"Hardesty's Biographical Atlas of Tyler County West Virginia"
H. H. Hardesty, 1872

JOHN HENDERSON is one of the substantial residents of Tyler county, West 
Virginia, owning and cultivating a farm of 200 acres in Ellsworth 
district. He was a son of William and Lydia (Long) Henderson, and was 
born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1834. His mother is now 
deceased and his father now living in Wetzel county, where John Henderson 
made his home in 1867. August 8, 1857, in New Martinsville, Wetzel 
county,the words were spoken linking in one the lives of John Henderson 
and Margaret J. Angus, and their children are recorded: Richard, born 
January 22, 1859, lives in Tyler county; Mary Jane, May 7, 1861, lives in 
this county; Samuel S., May 6, 1863, died April 28, 1864; Martha 
Florence, January 18, 1866; William Franklin, September 3, 1868; John W., 
March 16, 1871; George Washington, Febraury 1, 1874; Jessie E. Belle, 
December 18, 1877; Ida Olivia, September 18, 1880; James Fred, March 19, 
1882 - the seven last named living at home. Richard and Rebecca (Braden) 
Angus, both now deceased, were the parents of Mrs. Henderson, and she was 
born in Monroe county, Ohio, August 27, 1841. In the war between the 
states, John Hendrson and one of his brothers were volunteers in the 25th 
Ohio Infantry, in which John Henderson enlisted March 22, 1863. At the 
battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina, he lost his right arm, having 
participated with fidelity in the engagements of his regiment to that 
date. His farm is adapted to stock-raising, in which he is largely 
engaged, and he may be addressed at Conaway, Tyler county, West Virginia.

Submitted by Susie Koehrsen.