Daniel W. Hendricks

HENDRICKS, SEARS, HOCKET, HART, TAYLOR, YAAGER

Posted By: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs (email)
Date: 4/7/2009 at 15:15:37

DANIEL W. HENDRICKS is a successful farmer of Viola Township, Audubon County, who was born in Macoupin County, Illinois, December 5, 1834. His father, William W. Hendricks, a native of North Carolina, removed with his parents to Kentucky when nine years of age. He was there married to Miss Susanna Sears, a native of Kentucky, and a daughter of Samuel Sears, of German descent. The grandfather of Daniel W. Hendricks was William Hendricks, of Hollandish and German extraction. He was an early settler of New Jersey, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Four of his brothers also fought in the Revolution. Daniel W. Hendricks is the seventh of a family of nine children, all of whom lived to maturity Malinda C., Granville S., Melvina F., died in 1888; Sarah C., died in 1887; John T., William W., Daniel W., Samuel M. and Martin V. All were married and raised families, with the exception of John T. The subject of this notice was nine years old when the family started to Marion County, Iowa. The father died in Lee County in 1843, while en route to Marion County. The winter was passed in Jefferson County, and in the spring the journey was continued to Marion County. The family settled near Pella, and there Daniel remained three and a half years. He then removed to Polk County with his parents and settled eight miles east of Des Moines, remaining there six years. He then went to Decatur County, Iowa, with his parents, and there made his home for seven years. At the end of that time he went to Jasper County and settled near Prairie City, on a farm, where he lived fourteen years. He sold out in the spring of 1880 and came to Audubon County, locating on his present farm, on section 13 Viola Township. There are 280 acres in the place, forty of which had been homesteaded and improved by Albert Hocket. Mr. Hendricks was united in marriage, in 1861, to Martha, oldest daughter of Henderson and Eliza (Hart) Taylor. Mrs. Hendricks was born in Kentucky, and removed with her parents to Decatur County, Iowa, when a child of twelve years. Five children have been born of this marriage William H., Granville E., Eliza E., wife of C. A. Yaager; Charles B. and Susanna. Mr. Hendricks has served as township trustee, and is also trustee of the Viola Cemetery. He and his wife are members of the German Baptist church. In politics he is a staunch Democrat.

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