John C. P. Kennymore was one of the sixteen members of Col. Ward's Command detailed by the enemy at Victoria, March 23, 1836, to build a boat, all of whom subsequently escaped. He was honorably discharged by Mirabeau B. Lamar, Secretary of War, June 2, 1836, "In consideration of the many hardships endured by the Georgia battalion in the service of Texas ... with the approbation of this department for his fidelity and valor."
On Jan. 1, 1837, he wrote Lamar from Mobile, Alabama, inquiring as to what to do to obtain something for his claim for six months' services in Wadsworth's Company, reminding Lamar that he obtained his discharge as Wm. L. Wilkinson of Captain Bullock's Company, adding,
"I surrendered when Col. Ward did and was reserved as a laborer. I now reside at Mobile." [L. P. No. 524.]
He returned to Texas with Andrew J. Hitchcock in March, entered the military service of the Republic of Texas, and was thereafter, for several years, a captain in its army. On Feb. 5, 1859, he contributed to Texas Almanac, with his approval of its truth, Samuel T. Brown's story of the Georgia battalion, contained in the letter to Thomas Ward, and a copy of the T&TR roll of Fannin's men. [Texas Almanac, 1860, p. 82; CMSR No. 723, Archives, State Library, L. P. No. 524.]
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