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JEREMIAH KENDALL, born Feb.6, 1758 died Jan.22, 1843 near Uniontown, Pa.
youngest son of William and Jamima Kirk Kendall: a Revolutionary Soldier, an
officer in 1794, under Mad Anthony Wayne, during the Indian wars of the
North West, and was at the Treaty of Greenville, was in the War of 1812 from
Pa., and was badly wounded nine times in these wars. He was born in
Farquier County, Va. where he married Rhoda McIntyre in 1778, daughter of
Alexander McIntyre. Lived here until the close of the Revolutionary War,
when he moved to Fayette County, Pa. with his wife and two children &
located on his farm on the "Old National Road" between Brownsville &
Uniontown. Just as soon as he had his family comfortable located, he
decided to visit his brother in Meade County, Ky. and other relatives in New
Orleans. SAMUEL LEWIS, LEWIS WETZEL, and himself had been comrades
together in the Indian Wars. They built a "Flat Boat" at Wheeling, W. Va.
and floated down "Old Man River" to New Orleans, visiting relatives on the
way. They were attacked by a large force of Indians in canoes below
Louisville, Ky. Things looked pretty bad for a time, but when Samuel Lewis
took the oars, and Lewis Wetzel, and Jeremiah Kendall took the
"blunderbusses" loaded with 36 rifle balls, the tide of battle soon turned
and some of the Indians succeeded in getting back to tall timber, never to
show themselves again to this bunch. Lewis Wetzel came back as far as
Natches, Miss. where he died in 1808, and was buried there, and was
forgotten. Dr. Albert W. Browser of Chicago made a 20 year search before
finding his grave, and disinternment was made in March 1942, by Dr. Browser
who found the famous Indian fighter, and scout's rifle buried with him. The
remains have been brought to Wheeling and placed in a receiving vault.
Later a military service will be held, and a reburial will be made in the
McCreary cemetery, near the old Wetzel homestead, in Marshall county, where
his mother and several of his brothers are buried. His father was killed by
the Indians, opposite the town Powhatan, and buried at the mouth of Grave
Yard run.



(((Lynette (Salsbury) Greenwald, 5th Great Granddaughter of Jeremiah Kendall LSals420@aol.com)))