Daniel Henderson

HENDERSON, SWAFORD

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/7/2004 at 09:49:55

Daniel Henderson, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Winterset; born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1829; resided there until 1851, then moved to Marion county, Indiana, thence to Madison county, Iowa, 1853, locating where he now resides; married in Darke county, Ohio, in the year 1851, to Nancy Swaford, she being a native of Indiana; by this union has five children, four sons and one daughter: Eli, Francis M., Canada W., Minerva C. and Nathan; has a fine farm of 220 acres, well adapted to stock and grain raising; surrounding his residence is on of the finest artificial groves in the State, bordered by a large, well bearing orchard; when Mr. Henderson located here, there were but two families living in the township, consequently, he has been identified with the growth and development of this part of Madison county, from its original state of wilderness; he was obliged in early times to go to Des Moines for lumber, and has even gone as far as Rock Island when pine lumber was needed; endured all the privations of an early settler.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 629, 630