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Rambling Rround
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
William Wheeler . Kirkendall,
commonly called Wheeler, born in
New Jersey in 1805, came to this
area as a young man and was un-
der forty when he died. His mother,
in a second marriage, was the wife
of Conrad Kunkle. Wheeler was a
carpenter, also a carder, fuller, and
cloth dresser by trade. He assisted
in setting up Jacob Rice’s carding
and fulling mill at Trucksville, later
was a partner in the Ambler and
Kirkendall wool carding mill at
New Troy, (Wyoming), where he
resided for some time. His wife was
Maria Dereamer, who survived
him by nearly forty years.
They had seven children. Con-
rad, John, and Charles died un-
married. George, Ira, Anna, and
William Penn had families and be-
came well known in the Back Moun-
tain and Wyoming Valley areas.
The family moved to Dallas Town-
ship between 1833 and 1835. Kirk-
endall bought 30 Acres from John
Orr in 1830, 60 Acres from Abram
Thomas in 1839, and 83 Acres
from Chester Butler in 1841. Most
of this land, apparently, was in the
Kunkle section, butthey had a farm
abutting on Center Hill Road be-
tween the Machell and Goss proper-
ties, extending at least as far as the
present Methodist Church. He was
auditor in 1836 and supervisor in
1840. When the borough was
formed, the farm became a corner,
described in the proceedings as
“Maria Kirkendall’s corner”. The
children were small when their fa-
ther died and had few educational
advantages, but were hustlers and
stood among the prominent people
of the county later in life.
The second generation, born in
Wyoming and Dallas, grew up
here. Some were in the west and
elsewhere for short periods. They
moved back and forth between
Dallas and Wilkes-Barre, main-
taining homes sometimes in both
places. Most of the larger, older
houses on Lake Street werebuiltby
the Kirkendalls, their in-laws, and
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business partners. George W. Kirk-
endall and wife, Almira, deeded to
the Trustees the lot upon which the
Methodist Church stands in 1890
for $750. and abouta year later the
widow deeded the parsonagelotfor
$300. George W. served as trustee.
Dwight Woolcott and John T. Phil-
lips, whose wives were Kirkendalls,
were church trustees and Phillips
was superintendent of the Sunday
School. William P. Kirkendall was
a trustee, his wife Olive, a steward.
George T. Kirkendall was a stew-
ard. Another early steward, when
the charge included also Shaver-
town and Trucksville, was B. P.
Kirkendall, a butcher of Shaver-
town, whom this writer cannot fit
in the family. The Kirkendalls and
relatives were also stockholders in
the High School, the Dallas Broom
Company, and were active in the
Dallas Fair and other local enter-
prises, including the Masonic or-
ganizations.
George W. Kirkendall (1833-
1891) married Almira Shaver. Of
seven children, two resided here and
were well known. Marie Louise
married John T. Phillips, who had
extensive lumber operations up
Bowmans Creek, in Kentucky and
West Virginia, and elsewhere. They
built the big house, later owned by
George T. Kirkendall, now oc-
cupied by James Oliver. After her
husband’s death she lived in an-
other house on Lake Street, and for
a while was a partner with her sis-
ter-in-law, Anna Phillips and Flora
Brown, operating a women’s fur-
nishings store on Church Street
across from the Hotel.
George Talmadge Kirkendall,
‘son of George W., was married
twice. By his second wife, Mrs.
Amelia Ruffner, hehad no children.
By his first wife, Helen Dennis But-
ler, he had three sons and three
daughters. One daughter, Marie,
died as a very small child. George
B., John P., Henry, Helen, and
Ruth grew up here, married, and
most of them have not resided here
in recent years. John, who attended
West Point, recently retired as a
brigadier general, U.S.A. F.
Ira M. Kirkendall, bornin Dallas
in 1835, married first Hannah
Driesbach, second Sarah Bartlett.
By his first wife he had a daughter,
Grace, who married Charles A.
Bartlett, and a son, Frederick C.,
whose wife was Eleanor Gearhart.
They had children: Frederick C.
Jr., Eleanor, and Cordelia. The
present Frederick C. of Trucksville,
the third of the name, is a son of
Frederick, Jr. Fredrick, Sr., men-
tioned more fully below, had a sum-
mer home on Terrace Street
equipped with a private railroad, a
great delight to the youngsters.
William Penn Kirkendall, bornin
Dallas in 1843, youngest son of
Wheeler, married Oliver A. Patter-
son. A daughter Cary died in in-
fancy. They built a big house on
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With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
VIVIAN VANCE is back again
as Lucy’s sidekick. Three years ago
she said no more television for her.
Since then she has married John
Dodds, aliterary agent. They own a
lovely home in Connecticut. Fortu-
nately her husband has clients on
the West Coast. Otherwise she
wouldn’t sign the new contract.
This past summer Vivian did
Summer Stock. She found that she
enjoyed being before an audience
again.
In the new series Lucy and she
play a couple of women who live in
the same house with their children.
Lucy is a widow with asonanda
daughter. Vivian, who usesher own
name in the series is a divorcee with
one son.
In real life Vivianhasno children
of her own but she does come from a
large family. As a young girl she
helped to bring up her four sisters
and one brother. When she had a |
nervous breakdown not so many
years ago her family increased by
many nieces showed their love and
gratitude.
The stress of being an entertainer
has forced many to a state of col-
lapse and visits to psychiatrists. As
a rule it is a closely keptsecret. Not
so with Vivian Vance who is chair-
man of the ‘Operation, Friend-
ship” for the Connecticut Associa-
tion for Mental Health.
She says, “I had a severe emo-
tional breakdown. It was the love
and devotion of my family, plus
psychoanalysis that made me well.
It’s a terrible mistake to tell the
mentally ill ‘to snap outofit’. These
unfortunates are in their mental
state because they feel they are fail-
ures. They need to be encouraged.
They need affection.
“It’s most rewarding when I vi-
sit the Connecticut state hospitals.
Some of the patients know me from
TV and they open up and talk
freely. And that’s what will help
them —talking and discussing
what’s on their minds. My own
crack-up puts us on a common
ground and the fact that I became
cured is an inspiration to them.
“I work hard to get volunteers
but most people ask: “What can I
do? TI tell them to contact the vol-
unteers in the hospitals. They’ll
show them how to help.”
She also had praise for Rescue,
Inc. the organization which is listed
in the frontofmosttelephone books.
This is an organization for thesole
purpose of preventing suicides.
“I can’t stress too much the value
of the telephone. The alcoholic, the
mentally ill and the would-be-sui-
cides can be helped by a telephone
talk. It’s a wonderful crutch to
hang on to . . . when the urge to
do something comes, to be able to
‘hang on’ just a little longer does
the trick.”
THE NURSES— If anyone had
his doubts that a hospital is a dis