Biography of Samuel Henderson, pages 654 / 655.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel Henderson, one of the earliest and most prominent settlers of Jackson 
Township, De Kalb County, Ind., was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in 
the first year of the nineteenth century.  His father, William Henderson, 
moved a few years later to Harrison County, Ohio, where our subject was 
reared on a farm.  He was married in Richland County, Ohio, in 1823, to 
Letty Moody,   a native of Westmoreland County, Pa., born in 1805.  In 
October, 1836, they moved to De Kalb County, Ind., locating on section 36, 
Jackson Township.  Mr. Henderson built a log cabin, which was the first 
building in the north or east part of the township.  Of their ten children, 
six were born in Ohio and four in Jackson Township---William, resides in 
Concord Township; Jane married Henry Blake, and died in 1863; George resides 
in Allen County; Sarah married Peter High, of Auburn; James is a prominent 
farmer of Jackson Township; David lives in Michigan; Rachel is the wife of 
S.M. Braden; Joseph R. resides in Kosciusko County; John and Elizabeth, 
now Mrs. Samuel Stafford, reside in Jackson township. Mr. Henderson early 
turned his attention to raising stock, and made that industry a successful 
and lucrative one.  He was a man of untiring energy, and is remembered by 
all who knew him as a man of active and enterprising zeal in all public 
affairs.  His affection was largely centered in his family, and he never 
let anything interfere with his giving them his first and principal 
attention.  He gave to each of his sons, except David, who preferred and 
received a college education, 160 acres of land, and to each of his 
daughters he gave an equal amount in money.  He was a devoted member of 
the Masonic Fraternity, squaring his life by its tenets.  He died in 1863 
and was buried by his beloved order with honors.  His wife survived him 
till Dec. 5, 1880.  In her childhood she joined the Methodist Episcopal 
church, but later joined the Lutheran church, always living a devoted 
Christian life.

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