Andrew Henry

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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.
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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

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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)