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Augustus H. KENDRICK, farmer, Fordyce, Ark. Mr. KENDRICK
was born in Heard County, Ga., in 1833, and is the son of
Hezekiah and Nancy (COOK) KENDRICK, natives of Georgia, born
in Putnam and Butts Counties in 1803 and 1809, respectively.
The parents were married in Henry County, Ga., but removed
from there to Heard County, Ga., where they resided a few
years and then, in 1847, emigrated to Dallas County, Ark.
They settled near where Fordyce now stands, and there the
father died in 1851 and the mother in 1857. Both were members
of the Methodist Church. Mr. KENDRICK was a farmer, and continued
this occupation all his life. His father John KENDRICK, was
of English descent, and died in Putnam County, Ga. The material
grandfather, John Cook, of Irish descent, died in Heard County,
Ga. Of the six children born to his parents, Augustus H.
KENDRICK was the fourth in order of birth, and was principally
reared in Arkansas, and from the age of thirteen mostly in
his present neighborhood. After the death of his father,
the support of the family fell on his shoulders, and he learned
the tanner’s trade, which he followed for
many years. In 1861 he married Miss L. J. LANG, a native of Macon County, Ga.,
and the daughter of David and A. LANG, who moved to Dallas County, Ark., from
Alabama in 1848. Mrs. LANG died in 1848 and Mr. LANG in 1851. To Mr. and Mrs.
KENDRICK were born four children, one son and one daughter now living, viz.:
Sarah H. (wife of Albert FOWLER), and Hezekiah. Mr. KENDRICK has improved one
farm in Dallas County, and has followed agricultural pursuits for fifteen years.
In politics he was reared a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for
James Buchanan in 1856, but he is now strictly independent. He is a member of
the A.F. & A.M., Fordyce Lodge, and himself and wife belong to the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which he has been a member since seventeen years of age.