John Henry, Jr.

Birth Date

1815

Death Date

1874

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Spencer County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Henry, Sr. and Amy Reed Henry. Married Eliza Henry. Father of John A. Henry, Anna M. Henry, Martha A. Henry, William P. Henry, Minor J. Henry, Ezekiel M. Henry, James T. Henry, and Allen B. Henry. Farmer in Spencer County in 1850. Owned three enslaved people in Spencer County in 1860. Member of the Baptist Church.

J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 6th Edition (Louisville: Battey Publishing, 1887), 803-4; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District No. 2, p. 105; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, Division No. 2, p. 2.

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