Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Mendenhall, Rees December 13, 1823 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Wayne Township
p. 794 & 795

Rees Mendenhall, farmer, stock-raiser and horticulturist, was born Dec. 13, 
1823, in Wayne County, Ind. He grew to manhood on the home farm, receiving a 
liberal common-school education, and in 1849 he was married to Lydia A., 
daughter of Joseph and Alice (Clawson) White. They had nine children---
William, farming in Michigan; Alice, wife of  Stacey Bevan of Arkansas; Albert 
and Joseph E., of Arkansas; Anna M., Ellis G., Lizzie H., John R. and Flora 
E., at home. In 1854 Mr. Mendenhall settled on the farm where he has since 
resided. He makes a specialty of fine stock and also of the best variety of 
fruits. His cherry orchard alone contains 300 trees. Mr. Mendenhall and wife 
are members of the Society of Friends, and he has served a number of years as 
Elder. The Mendenhall family were originally English, and figured 
conspicuously in the War of the Roses, and on account of the part taken in 
that war their estate were confiscated. Three brothers emigrated to America 
with William Penn, and from one of them our subject descended. His 
grandfather, Caleb Mendenhall, was born, reared and married in North Carolina, 
and where our subject's father, Griffith Mendenhall, was born Oct. 4, 1793, 
and when eight years of age came with his parents to Miami County, Ohio. In 
1818, in partnership with Daniel Anthony, Griffith Mendenhall built and 
operated the first wool-carding mill in Richmond. He was married to Elizabeth 
Airey, by whom he had seven children---Bentley, Rees,  William (deceased), 
Caleb, John (who died from disease contracted while in the war), Lindley 
(deceased) and Martha. Griffith Mendenhall died at the advanced age of eighty-
five years. 

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