My Genealogy Hound

Lafayette G. Kendrick, farmer, and native of Benton County, Ark., was born in 1852, and is a son of Martin and Nancy (Phillips) Kendrick. The father was born in Tennessee, and immigrated to Arkansas at a very early day, when the State was almost an unbroken wilderness, and where wild animals of all kinds roamed the woods at pleasure. He settled in Benton County on land which he afterward bought from the Government, but did not live to see the country settled or to improve his farm. His death occurred in 1863. Lafayette G. Kendrick was educated in the common schools of Benton County, and was reared by his mother, with whom he remained assisting on the farm until he was grown. In 1876 Miss Martha Slayback, a daughter of Anderson Slayback, of Benton County, became his wife, and by her was the father of two children named John H. and Lucy A. After his marriage Mr. Kendrick located on a portion of his father’s farm, which he had inherited, and there has since resided. His little place of twenty acres is finely cultivated, and on it are erected good buildings He votes the Democratic ticket, His wife is a member of the Christian Church.