The ranch was expanded to contain , acres, all fenced, and was sold in to a Scottish syndicate that became known as the Texas Land and Cattle Company. After selling the Laureles in , Kenedy bought , acres in Cameron later Kenedy County and named it La Parra Ranch after the wild grapevines growing there. He also fenced La Parra, using posts imported from Louisiana.
At that same time he organized the Kenedy Pasture Company. Having been successful in steamboating, trading, and ranching, Kenedy in entered the field of railroad construction to help Uriah Lott build the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande line from Corpus Christi to Laredo.
Luis Vidal, of Mier, Mexico, on April 16, She had six children from her previous marriage, and the Kenedys had six children of their own. Three generations used the Kenedy laurel-leaf brand. Kenedy died at Corpus Christi on March 14, Both he and his wife were buried at Brownsville. Tom Lea, The King Ranch 2 vols. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style , 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
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Instead he bought , acres in Cameron County, since Kenedy County. He named this tract the La Parra Ranch because of the grapevines growing there. In , he supplied the money and credit for Lott to build seven hundred miles of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway. Luis Vidal of Ciudad Mier, Mexico, who had six children from her previous marriage.
Kenedy adopted all of Petra's children. The couple then had six children together. One, James W. In , Spike Kenedy inadvertently shot and killed Dora Hand , a popular dance hall singer and actress in Dodge City, Kansas, where he had come after a cattle drive.
Wright to obtain an acquittal based on "lack of evidence". Mifflin Kenedy died intestate. He lived there with his wife, the former Marie Stella Turcotte , a Louisiana native. The couple reared two children, John Gregory Jr. In , Sarita married Arthur Lee East, a neighboring rancher; they had no children. With Sarita's death, this third generation of Kenedys was hence the last. It is located in the county seat of Sarita. Kenedy and Company, their steamship partnership.
For the next two decades, M. Kenedy dominated steamboat trade on the Rio Grande. Despite a fire and losses from drowned animals while in transit, he brought ten thousand sheep in to Hidalgo County in South Texas.
From to , Kenedy was the captain of a company under Samuel P. Heintzelman in a campaign against the Mexican folk hero and outlaw Juan N. When the two ended this arrangement, it took thirteen months to divide all their far-flung assets, including a variety of ranch animals from the Nueces to the Rio Grande. With the end of the ranch partnership in , Kenedy bought the Laureles Ranch some twenty-two miles from Corpus Christi.
At the time, cattle were used rarely for beef but for tallow and hides. More money could be made in river trade, and the Kenedy-King company had twenty-six boats.
Though it had been lucrative, the steamship partnership ended in Kenedy was among the first in Texas to fence ranch lands. In , the Laureles Ranch was expanded to contain , fenced acres, which required thirty-six miles of actual length. Instead he bought , acres in Cameron County , since Kenedy County.
He named this tract the La Parra Ranch because of the grapevines growing there.
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