DJT Complete Listing From Hiway 83 south of Valentine, turn west on 16B and go to end of pavement and than go 4 miles further west. You will than see the cemetery. Kennedy Cemetery and All Saints Church Tradition assumes many forms in the sparsely settled Sandhills.
Some names survive more than a century, long after the namesake passes on.
The Kennedy Community, for example, derived its name from one of the earliest settlers to file a homestead some 40 miles southwest of Valentine. B.E.B. Kennedy, former mayor of Omaha, came to file a homestead shortly after a friend, Captain David Piercy, filed his in 1883. Piercy, a veteran of the Union Army, applied for a post office and submitted the name, Piercy, which was rejected. For several years postal patrons in the heart of the county traveled 20 to 40 miles for their mail at Kennedy because, at the time, other post offices were located along the northern edge of the huge county. In 1889 Cyrus King, who carried the mail with team and wagon from Valentine once a week, approached Rev. J.M.Bates, who had recently arrived to serve the Episcopal Church.