JOHN HENRY b. @ 1782
Son, Abraham b. 19 Nov 1819, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania
Daughter, Margaret, b. 14 Feb 1814, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania
(9 more children, all unknown names)ABRAHAM HENRY IN CLAY COUNTY, MINNESOTA
Description MN0450__.134
Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 2748 Misc. Document Nr. : 5487
Patentee Name: HENRY, ABRAHAM
Warrantee Name:
Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead Entry (12 Stat. 392)
Signature Present: Y
Signature Date: 01/20/1886 Metes/Bounds: N
Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N
Land Office: CROOKSTON
Comments:
Legal Land Descriptions
Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian Acres Counties
1 SW 26/ 138-N 46-W N 5TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN 160 CLAY Co., Minn.
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ABRAHAM HENRY married RACHEL JONES in KANE Co. Illinois
on 01/17/1849 / Lic. #1036
http://www2.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/marriage
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CLAY COUNTY FAMILY ALBUM - A HISTORY OF RURAL CLAY COUNTY,
MINNESOTA,, p. 180ABRAHAM HENRY was born in Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, November 19, 1819. His wife was Rachel Jones, who was born in Berke County, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1830, daughter of Isaac and Ester Neff Jones. They were married in Pennsylvania.(actually married in Kane Co., IL.) A short time later they, together with members of their family and other friends moved to Kane County, Illinois. They settled on farms there and raised grain, which they hauled to Chicago, a small milling town on the edge of a swamp.
In 1852, when word of the gold rush in California reached them, a group from Illinois including Abraham and his father walked to California to search for gold. They returned in 2 years without the promised riches.
After a few years, the west called again and the Abraham Henrys and Isaac Joneses (Rachel's parents) left Illinois and moved to Jackson County, Iowa.
Abraham and his wife farmed there a few years until 1878 when Abraham and son Isaac started for the Red River Valley and settled in Section 26. They homesteaded there and plowed the first furrows in that area. During the following year they built a house and in 1879 Rachel sold the land and personal property in Iowa and she together with several of the younger children came to join their husband and father.
In 1881 sorrow struck the family, their daughter Annie who was married and expecting her first child, died when her baby was born. Her father Abraham gave an acre of land for a cemetery, so his daughter's grave was the first one there. It is now known and the Elkton Cemetery.
THE HISTORY OF NORMAN AND CLAY COUNTY, MINNESOTA, p. 44-46.
JOHN AND ABRAHAM HENRY
Among the earliest settlers of Elkton township, in Clay county, were the Henry family, who settled there in the latter seventies, helped organize the township and became active and influential in the work of bringing about proper social conditions in the pioneer community. The head of this family, Abraham Henry, was a native of Pennsylvania and a man of the true pioneer breed, moving successively from Pennsylvania to Illinois and thence to Iowa and thence up here into the Red River valley, ever following the frontier, and here he spent his last days, one of the most influential pioneers of Elkton township, which he had helped to organize in the days of the beginning of the settlement of that region. His father, John Henry, was a man of much the same type and when seventy-two years of age, in 1854, headed an expedition, of which his son, Abraham, was a member, to the Pacific coast, acting as scout for the party and walking almost the entire distance. John Henry had served during the War of 1812 as a member of Commodore Perry's command on the Great Lakes.It was in 1854 that Abraham Henry had moved from Kane county, Illinois, to Jackson County, Iowa, and there he remained until 1878, when, finding the settlement there becoming too crowded for one of his pioneering instincts, he came up here into the Red River valley and homesteaded the southwest quarter of section 26 in Elkton township, Clay County and "tree-claimed" the northwest quarter of the same section and settled down to prepare a place for his family, who joined him here the next year, he meantime having erected a shack of a house for their reception, and on that place he and his wife spent their last days, among the leaders of that community. Abraham Henry helped to organize the township. He and his wife were earnest Presbyterians and the latter offered the opening prayer at the first public religious service held in that community, that service having been held in the railway section-house, which for a time was used as a place for worship until later the Presbyterians erected a church at Baker.
1860 Census
Page 131, Washington twsp. Jackson Co., P.O. Spring Brook. July 19.
HENRY, ABRAHAM 40 M W Farmer 600 360 Penn.
Rachel 30 F W keeps house Penn.
Clinton 11 M W at home Illinois
Alphonso 9 M W at home Illinois
James 18 M W at home Illinois
Anna 5 F W at home Iowa
Isaac 3 M W at home Iowa
Elizabeth 2 F W at home Iowa
Isabella 1 F W at home Iowa**************************************************************************************
1870 Census
Page #5 Washington twsp, Jackson Co., PO Spring Brook, Iowa. 27/27HENRY, ABRAHAM 50 M W Farmer 2000 1500 Penn.
