Garret J. Pendergrast - brother to our line, Patrick, my notes in red.  They are buried in the Stanton County, KS cemetery named Manter.  And the following is taken from an index transcribed of the cemetery:

PENDERGRAST DELLA M #32 Same stone as Garrett Unreadable
PENDERGRAST GARRETT M #32 Same stone as Della Unreadable Footstone

My notes:  Garrett's father, Jesse Elliott Pendergrass, murdered a school teacher in Louisville in 1847; and had to live out the remainder of his life in Canada.  His children were living with relatives in the Jefferson Co. 1850 Census.

Garret J. Pendergrast, Rossville, farmer, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on the 24th of February, 1838, and is a son of James F. Pendergrast and Dorothea (Miller) Pendergrast.  His father was a physician of Jefferson county.  He was reared a farmer, and also learned the trade of brick making and bricklaying.  In 1856, when he was 18 he emigrated to Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1858 he returned to Kentucky, and in the fall went to Chippewa county, Michigan,  and entered one hundred and twenty acres of land, living eighteen months among the Indians, but growing weary of his prolonged separation from white men and civilization, he gave his land to his brother, who lived in that section fifteen years altogether.  He retuned to "Old Kaintuck," and after a few months went to New Orleans.

In 1863 he again wandered back to his native home.  Three or four years were then spent in farming, after which he went to making and laying brick in Henry and Shelby counties.  He was married on the 9th of December, 1871, to Delia Hardesty when he was 33.  Delia Hardesty was the daughter of a wealthy farmer of Henry county, living near Eminence.  She was born on the 23rd of November, 1853.  In 1872 he emigrated to Illinois and settled at Rossville, where he continued his usual employments of farming and making and laying brick.  He and his brother Patrick (my great grandfather) built all the brick business-houses in Rossville, viz; Deamudes's, Henderson's and Putnam & Albright's.  He has a pleasant home of sixteen acres on the northern confines of town, valued at $1,500.  He was identified with the Republican party for a long time, but for the past few years has been independent in politics.  The Pendergrast's were Irish, and the Moores, - his ancestors on his mother's side, - were English.

Both families were among the earliest settlers of Kentucky; they had emigrated from Pennsylvania.  His great-grandfather, Jesse Pendergrast, (this should read Garrett Jesse Pendergrast, and it was Fort Harrodsburg, not Boonsborough) was killed at Boonesborough in attempting to enter the fort while it was invested by Indians.  His grandfather, Jesse Pendergrast, was born in the old fort, and a brother, Garret J. Pendergrast, for many years a noted practitioner of Louisville and surgeon in the U.S. army, was reputed to have been the first white male child born in Kentucky.  His birthplace was also at Boonesborough.  (My note, they were at Fort Harrodsburg).

Garret J. Pendergrast, uncle to the subject of this sketch, was a Commodore in the U.S. navy, and at the breaking out of the war was one of the oldest officers in the service.  His wife, Virginia Barron, was a daughter of Commodore Barron who killed Decatur in a duel. 

Austin Pendergrast, another brother to the subject of this sketch, was a Commander in the U.S. Navy.  He was lieutenant-commander of the Congress when she was sunk by the Merrimac at Newport News.  He commanded the U.S. steamer Waterwitch in Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, when she was captured, and received a severe wound in the engagement.  He was confined in Libby prison eighteen months.  He, among others, was placed under the rebel guns at Charleston during the siege of that city by Gen. Gillmore, to check the federal fires.