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"The arrest of
John W. Kendall and William McMillan, better known as Bill Muck, set the stage
for tragedy. Kendall, a thirty-nine year old Confederate veteran, belonged to
one of the most prominent families in the Little Sandy region. The son of Lewis
and Louisa Kendall, he resided with
his wife and family in the vicinity of Newfoundland or Crackers Neck.
| Kendall's alleged accomplice, the thirty-three year old "Muck”, was one
of many local men who rode with Sid Cook's and Sam Thompson’s rebel
partisans during the war. He was wounded and captured by the same Union patrol
that killed Billy Bumgardner on Bruin Creek in the winter of
1864(ironically John Kendall's brother, James Amos Kendall, who also rode with
Cook, was cornered and killed by Unionists on Newcombe at virtually
the same time). "Muck" afterwards married Bumgardner's sister, Lydia,
and
lived in Rowan County prior to settling near Newfoundland in the 1870's."