Reddick Arendell

GEDCOM Note

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co.

REDDICK ARENDELL, farmer, was born in Rochester, Butler County, March 15, 1835, and brought up there until the age of five years, when his parents removed to Muhlenburgh [sic] County, where he resided until 1854, when he removed to Kansas, but returned to his native State in the fall of 1856, and settled on Hickory Camp Creek, five miles southeast of Rochester. His parents were Reuben and Lavinia (Dewese) Arendell, who removed, the former from North Carolina, and the latter from South Carolina, to Kentucky with subject's grandfather, John Arendell, who had fifteen sons and one daughter. Reuben Arendell was the fourteenth son, and fifty years ago owned lands in Butler County, extending four miles along the Green River, including the present site of Rochester. Mr. Arendell did not enjoy the facilities for mental training in his early life that children at the present day have, but acquired a taste for reading, and seeks to give his children the advantages of instruction in school and at home. His business, since 1856, has been mainly farming and lumbering. In 1854 he was united in matrimony to Elizabeth, daughter of W. Arendell, also a second cousin. She was born August 24, 1833, and is the mother of nine children, six of whom are now living: Theodosia Earnest, Henry McDonald (married to Joanna Cook), Lavinia (wife of T. E. Pendley), Cleopatra Theresa, Josephine Lillian, Eliza Celeste. Mr. Arendell's farm consists of 135 acres of timber and plow land, comfortable homestead, etc. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a stanch Democrat in politics.

Arendell Dewese Cook Pendley

Muhlenberg-KY KS NC SC

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