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and Charlie met and wed Miss Texanna Dwyer.
John Kendall owned a couple of tracts, one having a little more than 500 acres and the other around 13 acres. John's brother, Dave Kendall, had owned nearly 100 acres which joined on the southwestern end further down the hollow, but their houses were probably only a quarter mile apart.
The last people to live ai the Dave JKendall place according to Elmo, was Jesse and Susie Bailey. Jesse was known for cracking lots of black walnuts for the kernels which he sold. He also grew a little corn. Jesse was a son of Bob" Bailey.
John W. Kendall, not to be confused with his son, John K.B. Kendall, was known for his knowledge in the cattle industry. Called "a number one cattle man," he not only had his own herd, but tended herds for others. A mountaineer cowboy?
John Kendall was bom on Jeremiah s or Jeremey's Run on the Page County side of the Blue Ridge, at the head of this run was Ashroot Spring. He had also been in the Civil War and later in his life received a small pension from that.
I had known, but it did not come up in conversation until we were already down in the hollow, the place where Newt Sisk had lived. This was the Dave Kendall place, which Mr. Sisk had rented.
Mr. Darwin Lambert led a group to this site some three years earlier. On this trip we took the Thornton River Trail from Skyline Drive...not a difficult trail at all. Yet, today we had not discussed this fact and were picking a way down into
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