HENDERSON, William H.

Date of birth:  About 1813
Date of death: 21 Jan 1890 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 24, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 31, page 6 column 1

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William H. Henderson, an old pio­neer of this city, died at his home on Madison St., about ten o’clock Tuesday night of paralysis of the stomach, aged 77 years. Mr. Henderson was one of the oldest residents of this city having es­tablished a tin shop here in 1836, which he was still running at the time of his death. The funeral took place from the Christian church yesterday morning at 10 o’clock.

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Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 91, referencing Book H-16, page 20, records that Wm. H. Henderson, a seventy-seven-year-old white male, died 21 Jan 1890 at Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry