Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph Hoyle MENDENHALL
Joseph moved to Arkansas from North Carolina in the early 1840's along
with his brother, Jacob. He first settled in the Russellville area with Jacob,
but about 1850 moved to Carroll County. Later, Jacob moved to the Fort Smith
area and Joseph went with him.
Joseph was a farmer. He ran for local office and in 1858 and 1860 ran
unsuccessfully for the state legislature.
When the Civil War broke out in April of 1861, a citizen's group met to
consider what course they should pursue in connection with the war. Joseph was
appointed to a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting. After due deliberation the committee reported as follows:
WHEREAS, The administration of Lincoln, with a spirit of duplicity equaled
only by its total disregard of every patriotic duty, has inaugurated a policy
of coercion and subjugation by force of arms, arraying brothers against
brothers: therefore be it, RESOLVED, by the citizens of Sebastian County, of
all parties, in mass assembled, that we will resist such policy on the part of
the administration even to the death and to this end we pledge our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honor.
One evening, Joseph's wife was at home with two of their sons, Nathan a
Thomas. Suddenly, bandits pushed their way into the home and robbed Abigail of
a little chest of gold that she kept under her bed and killed her two sons. The
bandits were Isaac & James Stroud and Jacob Ridge, Jayhawkers or guerrilla
soldiers who were sympathetic to the Union cause.
When Joseph's son, Joseph Davis, returned home and learned about the murder
of his two brothers, he tracked the murderers to their camp site where he shot
and killed them.
Sources
History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls, William and
Thomas A. Mendenhall, 1912
The Genealogy of Peter Heyl & His Descendants, Elizabeth Rucker, 1938
Mendenhall Descendants, Don Dyson Worth, 24038 Mill Valley Road,
24038 Mill Valley Road, Valencia CA 91355, worth@@mic.ucla.edu
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