Thomas B. Hendon (abt. 1827 - abt. 1875)

Born about 1827 in Alabama

Ancestors

Husband of Elender Jane (Faulk) Hendon — married about 1859 in Henderson County, Texas

Died about 1875 at about age 48 in Navarro County, Texas

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Biography

Hendon, T.B., pvt, enl 2 Sep 63 A, "Present, detailed to drive Beef since Nov 26, 1863"; enr 27 Jan 64 in CS at Camp W by NWT, age 37, res Henderson Co, TX" Claims exemption, Blacksmith"

[H1860-117, Thomas B. Hendon, 32 AL, Blacksmith]

Sources

Thomas and “Jane” were included in the 1860 census of Henderson County. Thomas registered a livestock brand there on 13 May 1861. He transferred the same brand to H. C. Tindel on 4 Dec 1866. Thomas Hendon was on the Henderson County Voters List in 1867. A notation next to his name read “removed to Corsicana” (Navarro County).

Thomas Hendon appeared on the 1870 census of Navarro County and registered another livestock brand there on 4 Oct 1872. I could not locate Thomas or his wife on the 1880 census, so assume both died in Navarro County 1870-1880. Their daughter, Lucretia E. Hendon, was enumerated with Frank and Nancy Johns on the 1880 Barbour County, Alabama census. She was a “niece”, age 19, born in Texas. Nancy Johns was Jane (Faulk) Hendon’s sister.

FROM THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS: Fincastle, Henderson County, Texas: ….. A post office was established there on March 6, 1855, with Daniel R. McRae as postmaster. Apparently McRae proposed the name Fincastle, after a town in Scotland. Seven years late, a town plat was drawn up by John and Mary Tinde, for a site that the Tindels purchased from Dr. P. P. Adams in 1851. Through the years the town saw a succession of general stores, a drugstore from which several doctors practiced medicine, a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin and gristmill, and a well and wagonyard where farmers could park their wagons. Some stores sold whiskey, although the Tindels stipulated in a deed to Thomas Hendon on March 22, 1862, that "if he sold any spirituous liquors to the injury of the schools and church" the title to the lots would be void.

• Unsourced family tree handed down to W Hendon.