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- CEMETERY: James Kendrick Cemetery, located on Rt 80, near Old Rosedale
Estates. Clarissa Kindrick, w/o James Kindrick (d/o James McFarland and Jane
Price) d. 2 Aug 1877, age 77 yr, 10m, 24 d. James Kindrick d. 19 Jan 1882, age
82yr 10, 19d.
HISTORY: Recollections of George William Settle
[These papers are found in the Russell County Library in Lebanon, Virginia
attributed to George William Settle and as copied by Robert Franklin Jackson.
They are also found in the Buchanan County Public Library in Grundy, Virginia
attributed to O. W. Settle. George William Settle is the correct author.
Neither library has a title page, and neither appears to have an original
copy.]
The Kendrick Family: His wife was Clarissa McFarlane, both born in the year
1800. Below is an obituary of Clarissa McFarlane Kendrick written by her
grandson, William J. Kendrick:
OBITUARY: IN MEMORIAM OF CLARISSA KENDRICK:
Wife of James Kendrick, who died in Elk Garden Russell County, Virginia, August
2nd 1877, aged about seventy-seven years......She had lived a member of the
Methodist Church South fifty-five years.....James Kendrick's father must have
been Captain Kendrick in the Revolutionary days of Washington County, when it
included all of southwest Virginia. His wife's mother was a Price, a daughter
of Colonel James McFarlane and his father was William, who was in the great
Indian battle at Point Pleasant in 1774. He was wounded in this battle having
one of his eyes knocked out by an Indian arrow. William McFarlane was a Captain
during the Revolution. He was an Indian fighter, a Captain of his company in
case of Indian raids. His son, James, also was a Colonel in the War of 1812. He
had a son, Alexander, who was the father of John McFarlane who was the father
of the present McFarlane generation. SOURCE: INTERNET:
of the present McFarlane generation. SOURCE: INTERNET:
The Kendrick children were, four sons and six daughters, Evans, William,
Drayton and John. Girls: Mary, Cosby, Malinda, Rachel, Caroline and Nancy
Patton. Evans married a Lockhart and their children were Lizzie, Tobe and
Thad. Liz is married to Jones and lived in Roanoke. Tobe was a school teacher
and married English Hammett from Kentucky, Thad married Daisy Clarke and
acquired considerable wealth in the lumber business. William married Harve
Honaker's sister and their children were: Evans was born in 1856 and moved to
Bristol in 1882, was twice in the Legislature from Bristol and Washington
County in 1889-1890. He got a bill through the Legislature changing Goodson to
the City of Bristol. Drayton married Barnett Reynold's daughter, Liza. They had
one daughter, Minnie, who married Judge W.N. Kendricks. Drayton died when he
was only twenty-six years
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