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Please note that Cathedral Caverns was on the property owned by the Kennamer family. During the Civil War, a Union troop (actually led by a Yankee relative from a nearby county that seceded from Alabama) raided the farm and burned the farmhouse. The family then lived in the cave for as long as 2 years. I was told this story by a great-granddaughter of the family. Her grandfather had been a young boy when this farmhouse was burned...and remembered clearly living in the cave. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheri clark (talk • contribs) 00:33, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
My father attended a one-room school in Kennamers Cove in the 1890s and told me that every student but one was a Kennamer. So there were several Kennamer farms. I can only speak for the one my father was born in, which had long been in his father's possession. The Kennamers were in fact Lincoln Republicans who opposed slavery on religious grounds. My grandfather had perhaps owned a slave but manumitted him before the war. I know of no record of Union troops coming anywhere close to Kennamers Cove. Kennamers Cove was inaccessible even to people who lived in the county seat of Guntersville. After the war, my grandfather helped write the new constitution and served a term in the state legislature as a Republican delegate. The end of Reconstruction was the end of any participation in state government. My two uncles who served as federal judges benefited from the shortage of Republicans in Alabama and Oklahoma when Republican presidents had the power of appointing them.
