Person:Elijah Kidwell (6)

Name	Elijah Kidwell
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	1802	Greene, Tennessee, United States
Marriage		Greene, Tennessee, United Statesto Mary Hankins
Death^[1]	28 Aug 1842	Greene, Tennessee, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Greene County Biographical Sketches, in Goodspeed Publishing Company. Goodspeed's history of Tennessee: containing historical and biographical sketches of thirty east Tennessee counties: Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, Washington. (Nashville, Tennessee: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886-1887).

... Elijah and Polly (Hankins) Kidwell. The father was born in Greene County in 1802 and was the son of Joshua Kidwell ... Elijah, the father, was a farmer and carpenter and carried on the two vocations jointly, making a success of both. He was an industrious and energetic man; though well known and highly esteemed, he never entered public life nor ever held a county office, being of a retiring disposition, and never asking for office. While at work erecting the residence in which H. D. Maloney now resides on Chucky River, he contracted a fever from which he died on August 28, 1842. ...