Inscription:
GEORGE HENDERSON
DIED MAR. 10, 1859
AGED 70 YRS. 1 MO. 29 DYS.
–
MARY E.
WIFE OF
GEORGE HENDERSON
DIED FEB. 1840
AGED 28 YRS. 10 MO. 13 DYS.
George Henderson
Birth: 1789
Death: 10 March 1859
Burial: Cold Water Cemetery, Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri
Mary Eleanor Williams Henderson
Birth: 1811, Fairfax, Virginia
Death: 24 February 1840
Burial: Cold Water Cemetery, Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri
Family members of Mary Eleanor Williams Henderson buried in Cold Water Cemetery:
Mother: Henriette Wheeler Williams
Siblings: Elizabeth Marbury Williams Evans, Henrietta Williams Bland, and Sarah Wheeler Williams Shumate.
Notes:
• Mary Eleanor Henderson was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and was the daughter of William Walter Williams and Henrietta Wheeler Williams.
• George Henderson married Mary Eleanor Williams on 19 May 1836, St. Louis County, Missouri. (St. Louis Marriage Index, 1804-76, Volume 2, Page 013.)
• George Henderson was a veteran of the War of 1812 and was a merchant and financier.
• The father of George, James Henderson, was a patriot in the American Revolutionary War in the Battle of King’s Mountain under General Morgan. James rests in an unmarked grave beside his wife Jane (Dawson) who was the daughter of a Revolutionary War soldier. (Information gathered from the “Reporter” Wednesday, May 29, 1963, page 6, col. 1, by Swanson.)
