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got a flashlight,” Mrs. Kendall said.
Later, circumstances forced her to leave her home in New York and in 1920, she settled in Washington for good. The next few years she and her second husband, John Kendall lived in the old hotel building while they worked on the abandoned school house just outside the town limits, remodeling it into a home.
“This is a good old town,” said Mrs. Kendall. “A lot of people say that George Washington slept here and no doubt he did. The old hotel building is where George Washington worked, though. That is honestly so.”
Mrs. Kendall moved from Washington’s former office to her remodeled schoolhouse in 1924. In her exuberance over her new home, she decided to do something to mark it for ever and ever as truly hers. While the cement for the front porch was still wet, she wrote her initials in a corner. Another spot of wet cement by the well was imprinted with an outline of her hand.
She remembers that her husband and his brothers viewed her behavior as foolish.
“But you do a lot of foolish things when you’re young,” Mrs. Kendall said. She stayed in that home, known since as the Kendall house, until 1944 when, widowed, she moved up the street to the other end of town. She’s been there ever since.
Over the years, Mrs. Kendall supported herself with work as a seamstress and as a nurse. The handicaps of advancing age have forced her to give both up.
Many of the windows in Washington homes are still hung with Mrs. Kendall’s drapes. She said that she always loved anything artistic and her sewing work was an outgrowth of that love of beauty.
_Sympathetic Nurse Her nursing was done primarily in the MarylandD.C. area for terminal patiehts'who had come home to die. The most important part of her work, she said, was lifting the morale of her patients and their families. She proudly tells of her success in keeping her charges alive and comfortable for months longer than the doctors predicted. Mrs. Kendall learned her nursing skills going to night school from place to place
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