Biography of John Kenistrick, page 806.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885. 

John Kenistrick, farmer and stock-raiser, section 19, Troy Township, was 
born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Dec. 7, 1819, a son of John Kenistrick, a 
native of Maryland, who settled in Tuscarawas County in 1812.  He was reared 
a farmer, receiving his education in the old-fashioned log cabin schools of 
his native county.  In 1852 he moved to Crawford County, Ohio, and in the 
spring of 1864 came to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled on the farm where 
he now lives.  He owns 120  acres of valuable land, and his farm buildings 
are all commodious and in good repair.  He was married Nov. 6, 1845, to 
Martha Lewis, daughter of Joseph Lewis (deceased), and sister of Jere 
Lewis, of Franklin Township, this county.  To them have been born eight 
children, six of whom are living---Mary, Joseph, Sarah, Amelia, John and 
Sherman.  Sarah is the wife of J.H. McCurdy, of Butler, and Amelia is the 
wife of William Moore, also of Butler.  Their two eldest children died in 
1849 of cholera. Seventeen of their relatives died of the same disease in 
two weeks.  Mr. and Mrs. Kenistrick and four of their children are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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