Harriet was born 1839 in Dodson, Highland County, Ohio, to Charles Henderson and Elizabeth Stroup: Scottish ancestry coming through the Hendersons and German ancestry through the Stroups. Her father Charles is recorded as having been one of the first pioneers of Highland County, having moved from Virginia. Harriet was the seventh of thirteen children. Her father Charles died of consumption when she was only eleven years old, leaving his wife with many small children, including one under the age of one. One can only imagine that Harriet and her older siblings had many responsibilities helping her mother to raise the family after her father's death.
Harriet married her husband Joseph, two years her elder, when she was twenty, at Dunkard Church. She had her first child at age twenty-two, and went on to have four total: Ida, Ella, William and Charles. Harriet and Charles had not been married long when the Civil War broke out. Joseph enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company E, Virginia 14th Infantry Regiment on 12 May 1861. Their first child Ida was born eight months later.
Little else is currently known about Harriet, but grandson A. Dwight (through William) related that Harriet enjoyed going down to the basement to smoke a corn cob pipe when she got the chance.
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