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Descendants of WILLIAM KIDWELL, Sr.

7. HENRY WILLIAM² KIDWELL (WILLIAM¹) was born March 2, 1808 in PENDLETON CO., KY., and died April 15, 1875 in CROOKED CREEK, SHELBY CO., MO.. He married NANCY MULLINS September 16, 1830 in Marion Co., Mo.³⁰, daughter of FOUNTAIN MULLINS and MARY TURNER. She was born April 17, 1814 in GRASSY CREEK, PENDLETON CO., KY., and died December 15, 1888 in CROOKED CREEK, SHELBY CO., MO..

Notes for HENRY WILLIAM KIDWELL:
Found by Karen Duncan >D1K1DUNC@aol.com<, Feb. 18, 1999 in "Missouri Genealogical Records and Abstracts", Vol. 4; 1741-1839, by Sherida K. Eddleman, came from Missouri Intelligencer newspaper which was published July 10, 1830, Vol. 12, #9 - Marion Co. Delinquent Tax List 1829:
William S. Anderson      Jessee Baxter      Richard Brawdy
Alex. Brawdy            Holman M. Burt      William Barnhouse
James Brown            John S. Frazier      TAYLOR BARTON
Zebedee Campfield            David Downing      Samuel Endicutt
Simon Frazier            William G. Gardner      Thomas Glendary
James Glenday            Francis Graham      William Hall
Cuthbert Harrison            William Ingram      Jas. S. Jones
HENRY KIDWELL            DAVID JACOBS      John Loring
Joseph Maxwell            EDWARD MASTERSON      Thomas Newell
James R. Nelson            Richard W. Newell      Hezekiah Robey
David Pullis            Tilman Roberts      Thomas Roberts
John C. Smart            John Thomas, Jr.      STEPHEN THRASHER
Caleb Wood            Hawkins Smith, Jr.
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Entered land in Monroe Co., Mo. (now Shelby Co.) from the government in 1838 under President Martin Van Buren.
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MARRIAGE RECORDED MARION CO., MO. RECORD BOOK A, PAGE 23.
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1850 CENSUS - SHELBY CO., MO. #359 - HENRY KIDWELL, 41, M., 1809, NANCY, 36, F., 1814; WILLIAM, 18, M., 1832; FRANCES, 12, F., 1838; BENJAMIN, 10, M., 1840; MARTHA, 8, F., 1842; SOPHRONIA, 6, F., 1844; ELIZA, 4, F., 1846; AND CHARLES, 6/12, M., 1850.
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1870 CENSUS - SHELBY CO., JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, #64/64, 62, YEARS OLD (1808), M/W, $4,500/$900, B. KENTUCKY
NANCY, 55 YEARS OLD(1815), KEEPING HOUSE, F/W, B. KENTUCKY
SOPHRONIA, 24 YEARS OLD(1846), F/W, B. MISSOURI
HENRIETTA, 12 YEARS OLD(1858), F/W, AT SCHOOL, B. MISSOURI
MULLINS, POLLY, 76 YEARS OLD(1794), F/W, B. KENTUCKY
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THEY WERE FIRST BURIED ON THE OLD HOMESTEAD (THE OLD FIFER FARM) ALONG WITH CHARLIE AND AN INFANT STILLBORN, AND MARY "POLLY" (TURNER) MULLINS, WIFE OF, FOUNTAIN MULLINS. SHE APPARENTLY LIVED OUT HER LIFE WITH THEM IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD. THEY ALL WERE LATER REMOVED TO THE OAKRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH BURYING GROUND.
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THIS IS TAKEN FROM "HISTORY OF MONROE AND SHELBY COUNTIES, MISSOURI, WRITTEN AND COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE SOURCES, INCLUDING A HISTORY OF THEIR TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES AND TOWNS, TOGETHER CONDENSED; ILLUSTRATED, ST. LOUIS, MO., NATIONAL HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1884, CHAPT. XV, PG. 877 & 878".
