Hendry-Lee County FlArchives Obituaries.....Hendry, Francis Asbury February 12, 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cynthia Stanton http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00029.html#0007059 August 12, 2010, 7:00 am Fort Myers Press, 13 Feb 1917 Capt. F. A. Hendry Pioneer of Lee County is dead _____________________ Passed Away Quietly at the Residence of J. F. Menge Last Night. _____________________ Funeral Occurred This Afternoon--Interment in Family Burying Ground. _____________________ Capt. Francis A. Hendry, pioneer in South Florida, former member of both branches of the state legislature and cattle owner, is dead. After months of ill health, the end came to him peacefully at 9:20 o'clock last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jno. F Menge, 153 Fowler street. In the death of Capt. Hendry South Florida has lost one of its foremost characters and enterprising citizens and his death is not only keenly felt in Fort Myers and Lee county, where he has resided for so many years, but throughout the state that he loved so well. Capt. Hendry lived to the ripe old age of 83 years. Coming of good old sturdy Scotch and English ancestry his life was one of utmost activity and during which he gave his best in building up this his adopted home and in the assistance of his fellow man. Born in Thomas county, Ga, November 19, 1833, Capt. Hendry came to Florida with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hendry, in 1851. One year later he was married to Miss Adeline Lanier, who survives him, and by whom he had eleven children, five of whom are still living. These are: Louis Hendry, Frank M. Hendry, Geo. M. Hendry, Mrs. J. F. Menge, Mrs. E. L. Evans, all of Fort Myers, and Mrs. Edgar Carlton of Labelle. From Ala?a Capt. Hendry went to Fort Meade and there extensively engaged in the cattle Business, a small herd east of the Peace River, being among the first ever placed on that stream. He continued in the business until he was glad to be the largest stock owner in the state. The outbreak of the civil war caused him to espouse the side of the Confederacy and and all during that regretful strife he fought valiantly for the cause he thought was right. In the latter sixties he moved his large herd south of the Caloosahatchee river and moved to Fort Myers where he resided up to the time of his death. Capt. Hendry was one of the foremost in the development of southern Florida, especially Fort Myers and Lee county, having for several years been one of the commissioners of the latter and representating it in both the higher and lower branches of the state legislature. As a devout Methodist he was a piller of the First church of that denomination in this city, and he will be sadly missed from its congregation. Realizing that the end was near he on Sunday had the rights of sacrament administered to him by Rev. J. P. Hilburn. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from the Menge residence, under the direction of the Carl F. Roberts Co., Rev. J. P. Hilburn officiating. The interment was in the family burying ground. Capt. Hendry was a member of Tropical Lodge No. 56, F and A. M., which order extended the funeral in a body and conducted the Masonic rites at the grave. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/hendry/obits/h/hendry35ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb