The Henry Family

Notes

William Henry

According to the 1910 Census Book (Wilson County Library) William wasliving with his Son, John S. and Florence (Pat's grandparents) inLebanon, TN. His age was listed as 60 and Frances was 66, she was bornin VA.According to the 1910 Census Book (Wilson County Library) Williamwas living with his Son, John S. and Florence (Pat's grandparents) inLebanon, TN. His age was listed as 60 and Frances was 66, she was bornin VA.

Rosa Bohannon

Died in childbirth, her son livedDied in childbirth, her son lived

Lidgard Fine Henry

Lidgard Fine HENRY, Born circa 1818-20 in Tennessee. He died 23 Aug 1895and is buried at the HENRY Cemetery located in the Calfkiller Communityoff the west side of Highway 84, Putnam Co. TN. He was the son of JohnHENRY (Born 1788 in North Carolina or Tennessee. Died, 1865, in PutnamCo, TN). He is buried at the HENRY Cemetery as well. John HENRY may havebeen the son of George HENRY, who was an Ensign from Cocke Co., Tennesseewho was with the Tennessee Militia and died in White Co, Tennessee circa1817. (Putnam Co was birthed of White Co.) His wife was named Anny.{Information from
Benton D HENRY, 5207 N Black Canyon, B-51, Phoenix, AZ 85015.
Lidgard Fine HENRY's wife was Nancy THOMAS *Henry, they married about1835. Nancy was born circa 1820-21 in Tennessee. She died in 1888 and isburied at the HENRY Cemetery. She was the daughter of George THOMAS(b.1783, N.C. death uncertain) and Nancy ? PRYER *Thomas (Born, circa1790 in Tennessee, she possibly the daughter of William PRYER(Born, circa1760-70. Died, circa 1840-50 in White Co, TN.

From the book, A JACKSON FAMILY HISTORY: PUTNAM COUNTY,Lidgard FineHENRY, Born circa 1818-20 in Tennessee. He died 23 Aug 1895 and is buriedat the HENRY Cemetery located in the Calfkiller Community off the westside of Highway 84, Putnam Co. TN. He was the son of John HENRY (Born1788 in North Carolina or Tennessee. Died, 1865, in Putnam Co, TN). He isburied at the HENRY Cemetery as well. John HENRY may have been the sonof George HENRY, who was an Ensign from Cocke Co., Tennessee who was withthe Tennessee Militia and died in White Co, Tennessee circa 1817. (PutnamCo was birthed of White Co.) His wife was named Anny. {Information from
Benton D HENRY, 5207 N Black Canyon, B-51, Phoenix, AZ 85015.
Lidgard Fine HENRY's wife was Nancy THOMAS *Henry, they married about1835. Nancy was born circa 1820-21 in Tennessee. She died in 1888 and isburied at the HENRY Cemetery. She was the daughter of George THOMAS(b.1783, N.C. death uncertain) and Nancy ? PRYER *Thomas (Born, circa1790 in Tennessee, she possibly the daughter of William PRYER(Born, circa1760-70. Died, circa 1840-50 in White Co, TN.

From the book, A JACKSON FAMILY HISTORY: PUTNAM COUNTY, TENNESSEE ANDBEYOND by Michael Stephen Jackson, 202 East St. Clair Street, Freeburg,IL 62243-1243.

According to Benton Henry, Lidge (Lidgard Fine) Henry was named forLidgard FINE b 1755 VA of Cocke County, TN who was the son of PeterFine. Lidge is pronounced with a short "i", like "ridge" I think thename evolved from the surname "Ledyard", because in earlier spellings itis seen, someitme, as Ledgard, with an "e". The name "Vinet" came fromthe Fines as well. Lidgard was sometimes spelled "Ledyard".

Benton D. Henry says his sources were:
L. D. Henry Bible and information from John Morgan Grant & Benton M Henry
Oldest Marriage book- White County
and memeories of many descendents of this family.

