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Travis D Kendall

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Travis D Kendall

Birth
Tazewell County, Virginia, USA
Death
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Kentucky, USA
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Death and burial are unknown. He died after the 1880 of McLean County, Kentucky was taken and before the 1900 census. Review of the probate and court orders/minutes of McLean County, Kentucky may give us a more precise date of death and burial.

Please verify all information with sound genealogical research. There are some contributors that who do not verify some of the memorials they are adding. Beware of false or misleading information shared.

Kendall, T. [Travis] D. “The Life and Anecdotes of T. D. Kendall, The Mountain Poet of Kentucky” Evansville, Indiana: Journal Co., 1879.
        
“my grandfather, Travis Kendall, was raised a bound boy near Fredericksburg, Virginia. When free he came to western Virginia, married a lady by the name of Horton, lived many years in Tazewell County, thirty-one of these years in succession he acted as constable. “The day I was twenty-one years old he died in the faith and went home to heaven.” 

“My father was James P. Kendall”., “my father was English and Irish decent;” (Page# 98) “My father moved to Kansas more than twenty years ago; [cir. 1857]

“my mother [Sarah “Sally” Humphrey] was a daughter of George Humphrey, who lived and died near Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky”. “my mother was French and German” “my mother died more than forty Years ago; [cir. 1838] .... When my mother died she left me with six sisters; two years after her death three of my sisters died about the same time, [cir. 1841] of scarlet fever; since that the other three have passed away from earth.” 

“my only brother, William Kendall, lives in Kansas; my brother Jesse died in Virginia during the war, in the Confederate service; brother Lewis H. moved to Kansas since the war, and since that died there. These are the only full brothers I ever had.” 

“When my mother [Sarah Sally Humphrey] died [cir. 1838]she left me with six sisters; two years after her death three of my sisters died about the same time, [cir. 1840] of scarlet fever; since that the other three have passed away from earth.” 

“Two of my uncles had both joined the Methodists, Jesse and Allen Kendall; they had both professed religion. My uncle Allen became an eminent local preacher in the M. E. Church South. “When a young man I went with my Uncle, Wm. H. Kendall,

“Soon after this I went to Virginia to see my relatives.  While there I went to school to a graduate from Emory and Henry College till I was married, June 3rd, 1847, to Miss Amanda M. Dickenson, daughter of Lewis C.  and Rebecca Dickenson, near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. “While I was absent from home my wife was influenced to move to Lewis County. (KY) Here she fell a victim to pneumonia fever; she lingered till April the 4th, 1862, when she left the shores of time, leaving me with five little daughters and one son” “

“The same year, December 2d, [1862] I was married again to Miss Sarah E. Williams, of Greenup County, Ky.” (Page # 29) [cir. 1869-1870] “....I went up to Greenup and Carter Counties [KY] to see my wife’s people, her with me.” (Page # 51) “While I was on the Harrison Circuit, [Harrison Co., KY] the spring of 1864 I started, with my wife, to Carter and Greenup Counties [KY] to see her people.” (Page # 230) “I intended to say my present wife was the daughter of Lamech and Martha Williams. Mr. Williams was raised in Bath county, Kentucky, son of Eli Williams, formerly of North Carolina.”..

April the 4th, 1862, when she [Amanda M. Dickenson ] left the shores of time, leaving me with five little daughters and one son, but not to sorrow as others who have no hope. (Page # 23) “My heart often seems to be there, [Mount Olivet. Robertson Co., KY] not only because of many precious friends there and the remembrance of many happy seasons, but I have sacred dust there-my sweet little daughter, Virginia Brownlow, sleeps there. I went about twenty miles to one appointment; when I returned I found her dying with croup.

