Melvin Gale Leek Ancestors

Melvin Gale Leek Ancestors

Yesterday,11 Dec 2017, I created a 173-page, twelve generation, ancestor report for Michael Leek. It includes the obituary for his father, Melvin Gale Leek,who died on 2 Dec 2017.

Surnames include: Yoho, Starkey, Shreve, Postlethwait, Leek, Ice, Higginbotham, Henthorn, Edgell, Byard, Blake, Barker, Baker.

I shared the report on my Members Only group on Facebook. I am willing to share with others who agree to reciprocate.

Dick Henthorn

12 Dec 2017

New Obituary Postings

New Obituary Postings

Some time has passed since I last did much posting to my blog, Henthorn Genealogy Obits. Today I posted eleven items which could be salvaged from a Zip Disk with very little work on my part. I think I first shared these obituaries on my AOL website in the year 2000. They haven't been available on the Internet since the end of 2008.

There are thirty-six additional pieces available on the same Zip Disk. As time and interest permit I'll post the rest of them to the obituary blog.

Mr. Dickie
21 Feb 2011

New Obituaries

I posted six obituaries to my obituary blog today.

• Blake, Joseph Boyles
• Goddard, Nicholas Hitch
• Okey, Cornelius
• Rine, Foster Lincoln
• Rine, James Miller
• Thompson, David Wadsworth

I hadn't posted anything there in over a month. These obituaries came from my "Burton" RootsMagic file. I extracted the information using the Individual Summary report format which includes everything from the "note" field and more.

Obituary Posting

Yesterday and today I posted several obituaries to my "Obituary" blog. I can easily find obituaries in my RootsMagic files provided I tagged them with the word "Obituary."

Benella (Norris) Henthorn(e)

RESEARCHER

The mother of Patty Pardee, Serena (Henthorne) Miller, had recorded in her notes: Bennie Ellen Norris Henthorne, b. 25 Mar 1869, d. 2 Nov 1899 in Ironton, OH.

DEATH

Descendant Robert Lott Henthorne reports that Bennie Norris was killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight in the street while she was knitting inside their home. Robert was told this by his father's mother and years later by Serena Eloise, the daughter of Bennie (Norris) Henthorn.

A Fugitive's Bullet

Cuts Short the Life of Mrs. Lot Henthorn

One of the most sensational occurrences in the history of Ironton [OH] was enacted on South Third street about 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Ironton officers attempted to arrest W.C. Moore, of Green River, Ky., for disorderly conduct, and he resisted. Officers Mayne and George used their clubs, and Moore drew a big 48-caliber Colt revolver and began shooting.

On south Third street, between Vernon and Washington, the officers took refuge behind buildings and telegraph poles and returned Moore's fire, but apparently without effect.

Officer George Mayne was standing behind the corner of Jones' livery stable and one of the balls from Moore's revolver struck him in the little finger of the right hand, making a wound which may necessitate the amputation of the first joint. Another bullet passed through his coat collar, tearing a big hole in the cloth.

One of the officers, Ed. Rafferty was standing behind a telephone pole, just above Lot Henthorn's residence on Third street, between Vernon and Washington. Moore opened fire on him.

Mrs. Lot Henthorn and a young lady who was in the house, heard the shooting. The young lady ran outside to see what occasioned the fusilade and Mrs. Henthorn stepped to the south window of the upper front room of her residence.

When the young lady returned to the room, Mrs. Henthorn was lying unconscious on the floor with the blood streaming from a bullet wound just below her mouth. A small bullet hole in the window and a shattered pane, indicated that one of Moore's bullets had gone wild and struck the unfortunate woman.

The young lady gave the alarm and willing hands soon rendered assistance. Dr. W.E. Pricer was hastily summoned and did all that medical aid could accomplish to bring the lady to consciousness but she died in a few minutes.

