Brief Life History of Thomas Johnson
When Thomas Johnson Henson was born in March 1863, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Jerry Hiram Henson, was 33 and his mother, Louisa Elmyra Lindsey, was 24. He married Mary Frances "Mollie" Bailey on 4 July 1886, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Civil District 9, Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Poinsett, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 23 November 1923, in Lepanto, Poinsett, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Nichols Cemetery, Marked Tree, Poinsett, Arkansas, United States.
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- Thomas J Henson, "United States Census, 1920"
- T. J. Hinson, "Tennessee, Marriages, 1796-1950"
- Thomas Johnson Henson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · Sultana Tragedy
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal names Hen, Hend(e), or Hendy (pet forms of Henry or Hendry ) + son. Compare Henderson . Hendy may also have been derived from Middle English hendy ‘courteous’, used as a personal name (see Hendy ).
English: perhaps sometimes a variant of Hainson, a patronymic meaning ‘son of Hayne’; see Hain 2.
English: in Devon, where patronymics in -son rarely originated, perhaps a variant of Hingston .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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