Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Hendrix, Joshua M. 1847 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOSHUA M. HENDRIX.

   Joshua M. Hendrix, the well-known real estate and insurance dealer of Flora,
has won what the world is pleased to call prosperity and the following is a
brief biographical sketch. Mr. Hendrix, who lives on his farm consisting of
eighty acres, was born here on March 14, 1847. He also owns eighty acres in Texas.

   The parents of Mr. Hendrix, George B. and Nancy (Russell) Hendrix, were among
the best-known pioneers of Carroll county. George Hendrix was born on a boat on
the Ohio river, while his parents were on their way from New York to Ohio. He
was the son of Zadoc Hendrix, who with his wife settled in Butler county, near
Oxford, Ohio, where Zadoc spent the remainder of his life. It was on that farm
that George B. grew up and when he reached maturity was married in Union county,
Indiana, to Nancy Russell, daughter of Samuel and Amy Russell. Samuel Russell*
was a soldier in. the War of 1812. The Russells after living a short time in New
York went to Union county, Indiana, where Samuel died and was buried at Liberty,
Indiana. Amy lived for many years with her children and grandchildren in Carroll
and Hancock counties. At the age of ninety-six she died and was buried at
Philadelphia, Indiana. After their marriage, George B. Hendrix and his wife
moved to Carroll county in 1846. Here he farmed eighty acres of land which he
bought and for which he paid six hundred dollars, and here he died in 1860. His
widow married Joseph Billiard and lived until 1882. To George B. Hendrix and his
wife were born eight children, seven of whom grew to maturity, and of these six
are now living. The eldest, Zadoc, died in infancy when his parents lived in
Ohio; Amy is the widow of Taylor Bard, of Flora; Joshua is the subject of this
sketch. Phoebe J: is the widow of John Mayhill; Michael T. lives in Nebraska,'
John is deceased; Mary married James Kirkpatrick, of Carrollton township * James
J. is a resident of Boone county, Indiana.

   Joshua M. Hendrix lived at home, and after the death of his parents bought
out the heirs. He was married on October 10, 1872, to Mary J. Landes, daughter
of John Landes, a pioneer of this township. Mrs. Hendrix passed away on December
9, 1878, leaving a son Rolla, who lives in Frankfort. Two children by this
marriage died in infancy. Joshua M. Hendrix was married, secondly, to Sarah J.
Dunham, daughter of Enoch and Esther L. (Savior) Dunham, the marriage having
taken place on February 29, 1880. Enoch Dunham came from New Jersey before this
part of the country was settled, and his wife, Esther, came with her parents to
Indiana from New York. They were the parents of two children, Joseph and Sarah
J., who became the wife of Joshua M. Hendrix.

   To Mr. and Mrs. Hendrix were born two children, both of whom are graduates of
the Wheeling high school. Bertha L. is a graduate of the Danville Normal School
and has taught several years. She is the wife of Warren Knapp, of Flora. Her
sister, Eva Fern, lives at home.

   Mr. and Mrs. Hendrix adhere to the Baptist faith and are members of that
denomination in Sharon. Mr. Hendrix has been the church treasurer for the past
sixteen years. Politically, lie is a Republican and has been justice of the
peace for twenty years and is now a notary public.

   Mr. Hendrix is a man of pleasing personality, genial nature and possesses a
character that at once appeals to the stranger as having the "ring of true
metal." He dislikes sham and hypocrisy, and it has been his life-long effort to
make his conduct square with his highest conception of right. It is needless to
say that he and his estimable wife have many friends in the business, social and
religious circles near Flora, which is their home.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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