Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Lafayette G. Kendrick

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Lafayette G. Kendrick, farmer, and native of Benton County, Ark., was 
born in 1852, and is a son of Martin and Nancy (Phillips) Kendrick. 
The father was born in Tennessee, and immigrated to Arkansas at a very 
early day, when the State was almost an unbroken wilderness, and where 
wild animals of all kinds roamed the woods at pleasure. He settled in 
Benton County on land which he afterward bought from the Government, 
but did not live to see the country settled or to improve his farm. 
His death occurred in 1863. Lafavette G. Kendrick was educated in the 
common schools of Benton County, and was reared by his mother, with 
whom he remained assisting on the farm until he was grown. In 1876 
Miss Martha Slayback, a daughter of Anderson Slayback, of Benton 
County, became his wife, and by her was the father of two children 
named John H. and Lucy A. After his marriage Mr. Kendrick located on a 
portion of his father's farm, which he had inherited, and there has 
since resided. [p.857] His little place of twenty acres is finely 
cultivated, and on it are erected good buildings. He votes the 
Democratic ticket. His wife is a member of the Christian Church.