More Stories from Benton D. Henry

Speaking of stories, here is one about our common ancestor that I shouldshare with you. It was
passed down through several branches of his descendants essentially thesame, according to Bea
(AKER) RODEN who wrote it to me in 1981. Bea is a gg. granddaughter ofLidge F. & Nancy
(THOMAS) HENRY as we are, but through George W. HENRY b. 1841. I firstlearned of it
from Wilbert WHITAKER, when he took me to HENRY CEMETERY in 1971:

THE DEATH OF LIDGE F. HENRY

"Family talk says that Lidge F. was married twice after Nancy died in1888. At the time of his death he was living with his daughter LuranaJACKSON at the foot of the mountain. We think it was the original home-place on the CALFKILLER, where HENRY CEMETERY is now, and that Lurana andher husband, James, had moved in with Lidge after he became too old towork."

"About a week before his death, his daughter-in-law, Rachel, told herhusband, George W. HENRY, and son, Lidge Fine, that 'Sane-thing hashappened to your Pa. ... .you need to go see about him' . As Rachel wasknown to be able to ' see ', or have premonitions, they rode down themountain to see him. No one was home except Lidge F. They found him upin the barn loft, where he had removed several planks from the loftfloor. George W. asked his father what he was
doing. Lidge muttered something about 'fixing the floor'. G. W. waitedfor his sister, Lurana, to return, and then visited with her a while. Ashe was leaving he told her, 'Keep an eye on Pa -- he's acting a littlepeculiar'."

"A few days later, Lurana had to visit a neighbor, and left her teenagedaughter to watch over the baby and her grandfather. At some point Lidgetold his granddaughter he was 'going to the barn',and thinking he wasgoing to the outhouse, she got busy with the baby and forgot about him."

Lidge evidently "went up in the barn loft, threw a rope over the rafterabove where he had removed the floor planks, tied the rope around hisneck, and stepped into the hole he had made..."

That's the way they found him. The date, according to his tombstone, was23 Aug., 1895. He was buried, of course, next to his wife, Nancy, atHENRY CEMETERY.

He was 73 years old.
* * *
No doubt Lidge's children contemplated this event for a long time -- aswe, his g.g. grandchildren, are left to do... Though this happened fourgenerations and a little more than a hundred years ago, the humanconnection is always within us.

Mary E Henry

Mary E. was living with parents in 1870Mary E. was living with parents in1870

William "Billy" Henry

Killed on the Rhine River in Germany during WW2

Served with the Engineers Corps in June, 1940 but was transferred to theinfantry a short time before his death.

John Henry

According to Benton D. Henry, the sources for this information are:
L. D. Henry Bible and recollections of Benton M. Henry and John MorganGrant
Oldest marriage book, White County
Census- White County 1820-30-40-50-60 and Putname County 1860-70-80
Tax Lists- White County 1811-12-26
Tax Lists-Putnam County 1854-62
Sand Spring and Henry Cemetery

Lived near Monterey, Tn part of White Co., became Putnam County, 1854

Found this on the IGI
Batch number: 8334601
Sheet: 42

Benton says this is in error: Susanna Day was not married to our JohnHenry

"Our John and Susanna HENRY of White CO. were not the John HENRY -Susanna Day who were married in RHEA CO. TN. in 1816. That John, s/oJohn HENRY Sr. of RHEA CO., died young, around 1819 or so & I have allkinds of records to prove it. His land was sold to his bro.-in-law, JohnDAY. One of our WHITE CO. cousins latched onto this marriage recordwithout doing her homework, and submitted it to the Mormons, who didn'tdo their homework
either, and baptized the wrong John and Susanna!

