Career
First, she was one of the earliest Latter Day Saints to return to Independence, Missouri, after the American Civil War, when Latter Day Saints still faced some endangering prejudices. A month before her eightieth birthday in 1949, Kennedy wrote in a letter to a relative:
Two of Emma Smith Kennedy"s earlier "inspired writings" are contained in the book Infallible Proofs, first published circa 1931. Also published in that book is a revelation produced by her father in 1900 which helps illustrate complicated dynamics involved among different Latter Day Saint factions in Independence Missouri in the early 20th century.
Later revelations produced by Mistress
Kennedy are more specific than those examples, a prophecy entitled "Given Through The Spirit to Emma Smith Kennedy February 25, 1944" reads:
From her obituary published in the local newspaper: "Mistress Kennedy was born in Plano, Illinois.
She had lived in Independence since she was a little girl. Mr. Kennedy was a blacksmith.
Surviving are a daughter.. a brother.. a sister.
