Talk:John J. Kindred

Additions by 74.110.99.125
The following text was added to the article by 74.110.99.125 on 26 February 2018, replacing the previous text. As it reads more like a series of personal notes I have moved it here in case any future editors want to make use of it. 1ForTheMoney (talk) 19:30, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

''This statement from the HRHP is totally incorrect--Kindred's father was named John J.[ulius] Kindred--was an attorney in Southampton County, Jerusalem, county seat. He lived in a home with his family 10 miles south of Jerusalem near today's Newsoms village. Kindred bought the tavern likely as an investment and a convenient place for him to have an office and a place to stay when he came for legal business at the courthouse. There is no evidence of any sort that he ever lived here nor any member of his family (no man of his social and economic standing would live in the tavern with his family!) His son was born Joseph Drewry Kindred (his mother was a Drewry). At some time after his father's death in 1883, the son changed his name to John J.[oseph] Kindred which he retained for the rest of his life. The writer of the report was in the process of selling "Mahone's Tavern" where he had grown up and his parents died---he wanted to get more money for the place so he added many things to the report which were not true supposedly to add value. I would eliminate "His boyhood...Tavern" and say "His early years were spent on a farm 10 miles south of Jerusalem, the county seat, where his father, a local attorney, had frequent business."''

''An interesting thing about him was that after his father's death, he wanted to provide for himself and his two unmarried sisters. When the plan of the railroad to go through Jerusalem in 1888 was exposed, he purchased about a 100 acre farm with a plantation house on it a short distance from the 1790 town of Jerusalem and on land that the railroad would acquire for construction. Working with the railroad, he subdivided his farm into both small store lots along the Main Street as well as residential lots over the rest of the property. The lots were designated R or K and when the R lots were sold,, the profit went to the railroad, and when the K lots were sold the profit went to Kindred and his sisters. That plat is still quite evident in the small town which was renamed Courtland in 1888, as part of "modernizing" the town.''

''I would add after...frequent business. He was vital in the development of the town of Jerusalem, whose name was changed to Courtland in 1888, when the railroad came through the town in 1888. He taught school in Virginia in 1886 and 1887.''