner is reliably informed that W. R. Kenney is a person of unsound mind and a Lunatic. That his father is Dead that his mother is Dead, that Harry Hamon is the person having the custody of said defendant, and resides at Carlisle KY; that the said defendant is married and the name of wife Mrs. Lottie Kenney and resides at Eastern State Hosp., Lex. KY

Your petitioner asks that an inquest be held to pass upon the subject, and for all proper orders
Nannie Smoot (signature of petitioner)
Sworn to before me this 14 Apr 1941
Attest: Lacy Barnett Clerk

It is therefore ordered by the Court that Dr. E. A Campbell and Dr. B. F. Reynolds Physicians, be and they are hereby appointed to examine said defendant, and will certify to this court their findings in the case. It is further ordered that Mr. Row Esq., an Attorney of this court, be and he is herby appointed to represent the said defendant. Whereupon the said Medical Examiners having made due examination of said defendant,  filed their report as follows: "We, the undersigned, have examined the said defendant within the three days just prior to the date of certificate; that in our judgment he is not insane person, and requires supervision and control for his own welfare, which can best be provided by commitment to ________
That the foregoing opinion is based upon the following facts and circumstances _____
Signed B. F. Reynolds M.D.
A. T. Crawford M.D.
Sworn to before me this 14 day of Apr 1941
Attest: Lacy Barnett Clerk

Obituary - Carlisle Mercury, Carlisle, Nicholas Co. Kentucky, Feb. 2, 1943
Deaths, Kenney,
 W. R. Kenney, 82, died at 10:30 P. M. Friday in a Lexington hospital where he had been under treatment for a long time. He was a farmer and lifelong resident of Nicholas county. His wife is also confined in the hospital.
  Besides his wife; Mrs. Lottie Kenney, a daughter, Mrs. Nannie Smoot of Carlisle survive.
 Funeral services were conducted Sunday at the Mathers-Potts Funeral Home by the Rev. James R. Thompson; pastor of the Carlisle Baptist Church. Burial was in the Locust Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Lottie Kenney Circuit Court Records

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Nicholas Circuit Court
April Term
18 day of April 1939
State of Kentucky
County of Nicholas
Commonwealth of Kentucky Plaintiff versus Mrs. Lottie (W. R.) Kenney Defendant

To the Judge of Nicholas Circuit Court.
The undersigned petitioner is reliably informed that Mrs. W. R. (Lottie) Kenney is a person of unsound mind and a Lunatic. That her father is dead that her mother is dead.....that W. R. Kenney is the person having the custody of said defendant, and resides at Carlisle #1 Ky.;
that the said defendant is married and the name of husband is W. R. Kenney and resides at Carlisle, Ky #1
Your Petitioner asks that an inquest be held to pass upon the subject, and for all proper orders.
? ? King (signature of petitioner)

It is therefore ordered by the Court that Dr. E. A. Campbell and Dr. B. F. Reynolds, Physicians, be and they are hereby appointed to examine said defendant, and will certify to this court their findings in the case. It is further ordered that Wm H. Conley Esq., an attorney of this court be and he is herby appointed to represent the said defendant. whereupon the said Medical Examiners having made due examination of the defendant, filed their report as follows: "We, the undersigned, have examined the said defendant within the three days just prior to the date of this certificate; that in our judgment ______ he is an insane person, and requires supervision and control of his own welfare, which can best be provided by commitment to __________
That the forging opinion is based upon the following facts and circumstances very nervous
suffering from Delusions & Hallucinations
Signed B. F. Reynolds M. D.
E. H. Campbell M. D.

Sworn to before me this 18th day of April 1949
Attest: Jeanette Cox Jones Clerk

Thereupon the 18th day of April 1939, to inquire, etc., comes the Court, a jury being named and the case submitted to the Court who having been duly empanelled and sworn, after hearing the evidence and report of physicians, returned the following verdict, viz: We the Court find from the evidence that the defendant is a person of unsound mind and a Lunatic. That the unsoundness
of mind has existed about 7 yrs ago that she was born in ...............