Edward Elms Kendall, Jr. born 1837
Edward,
Jr. was born 1 Apr 1837 in Paris, Henry Co., Tennessee. He married Mary Almorna
McElyea on 14 Oct 1858 in Obion Co., Tennessee. They had at least 9 children
who were:
Nancy Elizabeth Kendall - She was born 11 Oct 1859 in Obion Co., Tennessee. She married her first husband, Jay Vineyard, and had one child, William Edward Vineyard born 21 Oct 1871, with him. She married her second husband, John Willis Fansler. She was known as "Grandma Betty" and she had 9 children with "Grandpa Johnny". The children were Alta, Clyde, Phillip, Mabel, Fred, Ray Robert, Walter Curtis "Curt", John Homer, and Ethel Mae. She died on 2 Sep 1935.
Martha Jane Kendall - She was born 11 Feb 1861 in Obion Co., Tennessee. She married her first husband, Jackson Gentry Bettis, in 1881 and had six children with him. She married her second husband, Evan Gaddy, and her third husband, George Jackson, who is buried in Charity Cemetery in Stone Co., Missouri. She died on 5 Feb 1901.
Mary Catherine Kendall - She was born 15 Feb 1863. She married her first husband, William E. Gaddy, and had four or five children with him. She married her second husband, George Jackson, and had one child with him. She died on 27 Nov 1943.
twins Kendall - They were born 25 Feb 1865. They were unnamed and died at birth.
William J. Kendall - He was born 7 Aug 1867. He died on 22 Aug 1872 and is buried in the Black Jack Cemetery in Carroll Co., Arkansas.
Robert Anderson Kendall - He was born 19 Oct 1869. He married May E. Meek and had 7 children with her. He died on 7 Nov 1953 and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Green Forest, Arkansas.
Ellen Belle Kendall - She was born 10 Jan 1873. She married Will Smart in Marionville, Missouri and had two sons, Kendall and Kermit. She died 29 May 1955 and is buried in Albany, Oregon.
Annie Rosetta Kendall - She was born 20 Jun 1875. She married Tom Gardenhire and had 11 or 12 children. She died on 22 Dec 1960 and is buried in Dodge City, Kansas.
Morna Lou Crawford wrote, "Edward Kendall was married a second time to a widow names Steele, in Stone Co., Missouri. After the death of my Grandmother, he and Ellen Belle, only daughter at home then, moved to Missouri near the home of Martha Bettis. The old farm near Berryville, Arkansas where he homesteaded land when he first went to Arkansas was bought by one Owen Owens, a Welch farmer who already owned land near there. My brother Bob Kendall married a daughter of Owen Owens named Beulah. Her parents knew the Kendalls well, as did an older sister, who remembers them well. The second marriage apparently did not last very long. I never knew of this marriage until recent years, when, in corresponding with older cousins to learn something of Edward and Morna, I learned of it. He became ill, as my mother told me when I asked her of it, and the wife then wrote my father, only son, to "Come get him," which my father did. He died a few months later at the home of Mary Jackson, third child. I've never seen a picture of Grandmother (McElyea) Kendall, but have a picture of Edward Kendall. From the things I have been able to learn of him, he was a good man, active in Baptist activities of Carroll Co. for many years. Very kindly, and with a great sense of humor. My oldest brother said that Grandfather said once that "The Kendalls started in Henry Co., Tennessee and the ones that could read went to Texas." I have a second cousin, Hattie Kendall Braswell, who talked with some of my cousins around Hornbeak. I believe she and her husband took her family, Lemuel Kendall, back there once. She is a Granddaughter of Amos Kendall. Her husband Klute and I are both interested in genealogy, but she is not so much. Told me that if Klute and I could connect up with the RICH KENDALLS (Kendall Oil, Kendall Textile Mills, etc.) that she would become interested. Another example of the Kendall humor."
Edward Elms, Jr. died 13 Oct 1906 in Berryville, Carroll Co., Arkansas.
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