Frank Kennedy was Scarlett O'Hara's second husband. He had an 'understanding' with Suellen, Scarlett's nagging sister, for years, and finally proposed. Through clever scheming Scarlett tricked him into marrying her instead.

Frank is often referred to as an "old maid in britches". Before the war, he had owned more land than anyone in the County. He was a kind-hearted man. He is described as "forty, slight and nervous and had a thin ginger-colored beard and an old-maidish, fussy way about him".

During Reconstruction, Frank ran a store, (I think it was the Kennedy Emporium) and a lumber yard, making money so he and Suellen could set up a house in Atlanta. Scarlett had just come from trying to get tax money for Tara from Rhett, who refused and made a fool out of her. When Frank mentioned that he was doing well and making money, her brain went to work. She poured on the charm, told him that Suellen had gotten tired of waiting for him and was going to marry a County boy. Frank married Scarlett. From the start, Scarlett wore the pants in the Kennedy household. She waited until Frank was sick, and then went through the accounts for the store. She then maneuvered, through some money Rhett gave her, a lumberyard purchase. She stocked them with convicts and drove by herself through Shantytown every day.

Ella soon came into the picture, whose name closely resembled Ellen, Scarlett's mother. She looked like Frank, and Rhett remarked that if she grew whiskers she would be the splitting image of him, not knowing it was a girl. Scarlett said she hoped not -- I'm sure the baby was ugly enough without the whiskers. Their peace had been broken before that, when Rhett made references to Scarlett's pregnancy. She was sick in front of him, and cried for shame. He made some cutting remark, and they were enemies again. But that couldn't last.

All true Gone With the Wind Fans know the scene where Scarlett goes through Shantytown and is almost raped. Big Sam comes to her rescue. I know this seems like a write-up on Scarlett, but Frank's part is coming.

Frank, to revenge Scarlett and protect other women from this fate, joined up with the Ku Klux Klan to raid Shantytown. The result was that he got a bullet through his head, and Archie (the guy who murdered his wife and lived in Melly's basement) moved him into a spare lot near Belle's with a pistol near him.

Shortly after his death, Scarlett got drunk. Rhett came to call, and she broke down and cried, because she was afraid of "dying and going to hell." Rhett proposes marriage, and history is made. (I use that phrase too much, don't I? Sorry 'bout that. It seems like the thing to say to end a page).