Freestone County, Texas
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Mexia Daily News newspaper - August 25, 2006 edition

Martha (McDonald) Henderson, 100 Years Old

TEAGUE - Martha Henderson of Teague, Texas passed away Monday, August 21, 2006, 
in the Fairfield East Texas Medical Center among loving family and friends. 
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon, August 26, 2006, at 1 o’clock 
in the Moore’s Angelic Funeral Home. Rev. J. Baggett, pastor of the Avant AME 
Church, Teague will officiate and Rev. Clifford E. McIlveen of Houston will be 
the eulogist. Interment will be in the Jerusalem Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM on Friday, August 25, 2006 at 
the Funeral Home.

Mrs. Matha Henderson was born Martha McDonald and was the 6th child born to 
Will McDonald and Melissie Tatum McDonald in the Avant Community of Freestone 
County on November 17, 1905. She grew up in Avant, attended the public schools 
there, and was baptized in the Avant AME Church at an early age.

Martha and John Henderson met and were married in Freestone County, Texas.

She attended Paul Quinn College in Waco, and worked for a short while at 
Riley’s Café in Teague. She was a housewife, farmer and rancher, and enjoyed 
quilting, gardening, reading the Bible, and spending quality time with her 
grandchildren.

Mrs. Henderson had been an active member of the Avant AME Church, Jerusalem 
Baptist Church, the Freestone County NAACP, the Heroines of Jericho, and the 
Teague Public Schools PTA.

Those left to cherish her memory are: Seven children: John Morris Henderson and 
wife, Ruby Faye, Ft. Worth, TX; Marja Dell Maxson, Tyler, TX; Clyde Henderson 
and wife, Patricia, Houston, TX; Billy Henderson, Houston, TX; Robert Dyron 
Henderson and wife, Shirley, Groesbeck, TX; Melissie Tave and husband, Fil, 
Houston, TX; 23 Grandchildren; 37 Great-Grandchildren; 8 Great-Great 
Grandchildren;Daughters-In-Law: Joyce L. Henderson, Ft. Worth and Annie Ray 
Henderson, Teague; a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

MOORE’S ANGELIC FUNERAL HOME- 406 MONROE STREET TEAGUE, TEXAS IS SERVING THE 
HENDERSON FAMILY.