BIO:  HENDERSON, Robert A., s/o John & Anne (Reid) Henderson

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

HENDERSON   REID   HOOPINGARNER

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1886

Knox County, Vincennes Twp, page 350

ROBERT A. HENDERSON was born at Bedford, Lawrence Co., January 11, 1826, and
is the eldest of seven children of John and Anne (Reid) Henderson.  The 
father was born in Virginia, in 1801.  He moved to Knoxville, Tenn., and
remained there with his parents a few years, and then came to Bedford, where
he married the mother, who was a native of Kentucky, born in 1803.  She
moved to Lawrence County, Ind., in 1820, and there remained until a few years
previous to her death, when she came to where our subject now lives, and
died in 1880.  The father was a farmer and died about 1878.  Robert A.
secured the rearing and education of the average farmer's boy, and when
twenty-one years old he married and settled near Bedford, where he followed
farming, flat-boating and dealing in produce, until the war broke out.  He
farmed in Lawrence County until 1870, and then came to Knox County and
located near Vincennes.  He owns 260 acres of the very finest land on the
Wabash bottoms, under good improvements.  March 4, 1847, he was married to
Emily J. Hoopingarner, who has borne him eight children, five now living:
Isaac N., Cornelia A. (who died after being grown and married), Mary C.,
Thomas L., Sarah J. (who died at nine years of age), Susan C., Martha E.
and Samuel R., who died at the age of sixteen.  Mrs. Henderson is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a Mason and a Democrat,
politically, haviang cast his first vote for Cass.  He takes an active
interest in politics, and is recognized as a prominent man of the county.
All his children are living near him.
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