Ann Eliza (Hendrix) Britton (1860 - 1928)

Born 2 May 1860 in Webster County, MIssouri

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Died 19 Feb 1928 at age 67 in St. Louis, Missouri

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Ann Eliza Hendrix was born May 2, 1860 in Webster County, Missouri to Phillip S. Hendrix and Mary Druscilla Crider Hendrix. She was the fourth child of Phillip and Drusey Hendrix.

Phillip s. Hendrix and Mary Druscilla Crider were married February 19, 1852. They had five children:

Julie Ann Hendrix, born December 3, 1853

Mary Rebecca Hendrix, born January 8, 1855

Priscilla Hendrix born July 6, 1858

Ann Eliza Hendrix born May 2, 1860

Thomas J. Hendrix, born September 7, 1862

Phillip and Mary Druscilla Crider Hendrix had been married 10 years when their last child and only son, Thomas J. Hendrix, was born. Phillip Hendrix was a staunch advocate of the southern cause and enlisted in Wood's Calvary Regiment, CSA, on June 67, 1853, leaving his wife and children in the care of his mother and younger brother in Webster County, Missouri. Phillip as assigned as a Private to Company C of Woods Calvary Regiment and classified as a mechanic, or blacksmith. For several months he was on duty at Longview, Ashley, Arkansas. He was a farrier horse-shoer. It is there that he was captured by Union Troops on March 29, 1864. Thomas, his younger son, was only 18 months old. He was received at the Military Prison at Little Rock, Arkansas on April 4, 1864. On June 23, 1864, along with a group of prisoners, he was transferred to the Federal Military Prison at Rock Island, Illinois by Colonel J. L. Chandler, Provost Marshall of the Department of AR. There he became ill and died of typhoid pneumonia as a Confederate Prisoner of War held by the Union Army. He was a Confederate Prisoner of War captured by the Union Army. Phillip died October 4, 1864 in Rock Island, Illinois as a Confederate Prisoner of War. He was buried after October 4, 1864 in Rock Island, Illinois at Rock Island Cemetery Grave No. 1545

Ann Eliza Hendrix was only 4 years old when her father, Phillip S. Hendrix, died as a Confederate Prisoner of War soldier. The family maintained their home in Webster County, Missouri for awhile. However, in late summer of 1864, the home in Webster County, Missouri, was burned by marauding hostile forces who were familiar with the sympathetic feelings of the family toward the South. After that, Mary Druscilla Crider Hendrix took her children back to Gasconade County, Missouri.

After the family home was burned by bushwackers in Webster County, Missouri, the family moved by covered wagon to Gasconade County, Missouri. Phillip S. Hendrix was 34 years old when he died. His wife, Mary Druscilla Crider Hendrix, was 29 years old, a widow with 5 children to raise in ages from 2 through 9.

As the family traveled back to Gasconade County, Missouri from the burning of their home in Webster County, Missouri, they traveled along the old Springfield Road. According to tradition, they passed within sound of the booming cannon in action of Pilot Knob and along the Meramec River during the Price Raid in September 1864. The family resided for a time on Oak Hill, along the Bourbeuse River, but later settled on a tract of land east of Bland, Missouri.

Ann Eliza Hendrix grew to womanhood in Gasconade County, Missouri.

About 1871, Julia Ann Hendrix, Ann Eliza's sister, married Jacob Rogers.

About 1874, Mary Rebecca Hendrix, Ann Eliza's sister, married John Elston.

Around 1876, Priscilla Hendrix, Ann Eliza's sister, married John O. Wilson.

On February 13, 1876, Ann Eliza Hendrix married Anderson Britton. They lived most of their lives in Gasconade County, Missouri.

On January 23, 1883, Ann Eliza Hendrix Britton's brother, Thomas J. Hendrix, married Narcissus Durbin in Gasconade County, Missouri.

On March 22, 1911, Anderson Britton passed away.

On February 19, 1928, Ann Eliza Hendrix Britton passed away. She died at the home of her daughter, Ellen, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was buried in Bland Catholic Cemetery near Bland, Missouri.

Sources

• The House of Crider, Known Descendants of Daniel Crider, Senior, Pioneer Settler of Gasconade County, Missouri, Auspices: The House of Crider 1976, Second Printing, 1978, Lester E. Crider, Editor