I just sent Anita HANSON a copy of an article I wrote a while back for"HENRY HERALD';dealing with this comedy of errors, and the TENN.
HENRY "Quagmire" in general... ANYWAY our own ggg. gm., Susanna, b.cl790 in SOUTH CAROLINA, remains my number-one mystery, after threedecades of searching. I've collected several hundred HENRY marriagerecords from TENN., VA., N. C.,and elsewhere, and our John and Susannaare not among 'em. All COCKE CO.records, 1797 to about 1879, went up insmoke with the courthouse in the 1870's; likewise the early WHITE CO.marriage records were lost during the CIVIL WAR, for the period of timeour John and Susanna would have been married if they were marriedthere. They were not married in ROANE CO., as far as the records show,where John's "brothers" Vinet, George, and Joseph went
(for no explainable reason) to marry ROANE CO. girls in 1818, 1820, and1821... I have long suspected that our HENRY gang stayed a while in somecounty in-between COCKE and White, between 1798-1811, especially theKNOX-ROANE area, but if so, I've found no footprints. John first showedup in WHITE CO. in the 1811 TAX LIST; then old George (with, presumably,the rest of the family) showed up next to John in 1812. By the time ofthe 1820 CENSUS, old
George has died, "Annie" has likewise disappeared, and the WHITE CO.CENSUS has the households of George (Jr.), Joseph, John, and Vinet. John\ has four children, two boys and two girls, in his household by 1820, soit is apparent he has been married since about 1815, at least. I havestudied dozens of S. C. families in COCKE, WHITE, and in between, buthave found no answers. We may just have to join our ancestors in theHereafter to find out who the heck
Susanna was and old "Annie" too!

More notes from my Source:

" I hate to keep bursting your bubbles.. .but you can scratch
Susanna WEAVER. I don't care what it says in Mormon records! (The I. G.I.
also says, on pg. 3956, 1984, that "Elisha N. HENRY b. 28 June 1828 wasson
of John HENRY and Permelia Emmaline WHITTAKER" -- in other words, Elisha
was son of his own wife! Figure that one out !)"

"Seriously -- there is some mixup here. John HENRY and Susannah WEAVER
were married 27 June, 1788 -- a bona-fide record from FREDERICK CO. VA. No
way can this be our John and Susanna of WHITE CO. TN. I don't knew where
you may have gotten the date "1810" for this marriage, or how you can say,
"the ages seem about right". Have I missed something??" (Compiler'snote: I can't remember at this point what my deduction was, but I willcheck into it.)

"The most common mistake is that researchers will latch onto a name that
"seems right" without doing their homework. But if you could see theHENRY
families -- hundreds of them -- living in TENN. and elsewhere concurrent
with ours, and see how the lines mingled with one another as they moved
across TENN., you could see how easily wrong connections can happen.Twenty years ago, while some of my cousins were happily proclaimingSusanna DAY to be our ggg. grandmother, I wasn't so sure. It took me afew years to gather the facts, but RHEA CO. records show without a doubtthat the "John" who married Susanna DAY was dead by about 1819. But bythen it was too late -- the Mormons had "baptized the wrong John", andthe error may be with us forever..."

"Please don't think I am "down" on the Mormons -- every genealogist should
be grateful to them and all their good works. They have been busyrecording
and microfilming records of all kinds, and long before genealogy becamepopular. Without the Mormons we would have access to few of the recordswe have now, and many county records, especially, would have been lost bynow if the Mormons hadn't microfilmed them. County, State, and Federalgovernments have been very careless about preserving old records --otherwise they wouldn't have lost so many of them. . ."

"Errors are found everywhere in genealogy; there are many in genealogical
books, old and new. Probably the most authoritative book on TENN. HENRYS,
"OUR EAST TENN. KINSMEN", by Aurelia GATE DAWSON (1962) is a wonderfulpiece of work as far as it goes, but there are limits as to how much onegenealogist can do in one lifetime."According to Benton D. Henry, thesources for this information are:
L. D. Henry Bible and recollections of Benton M. Henry and John MorganGrant
Oldest marriage book, White County
Census- White County 1820-30-40-50-60 and Putname County 1860-70-80
Tax Lists- White County 1811-12-26
Tax Lists-Putnam County 1854-62
Sand Spring and Henry Cemetery

