Source: "Biographical History of Primitive or Old School Baptist Ministers of the United States", edited by R.H. Pittman, republished 1984 by Primitive Baptist Publications, Inc. Stone Mountain, GA p. 130 J.E.W. Henderson Henderson, Elder J.E.W., of Troy, Ala. was born January 23, 1839. His father, John D. Henderson and mother, Sarah Thompson, were natives of South Carolina, and were members of the Baptist Church before the division in 1832. His father devoted his life to hard, manual labor, but never accumulated much property, and at the age when children are commonly put into school he was unable to afford the subject of this sketch such advantage, and he grew up to manhood without education, having spent only about two months in school during his life. He served in the Confederate army for a term of three years and three months; and while this deprived him of the comforts of home and the society of loved ones (having a precious wife and three children at home), it pleased the Lord of heaven and earth to visit him with quickening power; and on the the 11th day of August, 1862, he felt a powerful sense of his pardoning mercy which left him in possession of a precious hope that all will be well with him beyond this vale of sorrow and affliction. Having obtained leave of absence from the army, in August, 1863, he visited his family, and attended and united with the Primitive Baptist Church at Hopeful, Russell County, Ala. and was baptized by Elder L. B. Porter. He was in 1871 ordained by Elders Wm. M Mitchell and C.S. Tate, at Mt. Olive Church and though now about seventy years old --(1908)--- yet is serving three churches regularly. Elder Henderson is associate editor of the Gospel Messenger, is a fluent and able writer, a gifted preacher, and fully satisfied with the doctrine and practice of the apostolic church and wishes to apply alone the principles and practices to his own churches. His writings are greatly enjoyed by the readers of The Messenger.