William Kendall

GEDCOM Note

<p>!Per NF Kendall book, pg 16: "Rev. Kendall began to preach at the age of 16</p><p>years. His father secured the very best teachers obtainable in Northern</p><p>Virginia, as private instructors, and he continued those instructions until he was 25 years of age. He was a man of fine appearance, slightly above 6 feet in height, pleasing personality, very sympathetic, had the usual Kendall</p><p>distinction of big hands and big feet; liked to dress in style. In winter, as he traveled, his lonely mountain circuit, covering a distance of 278 miles</p>before returning to his home in Virginia. He wore fur lined boots, an overcoat made of the fur of the black bear, and a beaver cap with large ear muffs. He always rode a white horse and was know as the preacher on a white horse'. Rev Dave Cunningham and Rev William Kendall were conducting a big meeting' in the old log church on Dent's Run in December, 1799. Cunningham contracted pneumonia and died Dec. 31, 1799. The winter was very cold. Kendall closed the meeting, saddled Cunningham's horse, wrapped the body in a blanket tied it on the horse, and alone took his comrade in the ministry, through storm and anow, over hill, valleyand mountain, to his wife and children in Culpeper County, Virginia. My grandfather, Elias Kendall, son of Rev William, said his father was a fine scholar, and an unusually pleasing speaker. He further said that his father installed the first Iron Stove in a church in Mannington District, and that it attracted large crowds than the preaching. Elias Kendall was born in 1816. Rev William Kendall owned considerable land here and in Easter Virginia. Raised pure bred horses and cattle, and was above the average as a farmer. Jeremiah Kendall, his uncle, living near Uniontown, furnished him a church or two and prevailed on him to come to Dent's Run in 1821 to live, and bring his brothers, Samuel and James and take up some 25 and 50 cents an acre land along a proposed State Road to be builtby Pennsylvania and Virginia by way of Middleborune for a shorter way South. It would give them markets for their horses, cattle and farm products."