Lived near Monterey, Tn part of White Co., became Putnam County, 1854

Found this on the IGI
Batch number: 8334601
Sheet: 42

Benton says this is in error: Susanna Day was not married to our JohnHenry

"Our John and Susanna HENRY of White CO. were not the John HENRY -Susanna Day who were married in RHEA CO. TN. in 1816. That John, s/oJohn HENRY Sr. of RHEA CO., died young, around 1819 or so & I have allkinds of records to prove it. His land was sold to his bro.-in-law, JohnDAY. One of our WHITE CO. cousins latched onto this marriage recordwithout doing her homework, and submitted it to the Mormons, who didn'tdo their homework
either, and baptized the wrong John and Susanna!

I just sent Anita HANSON a copy of an article I wrote a while back for"HENRY HERALD';dealing with this comedy of errors, and the TENN.
HENRY "Quagmire" in general... ANYWAY our own ggg. gm., Susanna, b.cl790 in SOUTH CAROLINA, remains my number-one mystery, after threedecades of searching. I've collected several hundred HENRY marriagerecords from TENN., VA., N. C.,and elsewhere, and our John and Susannaare not among 'em. All COCKE CO.records, 1797 to about 1879, went up insmoke with the courthouse in the 1870's; likewise the early WHITE CO.marriage records were lost during the CIVIL WAR, for the period of timeour John and Susanna would have been married if they were marriedthere. They were not married in ROANE CO., as far as the records show,where John's "brothers" Vinet, George, and Joseph went
(for no explainable reason) to marry ROANE CO. girls in 1818, 1820, and1821... I have long suspected that our HENRY gang stayed a while in somecounty in-between COCKE and White, between 1798-1811, especially theKNOX-ROANE area, but if so, I've found no footprints. John first showedup in WHITE CO. in the 1811 TAX LIST; then old George (with, presumably,the rest of the family) showed up next to John in 1812. By the time ofthe 1820 CENSUS, old
George has died, "Annie" has likewise disappeared, and the WHITE CO.CENSUS has the households of George (Jr.), Joseph, John, and Vinet. John\ has four children, two boys and two girls, in his household by 1820, soit is apparent he has been married since about 1815, at least. I havestudied dozens of S. C. families in COCKE, WHITE, and in between, buthave found no answers. We may just have to join our ancestors in theHereafter to find out who the heck
Susanna was and old "Annie" too!

More notes from my Source:

" I hate to keep bursting your bubbles.. .but you can scratch
Susanna WEAVER. I don't care what it says in Mormon records! (The I. G.I.
also says, on pg. 3956, 1984, that "Elisha N. HENRY b. 28 June 1828 wasson
of John HENRY and Permelia Emmaline WHITTAKER" -- in other words, Elisha
was son of his own wife! Figure that one out !)"

"Seriously -- there is some mixup here. John HENRY and Susannah WEAVER
were married 27 June, 1788 -- a bona-fide record from FREDERICK CO. VA. No
way can this be our John and Susanna of WHITE CO. TN. I don't knew where
you may have gotten the date "1810" for this marriage, or how you can say,
"the ages seem about right". Have I missed something??" (Compiler'snote: I can't remember at this point what my deduction was, but I willcheck into it.)

"The most common mistake is that researchers will latch onto a name that
"seems right" without doing their homework. But if you could see theHENRY
families -- hundreds of them -- living in TENN. and elsewhere concurrent
with ours, and see how the lines mingled with one another as they moved
across TENN., you could see how easily wrong connections can happen.Twenty years ago, while some of my cousins were happily proclaimingSusanna DAY to be our ggg. grandmother, I wasn't so sure. It took me afew years to gather the facts, but RHEA CO. records show without a doubtthat the "John" who married Susanna DAY was dead by about 1819. But bythen it was too late -- the Mormons had "baptized the wrong John", andthe error may be with us forever..."

