>From THE FLORENCE HERALD - Saturday, January 22, 1890: DIED---- At Russellville, Ala., Monday, January 6th, 1890, Mrs. HENDERSON, in the eighty- sixth year of her age. Deceased was born in Scotland, lived for a time in Manchester, Eng., and came to America in 1840. After a short stay in New York, she came in Florence, where a considerable portion of her life was spent. From Florence, she removed to New Orleans, where her son, Mr. ------HENDERSON, is a leading business man. It was her invariable custom to spend her summers in Florence, so that for half a century she has been one of the most valued and beloved members of our social and religious world. Her coming and stay with us was like the return of some loved one long absent from the home circle and the church. Her profound knowledge of the doctrines of the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member for near seventy years, her thorough acquaintance with its history, her strict observance of all the outward forms of worship and her pure and noble life made acquaintance with her at once instructive and delightful. She was a sister of the late Mr. --- WILSON, of Russellville, and an aunt of Prof. M. C. WILSON of the State Normal School. She was a direct descendant of MARGARET WILSON, who was bound to the stake at low tide by GRIERSON's troopery, and who rather than recant, was drowned by the incoming tide, in the old covenanting days. During the last fall she had had a stroke of paralysis at her home in New Orleans, and after partially recovering came to her relatives at Russellville, that she might be near the burial place of her family. On the evening of Jan. 6th, her niece, Mrs. EAST, with whom she was staying, on entering her room, found sitting speechless, with her open Bible on her knees, -- the last act of her life in keeping with its whole tenor. She was "watching", and her "lamp was trimmed" when the cry arose, "the bridegroom cometh." Pure in life, simple yet stalwart in faith, devout in practice, gentle in manner, loving and charitable in all relations. She was one of the landmarks of the olden faith and manners, whose memory cannot perish. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; yea, saith the spirit, for their works do follow them." -- M. L. F.