Leota Sabula Kennedy Hutsinpillar

Golden Spike Chapter, NSDAR, Organizing and Charter Member

Leota Sabula Kennedy was born in the Methodist Parsonage in Carthage, Illinois on July 2, 1865. Her father was Reverend Benjamin G. Kennedy of the Central Illinois Conference. When she was three weeks old, her father was transferred to Des Moines, Iowa. Leota attended the preparatory school at Simpson and graduated in 1888 with a Bachelor of Science degree. She started teaching school at the age of 16. In 1890, she came with her parents to Ogden, Utah, to be a teacher in the public schools. The 1895, the Ogden city directory lists her as a teacher at Pingree Avenue School No. 11. Because of defective hearing she had to retire from teaching in 1897. She continued to be a tutor for several years and also worked for the Ogden Subscription Agency.

Leota joined the Daughters of the American Revolution on May 13, 1914, as a member of the Spirit of Liberty Chapter, NSDAR. Her Patriot was her great grandfather. Leota was an organizing member and charter member of the Golden Spike Chapter, NSDAR.

On June 5, 1818, at the age of 53, she married Edwin Hopkins Hutsinpillar. They lived on Washington and 29th Street, which was also the address of her mother and her brother. Leota died October 11, 1947, in Ogden.

Sources:

Page biography in Golden Spike Chapter, NSDAR, Scrapbook #3, housed at Weber State University, Stewart Library Special Collections, Ogden, UT.

Ogden City Directory 1895, Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

DAR application, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, NSDAR Archives.