|
Virginia Genealogy Trails
Biographies
Washington County VA
|
|
SAUNDERS/ARTHUR/BUSTER/KENDRICK/SUMMERS
George Saunders and Lockie Arthur were married January 12, 1805,
Bedford County, Virginia. Creed Saunders was born in 1810 and
died in 1843. George Woodward Saunders was born in 1814, married
Jane Kinkead Long on November 07, 1839. John Kendrick was born
1750 in Washington County Virginia, and died in 1812. John
Kendrick Served in the American Revolutionary War, was in Battle of
King's Mountain, lived on the Holston River. He married in 1805
to Elizabeth Summers who died in 1857. William Kendrick was born
in 1804, married on October 13, 1824 to Catherine Bustler (daughter of
Joshua Buster), and died in 1889. Catherine Buster Kendrick was
born on July 25, 1818, died February 06, 1849. Joshua Buster
Kendrick was born March 5, 1846. He married Mary E. Saunders on
September 20, 1842.
|
KENDRICK, William J, Sen.
June 13, 1889
Born in Washington County, VA, on October 13,
1804, died in Wayne County KY on June 10, 1889. Such is the
record upon the tablets of "Old Mortality," of the beginning and end of
the earthly career of one of the most remarkable men who ever figured
in teh annals of our country.
About the year 1822, when about eighteen years
of age, but with a limited education, no capital but his native talents
and strong right arm, and no guaranty of success but his indomitable
will, energy, and habits of industry, he came to this, then,
newlysettled part of Kentucky to seek his fortune.
The first business in which he was engaged was
as a clerk in the store of Ambrose Bramlette in Clinton County, where
he remained about two years, when he was recalled to Virginia by the
death of his Stepfather. He remained in Virginia for three years,
taking care of his mother and other members of the family and managing
the farm. He came to Wayne County about the year 1828, and
resided near Monticello from that time until his death, a period of
more than threescore years. The first business in which he
engaged, after returning to Kentucky, was making rails on the present
John R Oatts and Brothers farm at 25 cents per hundred, and working on
the farm eight months for $4.
Transcribed by Janice Rice.
"A Century of Wayne County Kentucky" 1800-1900, By Augusta Phillips
Johnson, 1939.
|
Copyright © 2009 by Genealogy Trails - All Rights Reserved - With
full rights reserved for the original submitter
|
|