Howard P Kuykendall met the Haydock brothers from Pennsylvania and New Jersey

while conducting business in Livingston County KY, just across the Cumberland River

from his home in what later became Marshall Co KY.  He also met their sister, Mary,

and fell in love.  But convincing Mary to join him in that rough frontier country was

not an easy matter, as she was accustomed to life in the eastern cities.  However an

agreement was reached, and Howard travelled to Rahway NJ, loaded his flatboat with

Mary's various belongings, made the hazardous journey down the rivers from New

Jersey to Kentucky, and deposited the belongings and Mary in the home he had

built to her specifications.  She had insisted on "tongue and groove" flooring (when dirt

floors were not unusual in that age).  Mary also had her piano (or what we would now

call a pinafore) and other furnishings that were not common for the time and place.

It must have been well worth Howard's efforts, as he and Mary raised three children

and remained happily married for 40 years, until death did them part !!