In the meantime, the authorities and an infuriated crowd of citizens gave chase to the renegade whose bullet had accomplished its work of destruction. It was a running fight. Moore emptied his Colt at his pursuers, reloaded and emptied it again. The officers returned the fire and as the fusilade continued the wildest excitement prevailed.

Running out of ammunition the officers secured shot-guns and continued the pursuit. In the alley above Gills's saloon at Third and Quincy, Officer George run in on Moore and knocked the fight out of him with a club. He was taken in charge by Officers George and Rafferty, who escorted him down Fourth street to Vernon and towards the Mayor's office.

An immense crowd, attracted by the shooting and enraged at the news of Mrs. Henthorn's death, followed the officers and their prisoner, and the frequent cries of "lynch him!" "string him up!" and like expressions induced the officers to change their plans and take their prisoner to the county jail.

Moore is from Green River, Ky. He has been here at different periods for some time and is rated as a bad citizen. This afternoon he was at Furlong's saloon, where he got some colored boys to dance for him and then refused to pay them. The proprietor remonstrated with Moore and the latter drew a revolver on him. Thus originated the complaint to the authorities and the tragedy which followed.

During the excitement the report was started that the gun user was a Hatfield, and then again that he was one of the Chatfields, and this seemed to add to the fury of the crowd which had gathered. However, the officers stayed firmly with their prisoner and landed him in jail.

Officer George said, "I don't know when Mrs. Henthorn was shot, but should judge it was when Mayne was behind the post in front of her residence. It could hardly have been when he was behind Jones' stable, where he was shot."

Officer George Mayne substantiates his statement, and says he received his wound when he was behind the livery stable corner.

Officers [sic] George emptied his gun at Moore and was handed a shot-gun by some unknown party. This also was emptied at the fugitive. He did not strike Moore, but the latter voluntarily surrendered his revolver. He cannot account for the wound in the back of Moore's head, unless it was caused by a bullet or club of one of the officers.

Mrs. Henthorn was the wife of Mr. Lot Henthorn, a salesman at Brumberg's clothing store. She was 30 years of age last March, and besides her husband, leaves four small children. She was one of the most active members of the Christian church and a lady respected by all.

The Register is informed that Moore has been working at the steel plant in Ashland, Ky., and has a wife and four children in that city. He expressed the deepest regret over the occurrence and begs that he be protected against any violence on the part of the citizens of this community.

Sheriff Dovel, while not entertaining serious fears that an attempt would be made to secure possession of Moore, had taken precautions to protect the prisoner. The jail residence was lighted up during the entire night and it was understood that sworn deputies held vigil behind the closed doors, ready to sustain the strong arm of the law should an assault be made.

The prisoner had his preliminary hearing, Tuesday, and was remanded to jail without bond.

OBITUARY

Mrs. Henthorn's Funeral

The funeral of Mrs. Bennie Ella Henthorn, wife of Mr. Lot Henthorn, and the unfortunate victim of Monday afternoon's tragedy, will take place from the Christian Church, corner of Third and Washington streets at 2 P.M. Wednesday. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. J.W. Maddux, assisted by Rev. W.H. Hampton.

The family of the deceased desire it announced that there will be no viewing of the remains at the church. After the services the remains will be laid to rest at Woodland cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Norris of Columbus, mother and father of the deceased and her brothers and sister from that city, are here to witness the last sad rites.
(Source: The Ironton Register, Thursday, November 2, 1899, Vol. 50, No. 15, page 1 - furnished by James Fathbruckner)
[Note: The shooting took place on Monday, 30 Oct 1899. The funeral was held on Wednesday, 1 Nov 1899. The newspaper article about the incident and the funeral appeared on 2 Nov 1899.]

Children

After their mother's death the 4 Henthorn children went to Columbus, OH to live with the Norris grandparents. They were there at the time of the 1900 census.

