Job's Children: The Twisted Henry Tree

While researching the Honeycutt family of Iredell County, North Carolina in my last post, linked below, I came across the Henry family of the same area, a small, but splintered family, that seemed to sprall and pull together in a circumspect manner, but in a way that made it difficult to devise who belonged to whom.

The Swell-Headed Baby

A member of the Henry family, George Hampton Henry, had married into the Honeycutt family, in the form of Dovey Naomi, a daughter of Andrew Asa Henry and Dovey Brown Henry. George was a Iredell County resident, born around 1819. He was supposed to be the son of a William Henry and wife Sarah Suther Henry, but I didn't necessarily agree with that, and I will show you why.

George scappled by and wasn't present in any land records or court records of any detail before he married Dovey. He worked for a Moore family as a farm laborer in 1850, before his marriage in 1851, so the early census records did not link him to any one particular family, except for the connection to two young children. But I am leaping ahead. Let's move back to discovering more of the family his descendants believe he sprang from.

The family began with one William Henry.

Name	William Henry
Home in 1800 (City, County, State)	Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10	2
Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15	1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25	1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over	1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10	1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15	1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25	1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over	1
Number of Household Members Under 16	5
Number of Household Members Over 25	2
Number of Household Members	9

1800- There is a William Henry in the 1800 census of Rowan County. He then appears in Iredell County in 1810, 1820 and 1830, seen below.

Name	William Henry
Home in 1830 (City, County, State)	Iredell, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5	1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9	1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14	2
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19	2
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69	1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9	2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14	2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29	2
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49	1
Free White Persons - Under 20	10
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49	3
Total Free White Persons	14
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored)	14

The oldest male in the 1830 record is in his 60's, while the oldest female is in her 40's. Sarah may have been a second wife, as was common due to the dangerous of childbirth, and life in general, due to disease, wild animals, flooding, and other natural disasters. There appears to be a family of six daughters and six sons.

William Henry died prior to 1840, and in his place, Sarah becomes the head of household.

Name	Sarah Henry
Residence Date	1840
Home in 1840 (City, County, State)	Iredell, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14	1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19	1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29	1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39	1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19	1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29	1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59	1
Free White Persons - Females - 80 thru 89	1
Persons Employed in Agriculture	3
Persons Employed in Manufacture and Trade	1
Free White Persons - Under 20	3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49	3
Total Free White Persons	8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves	8

In 1840, Sarah, the widow, would have been the woman in her 50's, while the woman in her 80's was likely her mother, Martha Suther, as we will see in a minute. There are two daughters and four sons left at home.

There are two households linked to Sarah Suther Henry in the 1850 census of Iredell County, showing two very different constellations of female-headed Henry families.

The first one begins with a 67-year-old "Lamsey" or even "Ramsey" Henry, inciting Henry descendants to crown Sarah Suther Henry with the middle name of "Lamsey". She is followed by four younger adult females; Mary A. 29, Elizabeth M., 27, Jane E., 25 and Sarah T., 23. Rounding it up is a list of four children, a boy, George A., 7, a girl, Julia A., 5, and two toddler boys, M. J. F. Price, age 3 and Robert H. Price, age 1. These children are a very important hint in categorizing George H. Henry, and were probably grandchildren of the Head of Household, but relationships would not be noted until 1880.

The second record is split between two pages.

The first page show household 1376, headed by Sarah Henry, 56, followed by William F., 43 and Caroline, 36. Following, in the same household, on the next page is Dovey A. Henry, 32, Elizabeth B. Henry, 29, Ander J., 28, James L., 23 and ends with Martha Suther, 84. They live next to a William A. Ramsey, if that is any coincidence.

The fact that Sarah and her mother, Martha, are both counted in the same age groups as they were in 1840, is not significant. I've discovered that ages for women, especially older women, were very fluid in those times. Unless an exact birthdate for a person was known, the years of birth over the course of their lifetime could lie easily within a range of 20 years. This last record seems to certainly correspond with the Sarah Henry of 1840 in every other way.

A decade later, Sarah Henry is shown as a 76-year-old head of household, meaning she was probably in her sixties in the previous census. Still in the home was Anders, or Andrew 37, James, 32 and Caroline, 40.

