KENNEDY, Thomas Milton, Beeville Weekly Picayune, Friday, 6 Nov 1896, pg 8:

OBITUARY
The subject of this notice, Thomas Milton Kennedy, was born in Homes county, 
Miss., Oct. 29, 1857, and died in Beeville, Texas, at the home of his brother, Hon. 
A. G. Kennedy, Sept. 21, 1896, aged 44 years, 10 months and 22 days. In the full v
igor of manhood the summons came suddenly and to many unexpected, but found 
him ready. For him death had no terror. He had taken refuge in the chit rock, which 
is able to shield all who will take shelter therein. Brother Kennedy professed religion 
and joined the Methodist Church South in April last and ever afterwards enjoyed 
that peace which the religion of Jesus alone can give.

The circumstances of his death are peculiarly sad. He was thrown from his horse 
about 15 years ago and sustained serious injuries, fracturing his skull and producing 
partial paralysis of the right side and affecting his brain, causing vertigo, and causing 
him to fall unconscious and so remain often for quite a while, while his general health 
was good.  This to him was a sore affliction which he bore almost alone, rather than 
be a source of anxiety to his friends or relatives.  His physician who attended him when 
he was hurt said that these attacks of vertigo were liable to prove fatal at any time. And 
the signal shows that his estimate of the injury was correct; for on Saturday, Sept. 19th 
he was stricken by one of these spells and for a while it seemed that life was extinct, but 
he rallied and it was thought that the crisis was passed and that he would recover for 
consciousness returned, he could converse and while he was in this condition his sister 
asked him if Jesus was still precious to him, to which he replied and was bright, that the 
grace of God was sufficient for him. That he had no fears of death.

In the death of Brother Kennedy the country loses a good citizen, the church a worthy, 
zealous member, his brothers and sisters a kind and an affectionate brother, but earth's 
loss is heaven's gain.  A brother and four sisters and a host of friends mourn his death 
though they sorrow not as those who have no hope.

May the abundant grace of God comfort and sustain the bereaved relatives under this sad 
dispensation of this providence, is the prayer of

A FRIEND.