Census: 1900, in Franklin Eo., OH, Columbus, 54 127, 13 99

• Joseph B. Norris, b. Mar 1841 VA VA PA teacher, married 33 years, 6 children 4 living;
• Serena E., b. Aug 1846 KY VA VA;
  
• George B. b. Jun 1872 KY VA KY;
• Mary S., b. Aug 1876 KY VA KY;
• John S., b. Aug 1879 KY VA KY;
• Evett P., b. Apr 1883, KY VA KY;
• Clifford Henthorn, b. Mar 1888, OH OH KY;
• Norris Henthorn, b. Mar 1891, OH OH KY;
• Will Henthorn, b. Jul 1893, OH OH KY;
• Serena Henthorn, b. Nov 1897, OH, OH, KY

(Census data furnished by James Fathbruckner)

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Email Dick Henthorn: Rhenthorn1@aol.com
Posted: 24 Sep 2009
File: Benella.txt

Henthorn, Abraham

Recollections

of

Abraham Henthorn

on the

Occasion of his 92nd Birthday

July 1940

Abe Henthorn of Baylis celebrated his 92nd birthday Monday. Born July
22, 1848 in Matteawan, New York, he came with his parents to Illinois
when he was a child of two. They settled near Fish Hook, and except
for five years spent in Christian county, Mr. Henthorn has since been
a resident of Pike.

Mr. Henthorn was the oldest child in a family of eight born to John
and Betty Holt Henthorn, both natives of England. His brothers and
sisters were Mary, who was born in New York and died in infancy; Mrs.
Sarah Cooley, Frank, Doug, Mrs. Jane Lewis, Charley and Will. One
sister and two brothers are living; Mrs. Lewis is resident of Drexel,
MO., and Doug and Charley live in Nebraska.

Both his father and his maternal grandfather were weavers in England.
The Holts, parents of his mother, lived in Lancashire, where the
grandfather, Abraham (for whom he was named), was a boss weaver in
charge of many looms in a factory. A strike among the workers sent
the entire Holt family (including their daughter Betty and her husband
John Henthorn, parents of Abraham) to America.

Abraham Holt, after the strike had gone on for some time and he had
found that what odd jobs he could pick up did not provide enough for
the family to live on, told his wife one day that he was going to
America. When he made enough money, he'd send for the rest of them.
But he reckoned without the determination of his wife that sent the
whole family to the new world. Said she, "If you go, I go. And if I
go, the children go." Abraham argued a while; when he couldn't get
work enough in England to keep his family, he didn't see how he could
afford to take them all to America. But Mrs. Holt was adamant--"If
one goes, we all go." And she kept saying it.

Their grandson, recalling the life in England, told the reporter
Sunday that his grandparents were thrifty folks. "Unbeknownst to each
other, and out of a small salary, both husband and wife were
accustomed to put by a little money," said Mr. Henthorn. When Holt
received his weekly pay, he gave his wife money for housekeeping and
current bills. He took out his own "ale money," as did every working
husband in England in those times. But he didn't drink the ale that
every other man did as a matter of custom. The "ale money" was his
own next egg. Meantime out of her meager housekeeping allowance, Mrs.
Holt managed to save a little. Without telling each other, husband
and wife had each saved up for an emergency.

Mrs. Holt kept insisting on the family exodus to America, and her
husband, after making a trip to Liverpool to inquire about the cost of
passage, finally brought out his little hoard and they counted it
together. Said he, "Well, it will pay for our passage but there won't
be a penny left over when we get to America." Not until then did his
wife reveal that she too had saved some money. It was enough to
guarantee a living until Mr. Holt could get a job in America.

So the Holt family, together with Betty and John Henthorn, went to
Liverpool and took passage on a sailing vessel. The ship sailed but a
few days out to sea, the vessel sprung a leak and had to return to
Liverpool for repairs. The passengers were required to remain on
board the ship if they wanted food and shelter, for the company
refused to run the risk of having them wander around Liverpool,
although Abraham went ashore a few times. Again the voyage began, and
this time was successful. The Holts had been more than three months on the way and by the time they landed in New York, they were heartily sick of sailing vessels and the sea.