"Please don't think I am "down" on the Mormons -- every genealogist should
be grateful to them and all their good works. They have been busyrecording
and microfilming records of all kinds, and long before genealogy becamepopular. Without the Mormons we would have access to few of the recordswe have now, and many county records, especially, would have been lost bynow if the Mormons hadn't microfilmed them. County, State, and Federalgovernments have been very careless about preserving old records --otherwise they wouldn't have lost so many of them. . ."

"Errors are found everywhere in genealogy; there are many in genealogical
books, old and new. Probably the most authoritative book on TENN. HENRYS,
"OUR EAST TENN. KINSMEN", by Aurelia GATE DAWSON (1962) is a wonderfulpiece of work as far as it goes, but there are limits as to how much onegenealogist can do in one lifetime."

Susanna Weaver?

Got this information from the IGI on August 15, 1998. I had begun bytracing Lidgard. When I did a parent search, I found this marriagerecord. The ages seem to be about right. Somehow I believe we may havefound the elusive Susannah. The location of the source is Batch-710122527 Source Call # 1235119 Film

Benton does not agree with the Susannah Weaver name and marriage date. Iwill leave it here until something is found to disprove it entirely.Gotthis information from the IGI on August 15, 1998. I had begun by tracingLidgard. When I did a parent search, I found this marriage record. Theages seem to be about right. Somehow I believe we may have found theelusive Susannah. The location of the source is Batch-7101225 27Source Call # 1235119 Film

Benton does not agree with the Susannah Weaver name and marriage date. Iwill leave it here until something is found to disprove it entirely.

George Henry

According to Benton D. Henry, George served as an Ensign in the Cocke Co,Tennessee Militia in 1798 with a Major Peter Fine, and his son, Lt.Lidgard Fine could suggest a reason for the children's names. It isbelieved that Vinet Henry b. 1793 was named after Vinet FINE of CockeCo., who was killed by Indians. According to custom, names were passeddown in this way. This also suggests an earlier relationship but stilldoesn't make it certain that his wife's name was Annie FINE.

Also, from Benton Henry, "This famiy group is not proven however, Georgeand Annie are the only possible parents in White County Records".

This information came from:
*Roane County, TN Marriage Bonds
White County, TN Tax Lists 1811-12-26
Tombstones: Broad Valley Cemetery and Henry Cemetary
White County Census 1820-30-40-50-60
Militia Lists - TN Archives 1996

George and His children lived in White County, TN District 12-This becamePutnam County 1854

Greene County Court Minutes (Court of Common Pleas):
p.139 (1787-89): George Henry Juror in State vs. Dan Hill
p 174 (1790) Deed-Joshua English to Thomas Christian, proved by oath ofJoseph Henry & George Henry

Greene Co., NC, (Tenn) Register of Deeds, Vol 1, pg 315 (1787)
Thomas Christian & Joshua English 200 acres in Greene Co., Clay LickCreek on Branch of French Broad River, ADJ Frances Bowin, Book 1, pg 89(This location became Cocke Co., in 1797

Benton D. Henry is my major source for Henry information. He hasresearched the Henry family for over thirty years. I quote him directlyon most of the entries concerning the Henry's. I received the belowquoted text on November 13, 1998. I agree with Benton; accuracy isimportant.

"I'm delighted to have been able to share my research with you, gathered
the hard way, bit by bit, over three decades -- that's what it's for. In
the search for ancestors (like life in general) the giving is its ownreward.
But I've found that the more I give, the more comes back to me. The old
philosophy is true I So I ask only that you transcribe my workaccurately.
In places where I have speculated, be careful not to forget the "maybe".
(We have to be careful what we say in genealogy - over time, the "inaybe"
stuff has a. way of becoming accepted, and repeated as fact, in spite of
anything we do...) And- make your sources clear: Give me credit for what
was mine; anything added, make it clear that this info. didn't come fromme!"

I will endeavor to make it clear that anything not coming from Bentonwill be so noted. I respect him and his many years of devotion to thesearch.