Dovey had married John Y. Cavin, by David Ramsey, as was reported in the newspapers. Another error that plagued the Henry family trees was the merging of this Dovey with Dovey Naomi Honeycutt, who married George H. Henry, as if Dovey was a widow who then married George H. Henry. They were two very different Dovey's and these records prove it.

Dovey A. Henry is shown in 1860, above, married to John Cavin, a carpenter, with their daughter, Sarah, age 7. So an entirely different Dovey.

So it now appears there were two completely different Henry families headed by probable widows in this time frame, Lamsey and Sarah. Knowing Sarah was the widow of William Henry, I wanted to look at who 'Lamsey', for lack of a better interpretation of her name, could have been the widow of, so it's necessary to step back in time to 1840 again.

1840, Iredell County, there is a G. H. Henry, living next to a Honeycutt and close to a Robert K Henry.

In another part of the census, there was a Henry M. Henry.

These three Henry households were in addition to the Sarah Henry already shown above. Two of them are easily explainable.

The first is G. H. Henry, or the subject who began this quest, George Hampton Henry who married Dovey Naomi Honeycutt.

Name	G H Henry
Residence Date	1840
Home in 1840 (City, County, State)	Iredell, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29	1 George Hampton Henry
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14	1 Sarah
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19	1 Jane
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29	2 Mary & Elizabeth
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49	1 Lamsey
Persons Employed in Agriculture	1
Free White Persons - Under 20	2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49	4
Total Free White Persons	6
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves	6

He is shown as head of a household of women, as a young man in his twenties. He has not yet married, and I believe this record shows George with a widowed mother and sisters. See how easily it would line up with the 1850 record of Lamsey Henry and her household in 1850, minus the children.

The other Henry, close by to George is the family of R K Henry, or Robert Kelton Henry. Kelton was born about 1811- 1813, just a little older than George Hampton Henry, but not that much, not a parental figure. Kelton would also be found in the small Granite Hill community in 1850 and 1860. He had married Lucinda Sarah Robinson, called Cindy and fathered 14 children, one of which was also named George Hampton Henry, born in 1835.

Name	Henry Mchenry[Henry M Henry]
Residence Date	1840
Home in 1840 (City, County, State)	Iredell, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59	1
Free White Persons - Females - 70 thru 79	1
Slaves - Males - Under 10	2
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23	1
Slaves - Females - Under 10	1
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54	1
Persons Employed in Agriculture	3
Total Free White Persons	2
Total Slaves	5
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves	7

The fourth Henry household was that of Henry M. Henry, who was a man in his 50's with a woman in her 70's, perhaps his mother, and a number of slaves in the household.

So, it seems I need to go back one more decade to find the possible father of George, and/or husband of Lamsey, if I am barking up the right tree.

There were four: Samuel, William, Robert and Robert R.

We know who William was, husband of Sarah Suther and passed away between 1840 and 1850.

Samuel's household included a man in his twenties, a woman in her thirties, four little boys, and one little girl, all under 9.

Robert reflected a man in 60's, a woman in her 50's, six other females from the twenties and teens down to the 5 to 9 category and two teen-aged boys.

Robert "R" Henry was actually Robert K. Henry, or Robert Kelton Henry, previously mentioned. To add to that, he lived right beside Robert Henry without the middle initial, the one in his 60's.

I think we might be on to something here.

Now the above record shows the George Hampton Henry family in 1860. This record caused even more upheaval amongst descendants. Recall, George and Dovey were married in 1851, and in the 1850 census, George was a farm laborer, living with the Moore family. Here we see George, 39, and Dovey 24. Listed below them are two teenagers, George, aged 17 and a girl, Julian, aged 14. Some folks toss these two in as children of George and Dovey, which is impossible, for Dovey at least. They correspond with the George A., aged 7 and Julia A., aged 5, living with Lamsey in 1850. I'm fairly certain these had to be the same children. They are followed by the actual children of George and Dovey, together at any rate, Isabella, 8, James, John and Scott.

Holding that train of thought for a moment, I'd like to advance attention to another record.

