This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GW.2ADE/1027 Message Board Post: Obituary Tribute to John Jackson Hensley by his son, Rev. A. H. Hensley: In memoriam , Major John Jackson Hensley, veteran of Dennis, and better known as "Uncle Jack," passed away on December 24, 1902. He was well known and highly respected. J.J. Hensley first beheld life's fleeting morn in Franklin County, Missouri, August 18, 1816. He passed away peacefully and triumphantly at his home in the Sierra foothills, fifteen miles northeast of Madera.