The source for the burial spot for George and "Annie" was anothercousin. Benton says: "NOBODY knows for certain where old George HENRYand "Annie" are buried.... Yes, probably one of our cousins said it. Butto state flatly that old George is "buried at HENRY CEMETERY" is playingfast and
loose with the facts. No one has found their gravestones there. We do
know that old George HENRY and our ggg. gf. John HENRY b. cl788 werelisted
together in Capt. William WILLIAMS' COMPANY in the 1812 "WHITE CO. TAXLIST; and a deed shows that John HENRY was living at the "Headwaters ofCALFKILLER" in Jan., 1817, shortly before old George died:

TENN. LAND GRANTS, Vol. F, pg. 138:

"Indenture - 13 Jan. 1817, John SUTTLE and John HENRY, $30.00 paid, tract
on head waters of Calf killers fork of Caney fork, beginning on Cumberland
mountain, 10 acres including where said HENRY now lives. Wit: Thomas
HORNE and John HORNE." (Note that Thomas HORNE was one of the testators,
the other was Lewis BOHANNON, on old George HENRY'S will.)

I would like to believe that old George and Annie are buried with some
of their children, grandchildren, and descendants at HENRY CEMETERY...
But the fact is that nobody knows."

Anne ? Fine

There is some question as to whether this name is correct but it is agood guess.

This name obtained from Dave Welch dawelch@usit.net. Says he is a cousinto Michael Stephen Jackson and this info came from his book. He isdescended from Vinet Henry. This information he says is from the will ofGeorge Henry in which George names his wife as Anne, the only place whereshe is named. He later stated in an email that George's wife was AnnyFine.

On August 17, I received a Large packet of Family History Informationfrom Benton D. Henry, Clarkdale, AZ in which he states after thirty yearsof research, he believes her name could possibly have been "Cynthia Ann"and this name could be a correct guess. Since George served in the CockeCo.,TN militia with Major Peter Fine and his son, Lt. LIdgard Fine. Thereis a good explanation of the naming of the children. There are also anumber of Cynthia Annes in the family, later.There is some question as towhether this name is correct but it is a good guess.

This name obtained from Dave Welch dawelch@usit.net. Says he is a cousinto Michael Stephen Jackson and this info came from his book. He isdescended from Vinet Henry. This information he says is from the will ofGeorge Henry in which George names his wife as Anne, the only place whereshe is named. He later stated in an email that George's wife was AnnyFine.

On August 17, I received a Large packet of Family History Informationfrom Benton D. Henry, Clarkdale, AZ in which he states after thirty yearsof research, he believes her name could possibly have been "Cynthia Ann"and this name could be a correct guess. Since George served in the CockeCo.,TN militia with Major Peter Fine and his son, Lt. LIdgard Fine. Thereis a good explanation of the naming of the children. There are also anumber of Cynthia Annes in the family, later.

Vinet Henry

Source: Benton D. Henry, Arizona
Famly Records Ruth Henry Sapp - Cookeville
White County Marriage Records

Vinet Henry - "Named for Vinet Fine of Cocke Co -- killed by Indians atFine's Creek, NC 1783" BH

Vinet Henry - War of 1812 - served as Private, 3rd Regiment, TennesseeMilitia--Co-commander, Capt. Daniel Newman and Colonel JamesRaulstonSource: Benton D. Henry, Arizona
Famly Records Ruth Henry Sapp - Cookeville
White County Marriage Records

Vinet Henry - "Named for Vinet Fine of Cocke Co -- killed by Indians atFine's Creek, NC 1783" BH

Vinet Henry - War of 1812 - served as Private, 3rd Regiment, TennesseeMilitia--Co-commander, Capt. Daniel Newman and Colonel James Raulston

William T or J Henry

Benton Lists his sources:
1870 Putnam County
1910 Putnam Co.
Michael Stepehn Jackson

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Updated October 29, 2000
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