When John Calvin Henson was born in October 1854, in South Carolina, United States, his father, John Calvin Hinson, was 39 and his mother, Charlotte "Lottie" Raley, was 38. He married Liza Jane Williams on 14 September 1871, in Catawba, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Lancaster, South Carolina, United States in 1860 and Township 5, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States in 1910. He died on 10 April 1921, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 66.
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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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