Biographical Sketch of B. F. Kendrick, Camden County, Missouri >From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889. ********************************************************************** B. F. Kendrick ranks among the successful farmers of Camden County, Mo. and was born in Washington county, Ark., July 30, 1848, being a son of John and Eliza A. (Hines) Kendrick, who emigrated from Alabama to Tenn. thence to Illinois, and from there to Arkansas at quite an early day. They located in Washington county, where the father's death occurred, but the mother died in Camden county, Mo. B. F. Kendrick is the young- est of their eight children, and until sixteen years of age was a resi- dent of Arkansas. He was a member of the Enrolled Militia at Fayette- ville, Ark., during the late war, and was in several hard skirmishes, and after the death of his father was left to fight the battle of life alone, and until 1874 resided in the following counties in Missouri: Moniteau, Pettis, Cooper and at the latter date came to Camden county and resided for a number of years at Climax Springs. Since that time he has resided on the farm of 130 acres where he now lives. It is nearly all under cultivation, well improved and is admirably adapted to stock purposes, in which Mr. Kendrick is considerably interested. In 1870 he was married to Lucinda Beard, by whom he has a family of seven children: William, Eliza A., George, Laura J., Mary, John and Lizzie. The mother of these children died April 30, 1884 and on the 20th of September of that year he wedded Catherine Nicholson, by whom he has two children, Benjamin and Dora. Mr. Kendrick is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is one of the successful farmers and honored citizens of the county. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joe Miller Penny (Eisenbarger) Harrell ====================================================================