Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co. ROBERT B. KUYKENDALL, Butler County, was born August 13, 1841, in this county, and is a son of Matthew and Martha (Talbott) Kuykendall. Matthew was a native of Smith County, Tenn., and was born in 1794; removed with his parents to this county, then a part of Logan in 1796, where he died in 1865. He was a son of Matthew Kuykendall, Sr., long a justice of the peace, and the first high sheriff of Butler County; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and carried through life a lame arm, caused by a wound received in battle; he died in 1845, at an advanced age. Subject's mother was a daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Martha Talbott. She was the mother of the following children: Maria (Sterrett), Josiah, William (deceased), Melinda (Taylor), Allen, Mary (deceased), Adaline (Thomas), Margaret (Sublett), Harriet (Thomas), Robert B. and James (deceased). Robert B. was married June 14, 1866, to Mary J., daughter of Richard S., and Aramedia J. (Carson) Thornton, born July 17, 1846. They have had five children, four of whom are now living, viz.: Eulalie, Mary E., Anna B. and Alma E.; Roberta C. is dead. Mr Kuykendall was elected sheriff in 1881, and served one term; he overcame a party majority of 400 votes. He owns 700 acres of well improved land; raises tobacco, wheat, corn, and devotes some attention to stock-raising; he is a member of the Masonic order and Master of his lodge; is also a Cumberland Presbyterian, in which church he is an elder and clerk of the session. Kuykendall Talbott Sterrett Taylor Thomas Sublett Carson Thornton = Smith-TN Logan-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/butler/kuykendall.rb.txt