I know it has been a bit since I posted last for my Henderson's of Grainger County..but that is usually what happens to me. I get into history and stop when I am stuck and get into it again.
But I have made a new discovery about "Stephen H. Henderson" .. that is where I had my starting point. He was born about 1809/1810 in Grainger County, Tennessee... but who his father was? Is still up in the air.
Many have said it was George Henderson who married Nancy Larimore (even I was convinced) ...but looking at the '1836 tax records' for Grainger County.. I see something interesting:
District 9 :
Henderson, Nancy
Henderson, Stephen
Henderson, E.J.
"E. J. HENDERSON : Full Name : Etheldred J (J I am guessing is for Jefferson) Henderson :
born : March 13, 1810
died : October 29, 1836"
-He had a son who was : William A. Henderson . His wife was : Emeline. He has a tombstone that reads :
"Two departed ,Two to follow" that is probably has to do with EJ 's passing and his daughter, Mary Ann's death in 1875.
So what does this tell you :
EJ and Stephen were probably brothers. Also means Stephen was probably born in 1809 . Why am I suggesting this ? Because these people stayed in the district. If I am right, then Nancy Henderson is William Henderson's wife. William's father is Thomas , check this out :
William Y. Henderson to Nancy Windham
02 MAR 1803, Grainger Co., TN, bond John F. Jack, neighbor
Here:
1. WILLIAM Y.3 HENDERSON (THOMAS (THETENNESSEE PIONEER)2, THOMAS (THE
ELDER)1) was born Bef. 1770 in Near US 25 W And And Highway 11, Grainger
Co., TN, and died 1810 in Grainger Co., TN. He married (1) DIANA
COULTER Bef. 1790, daughter of JOHN COULTER and UNKNOWN. She died Abt.
1795. He married (2) UNKNOWN Bet. 1800 - 1803 in Grainger Co., TN.
He married (3) NANCY WINDHAM 02 Mar 1803 in Claiborne Co., TN, daughter
of REUBEN WINDHAM and RACHEL UNK. She was born Bet. 1786 - 1790, and
died Bet. 1850 - 1853 in Grainger Co., TN.
Notes for WILLIAM Y. HENDERSON:
Lived German Creek at Rocky Springs, TN near Bean Station
note: my family had lived on the land , from Stephen H. Henderson until my great-great-great grandfather, Thomas Henderson (he sold the land to his daughter in the early 1900s) . It is sad that none of my family was recorded in any family history books.. or books for that matter.
Here is another interesting fact:
Grainger County was established in 1795 from Hawkins & Knox
Cos TN: “That the said counties of Hawkins and Knox be divided by the
following lines: Beginning on the main road leading from Bull's Gap to
HAINE'S iron works on Mossy creek, at the house of Felps READ [REED], leaving said house in the new county, running a direct course to the Kentucky road, on the north side of Holston river, a quarter of a mile above the house of Thomas HENDERSON; thence north fifty degrees west to the line that divides this state from the state of Viriginia; thence west with said line to a point, north west of the end of Clinch mountain; thence a direct course to the end of Clinch mountain; thence with the ridge that divides the waters of Richland and Flat creeks to Holston river, at the upper end of the first bluff above BOYLE'S old place; thence up the meanders of said river to the mouth of Panther Creek;
thence up said creek to the head spring thereof, near the house of John
EVANS; thence along the main waggon road to the beginnning. (Roulstone,
Laws of the State of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1803)
For 1836 in Grainger County, the map (I will post later) it shows "District 9 " right at "Clinch Mountain" and that is Thomas Henderson's land.... from the late 1700s .
