JOHN H. KINDRED

KINDRED

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 20:06:52

JOHN H. KINDRED, deceased, formerly a resident on section 33, Washington township, was born in Cumberland county Tennessee, February 12, 1821, the son of Thornton and Hannah (Minnick) Kindred, natives also of Tennessee. His father, a farmer, was a private soldier in the war of 1812. His mother died about 1878, a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Four of their ten children are still living.

Mr. Kindred, whose name heads this sketch, began for himself on a farm in Tennessee, and later added stock-raising. August 12, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, First Tennessee Infantry, and served three years and two months, taking part in a number of battles. He was discharged in September, 1864. A portion of the year 1863 he spent in a hospital at Kingston, Tennessee, on account of a wound. Because of the hostility of his State to the Union cause, he left there with his wife and eight children and came to Montgomery county, Iowa, arriving June 9, 1865; but November 13, following, he came to Adams county, rented a farm on section 7, Washington township, for four years, and then bought a farm of eighty acres on section 33, where he now resides. He afterward added eighty acres more. The residence if located a mile from Eureka. The house is 14 x 16 feet. There are two orchards of large and small fruit; and the farm is well adapted to all the farm crops of this region. The surroundings indicate a comfortable and happy home.

Mr. Kindred held the office of Justice of the Peace in Tennessee for twelve years; was School Director in his township and an important factor in educational affairs, - and in fact in all the enterprises that have promised good to his community. He died June 15, 1884.

He was married February 11, 1842, to Miss Susan Taylor, a daughter of James and Permelia Taylor, of Roan county, Tennessee, and they have had eight children, viz.: Permelia, the wife of James Farmer, a farmer in Cumberland county, Tennessee; George W., whose sketch is given in the next paragraph; Hannah, who married Joseph Corey, and died February 8, 1873, at the age of twenty-six years, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Mary, the wife of J. W. Harris, residing on a farm in Cloud county, Kansas; Rachel, now the wife of Daniel Thomas, a farmer of Adams county, Iowa; Josephine, now Mrs. James Buddin, of Barry county, Missouri; Hamilton, residing in Adams county, and married to Flora Timberlake; and Susie, now Mrs. H. G. McCollum, residing on the farm with the mother. Mrs. Kindred is a member of the United Brethren Church.

Mr. Kindred, our subject, was a Republican in politics and an enthusiastic supporter of the temperance movement. His services as a valiant soldier in the defense of his country, his blameless life and his devotion to family and home, all give evidence to his worth.