William Henry did not leave a Will, but he did leave estate records of which one William Hunsucker had been appointed the administrator of.

In the August term of court, 1840, Iredell County, William Hunsucker presented the above petition against the heirs at law of William Henry.

There would be later suites filed involving certain individual members of the family, like the one involving William F. Henry, above.

More legibly, the heirs of William Henry, and as well, his wife Sarah Suther Henry, were listed as:

Mary F. Henry, William F. Henry, Margaret E. Henry, Sarah C. Henry, Robert Miller and Jane, his wife, Nancy A. Henry, Elizabeth B. Henry, Andrew J. Henry, James L. F. Henry, heirs of William Henry, deceased.

At the time of William's death, it appears only one daughter, Jane, was married, to Robert Miller.

List of Heirs in 1840 compared to List of children still living with Sarah in 1850

Mary F ....

William F William F. age 43

Margaret E ......

Sarah C I believe this to be Caroline, 36

Nancy A. .......

Elizabeth B. Elizabeth B. 29

Andrew J Andrew J. 28

James L. F. James L. 23

No corresponding heir Dovey A. 32

Could Nancy A. have been the same daughter as Dovey A.? I believe so for a few reasons. Both the list of heirs and the children in Sarah's home in 1850 are listed in descending order from oldest to youngest. Nancy fell between Sarah Caroline and Elizabeth B. in the list of heirs. Dovey A. falls between Caroline and Elizabeth B. in the list of residents in the home of William's widow, Sarah, in 1850. Mary F. and Margaret E. Henry may have gotten married in between 1840 and 1850, then again, they may have passed away. I'm not certain at this point

Mary was particularly litigious and demonstrative in her pursuit of inheritance

William F. Henry, as the only son, also led the way in attempting to obtain their inheritance over the authority of William Hargrove as administrator of the estate.

In August of 1843, we are blessed with an updated and different list of heirs in this same suit.

"This indenture made the 2nd day of August AD 1843.

Between Jas. K. Bogle Esq. High Sheriff of Iredell County and the State of North Carolina of the one part and William Hargrove....against the property of Mary F. Henry Wm F. Margaret E. & Sarah C. Henry Jane Mills wife of Robert Mills Dovey A. Henry Elizabeth B. Henry & James L. F. Henry heirs at law of William Henry.....

The details of the indenture are not vital to this discovery but are available online for any who may have a further interest in the Henry family. My objective is to separate the two blended Henry families into two actual entities, and identify the members, or most likely members of each. It is clear that there was no George in this list of heirs.

I have currently identified the true heirs of William Henry and his wife, Sarah Suther Henry as:

Mary Frances Henry - first in the list, is only found living with the David and Aseneth Gilliand famly in 1850. She is 33 in the record, making her year of birth around 1817. She is last seen, single, 84, and living with her niece in the 1880 census. Her fate afterwards is unknown, but it is likely she was buried at New Perth Cemetery in Troutman, with others of her siblings, nieces and nephews.

Mary Henry in 1850

William Franklin Henry - birth year between 1807 and 1814. Found in 1850 at home with his mother. Married three times. First to Dovey Cavin on August 27, 1851. She was the mother of most of his children. Married Mary, possibly maiden name 'Reece', who helped raise the younger ones. Married Nancy Ann Cook on December 23, 1874, in Iredell County. W F Henry died on September 29, 1876, at the age of 62. He was buried at the New Perth Cemetery in Troutman, Iredell County, NC. The next year, the only child of William and Nancy Cook Henry, Junia, died at the age of two.

Nancy is found a widow, living with her parents in the 1880 c. Nancy A. Cook Henry was a young woman and remarried and raised a family.

Nancy Ann Cook Henry in 1880

William F. Henry's children were:

A) Wilson or William Henry, born in 1851.

B) Julia B. Henry b 1853, married Pinkney B. Howard.

C) Samuel W. Henry b 1855, a Carpenter.

D) Sarah Henry b 1857, fate unknown.

E) Levi (or Lee V.) b Nov. 27, 1859, Married Lou A. Cloninger. Relocated to Pinellas County, Florida and died there on April 28, 1939. He and his wife's remains were both returned to Iredell County for burial at the Willow Valley Cemetery in Mooresville.

