Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania . accomplished results, without thetraining of the academies or the polish of univer-sities. The widowed mother of Wheeler Kirken-dall—as he was familiarly called—married (sec-ond) Philip Kunkle, and it is quite probable thatWilliam Wheeler Kirkendalls father died in NewJersey before the date of the settlement in Dallas,which was before 1830. There is no tradition inthe family that he ever lived in the town, and thestruggling pioneers in that wilderness region ofLuzerne county gave little attention to matters o
Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania . accomplished results, without thetraining of the academies or the polish of univer-sities. The widowed mother of Wheeler Kirken-dall—as he was familiarly called—married (sec-ond) Philip Kunkle, and it is quite probable thatWilliam Wheeler Kirkendalls father died in NewJersey before the date of the settlement in Dallas,which was before 1830. There is no tradition inthe family that he ever lived in the town, and thestruggling pioneers in that wilderness region ofLuzerne county gave little attention to matters offamily record ; theirs was a struggle for the neces-sities of life, and the most moderate comforts fortheir families; but they wrought well and buildedup good farms for their children and Wheeler Kirkendall was auditor ofDallas in 1836, and one of the supervisors of thetownship in 18-LO. He bought thirty acres of un-improved land in 1829-30, and eighty-three acresmore in 1841. He was a carpenter, also a carder,fuller and cloth-dresser bv trade, and it was. J?A<&UM<jJk&l THE WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLEYS. 317 largely through his aid that the first carding andfulling mill was set up by Jacob Rice in Trucks-ville. Mr. Kirkendall died in Dallas, Pennsyl-vania, December 10, 1845; married, April 26,1826, Maria Dereamer, born May 28, 1807, diedJanuary 23, 1882. They had seven children : 1. Conrad, born January 26, 1827, died Sep-tember 15, 1854; unmarried. 2. John Shaver, born August 17, 1828, diedAugust 20, 1854; unmarried. 3. George Washington, born October 4,1833, of whom later. 4. Ira Mandeville, born November 3, 1835,of whom later. 5. Anna Elizabeth, born October 12, 1837;married Dwight Wolcott of Wilkes-Barre, formany years an employee of the Lehigh ValleyRailroad Company. 6. Charles Wesley, born April 6, 1840, diedAugust 21, 1854. 7. William Perm, born April 13, 1843, 0Iwhom later. George Washington Kirkendall, third son ofWilliam Wheeler and Mar
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