Joseph Davis MENDENHALL
- Born: 27 Feb 1850, Arkansas
- Marriage (1): Sarah Cordelia "Delia" CROSS on 14 Jan 1879 in Greenwood, Sebastian County, Arkansas
- Died: 15 Jun 1915, Waco, McLennan County, Texas at age 65
- Buried: Blocker, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma
 General Notes:
ANCESTRY: Descended from Warinus de la Strode (born 1020 in Bretagne, France), a French knight who lived at the time of William the Conqueror
ANCESTRY: 7th Great-Grandchild of John Mildenhall Jr. (born 1560), the only Englishmen to visit both royal courts of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and the first Englishmen to be buried in India
ANCESTRY: Great-Great-Nephew of John Bartram, the "Father of American Botany"
ANCESTRY: First-Cousin (Thrice Removed) to William Bartram, "America's first Ornithologist"
ANCESTRY: Third-Cousin to Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (born 1841), Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier's namesake
NOTEWORTHY: After the murder of two of his brothers (Thomas and Nathan), Joseph tracked the Jawhawk killers to their campsite and shot them. About 1880, Joseph and his family moved to Cowlington, OK which was at that time Indian Territory. They later moved to Pittsburg County, OK.
DEATH: Joseph died of a lung and throat ailment at the home of his niece, Abbie McKaughan.
Joseph married Sarah Cordelia "Delia" CROSS on 14 Jan 1879 in Greenwood, Sebastian County, Arkansas. (Sarah Cordelia "Delia" CROSS was born in Mar 1860 in Iowa and died in 1896 in Canadian, Choctaw Land (Pittsburg County), Oklahoma.)
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