John Henry

Notes:

John Henry was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, probably between 1760 and 1770, and immigrated to Vermont in the early 1790s. By 1791 he, his brother Andrew, and his young son Robert (born 1789) were helping manage a Pawlet farm purchased by Albany relatives. In August 1813 John, still described as 'of Pawlet,' conveyed 109 acres on Lot 12 in Hector, New York, to Andrew for ten dollars—clearly a temporary transfer. After moving to Hector himself, John bought the land back on 4 August 1815 for one thousand dollars, the deed describing him as 'late of Vermont, now of Hector.' John’s wife was Lydia, whose later deed names her residence as Dundooan, County Londonderry. The couple’s children are not fully documented, but the evidence points to Robert Henry (1789-1868) as their eldest son.

John died sometime between 1815 and 1821. Following his death, Lydia returned to or stayed in Ireland and issued a power of attorney appointing Andrew Henry to dispose of the Hector property. An 1826 deed records Andrew acting in that capacity, confirming John’s death and Lydia’s Ireland residence. Although John’s documented life is brief, it anchors the Henry family’s migration chain from Ulster to Vermont and then to the Finger Lakes frontier, a pattern continued by his son Robert and stewarded by his brother Andrew.



Additional Notes: John is not found in any early census records. However, land records in Hector state he is of Pawlet in 1813. Two years later he is 'late of Pawlet' meaning he is no longer of Pawlet and most likely in Hector for the land transaction. In 1821 there is a power of attorney given to his brother, Andrew, to handle the estate of his property in Hector. During the sale of his property in Hector, his widow, Lydia, is living in Dundoare, County of Londonderry, Ireland. It appears that she never came to the US. However, their son, Robert was possible the male child in Andrew's household in 1800 in Pawlet, Vermont. Based on newspaper articles, land records, etc. it appears that John and Andrew came to the US to look after some of their kinsman, Robert Henry Jr. (a cousin or older brother of theirs), property in Vermont and New York. They are also kinsman to Robert R. Henry and John V. Henry of Albany.

Need to go to Tompkins County courthouse and look for Power of Attorney paperwork from the early 1820's - that document will detail relations of John, Andrew and Robert as well as the death date of John.

Family/Spouse: Lydia. Lydia was born est 1765; died after 1826 in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

HENRY Robert 3Dec1867 - 8 Nov 1868 Hector, Schuyler - wf Mary Henry, 5 chil Lydia Ann Smith, Andrew Henry, Margaret H Barker, Isaac W Henry & John Henry - exec wf Mary & Samuel M Baker - wit Joseph Barker & Peter Hobert both of Hector

Mr. Robert Henry, one of the pioneers of the Seneca Lake country, and held in high esteem by the citizens of his town and county, died at North Hector on Sunday morning of last week, at the advanced age of 80 years. His remains were interred on Monday afternoon.
(Yates County Chronicle, Penn-Yan NY, Thursday, August 13, 1868)


Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168615311/robert-henry

Robert married Mary Akin on 30 Mar 1814 in Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont. Mary (daughter of Abel Akin and Mary Evans) was born in 1794 in Vermont; died on 25 Nov 1880 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa; was buried in Seneca Union Cemetery, Valois, Schuyler County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Davenport, Iowa at least from 1874 until her death of apoplexy, having suffered 2 days at her home at 607 E 14th St. 1880 census shows her father born in Ireland and mother in Vermont

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71732339/lydia_ann-smith

Family/Spouse: Horace Smith, M.D.. Horace was born on 01 Jan 1810; died on 30 Oct 1865; was buried in Logan Cemetery, Hector, Schuyler County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Columbus Weekly Telegram, August 7, 1890
HENRY--The remains of A. Henry was ___ped to Fremont yesterday for interment. The burial occurred in __ afternoon. Besides the relatives of the deceased, J.J. Sullivan, J.E. __th, G.B. Speice, Gus G. Becher, __ Anderson and Rev. Worley, followed the body from this city to its final resting place.