Abraham Holt, was a good weaver, and he found the industry in the
United States crying out for men with his experience. He got a job
immediately, and a little later secured a better job. A factory with
a huge contract for prints found that Lancashire Abraham was the man
they were looking for. Abraham could "set a pattern." He didn't brag
about his ability, however, but cautiously talked the officials into
standing the loss if anything went wrong, before he would venture on
the job. They did guarantee to stand any losses, an unusual
arrangement for the day, but Abraham proved himself a fine workman and
his job was assured. And yet it wasn't long before he decided to come
west and farm.

John Henthorn worked in the east at the looms, and later as a "boss
weaver," too, with other men under him. When Abraham Holt went west,
John and his wife Betty stayed on another year or so in New York;
their son Abraham was born there, and the little daughter who died in
infancy. Then they followed the elder Abraham to Adams county, coming
by boat over the canal and the Ohio river to Cario, then up the
Mississippi to Quincy. This was about 1850. Their work as expert
weavers left behind, neither Abraham Holt nor John Henthorn ever held
such a job again. Both became farmers.

The Henthorns settled first in the southeast corner of Adams county,
then near Fish Hook. John bought 160 acres where the Fish Hook store
later stood., and after a while purchased another 160 across the road.
He built the house and barn which still stand on the nearby hill.
John later acquired another 80 acres east of the store site, owning
400 acres at that time.

Young Abraham helped his father on the farm, breaking the prairie
behind ox teams hitched to plows. He and Sarah, the oldest daughter
of the family, both worked at plowing, with two yokes of oxen hitched
to one plow. There was much timber, and breaking the new ground was
no picnic.

The family lived well for the times, but there were no luxuries. Mr.
Henthorn was too young to enlist for Civil war service, but he
remembers the table privations. "Biscuits and white bread were a
rarity," he says, "we had cornbread most of the time and were glad to
get it."

He had his first suit of clothes when he was 18. He was as well
dressed as other boys of the day but his new suit was tailored for him
alone from cloth made of the wool from his father's sheep. There was
a woolen mill just west of Barry, where the Weber Spring tourist camp
now stands. As was the custom, his father took the wool from his
flock of sheep and went to the mill to have it made into cloth. A
neighbor woman came to their home to "work up," the cloth into
garments and blankets. She tailored Abe's first suit and also made
him an overcoat.

This sewing was of course by hand. Abe remembers his mother's first
sewing machine, a little one that was fastened to the table and was
used mostly for the women's clothes, being too light for the men's
garments. Sarah, then about 18, soon got the hang of the new machine
and did most of the sewing for the women of the family. Years later
his mother got a Singer sewing machine.

Abe went to a log school, over the foundation of which the gravel road
north of Fish Hook is now being laid. The road bed goes over the
foundation of the Fish Hook store too. His first teacher was Amy
Green, who got the school at the age of 18; Abe recalls the grown
folks talking about Amy's youth for there were few 18-year-old
teachers in that section. His second teacher was Emily Smith. He
knew Emily quite well later in life when her niece and his wife were
friends. She lived in a story-and-a-half frame house in the west part
of Griggsville, and he thinks it is still standing.

When he was 10 years old, Abe Henthorn heard Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas debate in Quincy. It was his first trip to the
city, and he went with his father and grandfather. He was impressed
with the torchlight parade; "they have nothing to equal it nowadays,"
he says.

When he was 21, Abe struck out for himself. He worked two years for
his uncle, John Sykes of Beverly, and that was the last time in his
life that he worked for another man. Ever after he was "on his own."
In 1871, the year of the Chicago fire, Abe married Margaret Anna Cory,
daughter of Edwin and Mary Jane Cory. The ceremony was held at the
bride's home, and the Rev. Wingate Newman, Methodist preacher at
Baylis, officiated.

