History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 797.
[Nicholas County]  [Upper Blue Licks Precinct]

PRESTON KENDALL, farmer, P. O. Blackhawk, was born in Bath County, April
17, 1841.  His ancestors originally came from England.  Sandford Kendall,
his father, was a native of Culpepper [sic] County, VA., whence he
emigrated to North Carolina, thence to Bath County, Ky., where he died in
June 1878.  Our subject was one of ten children, and received a limited
education.  On the 20th of December 1873, he married Miranda Swart,
daughter of Amos and Sarah Swart, by whom he has one child, Lettie, a
bright girl of six summers.  At the outbreak of the civil war, then in
his twentieth year, he enlisted in the United States army, under Col.
Grigsby; he was in the several engagements of Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh,
Knoxville, Resaca, Perryville, etc.  At Knoxville he was wounded in the
shoulder.  He is a Republican in politics.  His wife is a member of
Humphrey's Chapel on Cassidy Creek.

Kendall Swart
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Bath-KY Culpeper-VA NC

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