Biographical Sketch of George W. Henley, Agency Township, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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George W. Henley, blacksmith, Agency, was born in Washington County,
Tennessee, August 10, 1828.  His parents emigrated to Indiana, where
his father died in 1850 at the age of sixty two.  Mr. Henley located
in Buchanan County in 1849, and has been a blacksmith all through 
life.  He was married August 29, 1854, to Lucy Christopher, a native
of Kentucky.  She was born July 4, 1824.  They have had two children:
Harriet C., born November 11, 1855, died April 4, 1869; and James W.,
born June 4, 1869.  Mr. Henley was in the Confederate Army, in Captain
J. Landis' First Missouri Battery, under General Price.  He participa-
ted in a number of engagements and was badly wounded seven times.  In
1858, during the Mormon War, he was in Salt Lake, and all points be-
tween there and home, serving as the army blacksmith.  He owns two
lots and a house in Agency, where he has an excellent business.

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