Levi Newell Kendall

Biographical Summary:

"...Kendall, Levi Newell – (8th Ten) Born April 19, 1822, in Lockport, Niagara Co., N.Y., to Levi and Lorena Lyman Kendall. He accepted the teachings of the Church in Michigan, and was ordained a seventy in 1844 in Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Sr. and was sent on a mission to Michigan. He was called home after the martyrdom. With the first pioneer company, he was assigned as a guard. On June 5, 1847, he and John Eldredge were guarding the camp when they saw about 15 Pawnee Indians entering the enclosure. Kendall fired over their heads frightening them away. The stocks stampeded but were turned by the alert guards and disaster was averted. He returned to Winter Quarters in the fall of 1847 and traveled west to the Salt Lake Valley the following summer. He married Eliza Clements in 1848. He moved to Springville, Utah, in 1856 and helped build canyon roads and dig irrigation canals. He was called to go east in 1861 to escort poor immigrants to the valley. Later he moved to Mapleton, Utah Co. He died March 10, 1903, in Springville, Utah, at age 80..."

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Biographical Summary #2:

Levi Newell Kendall was born in Lockport, New York in 1822. About this time his father died and latter his mother married Hiram Howe. They moved to Redford, Michigan. In 1842 Levi joined the Mormon church and move to Nauvoo. In 1847 he croosed the plains with the Brigham Young company. In 1848 he married Eliza Clements and in 1852 he married her sister Elizabeth Clements in polygamy.

Levi Newell moved his two families from Salt Lake City, to Springville, Utah in 1856. Over the next several years Eliza had 11 children and Elizabeth had 12 children. Because of the laws against polygany, Eliza moved to Oxford, Idaho in about 1873 and later married John Crossley and had 2 more children. Later Elizabeth left Levi Newell and also moved to Oxford, Idaho. By this time Levi Newell had built his log cabin in Mapleton, Utah. At the death of John Crossley, Eliza moved back to Mapleton to live with Levi Newell. Levi Newell Kendall and Eliza Clements were married for the second time on 6 September 1897 in Springville, Utah. Levi Newell died in 1903 and Eliza died in 1915. Elizabeth died in 1924.

Levi lived in this cabin in the later days of his life, first by himself and then with his wife Eliza Clements. The cabin has been restored and is located in the Mapleton, Utah city park.

SOURCE: Unknown

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GEDCOM Note

Also sealed to parents January 17, 1967, Temple: Idaho Falls, Source: Early LDS Records (Infobase). Also from Early LDS Records:
Comments: Kendall, Levi Newell (Male)Levi is found on the Continuing Church Record at Nauvoo.
Comments: #21. In 1860, Levi had a household of 10. 2. In 1870, he had a household of 6, a real wealth of $200, and a personal wealth of $175.
Comments: #31. Levi was one of the original pioneers of Utah. He filled a mission to Michigan in 1844 (the same year as his baptism). After his arrival in the Great Salt Lake Valley with the pioneer company in July 1847, he assisted in plowing the land and planting crops until he returned to Winter Quarters with Pres. young in the fall of the same year. He came back to the Valley in 1848, and married Elizabeth Clemmons. In 1856 he became a resident of Springville, Utah, where he assisted in the construction of canyon roads and irrigating canals and from which place in 1861 he went to the Missouri River with Capt. John R. Murdock to bring poor saints to the valley.
Comments: #41. Levi came to Utah July 24, 1847 with the Brigham Young Company. 2. He was a veteran of the Echo Canyon and Indian Wars.

Places of Residence: Kendall, Levi Newell (Male)Springville, Utah, UT, USA; 1860, 1870
Vocations: Kendall, Levi Newell (Male)Farmer; 1860 Laborer; 1870