1. Marshall E. Kurkendall is GGGrandson of Adam.
2. Red Antony reported the middle name as "Robert".
1. Matthew was a Veteran of Revolutionary War.
2. His arm was broken by a muskett ball during the war.
3. It has been reported that he was the 1st High Sheriff of Butler County, Kentucky.
4. According to his pension file, he married Jane Harden in 1781.
1. He was a Revolutionary War Pensioner. File #30518, in which he states that he was not in the battle of Kings Mountain but that he heard the battle going on as he was in the vincinity visiting relatives. Betty Kuykendall Price is of the opinion that the relatives with whom he was visiting was the family of Richmond Kuykendall.
1. Anna & Bergen were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
1. Hans Peter Eaker, Jr. was confirmed at 14 years of age in Diedendorf, Alsace, France, in 1734.
2. Peter and Barbara attended Mulbach Reformed Church in what is now Lebanon County, Pennsylvania which is near Muddy Creek in Lancaster County where the other Eakers lived.
3. When Peter, Jr. moved South to North Carolina he quickly began acquiring land both through grants and purchases. Together Peter, his brother Christian and his father owned about 1750 contiguous acres between the South side of Little Beaverdam Creek in presnet day Gaston County and running North almost to Indian Creek in present day Lincoln County.
4. Besides farming, one Deed mentions that Peter, Jr. operated a grist mill on part of the property.
5. During the Revolutionary War the Eaker family remained neutral, though they had a definite Tory leaning. The only active fighting they experienced was as Tory soldiers at the Battle of Ramsour's Mill. After that, both Peter and Christian and their sons did not participate in battle. There is a record of Peter selling or giving supplies to the British soldiers. .
6. After the War the Eakers were among the men indicted under the Confiscation Act for their assistance to the British. There is no record of them losing their land. Peter's son-in-law, Nicholas Warlic, did lose his land.
7. Obviously hard feeling did not last long as another of Peter's daughters, Mary, and his son John Peter both married children of Patriot Col. Frederick Hambright.
1. James Kuykendall reports alternate place of birth for Abraham as Rutherford County, North Carolina.
2. Abraham was a Baptist Preacher.
3. He moved to Texas in about 1831. They lived in Nacogdoches, but, eventually moved West to Erath County, Texas, where Mary died 15 Jun 1879.
4. He died between 20 Nov 1848 date of Will and 26 Dec 1848 Will proven in Burleson County, Texas.
1. James Kuykendall reports that Mary's surname was "Lindsay".
1. Could the middle name be STRACENER?