He started at farming with forty acres of land, worked at clearing it of timber during the summer time, and taught school in the winter, saved his money and invested in more land. On this place is a tract of timber that remains much as it was a hundred years ago, covered with large fine beech, walnut, hickory, linden, oak and sycamore trees. Many years ago there used to be a "sugar camp" on this place, where the family made maple sugar.
1 CAUS Typhoid He was graduated before he was seventeen, and when the Civil war began, he enlisted in the Sixth Regiment Ind. Indiana Cavalry. He was taken sick with typhoid fever and died. He never married
In his early life he farmed, later followed the nursery business, and has for a number of years been a minister of the "Christian Church." He has, while preaching, carried on several little side lines , among which were raising medical herbs, such as ginseng, golden seal, plants that in early days were very plentiful in that part of the country.
No children.
He married Martha J. Simms . Martha J. Simms was born at 25 Apr 1824 .
They were the parents of 11
children:
Maurice Kuykendall
born 28 Feb 1844.
John Kuykendall
born 26 Mar 1846.
William Kuykendall
born 11 Nov 1848.
Pauline Kuykendall
born 9 Nov 1850.
Henry Clay Kuykendall
born 7 Mar 1853.
Martha Jane Kuykendall
born 31 Jul 1855.
Sarah Elizabeth Kuykendall
born 15 Jul 1857.
Mary Clotilda Kuykendall
born 30 Oct 1859.
Lyman Beecher Kuykendall
born 2 Jun 1862.
Alzira Kuykendall
born 30 Jun 1864.
Minnie Kuykendall
born 9 Jul 1866.