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP OF SHELBY CO., MISSOURI
"JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP COMPRISES THE SOUTH-WESTERN PORTION OF SHELBY COUNTY, INCLUDING ALL OF TOWNSHIP 56, RANGE 12, WHICH FORMS THE "JOG" OR PAN-HANDLE, SO PROMINENT A FEATURE ON THE MAP OF THE COUNTY. THE GREATER PART OF TOWNSHIP IS PRARIE, THE SOIL OF WHICH IS RICH AND FERTILE, AND CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMATION INTO BEAUTIFUL AND VALUABLE FARMS. THIS TOWNSHIP WAS NOT SETTLED AS EARLY AS THE OTHER PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY, PERHAPS BECAUSE OF THE GREAT ABUNDANCE OF PRARIE, WHICH WAS MORE DIFFICULT TO SUBDUE THAN TIMBERED LAND IN EARLY DAYS, WHEN WOODEN MOLD-BOARDS AND CAST-IRON POINTS WERE ALL THE KIND USED ON BREAKING PLOWS. NOT UNTIL AFTER 1840 DID SETTLERS COME IN. THE FIRST LOCATIONS WERE MADE ALONG OTTER AND CRIPPLED CREEK. WITH A FEW ON MAD CREEK. IN 1845-46 THERE WERE LIVING ALONG OTTER CREEK; JOHN KYLE, J.M. DONALDSON, ELIJAH BISHOP, THOMAS DAWSON, JOSEPH REYNOLDS, MADISON REYNOLDS, HENRY SMOCK, HENRY SPIRES, ESQUIRE BARTON, JOHN HENDRICKS AND JOEL MILLION. ON CROOKED CREEK THERE WERE WILLIAM STALCUP, JR. H. SHOEMAKER, DANIEL THRASHER, HENRY KIDWELL, V. GODFREY, JOHN DUGAN, ED. TANSIL, WILLIAM BUSH AND ENOCH MILLER. SHELTON LOWRY LIVED ON MAD CREEK, IN THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE TOWNSHIP. THE BULDING OF THE HANNIBAL AND ST. JOSEPH RAILROAD BROUGHT MORE SETTLERS IN; BUT NOT UNTIL THE WAR DID THE TOWNSHIP BEGIN ITS REAL IMPROVEMENTS. IT IS NOW QUITE THICKLY SETTLED AND WELL IMPROVED. DURING THE WAR JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP WAS OVER-RUN BY TROOPS OF BOTH ARMIES, AND ITS CITIZENS, UNION AND CONFEDERATE, WERE MALTREATED AND MURDERED. EARLY IN THE WAR SOME CONFEDERATE PARTISANS TOOK OUT THE OLD PIONEER, HENRY SPIRES, AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, LEAVING HIS BODY TO ROT BY A LOG, WHERE IT WAS FOUND. ANOTHER UNION MAN, NAMED ED FIFER, WAS MURDERED ABOUT THE SAME TIME. THEN CAME THE CRUEL PUTNAM COUNTY MILITIA AND MURDERED SOME MEN OF CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIES--PHILLIPS, BUTLER AND WILSON--LIVING IN THE BORDER OF MONROE. MR. FIFER, THE UNIONIST, WAS A SON-IN-LAW OF PHILLIPS, THE SECESSIONIST, AND BOTH WERE MURDERED. WITH WHICH SIDE MRS. FIFER'S SYMPATHIES LAY IT WOULD BE HARD TO SAY. ONE PARTY MURDERED HER FATHER, THE OTHER HER HUSBAND. IN THE SPRING OF 1862 THE BLACK HAWK CAVALRY CAME OUT FROM MACON AND HAD A SLIGHT SKIRMISH WITH THE COMPANY OF CONFEDERATES THAT WERE ENCAMPED DOWN ON MAD CREEK. ONE CONFEDERATE WAS KILLED."
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"Oakridge Baptist Church, located six miles south of west of Shelbina in Jefferson township, was constituted an organization February 16, 1867, with the following named persons: HENRY KIDWELL, NANCY KIDWELL, SOPHRONIA KIDWELL, Louisa Kimble, WILLIAM KIDWELL, REBECCA KIDWELL, BENJAMIN F. KIDWELL, Elijah Dungan, Frances Dungan, Aaron L. Webdell, Milly Webdell, NANCY THRASHER, Annie E. Clark, JOEL THRASHER, Cora Perry, John M. Wright, Mary J. Wright, Joseph Clark, Jeptha Smith and Nelson Thomas."