They lived first on a farm belonging to William Morrison, his wife's
grandfather, on South Prairie. After a year there, Abe and his wife
moved to a farm near Pana, but five years later came back to Pike
county and purchased the Ira Wilson farm on South Prairie where they
lived three years. Then began a series of farm purchases which
extended over a long period of years. Mr. Henthorn has owned many
hundreds of acres in his time, but always sold one farm before buying
another.

He bought a place in Hadley township a mile west of Baylis; then 100
acres northwest of Baylis, and built a house near the cemetery (now
the Kline Hill farm; the house is occupied by Will Riggs). They lived
for 19 months on 140 acres at New Salem then on a farm of 160 acres
south of Fish Hook, after which he bought 820 acres across the road.
Selling that, he purchased 160 acres a mile south of Baylis, then a
140-acre place two miles northeast of Baylis, and finally 40 acres
three miles northeast of the town, which he traded for property in New
Salem, and was at last out of the farming business.

Many another man, moving around as did Abe Henthorn, would have ended
up with nothing. Other men have moved as often, and never worked for
themselves. Abe Henthorn has always been "on his own," however, and
he always made money. True, he lost some when farm prices went down,
but he never asked another man for help. He was never afraid of work,
from the time he started out breaking the prairie behind an ox team,
but fashion changes, in farming as in other trades, and Abe Henthorn
declares today, "I wouldn't know how to farm with all the new
machinery."

Mr. and Mrs. Henthorn had no children of their own., but they reared
the late Stella Calvert Moore, who married Colonel Moore, and her four
children call him "Grandfather."

Mr. Henthorn lives a placid, pleasant life. He is in fairly good
health and although he is hard of hearing, he is a good
conversationalist and friends enjoy visiting with him. He still has
most of his own teeth, although he is afraid he may have to make a
trip to the dentist soon. He doesn't eat a lot but he says, "I like
anything good to eat--I'm not finicky."

He follows the news of the day in the papers. "If there's another
war, I will have lived through four,"he says. "The Civil war--I was
too young to go, until just at the last; the Spanish-American, the
first World war, and now maybe another one." A life-long Democrat, he
has read The Republican for years and usually pays his subscription in
person at the office. He doesn't approve of the third term for
Roosevelt, but says he "doesn't know much about this other
man--Wilkie--yet. Mrs. Frannie Bradshaw Hall has taken care of him
and kept house for him, most of the time since the death of his wife
on Sept. 3, 1934. Mr. Henthorn is a member of the United Brethren
church, as was his wife, but doesn't attend much any more, since he
can't hear well.

Just before the reporter left, Mr. Henthorn brought out one of his
treasures, a weaver's glass which belonged to his grandfather. It is
a tiny magnifying glass through which the "boss weaver," Abraham Holt,
used to count the number of threads "to the quarter," in the work
under inspection. It was his responsibility to see that just the
right number of threads went into the cloth. One thread too few and
the bolt of cloth weighed light; one thread too many and it weighed
too much. Mr. Henthorn has kept the microscope in its little case
these many years. Through it can be seen the regular weaving of a
piece of cloth, spread out so that the finest handkerchief shows up
like a window screen.

The Republican enjoyed its visit with Mr. Henthorn, and joins his
many friends in wishing him peace and good health, and many happy
returns of the day.
(From newspaper, The Republican, Pittsfield, IL, July 1940)

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OBITUARY

Abe Henthorn of Baylis Dies at Age of 95

Funeral For One of County's Oldest Citizens Held Today

Abraham Henthorn of Baylis, one of the county's oldest citizens, passed away at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon in Blessing Hospital at Quincy, IL. He suffered a broken hip on Nov. 8, and two days later he was taken to the hospital. Last Wednesday, he lost consciousness and failed rapidly until the end. He had been cared for by Mrs. Fannie Hall, his housekeeper, and since Wednesday by Charles Cooley of Fish Hook. Mr. Henthorn was 95 years old last July 22.