F) Young V. Henry b. May 18, 1862 Married briefly to Rose Louise Anthony, two children. Had a troubled like at times. Relocated to Saint Petersburg, Florida by 1885, and then on to Henderson County, Florida by 1930, where he passed away in 1940.

G) Junia A. Henry was born on June 3, 1875 and died on December 14, 1877. She was buried at New Perth Cemetery in Troutman with her father and other Henry family members.

Tombstone of Junia Henry

Article on Young Henry

Jane Eleanor Henry was born February 23, 1814. On June 2, 1843, she married Robert Leroy "Bobbie" Mills. She was the only married daughter mentioned in William Henry's estate papers. She and Bobbie Mills were the parents of nine children, whom they raised in the Troutman area of Iredell County. They were Robert F., Martha Jane, William Pinkney, John Leroy, Charles F., Andrew Jackson, Julia and Washington Mills. Jane died in 1868 and her husband, Bobbie, far outlived her, thriving to the age of 92. Reports would exaggerate his age to 100. They were buried at the New Perth Cemetery in Troutman.

Bobby Mills is visited by church members.

Death of Bobbie Mills in 1907

Sarah Caroline Henry was born around 1818 to 1820. She never married but was a rock and glue at being able to piece the family together. She was shown living with her mother in the 1850 and 1860 census records. In 1870, she is the head of the house, with her youngest brother, James Lafayette Henry, and a freed girl named Margaret in the home. In the 1880 census, she appears living with her niece, Sarah Rosa Cavin Cloninger, the daughter of her sister Dovey Henry Cavin, (these families intermarried much, causing some confusion). Also, in the home with young Sarah and all of her children is Mary F. "Polly" Henry, now 84, and Levi Henry, the son of William Franklin, Caroline and Polly's nephew and Sarah Cavin Cloninger's cousin, although he was counted as a hired man.

Sarah Caroline Henry died on April 23, 1887. She had made a Will and left everything to her niece and namesake, Sarah Rosa Cavin Cloninger. Her sister, Polly, had probably already passed before the much younger Caroline. She was buried at the New Perth Cemetery in Troutman, with her siblings William Franklin, Jane Eleanor, and others of the family.

Margaret E. Henry was mentioned in her father's estate papers; however, I am not certain as far as her dates or fate. She possibly married a Hallman, but I can't corroborate enough details to be convinced this is the right Margaret Henry.

Elizabeth B. Henry was born about 1820. She married James Giles Freeland, date unknown. They had two sons, James Elkana Freeland (1858-1936), who moved to Johnson and Logan County, Arkansas, and Lemuel Eugene Freeland (1861-1934), who remained in Iredell County. There may have been a third son, Tom A., born in between those two, who died as a child.

Elizabeth is last seen in the 1880 census with her husband and sons.

J.G. Freeland - Died January 8, 1887, Iredell County, NC. Ae 68 years. Survived by wife and 2 sons, one of whom lives in a western state.

She was mentioned as living in her husband's brief obituary but is not found afterwards. She seems to have passed away between 1887 and 1900. She was probably buried in the Bethesda Church Cemetery with her husband, Giles.

Dovey and the Cavin Confusion

Dovey Ann Henry was born about 1821. I believe she is the same child as Nancy A. Henry. She was married to John Young Cavin on September 30, 1851, by David Ramsey, Justice of the Peace.

A major snafu ensued because on August 27, 1851, William Franklin Henry had been married to Dovey Neomy (or Naomi) Cavin, by John Young, Justice of the Peace.

So Dovey Henry became Dovey Cavin and Dovey Cavin became Dovey Henry.

William Franklin Henry and Dovie Henry were siblings, children of William and Sarah Suther Henry.

John Young Cavin and Dovey Naomi Cavin were not siblings, but they were related in more ways than one.

In the Will and Estate papers of William Young Cavin, (1779-1885), the father of Dovey Naomi Cavin Henry, who had predeceased her father, he lists the living children of his daughter Dovey.

