This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Henderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/yNi.2ACEB/2387.2408.2413.2423.1 Message Board Post: Ralph. I suspect that you are in the same clan but down a different stream. From North Carolina, etc, it appears that my direct line went to Mississippi then to Texas. Another branch which my line seems to have stemmed from went through Alabama, Texase, Louisana, Arkansas - maybe not all the same branch there. It can get a little confusing. >From (Judge) Charles Henderson (The Translyvania Company - the one that hired Daniel Boone to open the wilderness road through the Cunberland Gap, then lead the settlers into Kentuky) My branch split off in oine direction and several others split in various directions. Looking at Daniel - perhaps that is a direct line from Charles (Judge) Charles Henderson. I believe one of his daughters married the son of Daniel Boone (Or the other way around). It may be that the name Daniel followed that line. Then on down the line from Charles, James Pickney Henderson (An Uncle of mine but I can not document the connection) went through Mississippi to Texas, arrived there in about 1835. Joined the Texas revolution, ffirst ambassador to France, and first Governor of Texas. In about 1855 his law partner (Rusk) was US Senator from Texas, committed suicide, and James Pickney Henderson was appointed to served out the term of the deceased Rusk. However James died after a couple of months as Senator I thinkk of Pneumonia. There is a statue of him in the court house square in San Augustine, Texas, and , of course, his picture in the rotounda of the capitol at Austin ,Texas. His picture is the first in the line of governors and James W. Bush is the last - until now. Wish I could give you more - but that is it. I have my direct line back to 1370 in Scotland. Average age 72.3 years - so I have beat the average by six years and counting. Sincerely Arno A. "Hank" Henderson Jr.