Funeral services for the aged and respected citizen were held at 2 o'clock this (Wednesday) afternoon at the United Brethren church in Baylis, of which he was a member. Burial was in the cemetery at Baylis. Dieterle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Note: The rest of the article recounts in detail the 1940 interview with a
reporter from The Republican. Abraham Henthorn, born on 22 Jul 1848 at Matteawan, Dutchess Co., NY and died, 20 Dec 1943 at Quincy, Adams Co., IL was the son John and Betty (Holt) Henthorn. He was the great-uncle of genealogy researcher, Dick Henthorn.
(Source: The Republican, Pittsfield, IL, 22 Dec 1943)

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Email Dick Henthorn: Rhenthorn1@aol.com
Posted 23 Sep 2009
File: HentAbe.txt

Posting Wills To My Obits Blog

Today, 21 Sep 2009, I began a project to post some of the Wills that used to be available on my now defunct AOL genealogy website to my Google Obits blog. Each document will be posted as a separate blog entry. I have an HTML editor that I can use to strip the HTML code from the archived Will files to get them ready to post on Google.

The steps to recover each Will aren't too complicated. I think I should be able to post two or three Wills each time I work on the project.

When I originally created the files I used the date of the Will to name the file. You'll see that file name listed at the bottom of each posting if I remember to add it.

My Genealogy File

Yesterday I did some work on my own genealogy file. I posted the obituaries of two of my Henthorn relatives. They both died at the end of 2006. That gives you an idea of how much interest I've had in working on genealogy in the last couple of years.

If you are interested in those obituaries I posted a pointer to the one for my cousin, Wrex Henthorn, Jr. on my obituaries blog. The other obituary, for Jack Charles Henthorn, was featured in the same blog some time ago.

BTW, a register report for my Henthorn family is now a 311 page document. If you are a member of my family and if you have an interest in such a document feel free to contact me. To read the report you need a copy of the free Adobe Reader (PDF) installed on your computer.

Mr. Dickie's New Google Blogs

For a few months I have been keeping a personal journal (Mr. Dickie's Blog) on Google. I've been pleased with how the service works.
I announced earlier that AOL will discontinue Journal support on October 31, 2008. Google agreed to move AOL journals to their service. They created an easy procedure to facilitate the transfer.

I'm pleased to announce that I have successfully moved my three AOL journals to Google. As of October 21st I will no longer post new information to any of the AOL journals. Certain housekeeping tasks remain to be accomplished before the three new Google blogs will be configured to my satisfaction. Please be patient as I go through that process.

I'm thankful that Google was willing to support AOL users by providing support for our journals.

My four Google blogs are as follows:

Personal Blog:
http://mrdickiesblog.blogspot.com/

Arrow Prayers:
http://arrowprayers.blogspot.com/ (976 entries)

Henthorn Genealogy News:
http://henthorn-website-news.blogspot.com (130 entries)

Henthorn Obituaries:
http://henthorn-website-obits.blogspot.com (50 entries)

Mr. Dickie

Hector Ulysses Henthorn

Hector Ulysses Henthorn

Birth: 13 OCT 1869, Pleasant Hill,Cass, MO
Death: 27 JAN 1964, Ventura,Ventura, CA
Burial: 29 JAN 1964, 2 PLAC Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, CA, Arroyo Grande

Problem: How is the middle name spelled: Ulyses, Ulysess, Ulysses? The Family Bible of Hector and Ann lists his name as: Uleses H. Henthorn. His wife's Certificate of Death, which listed him as the informant listed the name as: Hector Ulysis Henthorn. Census records at the Dickinson County, KS Historical Society show the middle name as: Ulysses.

The Obituary Record prepared by Ted Mayr Funeral Home listed the name as: Hector Ulysess Henthorn.