Father and mother foreign born
Rachel 40 F W keeps house Penn.
Clinton 21 M W works on farm Illinois
Alphonso 19 M W works on farm Illinois
James 18 M W works on farm Illinois
Anna 15 F W at home Iowa
Isaac 13 M W works on farm Iowa
Elizabeth 12 F W at home Iowa
Isabella 10 F W at home Iowa
Purkey 8 M W at home Iowa
JAMES E. HENRY
THE HISTORY OF CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA; p. 86-87James E. Henry was born in Kane county, Illinois, April 11, 1852, son of Abraham and Rachel (Jones) Henry, who later moved with their family to Jackson county, Iowa, and thence, in 1878, up into this section of Minnesota and settled in Clay county, as set out in another part of this volume. In the meantime, in 1875, James E. Henry had gone from Jackson county, Iowa, to Cass county, in that same state, and in 1880 he left there and came up here to join the other members of the family in Clay county and upon his arrival here homesteaded a quarter of a section of land in Elkton township and there established his home, he having married the year previously. To that quarter section he added, by purchase, and adjoining "eighty" just across the road on the east, and now has a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres. Mr. Henry has an interest in the farmers' creamery and in the farmers' elevator at Barnesville. For sixteen years he served as a member of the township board and for the past twenty years has been treasurer of his local school board.
In 1879, at Greenfield, Iowa, James E. Henry was united in marriage to Mary E. Daniels, who was born in Jackson county, Iowa, daughter of Kensey Daniels and wife, further reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Marion Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Henry have an adopted daughter, Ida Ellen."
JAMES E. HENRY, ELKTON PIONEER, Dies at Age of 86--
(copied from an obituary in the possession of Gladys Champ, Source?)James Eugene Henry, 86, was born in Cane county, Illinois, April 11, 1852. When a little boy, he moved with his parents, Abraham and Rachel Henry, to Jackson county, Iowa. He was married to Mary E. Daniels at Greenfield, Adair county, Iowa, on March 23, 1878.
Two years later on March 1, 1880, they joined a caravan of five covered wagons bound for the Red River Valley. This northward trek continued for twenty-one days and on March 21, they arrived in this vicinity. They filed on their present homestead, staying with his parents while buildings were erected. This homestead has since been their home......
Surviving besides his widow are one son Marion F. Henry and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Ida Garner of Hawley; nine grandchildren, Roy, Joseph and George Henry, Mrs. Eva Slyter, Mrs. Jeanette Ladwig, Enos, Ervin, Lawrence and Marletta Garner; and four great grandchildren, Donna Mae and Adelle Slyter, Phyllis Ladwig and Lawrence Dale Garner.
Relatives and friends from a distance who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Garner, Enos and Ervin of Hawley, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ladwig and Mrs. Frank Ladwig of Barnesville, Mr. and Mrs. Rueben Freeman, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Freeman of Richville, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Bemis Henry and Mrs. John Hovelson of Hawley; Mr. and Mrs Lewis Shores of Rollag, Bert Sullivan of Cormorant, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jefferson and Mrs. Herman Ullrich of Dilworth, Mrs. Laura Daniels, Winnifred, Dorothy and Ruth of Twin Valley, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Oss and Miss Ruth Tingdahl of Hitterdal.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++JAMES E. HENRY IN CLAY COUNTY, MINNESOTA
Patent Description MN0470__.035
Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 3758 Misc. Document Nr. : 8487
Patentee Name: HENRY, JAMES E
Warrantee Name:
Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead Entry (12 Stat. 392)
Signature Present: Y
Signature Date: 06/10/1889 Metes/Bounds: N
Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N
Land Office: CROOKSTON
Comments:
Legal Land Descriptions
Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian Acres Counties
1 E∏SE 26/ 138-N 46-W N 5TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN 0 CLAY
2 E∏NE 26/ 138-N 46-W N 5TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN 160 CLAY
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According to THE COOKS AND KIN; A history of Walter and Jane (Lamb) Cook ancestors, descendants and kin; Prepared in this bicentennial year, 1976, by the Cook family; p. 9, "Isaac Henry worked on the railroad and did carpenter work. They lived in the Downer area at Richwook, Calloway, and Cormorant. When about middle age, Mary Grace had a stroke, developed a paralysis and gradually became entirely helpless. She was an invalid about two years and died June 6, 1926 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Johah Goldberg."
They had 11 children, I have dates for some but not all.
