MYRON & SARAH JONES KENDALL

STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Brown

I hereby certify that on the twenty-second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one at my House in Eden in said county, I, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace did join in the holy bonds of matrimony, according to the laws of this State, Myron Kendall of the County of Brown and State of Minnesota and Sarah L. Johns of the County of Brown State of Minnesota in presence of

James Winter   }                                                                           Daniel Winter
                           Witnesses                                                         Justice of the Peace
Eliza I. Winter  }                                                                       in and for Brown County
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Clare's Great-Grandfather Myron Kendall was born in New York State, perhaps in Corinth, on  1 May 1848.  He was the first child of Lucas H(arvey?) Kendall and Cynthia Ann Hale Kendall.  Six years and three brothers and sisters later, the family moved to Eldorado Township in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.  The family grew by four more children.  In 1863, when Myron was 15 years old, his father died of pneumonia during the Civil War in Tennessee.  In 1869, his mother remarried to Joseph Strong.  In 1871,  Myron went to work on a farm in Eden, Brown County, Minnesota where he met Sarah Jones.

Clare's Great-Grandmother Sarah Louise Jones Kendall was born 19 September 1853, in Lind, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.  She was the 5th of 13 children born to Minor Jones and Martha Ann "Patty" Fox Kendall.  Three of the children died in infancy. In 1871, Sarah was visiting her older sister,   Coralyn Jones Jones (she married a Jones!), in Eden, Brown County, Minnesota when she met Myron Kendall.  She told that she was sitting up on a roof when he first saw her!

Following their marriage in Eden, Minnesota, Myron and Sarah returned to Eldorado in Wisconsin where their first child, Leslie Lucas, was born in 1873.  Shortly thereafter they moved to Lind, Waupaca County, Wisconsin where they had six more children:  Aubrey Earl in 1874, Walter Kent in 1876, Cora Georgina in 1880, Vernon Floyd in 1883, my husband Clare's grandfather Clare Myron in 1891, and Dorris Ethel in 1894.  Additionally, they took over the care of Esther Mary Horton in 1900, daughter of Sarah's sister Laura H. Jones Horton who died just 47 days after the birth of Esther Mary, her ninth child.

Myron and Sarah had 21 grandchildren though Myron did not live long enough to see many of them.   Likely, though not positively identified, these are the first two.  Left: Marjorie Claire Kendall (Vernon & Ruth Kendall), born 14 Aug 1908, right:  Keith Howard Pope (Cora and Nathaniel Pope) born 16 August 1909. Sadly, Keith succumbed on 17 September 1910, age 13 months.

Myron died of cancer in Winifred, Alberta, Canada on March 29, 1919, and is buried there.

Following the death of Myron, Sarah stayed in Alberta with her daughter Dorris for some time, but then returned to Lind, Wisconsin, where she lived with her brothers, George and Lyman Jones.  Later she lived with her son Clare Myron near Randolph, Columbia and Dodge Counties, Wisconsin until her death on 23 March 1930.  She is buried in Lind Cemetery, Lind, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.  

With many thanks to Betty Cannady, Kenneth Everett Kendall, Ernest L. Kendall,  and Roberta Kendall for their diligent researching of the Kendall family history.