Sketch of John Hendricks, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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John Hendricks was a blacksmith, and had a shop, first at Audrain's
mill on Peruque Creek, but afterward removed to Mr. David K. Pittman's.
He married a daughter of Phillip Sublett, and sister of William Sub-
lett, the noted mountaineer.  Hendricks was an eccentric genius, and
fond of playing pranks on other people.  While he was living at 
Audrain's mill he played a trick on his neighbor, Mr. Robert Guthrie,
that came near being the cause of his death.  A stream of water ran 
through Mr. Guthrie's farm, across which he had felled a log that he
used as a foot bridge.  One night Hendricks sawed the log nearly in
two, from the under side, and next morning when Mr. Guthrie went to
cross the creek upon it, it suddenly sank with him into the water,
and he had a narrow escape from drowning, as the water was very deep
at that place.  At another time Hendricks found some buzzard's eggs,
and sold them to Mrs. Felix Scott for a new kind of duck's eggs.  She
was very proud of her purchase, and took a great deal of pains to 
hatch the eggs under a favorite old hen.  But when the ducks came, 
and she saw what they were, she passed into a state of mind that might
have been called vexation.  Hendricks once had a large wen cut out of
his hip, and during the operation he cooly smoked his pipe, as if
nothing unusual were transpiring.	

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