Census: 1875, in Dickinson Co., KS, Center Twp., 2-2, age 6, m., Mo. (Hector)
1880, in Dickinson Co., KS, Center Twp., 20, age 10, m., Mo. (Ulysses H.)
1885, in Dickinson Co., KS, Center Twp., 10-4, age 15, m., Mo.


MARRIAGE:
(Source: Register of Marriage - Dickinson County, KS, page 99) Records license No. 266 issued 10 Aug 1892 to Hector Henthorn, of Detroit, Kansas, Farmer, age 22, white, born in Mo. U.S.A. whose father was Saul (sic) Henthorn and whose mother was Sarah Z. (sic) Crumb with the groom being married for the 1st time. The bride was Alice Parks of Sutphens Mills, age 17, white, born in Kansas whose parents were Joseph Parks and Jennie Salsbury. The bride was being married for the 1st time. The wedding took place at Detroit, Kansas on 14 Aug 1892.

MARRIAGE: Source:
Marriage License. No 266, issued 10 Aug 1892 authorizes the marriage of: Hector U. Henthorn of Detroit, Kansas aged 22 years and Alice Parks of Sutphens Mills, Kansas aged 17 years to marry. The marriage license was afterwards return to the Probate Judge on the 26th of Augus 1892 with the certification of marriage by L.E. Steigelman, Justice of the Peace that on 14 Aug 1892 at Detroit, Dickinson Co., KS that he married Hector U. Henthorn and Alice Parks. (Note: In the 2 places where the middle initial of Hector appears it is not clear that the initial is a "U.", REH)


RECOLLECTIONS:
"They all (Henthorns and Parks) lived in Kansas. Daddy and Mother went to Okeene, OK soon after being married. There Daddy bought a 160 acre farm for $50 from a man who had been in "The Run" during the opening of the Cherokee Strip (Indian) for settlement. For some reason after making the "run" and staking out the claim - the man didn't want the farm. We 4 kids were born there - but we moved to Texas when I was 4 - and on to Calif. when I was 11 and here we are still." (Quote from letter to Gary Henthorn family from his Aunt Mae (Henthorn) Orr, 11 Nov 1982.)

LAND: Lawton Public Library
Okla Tract Books, Roll 4, Vol. 13, p. 59, Blaine Co.; Sect S.E., Sect 15, T19N R10W, 160 acres; purchase money 14.80; Hector U. Henthorn; Date of Sale 13 May 1892; Rect # 7651 K, FC 4736, 28 May 1901.

Census: 1900, in Blaine Co., OK, Cimarron Twp.; Roll 1335, T-623, dwelling 148, family 148; Sheet 7,, ED 11, page 91

• Henthorn, Hector U., head, white, m., age 30, b. Oct 1869, farmer
• married 8 years, b. MO, f.b. IN, m.b. IN
• Henthorn, Alice, wife, f. age 25, b. May 1875, b. KS, f.b. OH, m.b. MO
• Henthorn, Rolload W., son, white, m. age 5, b. Aug 1894, OK
• Henthorn, Ellie/Elbie L., son, white, m. age 3, b. Sep 1896, OK
• Henthorn, Floyd, son, white, m. age 6/12, b. Nov 1899, OK

LAND:
The United States of America: Homestead Certificate No. 4736, Application 7651}

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas There has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a CERTIFICATE OF THE REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1862, "To secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Hector U. Henthorn has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the South East quarter of Section fifteen in Township nineteen North of Range ten West of Indian Meridian in Oklahoma, containing one hundred and sixty acres according to the OFFICIAL PLAT of the Survey of the said Land, returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the SURVEYOR GENERAL:

Now know ye, That there is, therefore, granted by the UNITED STATES unto said Hector U. Henthorn the tract of Land above described; To have and to hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Hector U. Henthorn and his heirs and assigns forever.

In testimony whereof I Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.