The Columbus Weekly Telegram, July 31, 1890
HENRY--Yesterday at 10:40 a.m., Andrew Henry, father of R.H. Henry, mayor of Columbus, died at his home in this city. Mr. Henry had been ill only a short time, and his complaint was dysentery.
Andrew Henry was born August 15, 1816, in Schuyler county, New York, consequently had he lived until the 15th of next month, he would have been 74 years old.
He located in Columbus many years ago, and engaged in the lumber business. When he closed out his lumber yard here, he went to Omaha where he engaged in the banking business. While he spent the greater portion of his time in latter years in a, yet he always retained his residence in this city. At the time of his death he was president of the Bank of Omaha.
He leaves a wife and one son, R.H. Henry of this city, to mourn his demise.
The deceased was a man of strict integrity and marked business ability. He made a success of the battle of his life and leaves a snug fortune as a testimonial of his years of labor and judicious management.
The funeral will be held in Fremont Thursday, it being the expressed desire of the deceased before his death, that he be laid along-side his son, John C. Henry, who is buried there and who died June 12, 1880.
[...and...]
At the residence of the deceased, the funeral services of A. Henry will be held at 12 o'clock noon, today. The religious ceremonies will be conducted by Rev. Worley, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. Immediately after the short ceremony at the residence, the remains will be taken to the Union Pacific depot from whence it will be shipped on the 1 p.m. train to Fremont, for burial.

Andrew married Elida A. Cornwell in Dec 1839 in Hector, Schuyler County, New York. Elida was born on 27 Oct 1820 in Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County, New York; died in 1905; was buried in Ridge Cemetery, Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living with her grandmother (Mary Henry) in 1850 census in Hector, NY

Mary married William Hall about 1853. William was born in ca 1827 in Tompkins County, New York; died on 19 Mar 1872 in Hector, Schuyler County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The death of Mrs. Margaret Henry Barker occurred at her home at Silver Creek, Neb., Wednesday, Dec 30, 1914, of pneumonia, following an. illness of a few days. The funeral ___es were held at her home Friday, January 1. Margaret Henry Barker was born in Hector near Logan February 10, 1828, the daughter of Robert and Mary Henry. She married Samuel M. Barker and moved to this village about 1870. For a number of years, she has made her home in Nebraska where her husband died in 1901. Mr. Barker represented Schuyler County in the assembly in 1866-67. Mrs. Barker is survived by one daughter, Mrs. A. A. Sanders of Silver Creek, Nebraska and two grandchildren, Samuel Barker Friedhof and Theodore Friedhof of Meridian, Miss. The remains were brought to this village by Mr. and Mrs. Sanders and were laid on rest Monday in Glenwood Cemetery.
(Watkins Express, Watkins, NY, January 6, 1915)


Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89097351/margaret-h-barker

Family/Spouse: Honorable Samuel M. Barker. Samuel was born in Aug 1827 in Hector, Schuyler County, New York; died on 11 Oct 1901 in Silver Creek, Merrick County, Nebraska; was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On March 15, 1917, there passed away at his home in Reynoldsville the last representative in the second generation of the once-prominent Henry family of Hector. Isaac W. Henry, one of the five children of Robert and Mary Henry, was born December 20, 1831. One of his sisters was the wife of a prominent physician, Horace Smith, M.D., and the other was the wife of Hon. S. M. Barker, once the representative of Schuyler County in the Assembly. In 1858 Isaac married Bianca Hager of Logan. One son was born to them. After her death he married, in 1871, Mary Whitman of Reynoldsville, by whom he had a daughter who resides with her mother.

During his active life Mr. Henry was a purveyor to the farmers’ trade. He was a dealer in agricultural implements and machinery, wagons, carriages and harness—almost everything the farmer needs in his business. When advancing years caused a retirement of his activities, he became himself a farmer. His death was due to a fall on the ice.

Affable, kind-hearted and ready to accommodate, Mr. Henry made hosts of friends and was very successful in his business, continued through half a century among his old friends and neighbors. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and his lodge at Trumansburg contributed rich floral offerings for his bier. Burial was at Valois Cemetery, where rest the remains of his father and mother.

There survive him the widow and daughter, Fanny, at the home; the son, Walter J., at Trumansburg; a granddaughter, Mrs. R. V. Frost, and child, a great-granddaughter, at Buffalo.
(Watkins Express, Watkins, NY, April 25, 1917, page1)

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168615308/isaac-w-henry

Isaac married Byanca M. Hager about 1857. Byanca (daughter of Fregift Patchin Hager and Ann S. White) was born on 1 Oct 1840 in Hector, Schuyler County, New York; died on 18 Sep 1863 in Hector, Schuyler County, New York; was buried in Reynoldsville Cemetery, Hector, Schuyler County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Mary D. Whitman after 1863. Mary (daughter of Gaylord G. Whitman and Mary L. Dunham) was born in 1841 in New York; died on 2 Nov 1926 in Hector, Schuyler County, New York; was buried in Seneca Union Cemetery, Valois, Schuyler County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Farmer and Merchant, lived in Syracuse(NY), Hoosink Falls(NY), Cleveland(OH).

