Henderson, G. W.

HENDERSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/1/2008 at 14:05:47

G. W. Henderson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.185, Neola Twp.)
G. W. Henderson, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Crawford County, Mo., April 27, 1828, son of Jimmy and Anna (Harris) Henderson; he, born in Virginia, near Jamestown, November 27, 1805, removed with his father to Missouri when quite young. There he remained as a farmer till 1834, when he removed to Illinois and settled on a farm, where he remained till his death, which occurred September 8, 1843. He was married in Illinois about 1825. His wife was born in Tennessee in 1803, and died in 1843. They raised a family of five girls and four boys, all of whom were married and raised families. They are as follows: Mary, born April 18, 1827; Jane, July 4, 1830; John, December 1, 1831; Nancy J., January 18, 1843; Martha, March 12, 1835; Sarah, July 1836; Samuel, April 18, 1838; and William, born June 26, 1840. Our subject attended the subscription schools of Illinois and Eastern Iowa, and is a man well posted in the affairs of the day. He first learned stonecutting, then cabinet-making, and then went to farming. He subsequently made his home with a sister, and, after the death of her husband, took care of her family till his own marriage, in 1855, his wife being Miss E. L. Galup, a native of New York State. After his marriage, Mr. Henderson located on the farm of eighty acres where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson's children are Ed, born in 1840; Margaret, March 31, 1860; I N. May 9, 1861; N. I. August 26, 1863; Jimmy, September 25, 1865; H. A., February 23, 1867; W. W., June 13, 1869; Julia E., 1871; Elmira, March 4, 1873; H. February 4, 1877; and hattie A., April 9, 1879. Mr. Henderson was a minute-man during the rebellion. He has been Road Supervisor and School Director. He is a Democrat, and votes for principle, not party.