To transcribe the above excerpt from the William Y. Cavin Will, "grandchildren (born of his deceased daughter Dovey Henry) Walter C. Henry, Lee V. Henry, Young V. Henry & Sallie J. Rogers wife of Chal. B. Rogers who are all made plaintiffs herein, and his daughters.'' This document aids in the clarification of which of William Franklin Henry's children were born to Dovey. But it doesn't stop there.

After listing the names of his unmarried daughters, Zilpha and Vina (Lavina), Mr. Cavin named more grandchildren, those of his daughter, Caroline [Martha Caroline -(1847-1885)].

"his grandchildren born of his deceased daughter Caroline Cavin) Earnest D. Cavin, Minnie L. Cavin, Royal L. Cavin, Della E. Cavin &" continued on the next page.

"Troy Cavin, the last named five being minors and the four last under 14 years old, John Y. Cavin, jr. being the father and also duly appointed & qualified as guardian of said minors...."

So Caroline Cavin had married a John Y. Cavin and William Y. Cavin also had a son named John Y Cavin, her brother. Could they have made it any more bewildering?

Dovey Ann Henry had married the John Y. Cavin that was the brother of Dovey Naomi Cavin Henry, and also the brother of Martha Caroline Cavin Cavin, who had married the other John Y. Cavin. Got that? She died a young woman, some say around 1865, but possibly earlier, as she only had one child, Sarah Rosa "Sallie" Cavin, who married Edward Lee Cloninger, who would become the executor of the estate of her grandfather. Her widower, John Y. Cavin Sr., as he was older than his brother-in-law, would remarry to Cynthia D. Willis and have three more children, Carrie, Irenius "Ira" and Roy, living until 1924.

Andrew Jackson Henry was born January 30, 1822, one of the two younger sons of William and Sarah, and seems to have placed taking care of his mother and single sisters ahead of establishing his own family. He finally married at the age of 40 to Nancy Mayhew, around 1862, but claimed himself a land grant in 1855, or applied for one.

He moved around Iredell County a bit, Deep Well, Barringer's, Shiloh before settling in Statesville later in age. He and Nancy had 6 children: Mary Emmaline, Martha Caroline, Nancy Jane, James Lafayette Henry, and two who seem to have died as children, Fannie and William, Fannie older than James and William, the youngest.

Andrew J. Henry died on May 30, 1901, and was buried at Berea Baptist Church in Mooresville, NC.

James Lafayette Henry, not to be confused with his nephew of the same name, was born on Christmas day, 1826. He was the only son of William and Sarah to serve in the Civil War. He was wounded at Chancellorsville, but survived, and ranked out as Corporal. He married Josesphine Matilda Hobbs, and they settled in Mount Ulla, Rowan County, raising three children: Columbus Washington Henry, Clarrissa Elizabeth Mae Henry Compton and Betty Victoria Henry Fasnacht.

James Lafayette Henry and wife, Josephine.

J. L. Henry died April 15, 1902, and was buried at Back Creek Presbyterian Church in Mount Ulla, Rowan County, NC.

So, that was one Henry family pulled separately from the rest. Now to the illusive husband of Lamsey Henry and which amalgamated members made up that branch?

One thread that awkwardly weaves together the quilt of the Lamsey Henry branch of the family tree pertains to the existence of two children in multiple homes.

In 1860, the George Hampton Henry homestead held two teenagers that didn't seem to be his, George, 17 and a girl, Julian (actually Julianne), age 14. In 1850, George was a single man, working for a neighboring family. In 1851, he had married Dovey Honeycutt, and their first child was Isabela, aged 8 in this record. Forgive me for all of the Dovey's, they simply existed en masse in Granite Hill, Iredell County in those days. They had fads back then, too. These two did not seem to be the children of George and were definitely not the children of Dovey, she wasn't old enough to have been their mother.

These two would have been alive, as younger children in 1850, and they certainly were

In the 1850 census of the Lamsey Henry household, after the list of her single daughters, Mary A., Elizabeth M., Jane E. and Sarah Y. or T., the youngest being 23, there were the four children, George A. 7, Julia A., 5, and the Price boys, M. J. F. Price, age 3 and Robert H. age 1. These were probably grandchildren of Lamsey, possibly the children of her deceased children.

Lamsey doesn't reappear in 1860. She would have been 77 and it is safe to assume she passed away.

