Person:Joshua Kidwell (3)

Joshua Kidwell

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Name	Joshua Kidwell
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	15 Jul 1757	Augusta, Virginia, United Statesvalley of Virginia
Marriage		to Unknown
Death`^?`	25 Mar 1835	Cross Anchor, Greene, Tennessee, United States

References

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).

... Joshua Kidwell, who was born in the valley of Virginia, and was the son of a native of Wales, England. Joshua, the grandfather, came to Tennessee in about 1787, and settled in Greene County, of which be was one of the pioneers; coming when there were but few white men here and the country was overrun with Indians. He and a brother were engaged in the Indian campaigns, and the latter was killed in the assault upon the Indians at Lookout Mountain. ... A peculiarity of the grandparents of our subject was, that each lived and died on their original farms end the same are in the possession of their children. ...