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The History of Clay and Norman Counties, Minnesota, p. 44-46
Purkey Henry was born in Jackson County, Iowa, in June, 1861, and was eighteen years of age when he came up into Minnesota with the family and settled in Clay county. Upon reaching his majority he homesteaded a quarter of a section in Skree township and afer his marriage in 1884 established his home there, continuing to make that his place of residence until 1899, when he moved back to the old home place and has since occupied that portion of it comprised in the northwest quarter of section 26 of Elkton township, the original tree-claim entered by his father back in the seventies. Mr. Henry has an excellent farm and he and his family are very comfortably situated there. He has taked an interested part in general civic affairs and has served as a member of the local school board. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church and take a proper part in the general good works of the community.
In 1884 Purkey Henry was united in marriage to Ruth Daniels, who also was born in Jackson county, Iowa, daughter of Kensey C. and Emalie (Rose) Daniels, who moved from that county into western Iowa and after five years of residence there came up into this part of Minnesota, in 1880, and homesteaded a quarter of a section in section 6 of Humboldt township, Clay county, where Kensey C. Daniels died about 1893. His widow survived him for more than twenty years, her death occuring at her home in the village of Baker in 1914. They were the parents of six children, who grew to maturity. Ruth Jane Daniels had received excellent schooling in Iowa and upon her arrival in Clay county was engaged at once as a school teacher, beginning in 1881 as the teacher of the first school opened between Glyndon and Barnesville, for the first month of that term conducting her school in an old dirt-floor homestead shack that stood on land now a part of the farm of Charles Lamb, Sr., a little east of the present village of Downer. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry four children have been born, Joseph, Bemis, Lamont and Pearl. They have besides an adopted daughter, Matilda."
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Story taken from Forum; April 30, 1931. This was found in Moorhead at the Hjumkost sp? Center, in a series of historic interviews; "M.S., Interview 17, Case I-C".
Purk Henry says that the prairie was a desolate sight when he arrived in Oct.
1879. In the early days we came in and settled on the bleak open prairie, with practically nothing to start n, or work with, but somehow we managed to get enough together (by working for others) to build and work the land the government gave us.We had no coal, so we were forced to haul wood from the timber about twelve miles from home. There were no roads so we were compelled to haul in the winter on sleighs.
Winter in the early days were very severe. We would start out in the morning and the chances were that we would have a severe blizzard before we got back. Many are the times that all we could do was to let the horses pick their own road as it was impossible to see or distinguish anything.
In 1879 wild game was very plentiful. The year around, ducks, geese and prairie chickens could be seen in abundance. Ducks could be seen in most any pothole at any time, and in the spring they would migrate by the thousands for days.
Mr. Henry, one of the many pioneers of Clay County, in the later years of his life was a cripple.
HENRY BIRTHDAYS
John Henry----------------------- @ 1782
Abraham Henry ----------------- 19 Nov 1819 Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Dewitt Clinton (Clint) Henry-----8 Apr 1850 1850 Kane County, Illinois
Alfonzo (Alphonso) Henry -------1851 Kane County, Illinois
James Eugene Henry-------------11 April 1852 Kane County, Illinois
Anna Henry--------------------------1855 Jackson County, Iowa
Isaac Jones Henry -----------------25 April 1856 Jackson County, Iowa
Elizabeth (Betsy) Henry-----------1858 Jackson County, Iowa
Annie M. Henry ----------------------17 Oct 1859 Jackson County, Iowa
Isabella (Isabel) Henry------------1860 Jackson County, Iowa
Purkey Henry ------------------------17 June 1861 Jackson County, Iowa
1880 Census Nebraska
Census Place: Clarksville, Merrick, Nebraska
Source: FHL Film 1254752 National Archives Film T9-0752 Page 11C
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Dewitt HENRY Self M M W 29 IL Occ: Farmer Fa: PA, Mo: PA
Mary J. HENRY Wife F M W 27 PA Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: PA
Judson D. HENRY Son M S W 9M NE1900 Census Iowa
Judson D. Henry, Grant twp, Cass co. Ia
b. Aug. 1879, Neb., age 20 wife edith b. dec 1880 age 19
carpenter/laborer father b in IL, mother b in PA
married 1 yr., wife,Edith b.Ia. father b Penn., mother b Ia.
Both could read and write, renting a house, no kids1920 Census Oklahoma
Judson D. Henry, age 48, Fa. U.S, Ma. U.S. occ. Artist
Wife, Frances, age 20, b. Mo., Fa. Mo., Ma., Mo.
Live on Clark Ave., custer Co., Weatherford, OK.
Household 61 no kids