BIO: LEVI KENDIG, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 418
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    LEVI KENDIG, a retired farmer and trucker, now spending the evening of life
  in comfortable ease at his home in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county, Pa., was
  born Sept. 23, 1827, near Newville, this county. He is a son of Emanuel and
  Anna (Bowers) Kendig, both natives of Pennsylvania. The mother was born in
  1799 in Cumberland county, a daughter of Sebastian and Margaret (Baer)
  Bowers, the former of whom was born in 1757; Mrs. Margaret (Baer) Bowers died
  Jan. 12, 1824, aged sixty-one years, three months and eighteen days. The
  grandfather was Tobias Kendig, who married a Bowman.
    
    Levi Kendig was reared on his father's farm on the old State road near
  Newville and was twelve years old when his father moved the family to
  Franklin county, where he continued in school up to his sixteenth year. He
  then learned the trade of stone-mason, which he followed for some years. In
  1862, with other loyal citizens, he enlisted in Company F, 158th P. V. I.,
  under Col. McKibben, and served acceptably for nine months, performing
  garrison duty during the greater part of this time. He was honorably
  discharged in 1863. Then he returned to Franklin county and continued to
  follow farming until 1870, when he moved from the farm to Mechanicsburg,
  having purchased adjacent lands, and here engaged in small farming and
  trucking, after satisfactorily renting out his well improved farm of
  eighty-six acres, with good buildings, in Franklin county.
    
    In 1856 Mr. Kendig married Miss Rebecca J. Hamsher, of Franklin county, a
  daughter of John and Mary (Wonderly) Hamsher, and one child was born to them,
  Anna M., who died aged five years. They tenderly reared a niece, Dora I.
  Kendig, daughter of David E. and Charlotte (Wilson) Kendig, both her parents
  being deceased. She is now the wife of A. Grant Richwine, a resident of
  Mechanicsburg. Mrs. Kendig passed away Dec. 10, 1901.
    
    In politics Mr. Kendig is a Republican, from principle, and he has no
  aspirations for public office, although his friends elected. him street
  commissioner for three years, during which time he served most acceptably. He
  is a devout member of the Church of God, in which he served as an elder for a
  number of years, and to which his wife also belonged.