Brief Life History of George Henry
When George Henry Henson was born on 26 September 1868, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Jerry Hiram Henson, was 38 and his mother, Louisa Elmyra Lindsey, was 30. He married Martha Jane Whitaker on 14 November 1895, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Civil District 3, Hardin, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Hardin, Tennessee, United States for about 1 years. He died on 5 November 1962, at the age of 94, and was buried in Savannah, Hardin, Tennessee, United States.
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- George H Henson, "United States 1950 Census"
- G W Henson, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- George Henry Henson, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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