 1821 - 1860 (38 years)
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| Name |
Jacob Robert "Jake" Mendenhall [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Born |
14 May 1821 |
near Gastonia, North Carolina  [2, 3, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Dairy Farmer? |
| Died |
21 Jan 1860 |
Arkansas [3] |
| Buried |
Douglas Cemetery, Jenny Lind, Arkansas (stone) [3] |
| Person ID |
I1302 |
Carley Bisher's Ancestry |
| Last Modified |
24 Mar 2009 |
| Family |
Eliza Lavina Harkey, b. 17 Jun 1830, near Concord, Cabaras Co., North Carolina , d. 23 Dec 1888, Jenny Lind, Arkansas (Age 58 years) |
| Married |
1847 [3] |
| Children |
| + | 1. John Robert Mendenhall, b. 10 Jan 1848, Russelville, Arkansas , d. 21 Jan 1931 (Age 83 years) |
| | 2. Francis M. Mendenhall, b. 6 Dec 1849, Arkansas , d. 20 Feb 1852 (Age 2 years) |
| + | 3. Anna Elizabeth "Betty" Mendenhall, b. 31 Jan 1852, Russelville, Arkansas , d. 12 Jun 1886, Greenwood, Arkansas (Age 34 years) |
| + | 4. Thomas Nathan Mendenhall, b. 12 May 1854, near Greenwood, Arkansas , d. 17 Mar 1924, Pacoima, California (Age 69 years) |
| | 5. Mary R. or E. Mendenhall, b. 24 Feb 1856, near Greenwood, Arkansas , d. 21 Mar 1884 (Age 28 years) |
| + | 6. Margaret "Mag" Adeline Mendenhall, b. 30 Sep 1858, near Greenwood, Arkansas , d. 20 May 1884 (Age 25 years) |
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| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
| Family ID |
F720 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Headstones |
 | MENDENHALL, Jacob Robert, headstone
Older one may be an older version. However, there appears to be a name above J R Mendenhall. Could it be an earlier wife's name? The dates don't seem to line up with Jacob Robert's birth year. Appears to be xxx 26 1817 or 1812. |
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| Notes |
- The brothers, Jacob and Joseph Mendenhall came from Gastonia, North Carolina to Arkansas sometime in the 1840's (probably the early 1840's.) The 1850 census shows Jacob near Russellville and Joseph in Carroll County, near the Missouri border. They later moved to the Jenny Lind area of Sebastian county, near Greenwood and Ft. Smith. The Mendenhalls were dairy farmers in Arkansas. Jake lived on a 40 acre farm near New Jenny Lind, on land adjoining the Talkingtons and Nelchs. Jake died young, leaving his wife with six children to raise. A year after Jacob's death (May 1861) the probate court granted Lavina's petition to appoint Joseph H. Mendenhall (Jake's brother) as guardian of their surviving children. When Lavina remarried and had two more children, she raised them all together.
From William Oates Ragsdale’s book "They Sought a Land, A Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley 1840 - 1870" The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 1997.
• "During the early 1840's a number of pioneers left Lincoln County [NC] and went to Pope County. They were: Caleb Kizer, Robert Clark, Jacob and Joseph Mendenhall, D. Clemmer, Samual Robinson, James A. Bradley. The assembled company left Lincoln County on May 13, 1842. Also in Pope County was Joshua A. Hearn who departed Lincoln co. in early 1841 and arrived in Pope Co. in Dec. 1841."
• quoted from this website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mhearn/gen_6.html
Research: Many Mendenhalls are buried in Crosses Cemetary or Douglas Cemetary near Greenwood, AK. Gravestone indicates Jake was born in 1822. The J.H. Mendenhall family bible gives Jacob's birthdate as May the 14th 1821. Ruth Walker shows March 14th. Some sources show 1822 instead of 1821 as his birthyear.
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