More About HENRY WILLIAM KIDWELL:
Comment 1: ORIGINALLY BURIED ON OLD FARM IN KIDWELL
Comment 2: BURYING GROUND ON THIER OLD FARM, REBURIED
Comment 3: IN OAKRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETARY.
Ethnicity/Relig.: HELPED BUILD OAKRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Fact: According to the Census of Shelby Co., Mo. in 1870, Henry was denied his right to vote because he was a Southern sympathizer.
Occupation: FARMER, HOMESTEADER
Personality/Intrst: THEIR INTEREST CENTERED AROUND CHURCH.
Residence: CROOKED CREEK, SHELBY CO., MO.

Children of HENRY KIDWELL and NANCY MULLINS are:

	i.		MALE BORN³ DEAD.
	ii.		LOUISA (VERA) KIDWELL, b. December 1, 1831, Crooked Creek, S.W. Shelby Co., Mo.; d. November 11, 1846, Oakridge Bapt. Ch., Shelby Co., Mo..

More About LOUISA (VERA) KIDWELL:
Comment 1: MARRIED A KIMBLE.

19.	iii.	WILLIAM WALTER KIDWELL, b. June 22, 1832, CROOKED CRK., SHELBY CO., MO.; d. February 17, 1906, SHELBY CO., MO..
20.	iv.	FRANCES C. KIDWELL, b. December 22, 1838, Crooked Creek, S.W. Shelby Co., Mo.; d. October 19, 1901, Oakridge Bapt. Ch., Shelby Co., Mo..
21.	v.	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KIDWELL, b. January 22, 1840, Miller Twnshp., Marion Co., Mo.; d. December 4, 1910, Shelbina, Shelby Co., Mo..
22.	vi.	MARTHA ANN "PINK" KIDWELL, b. February 2, 1842, Crooked Creek, S.W. Shelby Co., Mo.; d. September 1, 1916, San Francisco, California.
23.	vii.	SOPHRONIA "FRONIE" KIDWELL, b. March 16, 1844, Crooked Creek, S.W. Shelby Co., Mo.; d. July 3, 1934, Oakridge Bapt. Ch., Shelby Co., Mo..
	viii.	CHARLES KIDWELL, b. 1850.
24.	ix.	VIRGINIA "JENNIE" KIDWELL, b. July 16, 1854, Crooked Creek, S.W. Shelby Co., Mo.; d. December 11, 1927, Oakridge Bapt. Ch., Shelby Co., Mo..
25.	x.	SARAH HENRIETTA "RET" KIDWELL, b. November 2, 1857, Crooked Creek, S.W. Shelby Co., Mo.; d. August 22, 1876, Oakridge Bapt. Ch., Shelby Co., Mo..
26.	xi.	MARY LOUISA KIDWELL, b. November 11, 1846.

8. JOHN² KIDWELL (WILLIAM¹) was born 1811 in PENDLETON CO., KY.. He married MARY ERVIN April 29, 1832. She was born 1815 in GRANT CO., KY..

Notes for JOHN KIDWELL:
REFER: CENSUS 1850 OF MARION CO., MO., PG. 302, #604/634.
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More About JOHN KIDWELL:
Occupation: FARMER

Children of JOHN KIDWELL and MARY ERVIN are:

	i.		JANE³ KIDWELL, b. 1828.
	ii.		ELIZABETH KIDWELL, b. 1832.
	iii.		WILLIAM H. KIDWELL, b. 1836.
	iv.		JOHN T. KIDWELL, b. 1838.
	v.		ELISHA KIDWELL, b. 1839.
	vi.		ELIZA J. KIDWELL, b. 1842.
	vii.		BENJAMIN F. KIDWELL, b. 1847.

9. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN² KIDWELL (WILLIAM¹) was born June 12, 1818 in Kenton Co., Ky. (Previously Campbell Co.), and died in Concord, Pendelton Co., Kentucky. He married PAULINE "POLLY" JOHNSON April 24, 1839 in BOONE CO., KY., daughter of ANDREW JOHNSON and LYDIA REED. She was born December 28, 1815 in BOONE CO., KY., and died January 11, 1893 in PENDLETON CO.. KY..

Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KIDWELL:
BENJAMIN AND PAULINA LIVED IN A LOG HOUSE ON HALFWAY BRANCH, SECOND HOUSE AFTER CROSSING KINCAID CREEK GOING TOWARDS FALMOUTH, EAST SIDE OF ROAD. "BEN CARRIED THE MAIL FROM PENHURST (NOW CONCORD) TO FALMOUTH TWO DAYS A WEEK BY HORSEBACK. ONE OF HIS RIDING HORSES WAS NAMED `SILVERBELL'".
THIS INFO FROM BERNICE (KIDWELL) RAISTRICK, BOX 24, GREENHURST, N.Y., 14742-0024.

More About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KIDWELL:
Comment 1: BURIED AT CONCORD, KY.

More About PAULINE "POLLY" JOHNSON:
Comment 1: BURIED AT CONCORD, KY.

Children of BENJAMIN KIDWELL and PAULINE JOHNSON are:

	i.	AMANDA³ KIDWELL, m. (1) UNKNOWN POWERS; m. (2) ALVIN BEN HOPPER, March 1, 1858, Pendleton Co., Kentucky.
	ii.	NANCY J. KIDWELL, b. January 22, 1840.
27.	iii.	JOHN WILLIS KIDWELL, b. March 16, 1841, Fiskburg, Kenton Co., Kentucky; d. December 10, 1930, Concord, Pendleton Co., Kentucky.
28.	iv.	LEWIS W. KIDWELL, b. November 8, 1842, Pendleton Co., Kentucky; d. 1921, Pendleton Co., Kentucky.
	v.	MARY LOUISA KIDWELL, b. October 10, 1844.
	vi.	EMILY JANE KIDWELL, b. August 16, 1846; m. UNKNOWN PRUDOM³¹.
29.	vii.	HAMILTON R. KIDWELL, b. September 2, 1848.
	viii.	MISSOURI KIDWELL, b. November 7, 1850, Pendleton Co., Kentucky; d. November 4, 1857, Pendleton Co., Kentucky.
	ix.	MARGARETTA KIDWELL, b. March 5, 1854.
30.	x.	EZRA K. KIDWELL, b. June 1, 1855, FALMOUTH, PENDLETON CO., KY.; d. April 15, 1930, MAYSVILLE, MASON CO., KY..
	xi.	JULIA ANN KIDWELL, b. September 21, 1859; m. MINOR MARTIN.

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