Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Jeremiah J. Henson

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Jeremiah J. Henson, farmer and stock raiser, was born in North 
Carolina in 1849, and is a son of Jeremiah J. and Elizabeth Henson 
[see sketch of Wesley Hinson]. He was their youngest child, and when 
young attended the neighboring subscription school, but his studies 
were interrupted by the Civil War, the last two years of which he 
spent in Texas with his father. In 1870 he left the paternal roof and 
married Mary, daughter of Jesse W. and Elizabeth Wallace, who were 
then residents of Lee's Creek, but now live in Texas, where Mrs. 
Henson was born. This union has been blessed with eleven children, of 
whom four sons and three daughters are living. Since his marriage, Mr. 
Henson has lived in Vine Prairie Township, with the exception of the 
year 1883, which he spent in Texas. His home farm contains 160 acres, 
which is well improved, with good buildings and a nice house. He also 
owns 200 acres of bottom land, sixty-five of which are improved, and 
all of which is the result of his industry and management. He began 
life owning but a horse, saddle and bridle, and has always engaged in 
agricultural pursuits. He is a public-spirited man and advocates all 
enterprises for the public good. He has given his children the 
benefits of good educations, and is well known as a respected and 
honest citizen. During the war he was a Union man, but not an 
abolitionist, and in politics he is a Democrat, his first presidential 
vote having been cast for Greeley. Himself and [p.1155] wife are 
members of the Methodist Church, and he belongs to Pleasant Hill 
Masonic Lodge No. 233. 

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