A farmer of Bordley Precinct, is the son of Wm. Featherstone
and Lucy (Wallace) Kuykendall. His father was a farmer of this county, born
here, November 4, 1804 and married here in 1830; his mother was also born in
Union in March, 1808.
Our subject was born in Union October 9, 1840, and got some
ten years' schooling before the war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Webster
County, with Company A, of the Tenth Kentucky, and participated in battles at
Fort Donaldson, Stone River, Selma, Ala., and Johnsonville. He did not go upon
the Indiana and Ohio raid. He was captured in Morganfield after the fight at
Uniontown and imprisoned at Johnson's Island, but exchanged at Vicksburg,
November 29, 1863. He was again captured in Union County in April, 1864,
imprisoned at Louisville and exchanged at City Point in July, 1864. During his
term of service he held the offices of Orderly Sergeant., and Brigade
Quartermaster Sergeant. At the close of the war he surrendered to Meredith at
Paducah, in May, 1865, and thus ended his military career.
On July 14, 1869, our subject married Lucy E. Mayes, of
Hickman. She died in Hickman in 1876, and in 1878 he married Susan Catherine
Burchett of Logan County. She is the daughter of Wm. Edward and Susan Catherine
(Bagsby) Burchett. She was born in Logan County in 1851. Mr. Kuykendall has
seven children, two of whom, Lena Mayes and Benjamin Bobert[sic], are living in
Hickman. The children at home are Ira, Ura, John Thomas, Grover and Mabel
Clare.
In politics our subject is a Democrat. He has traveled in
Kansas, Texas, Indian Territory, Missouri and Arkansas. His farm is pleasantly
located, and consists of 200 acres, 180 of which is cultivated, and all of
which he manages personally. His home, a frame house, was built in 1875, and
stands upon a gentle eminence, overlooking the farm and the Bordley and
Commercial Point road. My Kuykendall has been a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church for twenty-five years, and is a deacon at the Rock Spring
church. He is a Mason, a Knight of Honor and an Odd Fellow. His large heart is
well sustained by a large frame, and his pleasant face will long be remembered
by his friends and neighbors as one that seldom wears a frown.
