When John Henson was born on 20 February 1878, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, Richard Henson, was 29 and his mother, Margurite Malissa Finley, was 26. He married Amanda Hammons on 12 February 1903, in Knox, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Heidrick, Knox, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 1, Knox, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 6 February 1958, in Pineville, Bell, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Morris Cemetery, Barbourville, Knox, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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