Family/Spouse: Josephine Hutchins. Josephine was born in Jun 1841 in New York; died in 1932 in Ohio; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Akron, Summit County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lived in Davenport Iowa from at least 1874 to 1896, with her mother and grandmother until her mother's death at age 80, then it appears Hannah came back to NY.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 1861-1865; American Civil War (North) 11th Wisconson Volunteer Infantry Seige of Vicksburg, Missouri and Arkanasa.

Notes:

Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska
R. H. HENRY, dealer in live stock, and engaged in the raising and feeding of large herds of cattle; he is interested in about six thousand head of cattle on the North Loup River, owned by the firm known as the Henry Live Stock Company; Mr. H. is also interested in the firm of Lee, Blewett & Henry, livestock dealers, with headquarters at Fremont, Neb.; he is also President of the Columbus Packing Company. Mr. H. first settled in Omaha in March, 1867, where he remained six years, engaged in the sale of agricultural implements; he then removed to Columbus and engaged in the same business, the firm being Henry & Bro.; they also kept a similar establishment in Fremont, Neb., during the same time; he settled in Columbus in 1872, and continued the implement business in connection with mercantile business; he sold out his interest in the mercantile business, September 22, 1879. He was born in Schuyler County, N. Y., May 26, 1842; his parents moved to Dane County, Wis., near the capital of the latter State, where he lived until 1867. He enlisted,, in August, 1861, in Company B. Eleventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles or siege of Vicksburg, and all the battles preceding the siege of the latter place; he also participated in many engagements in the States of Missouri and Arkansas, serving in the Eleventh Regiment until February 3, 1864, when he re-enlisted for three years in the same regiment, and served until September, 1864, when he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Forty-second Wisconsin Vol. Inf., but was soon promoted to First Lieutenant, in which capacity he served until June, 1865, when he was mustered out at Madison, Wis. He was married in Fitchburg, Dane Co., Wis., February 22, 1870, to Miss Mary L. Adams, who was born in the latter town; they have three children, named Walter A. B., Herbert L., and Mary. Mr. H. is a member of the Masonic fraternity--Lebanon Lodge, No. 58, and Orient Chapter, No. 18. He has served as County Commissioner of his county; also Mayor of the city of Columbus.

Robert married Mary L. Adams on 22 Feb 1870 in Fitchburg, Dane County, Wisconsin. Mary was born in Apr 1849 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

HENRY--On Saturday morning lst, June 12th, John C. Henry of Fremont met with a tragic death.
He was the youngest son of A. Henry and brother of R.H. Henry of this city, and the circumstances of his death were peculiarly heart-rending. With R.H., he was on their cattle range engaged in "cutting out" some cattle from the herd, when his horse stumbled, pitching him over his head, Mr. Henry falling squarely upon his head, as we are informed upon the solid ground. He was not conscious afterwards, and died within three hours. They were at the time eight miles from the ranche and about 55 miles from Plum Creek, the nearest railroad station. A spring wagon was sent for to the nearest ranche, and one of the employes carried water in his hat a distance of five miles, and everything done which could be, under the circumstances, but without avail.
His remains were brought to this city on Sunday, and taken on Monday to Fremont, his home, where they were buried yesterday, a very large concourse of friends and acquaintances witnessing the last solemn rites to the generous-hearted and mild-mannered man who was so suddenly precipitated from vigorous life into that unconsciousness which precedes the final dissolution of the spirit from the body. The deceased was a man of very excellent character, whose memory will long be cherished by his hosts of friends.
(The Columbus Journal, June 16, 1880)

Mary married Amon Amonia Sanders on 27 Aug 1904 in Iowa Falls, Wright County, Iowa. Amon was born in 1864; died in 1937. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Ella Kellogg about 1885. Ella was born in Aug 1864 in New York; died on 26 Mar 1929 in Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York; was buried in Grove Cemetery, Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Erla Radcklyeft on 7 Aug 1932 in Jacksonville, Tompkins County, New York. Erla was born in May 1869 in New York; died in 1962 in Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York; was buried in Hector Union Cemetery, Hector, Schuyler County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DAR Application #44639 - Abiather Evans

Robert married Alice Gertrude Sperry in 1911 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio. Alice (daughter of Elmer Ellsworth Sperry and Cora King) was born on 28 Mar 1888 in Freedom, Portage County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robinson Victor Frost. Robinson was born on 1 Dec 1883 in Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, New York; died on 22 May 1944 in Tompkins County, New York; was buried in Grove Cemetery, Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]