I sent this in yesterday but it did not turn up in my digest mode. I hope I am sending to the correct address From: [email protected] Subject: My Henderson Tree Date: December 14, 2005 11:03:19 AM EST To: [email protected] This is my Henderson Line according to the family history book that was written by my great uncle, Dr Frank Henderson of St Louis Missouri. He also helped compile data for the Henderson Chronicle, 1915. I have data on some of the collateral families. My uncle saved his original data which I have some...... letters, interviews, bible etc.. Hope this helps someone... I do not have information for the people that were not the direct ancestors of my line. What you see is what I have. I can send this as a pdf if it cannot be read by Windows since I am using a MAC... I checked the compatibility of this document for Windows users and it should be ok... if not let me know.. Descendants of Alexander Henderson Generation No. 1 1. ALEXANDER1 HENDERSON He married JEAN. Children of ALEXANDER HENDERSON and JEAN are: 2. i. JAMES2 HENDERSON, b. 09 May 1764, South River at Great Springs, Augusta County; d. 17 May 1845, Mayslick, Kentucky. ii. DAVID HENDERSON. iii. JEAN HENDERSON. iv. JOSEPH HENDERSON. v. JOHN HENDERSON. vi. SAMUEL HENDERSON. vii. WILLIAM HENDERSON. viii. GEORGE HENDERSON. ix. DANIEL HENDERSON. x. ELIZABETH HENDERSON. xi. ALEXANDER HENDERSON. xii. FLORENCE HENDERSON. Generation No. 2 2. JAMES2 HENDERSON (ALEXANDER1) was born 09 May 1764 in South River at Great Springs, Augusta County, and died 17 May 1845 in Mayslick, Kentucky. He married PRUDENCE CAMPBELL 11 Jan 1785 in Rockbridge County, Lexington Virginia, daughter of CAMPBELL. She was born 02 Feb 1764 in near Balcony Falls, on James River, Rockbridge Co. Virginia, and died 23 Jun 1845 in Mayslick, Kentucky. Notes for JAMES HENDERSON: Abt 1789 Prudence and James and 2 boys joined a "covered Wagon" to travel through the Shenadoah Valley, over the Alleghany Mountains and across what is now West Virginia to the Ohio River where to then traveled by barges. More About JAMES HENDERSON: Burial: on Family Farm. Emigration: Abt. 1789 More About PRUDENCE CAMPBELL: Burial: on Family Farm. Marriage Notes for JAMES HENDERSON and PRUDENCE CAMPBELL: Family Bible says marriage date Jan 11, 1785, the record in Court House says Jan. 12, 1786. They were married by Reverand Edward Crawford. Children of JAMES HENDERSON and PRUDENCE CAMPBELL are: 3. i. GEORGE3 HENDERSON, b. 17 Jan 1789; d. 10 Mar 1859. ii. ALEXANDER HENDERSON, b. 15 Sep 1787; m. POLLY PATTON, 27 Jan 1814. iii. JINNY HENDERSON, b. 20 Mar 1790; m. SAMUEL M CLANGARD(?), 15 Jan 1807. iv. NANCY HENDERSON, b. 11 Aug 1793; m. MOSES FITZGURALD, 02 Jan 1812. v. JOHN HENDERSON, b. 22 Aug 1795. vi. BETSY HENDERSON, b. 15 Feb 1797; m. JOHN STEWART, 01 Jan 1818. vii. WILLIAM HENDERSON, b. 1799. viii. SAMUEL HENDERSON, b. 15 Mar 1801. ix. DAVID HENDERSON, b. 07 Apr 1803. x. JAMES HENDERSON, b. 08 Mar 1805. Generation No. 3 3. GEORGE3 HENDERSON (JAMES2, ALEXANDER1) was born 17 Jan 1789, and died 10 Mar 1859. He married MARY ELEANOR WILLIAMS 19 May 1836, daughter of WILLIAM WILLIAMS and HENRIETTA WHEELER. She was born 11 Apr 1811, and died 24 Feb 1840. Notes for GEORGE HENDERSON: Though only a lad of 16, he got his parent's permision to leave the family farm in Mayslick, Kentucky. He worked his way to Louisville Kentucky. His ambtition was to own a store and to be his "own master". " He was a born merchant and being Scott was thrifty. A principle he clung to all his life was to work for himself whenever possible; to be his own master. Following this principle, thought little more than a child, he soon saved enough money to load his own flat boat with merchandise which he floated down to the big sugar and cotton plantations on the lower Mississippi, He would sell his cargo at a big