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Julia Lestine Kendel
Julia Lestine Kendel is the daughter of Alfred Hunter and Julia Guinn Kendal, of Oxford, Mississippi. Her father is a druggist of that town. She was born April 27, 1892, in Vicksburg, Miss. When she was an infant her parents removed to Oxford, Bliss. She attended the Oxford Graded School from which she graduated in 1906. She then entered the University of Mississippi , taking the B. S. degree in 1911. She was teacher of History in the Water Valley High School 1911-12, and in the Columbia High School, 1912-13.
Miss Kendel is of English descent, her great grandparents having been born at Kendel Hall, England. Her grandmother on her father's side was a Miss Roddey and belonged to an old South Carolina Quaker family. Her grandmother on her mother's side was a Boyd and belonged to a prominent family of Tennessee. Her grandfather on her father's side was one of the oldest citizens of Lafayette County and served as Confederate postmaster at Oxford during the war.
Source: "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society", 1913
Submitted by Cathy Danielson