Mitchell Kendall

Mitchell M. Kendall was a blacksmith and state legislator in Texas for Harrison [County, Texas]. Kendall was born in Georgia as a slave in 1822 and was brought to Texas around 1850. He served as a voter registrar in Harrison County. At the 1868 Texas Constitutional Convention he voted to separate Texas into three states. He was later elected as a Republican to the Texas [House of Representatives] for the Twelfth Legislature from 1870 to 1871.
The 1880 federal census reported stated that Kendall lived with his wife, Adeline, and his five children.
Kendall was a member of the Ebenezer [United Methodist Church] in New Town neighborhood of Marshall, Texas. He was buried at the Old Powder Mill Cemetery in Marshall.