profit before reaching New Orleans, then would buy a pony and start back over the dangerous trail to Louisville. In ten years, he had amassed a considerable sum of money. Though thrifty and carefule, there was an element of boldness in him. He saw things large and played for big stakes. He flet that cotton would rise just as soon as the war of 1814 was over, so he put every cent into cotton. The levee at New Orleans was full of it and when Andrew Jackson built his breastwork of cotton bales, from behind which he defeated the picked soldiers of Packenham, it was George Henderson's little fortune that was routed instewad of our courageous Tennessee and Kentucky riflemen. The cotton was shot full of lead which made it uselenss, and the bailing was ripped to tatters. There is a tradition in our branch of the family that George. rather unhappy, sold the wreckage to a trader for a song, the trader, without bothering to remove the lead, rebailed the cotton and resold it by weight at a tidy profit. But George's cotton helped in the defense of New Orleans. Young George went broke, and back to flat boating. By 1830 he has made another fortunre. The work isnot used in the modern sense but in the terms of one hundred years ago. He moved to Manchester, St Louis County, Missouri where he opend a general store and private banking business. Manchester was 20 miles west of St Louis and was the first night's halt of the emigrant trains to the west. His enterprise prospered and George Henderson became one of the weatlthy men of his community. More About GEORGE HENDERSON: Burial: Coldwater Cemetery Florisant, St Louis Co, Missouri Reared: on Family Farm, Mayslick, Kentucky More About MARY ELEANOR WILLIAMS: Burial: Coldwater Cemetery Florisant, St Louis Co, Missouri Children of GEORGE HENDERSON and MARY WILLIAMS are: 4. i. JAMES ALEXANDER4 HENDERSON, b. 13 Mar 1839, Manchester, St Louis County, Missouri; d. 20 Apr 1916, Blantyre, St Louis Missouri. ii. WILLIAM WALTER HENDERSON, b. 22 Mar 1837; m. MARTHA E EVANS, 1857. Notes for WILLIAM WALTER HENDERSON: Goodwood: 440 acres on the Brown Road, one half mile north of Natural Bridge Road. Burnt in 1917 More About WILLIAM WALTER HENDERSON: Occupation: Medical Doctor never practiced Residence: Goodwood Generation No. 4 4. JAMES ALEXANDER4 HENDERSON (GEORGE3, JAMES2, ALEXANDER1) was born 13 Mar 1839 in Manchester, St Louis County, Missouri, and died 20 Apr 1916 in Blantyre, St Louis Missouri. He married VIRGINIA LAFAYETTE ROYALL 20 Apr 1859, daughter of FRANCIS ROYALL and PAMELA PRICE. Notes for JAMES ALEXANDER HENDERSON: Within 2 months of his graduation from the University of Missouri in 1856 he was a participant in the Jay Bird Isurrection. His class had taken a rebellious stand and refused to recede from it. Purchased "Blantyre" from his cousin, Dr Richard Bland in 1859 in Bridgeton Missouri, about 3 miles from his old home of Goodwood. Was a Union man in a very southern sympathizing state. He could not serve in the Army due to a congential heart lesion. He leased Blantyre for 8 years and moved Columbia Missouri. He was elected Assessor and Probate Judge. In 1873, moved back to Blantyre. More About JAMES ALEXANDER HENDERSON: Education: University of Missouri Occupation: Lawyer Children of JAMES HENDERSON and VIRGINIA ROYALL are: i. WILLIAM WALTER5 HENDERSON, b. 25 Jun 1869; d. Jul 1939; m. ROSE MCCAUSLAND, 05 Feb 1891. ii. FRANK L HENDERSON, b. 18 Mar 1865; d. 13 May 1927; m. GERTRUDE PARKER SPAULDING, 31 Dec 1895; b. 19 Jan 1869; d. 02 Dec 1957. iii. ROYALL HENDERSON, b. 22 May 1860. iv. GEORGE ROYALL HENDERSON, b. 08 Sep 1862; d. 24 Dec 1908. v. EVELYN PRICE HENDERSON, b. 16 Dec 1871; m. HERBERT W. SNOW, 02 Dec 1896; b. 01 Sep 1863; d. 14 Dec 1937. vi. PAUL HENDERSON, b. 05 Mar 1875; d. 14 Jul 1905. vii. EDWIN ELLIS HENDERSON, b. 04 Jun 1880; d. 27 Apr 1891.