Town of Kendall

John Henry Snider built a little store in 1859 1/2 mile north of where Kendall is now located called Sniderburg.  That was the beginning of Kendall.  He had a slaughterhouse too.  Nick Utz & Samuel Baptist Hardy started a store where today the church sits.  Mr. Snider moved his store to Hunnewell and the Utz-Hardy store moved across the road and the church was built.  A school was built along with 5 houses to become Kendall.  That school was replaced with another which burnt in 1943.  That school year was finished in the home of Guy Snider.  In the summer a new one room school with a basement was built and was used until 1964. There were exciting times in this little town during the civil war.  Mrs. Belle Erwin told of soldiers coming to their house taking their chickens and peaches from the trees. One time they ate all the food and fought over the churn of cream her mother had and broke the churn. Another time they demanded horses and her father, John Henry Snider, gave them the poorer ones, having hidden his best breeding stock in the woods. He brought fine blood -line horses to Missouri with him from Pennsylvania.  George Coleman was post-master/storekeeper in the 1900's.   The mail was brought from Lakenan 2 or 3 times a week and each family picked it up at the store.  In 1912 there was a band organized with Harold Patterson as band leader they played at church socials and meetings until it disbanded in 1929.

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Information submitted by Arla Snider Brengle