Real estate appraisal card. 217 E. Sackett Avenue, lots 9 + 1/2 of 8, block 3, in Salida, Colorado.
This house was built between 1898 and 1904. Leo Welch, a machinist with Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, lived here in 1910. He had married Pearl B. Welch in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Welch were both born in Texas in 1879.
By 1920, Thomas and Elizabeth Kennedy, both Canadian-English immigrants, lived at this house. Thomas Kennedy was born in Ship Harbor, Nova Scotia, in 1856. He came to the United States in 1897 with his wife and children. They all became naturalized citizens in 1919. Thomas worked as a locomotive carpenter with the Denver & Rio Grande. The Kennedys had five children by 1910: Thomas W. (b.1857), John A. (b.1884), Wilfred T. (b.1889), Mary K. (b.1893), and Agnes L. (b.1896). All of the children were also born in Canada. Like his father, John A. Kennedy was also a carpenter. Agnes worked as a saleslady at a dry goods store. Thomas W. was a railroad laborer. He retired on his railroad pension in 1926. The Kennedys still lived at this house in 1931. In 1930, John A., Thomas W., and Agnes still lived with their parents. Thomas Kennedy, a Salida resident for thirty-nine years, died in April 1936.
He was 80 years old at the time of his death. Elizabeth died a few years later, in February 1941.
