By John R. Kennamer & Lorrin G. Kennamer

This book contains records of descent for the Kennamer family. The name has many various spellings. After careful study of all sources for two years, the authors are of the opinion that [their Kennamer] forefathers were of High Dutch descent and lived in Holland near where that State borders with present-day Germany. ... They came to this country before the Revolutionary War and settled in the Carolinas."  Some later went to Alabama. "Hans Kennamer, with a large family, and his eldest son, Jacob, who was married , came to the Cove and settled among the Indians in 1798, or not later than 1805. This place is now know as Kennamer Cove. ... The records of Madison County, Alabama, show that Samuel, Stephen and Jacob Kennamer bought land in that county in 1809. ... It is a well-known fact that the sons of Hans Kennamer settled ... in the western part of Jackson County, the eastern part of Madison County, and the northern part of Marshall County.

(375p., Illus, 1924)