Biography of William H. McHenry
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]
Page 1040
WILLIAM H. McHENRY, farmer, P.O. South Solon, was born in Stokes Township, Madison County, Ohio, January 31, 1825, and is a son of Isaac and Christena (Selsor) McHenry. The former was born in Kentucky June 4, 1801, and his wife in Virginia. Mr. McHenry emigrated to Ohio when a boy, and settled in Madison County, where his wife died in 1832. He then moved to Fayette County, and married, for his second wife, Miss Nancy Flood, who survived him, he dying in 1874. Our subject was united in marriage with Sarah J. Hornbeck March 8, 1847; she was born in Stokes Township June 8, 1827, and died December 15, 1879. Mr. McHenry was twenty-five years of age when he engaged farming for himself. He first farmed on David Selsor's farm, but when he was married he moved on the farm of 270 acres, which Mr. Selsor gave him. He and wife are the parents of ten children, of whom nine survive — Mary E., Margaret S., Julia Ann, Alva L., Laura Belle, Almeda, George W., David S. and Isaac E.
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