Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Butler Co.

REDDICK ARENDELL, farmer, was born in Rochester, Butler County, March 15,
1835, and brought up there until the age of five years, when his parents
removed to Muhlenburgh [sic] County, where he resided until 1854, when he
removed to Kansas, but returned to his native State in the fall of 1856,
and settled on Hickory Camp Creek, five miles southeast of Rochester.  His
parents were Reuben and Lavinia (Dewese) Arendell, who removed, the former
from North Carolina, and the latter from South Carolina, to Kentucky with
subject's grandfather, John Arendell, who had fifteen sons and one
daughter.  Reuben Arendell was the fourteenth son, and fifty years ago
owned lands in Butler County, extending four miles along the Green River,
including the present site of Rochester.  Mr. Arendell did not enjoy the
facilities for mental training in his early life that children at the
present day have, but acquired a taste for reading, and seeks to give his
children the advantages of instruction in school and at home.  His
business, since 1856, has been mainly farming and lumbering.  In 1854 he
was united in matrimony to Elizabeth, daughter of W. Arendell, also a
second cousin.  She was born August 24, 1833, and is the mother of nine
children, six of whom are now living: Theodosia Earnest, Henry McDonald
(married to Joanna Cook), Lavinia (wife of T. E. Pendley), Cleopatra
Theresa, Josephine Lillian, Eliza Celeste.  Mr. Arendell's farm consists of
135 acres of timber and plow land, comfortable homestead, etc.  He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a stanch Democrat in
politics.

Arendell Dewese Cook Pendley
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Muhlenberg-KY KS NC SC

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