I left another at my Pleasant, on Harrison Circuit; my little son , John Allen, sleeps on Licking River, not far from Salyersville; twin sons sleep in one coffin by the side of their sainted  mother in Lewis County, [KY] in the bounds of the Orangeburg Circuit.”[Mason Co., KY]
Death and burial are unknown. He died after the 1880 of McLean County, Kentucky was taken and before the 1900 census. Review of the probate and court orders/minutes of McLean County, Kentucky may give us a more precise date of death and burial.

Please verify all information with sound genealogical research. There are some contributors that who do not verify some of the memorials they are adding. Beware of false or misleading information shared.

Kendall, T. [Travis] D. “The Life and Anecdotes of T. D. Kendall, The Mountain Poet of Kentucky” Evansville, Indiana: Journal Co., 1879.
        
“my grandfather, Travis Kendall, was raised a bound boy near Fredericksburg, Virginia. When free he came to western Virginia, married a lady by the name of Horton, lived many years in Tazewell County, thirty-one of these years in succession he acted as constable. “The day I was twenty-one years old he died in the faith and went home to heaven.” 

“My father was James P. Kendall”., “my father was English and Irish decent;” (Page# 98) “My father moved to Kansas more than twenty years ago; [cir. 1857]

“my mother [Sarah “Sally” Humphrey] was a daughter of George Humphrey, who lived and died near Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky”. “my mother was French and German” “my mother died more than forty Years ago; [cir. 1838] .... When my mother died she left me with six sisters; two years after her death three of my sisters died about the same time, [cir. 1841] of scarlet fever; since that the other three have passed away from earth.” 

“my only brother, William Kendall, lives in Kansas; my brother Jesse died in Virginia during the war, in the Confederate service; brother Lewis H. moved to Kansas since the war, and since that died there. These are the only full brothers I ever had.” 

“When my mother [Sarah Sally Humphrey] died [cir. 1838]she left me with six sisters; two years after her death three of my sisters died about the same time, [cir. 1840] of scarlet fever; since that the other three have passed away from earth.” 

“Two of my uncles had both joined the Methodists, Jesse and Allen Kendall; they had both professed religion. My uncle Allen became an eminent local preacher in the M. E. Church South. “When a young man I went with my Uncle, Wm. H. Kendall,

“Soon after this I went to Virginia to see my relatives.  While there I went to school to a graduate from Emory and Henry College till I was married, June 3rd, 1847, to Miss Amanda M. Dickenson, daughter of Lewis C.  and Rebecca Dickenson, near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. “While I was absent from home my wife was influenced to move to Lewis County. (KY) Here she fell a victim to pneumonia fever; she lingered till April the 4th, 1862, when she left the shores of time, leaving me with five little daughters and one son” “

“The same year, December 2d, [1862] I was married again to Miss Sarah E. Williams, of Greenup County, Ky.” (Page # 29) [cir. 1869-1870] “....I went up to Greenup and Carter Counties [KY] to see my wife’s people, her with me.” (Page # 51) “While I was on the Harrison Circuit, [Harrison Co., KY] the spring of 1864 I started, with my wife, to Carter and Greenup Counties [KY] to see her people.” (Page # 230) “I intended to say my present wife was the daughter of Lamech and Martha Williams. Mr. Williams was raised in Bath county, Kentucky, son of Eli Williams, formerly of North Carolina.”..

April the 4th, 1862, when she [Amanda M. Dickenson ] left the shores of time, leaving me with five little daughters and one son, but not to sorrow as others who have no hope. (Page # 23) “My heart often seems to be there, [Mount Olivet. Robertson Co., KY] not only because of many precious friends there and the remembrance of many happy seasons, but I have sacred dust there-my sweet little daughter, Virginia Brownlow, sleeps there. I went about twenty miles to one appointment; when I returned I found her dying with croup.

I left another at my Pleasant, on Harrison Circuit; my little son , John Allen, sleeps on Licking River, not far from Salyersville; twin sons sleep in one coffin by the side of their sainted  mother in Lewis County, [KY] in the bounds of the Orangeburg Circuit.”[Mason Co., KY]


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