Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Hendershot, George Washington December 8, 1838 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

 Harrison Township
p. 506 & 507

George Washington Hendershot, eldest son of Abel and .Nancy (Smith) Hendershot 
was born in Belmont County, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1838. His parents were reared in the 
same county, the father being of German and the mother of English descent. 
When our subject was ten months old his parents moved to Bartholomew County, 
Ind., and when he was ten years of age they moved to Wayne County, residing in 
and near Newport, where his father followed the carpenter's trade several 
years. George W. lived with his parents till he reached the age of seventeen 
years. In 1856 he drove stock for parties in Indiana for six months. He was 
then variously employed, such as farming, steamboating, working at the 
cooper's trade, etc., until July, 1862, when he enlisted in the Nineteenth 
Indiana Artillery. He was at the battle of Perryville, with Buell, at the 
siege and capture of Atlanta, and all previous engagements. He was taken sick 
near Jonesboro and returned to Chattanooga, Tenn., remaining there till the 
fall of 1864, when he joined his battery at Goldsborough,
N. C. He was afterward transferred to Washington, D.C., where he passed the 
grand review, and from there he went to Indianapolis, Ind., where he was 
discharged June 14, 1865. He returned to Wayne County and was married to 
Martha, daughter of Richard L. and Jane (Dooley) Leeson. They have two 
daughters. Mr. Hendershot is engaged in farming on the old homestead, of which 
he owns a part, and which was first settled by Mr. Leeson. He is a member of 
Jackson Lodge, No. 552, I. O. O. F., and belongs to the Christian church. Mrs. 
Hendershot's father was a native of Virginia; was Lieutenant of a rifle 
company and Colonel of Wayne County Militia in the war of 1812. He settled on 
the farm where Mr. Hendershot now resides in 1816, and erected one of the 
first tanneries in Wayne County. He was married in 1814. His wife was a native 
of Kentucky, and died in 1864, aged seventy-one years. Mr. Leeson worked at 
the tanner's trade till 1840, when he followed farming until his death in 
1854, aged sixty-nine years. 


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