BY THE PRESIDENT: T. Roosevelt
s/T.M. McKean, Secretary
Recorded Oklahoma, Vol. 76, Page 234 s/C.M. Brush Recorder of the General
Land Office


Census: 1904, Blaine Co., OK School Census, Dist. #11, Solid Rock P.O., Okeene, 5 mi. east of Okeene

• Henthorne, Rollin/Roland m. 10
• Henthorne, Floyd m. 7
• Henthorne, Elba m. 7

RESIDENCES: The family lived in or near Lipscomb, TX before they moved to California.

AKA-RESIDENCES-OCCUPATION:
He went by the name, Heck. In 1914 he moved, with his family to California. They settled originally near Taft, CA. He worked in the oil fields as a carpenter. The derricks and engine sheds were made of wood.

Prior to 28 Jul 1952 Hector was living at: Route 1, Box 382; Arroyo Grande, CA. He changed his address to P.O. Box No. 302; Grove City, CA on his Farmer's Insurance Exchange Policy on 28 Jul 1952.

RESIDENCES: As of 1959, he was living in Ventura, CA.

OCCUPATION-CHURCH_AFFILIATION:
Hector Ulyses Henthorn was a licensed minister of the United Brethren Church.
Source: License for Quarterly - Conference Preacher: This is to Certify That Rev. H.U. Henthorn is an approved preacher of the gospel of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, so long as his conduct and doctrine are conformable with the gospel of Christ as held by this church. Given at the Quarterly Conference held on Barr charge, this first day of March in the year of our Lord 1908. Subject to Renewal Annually. s/Chas. E. Heisel Presiding Elder (Note: there is a similar license issued at the Quarterly Conference held on Lipscomb the 3rd day of Oct 1910 s/C.A. Schlotterbeck Presiding Elder. REH)

Evening of Life
July 11, 1951, Tuesday eve at home
by H.U. Henthorn

Soon I shall stand on the bank of the river of life,
And can hear the boatsmans oar
And can see the gleam of that city so high
That stands on eternities shore

Soon I'll be at home in that city of gold
Where my friends have all gone, I'm told
Where Jesus now sits at the Fathers right hand
In that land where we never grow old

The victory's I win in this world filled with sin
With the pleasures and sorrows and cares
Will cause me to shine in that mansion above
That Jesus has gone to prepare

I'll fight a good fight. I'll finish my course
Ore life's rough rugged way
In the evening of life as the shadows grow dark
There is the dawn of eternities day.

Love of Jesus
by H. Henthorn

When in sin and sorrow roving
And I did not know his grace
Never knew how Jesus loved me
For I could not see his face

When I felt that sin and sorrow
Pressing down upon my soul
Then I cried, Oh Jesus save me
And his blood has made me whole.

Now I know how Jesus loves me
Why he gave his life for me
Why he suffered in the garden
Why he died on Calvary.


OBITUARY: Hector U. Henthorn
Grover City -- The Rev. Hector Ulysses Henthorn, 94, a minister of the United Brethren Church for 72 years, died Monday, 27 Jan 1964, in a Ventura hospital after a short illness.

A resident of Arroyo Grande, Rev. Henthorn was born Oct. 13, 1869, in Pleasant Hill, MO. He served as a minister in Texas, the San Joaquin Valley and South San Luis Obispo County.

He was the father-in-law of the Rev. William S. Orr, pastor of Arroyo Grande Presbyterian Church. He attended Arroyo Grande Presbyterian Church since 1930.

Rev. Henthorn is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Alice Orr of Arroyo Grande; two sons, F.J. and E.L. Henthorn, both of Ventura; five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today in the Mayr Funeral home, Ventura. Friends may call at the Grensted Funeral home from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. today, and from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in Arroyo Grande District Cemetery. Rev. Orr and the Rev. Glenn Peters will officiate. Rolland Henthorn was soloist.
(Source: San Luis Obispo County, CA, Telegram-Tribune; 29 Jan 1964)
(Source: The Star-Free Press, Ventura, CA; 27 Jan 1964)

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