My Genealogy Hound

A. W. HENRY, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Sarcoxie, was born in Jasper county, Mo., July 15, 1845. His parents, John and Melissa Henry, were natives respectively of the Old Dominion and the Blue-grass State. They came to Missouri in 1834. Our subject grew to manhood in this county, engaged on a farm and in attending the common schools. At the breaking out of the war he joined the Missouri State Militia and served about eighteen months. He then returned home and engaged in farming, and has since made that his business. Mr. Henry was married Jan. 3, 1867, to Miss Emily J., daughter of Alvin and Elizabeth A. Shepherd, of Lawrence county, this state. They have had three children: Justina A., born Nov. 26, 1867; Eva Belle, born July 11,1869, and died Nov. 13,1881; and James Elmer, born Nov. 16, 1870, and died Dec. 20,1871. Mrs. Henry died Dec. 6, 1870. Our subject was again married in Taney county, Mo., Oct. 16, 1873, to Miss Alice, daughter of Lysander and Lucy Stowell, of that county. Mrs. Henry was born in Madison, Wis., March 28, 1848. From this union there have been four children: Ebbi A., born Ang. 10, 1874, and died Jan. 2, 1876; George F., born Dec.18, 1875; Albert E., born Feb. 9, 1878; and one (not named) born Sept. 23,1880, and died Sept. 26, 1880. Mrs. Henry is a member of the M. E. Church. They have a good farm and pleasant home, situated near Cave Springs.