Butts-Baldwin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Henry Hendricks July 1887
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Middle Ga Argus

Major Hendrick Dead

Major Henry Hendrick died at his old home in this place at 7 o’clock on Friday 
morning after six years confinement with paralysis.

He had lived a citizen of this county and had filled many places of honor and 
trust, besides making a clean and gallant record as a soldier.

He was born in Baldwin County, Ga., May 9,1821, moved to butts county in 1823.

He was admitted to the bar in his nineteenth year, was a member of the 
secession convention of 1861 and voted against the ordinance of secession, but 
signed it when it passed.  He entered the confederate army in September ’61, 
and was at Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga and all the engagements from Dalton to 
Jonesboro, and back to Nashville where he was made prisoner December 1864 and 
released September 1865.  he returned and resumed his profession at his old 
home.

In December 1881 he was stricken with paralysis from which he never rallied

He was for 39 years a member of the Baptist church, was generous to a fault, 
and from his lips his family never heard an oath or an improper word.

Middle Ga Argus – Week of August 6,1887


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