Father: Kenis Pharoah Herald
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Mother: Frances America Goble
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Birth date and place: October 20, 1860,
Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Kentucky
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Birth date and place:January 29, 1961,
Floyd County, Kentucky
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Death date and place: 1935, Byron, Thayer
County, Nebraska
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Death date and place:October 3, 1943,
Beatrice, Nebraska
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Marriage date and place:January 27, 1881,
Floyd County, Kentucky
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Marriage date and place:January 27, 1881,
Floyd County, Kentucky
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Parents:James Harvey Herald and
Eliza Akers
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Parents: William Goble and Martha Harris
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Notes:Both were born in or near Prestonsburg,
Floyd County, Kentucky. Both of their fathers were off to Virginia
to fight in the Civil War for the confederate side. Mostly they were
intensely loyal to their area. Neither of them had slaves. After
the war there were not many economic opportunites in eastern Kentucky except
in the coal mines which seemed to be springing up in the 1880's
or so. Working in one of them did not seem to appeal to Kenis Herald,
so in 1878 he came out to Republic County, Kansas
and worked on the Burlington railroad that was just coming through southern
Nebraska and Northern Kansas. After the railroad was built he took
a job as a farm laborer. He went back to Floyd County in 1881 to marry
his sweetheart and after that both did farming until 1914 when he was appointed
postmaster of the town of Byron, Nebraska. After Frances' dad died
in 1885 her mom came to live with them. She stayed with them except
for a few short periods until her death in 1917. Unfortunately none
of their children lived to old ages. Cora died at the age of 38 in
childbirth, Frank died at the age of 19 of pneumonia and the other
children died young.
Both they and their children are buried in the Chester cemetery.
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A community social club called the 500 Club was
organized in Byron about 1910, and Kenis P. Herald was one of its charter
members and was voted as a director as was Daniel A. Crandall later. Members of the Crandallfamily were active in its drama and other entertainment programs. these are copies for some newspaper articles about 500 club meetings and programs.
(Each thumbnail is a clickable link to see the whole article. Scans
were at high resolution, so load time may be from 30 seconds to a minute,
depending on the speed of your internet connection.)
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Children:
Cora Deve
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April 11, 1882
Republic County, Kansas
April 8, 1920
Byron, Nebraska
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Lee Dayton Crandall
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Charles F.
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December 1, 1883
Kansas
July 14, 1885
Kansas
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Mary E.
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Born and died
May 10, 1885
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Frank R.
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November 28, 1889
November 20, 1909
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Eunice
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born and died
December 23, 1891
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Roy W.
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born and died same day
year unknown
September 23
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