Friday, September 21, 2012

George Henderson - Virginia - Tennessee- Missouri Link?

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A history of the pioneer families of Missouri, with numerous sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to early days in Missouri : also the lives of Daniel Boone and the celebrated Indian chief Black Hawk, with numerous biographies and histories of primitive institutions by Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose"


Henderson. — Alexander Henderson, of Augusta county, 
Va., had sixteen children, and raised ten of them. The 
names of those who lived were — John, Samuel, Joseph, Robert,. 
David, Alexander, Jr., William, George, James, and DanieL 
The latter married Martha Steele, of Virginia, and settled on 
Auxvasse creek, in Callaway county, in 1823. They had four 
children, all of whom were born in Virginia and came to Mis- 
souri with their parents. Their names were — Alexander, James- 
S., John S., and Jane. Alexander married Dicey Finley. Judge 
James S. married Emily Boone, daughter of Judge Jesse Boone. 
John S, was married twice ; first to Mary Snell, and second to- 
Elizabeth Pratt. Jane married Colonel Isaac Tate. Joseph 
Henderson, brother of Daniel, married Susan Rallef, of Virginia,, 
and settled in Callaway county in 1835. John married Polly 
Burton, of Kentucky, and settled in Callaway county in 1835. 
William married a widow lady named Irvine, and settled in 
Audrain county. George and James also settled in Missouri, the 
former in Clay county, and the latter in St. Louis. David mar- 
ried Ellen Anderson, and they had — Alexander, David, Jr.,, 
Joseph, John, William, Margaret, Rachel, Elizabeth, and Elsa. 
Alexander, son of David Henderson, Sr., was married first to 
Margaret Hart, and second to Elizabeth Morrison. He had ten 
children by his two wives. Mr. Henderson settled in Callaway 
county at an early date, and taught singing school for a number 
of years. It is said that he and George W. Burt sang love songs 
so sweetly that the pupils all fell in love with them. David J., 
son of Alexander Henderson, Jr., married Mary R. Blackenburg, 
and settled in Callaway county in 1828. They had nine sons and 
two daughters. 

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