1860

In her stead, we have a home headed by single daughter, Mary, with Elizabeth and Jane with her. The younger of the Price brothers, Robert H., is still in the home, also. They were probably living in the same house and on the same property that they were a decade prior. The youngest sister, Sarah, is missing, having married.

Unfortunately, there is no record of the exact parents of George and Julianne Henry. Were they the children of a deceased son? Or possibly the children of an unmarried daughter? In this case, because they were living with George Hampton Henry, their possible Uncle in 1860, I would guess a deceased son, and it's still entirely possible that they were the children of George by a previous wife. The Price boys were also probably the orphaned sons of a deceased daughter who married a Price. As the older one is missing, and would have only been 14, he probably had passed away as well over the course of the decade.

Young George served in the Confederate Army, losing his life at the tender age of 18.

Name	George L.C.M. Henry
Enlistment Age	18
Birth Date	abt 1843
Birth Place	Iredell County, North Carolina, USA
Enlistment Date	22 Jul 1861
Enlistment Rank	Private
Muster Date	22 Jul 1861
Muster Place	North Carolina
Muster Company	I
Muster Regiment	7th Infantry
Muster Regiment Type	Infantry
Muster Information	Enlisted
Muster Out Date	3 May 1863
Muster Out Place	Chancellorsville, Virginia
Muster Out Information	Killed
Side of War	Confederacy
Survived War?	No
Residence Place	Iredell County, North Carolina
Occupation	Farmer
Title	North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster

His sister Julianne married Carl Graham, also a Civil War casualty, and became the mother of two children, Thomas and Molly. Molly aka Mary, was the only one to survive long enough to have her own children. She married William Walter Thompson, lived to be 77, and raised eight children.

Then there was Robert Kelton Henry. It is generally accepted that Robert Kelton and George Hampton Henry were brothers and from what I can tell, it all makes sense. The two Henry families having daughters with the same common names, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Jane, certainly aided in the confusion of the two branches.

Robert Kelton Henry was born about 1811 or 1812. He is seen in the 1830 census listed right next to a Robert Henry.

He was a Carpenter and lived in the Granite Hill community of Iredell County, near the rest of the Henry family. Above, in 1860, the George Henry family is listed at the top of the page in Household 344 and Kelton's family is listed at the bottom of the page in Household 350.

Kelton had married Lucinda Sarah "Cindy" Robinson, and they were the parents of a whopping eleven children. He passed away in August of 1863, after losing a few sons in the Civil War. He left a lengthy probate record, full of debts to be paid and bickering between his Administrator and the appointed male guardian of his minor children. The children were born between 1830 and 1856, namely, Sarah Ann Henry Crouder, James Franklin Henry (Civil War Casualty 1862), Margaret A. Henry Baxter Pool, Andrew Blair Henry, George Hampton Henry, (CSA), Robert L. Henry, Elam Templeton Henry, (CSA), John McPherson Henry, Nancy Ellen Henry (died as teen), and Jenny Henry Young.

If''n I was a gambler, I'd place my Kashi and Polymarket odds on Robert Henry being the head of this fractured family.

Robert Henry appears in the census records of Rowan County, NC in 1820. There were no other Henry's.. He appears in Iredell County in 1830. There were four: William, Samuel, Robert and Robert K. (Kelton) Henry. Samuel was a young man in his 20's and could have been another son.

Tax records show Robert was living in 1837. In the 1840 census, only three Henry's are named, Sarah, the widow of William, Robert Kelton and G H (George Hampton) Henry.

He is named as a debtor to the Estate of Newton Crawford in 1842. This does not necessarily mean he was living. This could have been an amount owed by the estate.

In the records of the Estate of James Templeton, in August of 1841, he is said to be deceased and the debt owed, the substantial amount, for the era, of $45.00 was considered "not good", or not likely to be recaptured. As the name Templeton ran in the family as a given name for children, he or his wife could have been related.

Robert Henry may have come west from Bertie County, NC.

This Indenture from a father, named Robert Henry, and his wife, Elizabeth, to a son named Robert Henry, Jr. is dated November 11, 1805. A William Henry is also mentioned.