Thomas Harmon Kendall

2 July 1806–26 March 1879 (Age 72)
Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

The Life Summary of Thomas Harmon

When Thomas Harmon Kendall was born on 2 July 1806, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel Kendall, was 36 and his mother, Anna Barrows, was 37. He married Livera Minerva Pulsipher on 18 August 1840, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 26 March 1879, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Harmon Kendall
1806–1879
Livera Minerva Pulsipher
1815–1894
Marriage: 18 August 1840
George Ulmer Kendall
1843–
Francis Meriam Kendall
1845–
Warren Kendall
1846–1847
Rebecca Ann Kendall
1848–1907
Anna Kendall
1851–1855
Emma Kendall
1852–1907
Ella Kendall
1852–1918
Charles Warren Kendall
1855–1912

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    18 August 1840Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
    • Children

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (4)

    World Events (8)

    1808
    Age 2
    Atlantic slave trade abolished.
    1812
    Age 6
    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
    1830 · The Second Great Awakening
    Age 24
    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from Kendal in Cumbria, which takes its name from the river Kent + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’, or from the valley of the river Kent itself.English (of Welsh origin): from an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Cynddelw, which was borne by a famous 12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word meaning ‘exalted, high’ + delw ‘image, effigy’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Kindall
    Kendal
    Kendle
    Kendel
    Kindle
    Kendell
    Kindell

    Sources (48)

    • Thomas N. Rendall in entry for Charlie Warren Rendall, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
    • Thomas H Randall, "United States Census, 1850"
    • Thomas H. in entry for Calvin P. Pettengill and Ella Kendall, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

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