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| NOTE: In THE LIBERTY REGISTER, on the 17th of November, 1899 appeared the following article, "His Foot Cut Off. Mr. A. H. Henderson who lives near Julian met with a serious accident last week while working on a shifting yard in Selma. By some means Mr. H. got his foot fastened in a switch and had it crushed by the wheels of a locomotive. The foot was so mutilated that amputation was necessary. He was taken to the hospital at Raleigh and was doing well at last report." In the same paper, 24 November, 1899 "Lonnie and Charlie Henderson went to Raleigh Saturday to see their brother, Artemus. They report him getting along nicely." In THE LIBERTY REGISTER, on April 20, 1900: "Mr. 'Teem' Henderson, who lives near Julian, has assumed the care of the depot as agent in Julian." Remarks by Helen Henderson Jerome At Matthew Cooke's wedding in April of 2002, I [Laura Henderson] had an opportunity to talk to my grandfather's younger sister, Helen, for the first time in my adult memory. To tell the truth, I don't know if I've ever met my aunt Helen Henderson Jerome before the wedding. I suspect not, since when I hear her name, I think of a face in black and white, smiling eyes, carefully coifed hair and a dress and shoes from a time just post-World War II. I am thinking of Helen as she appeared in a family photo with her half-brother, half-sisters, and brothers probably taken in the late '40's or early '50's. That is Helen. Helen has existed for me, flat, silent and smiling in black and white, not in the living color of an elderly lady with snow-white hair and a tidy pink pantsuit, speaking to me in a soft southern drawl. But Helen in living color is infinitely more interesting. I was curious about my great-grandmother, but Helen doesn't remember very much about her mother. She was too small when her mother died. I asked her how my great-grandparents had met: "Momma was a widow when she met daddy. She went down to the depot one day to buy a money order to pay for a sewing machine she wanted to order from a catalog. He was working at the desk down there and sold her the the money order." I spoke to her briefly about her memories of the time immediately after her mother had died, of the effect her mother's death had on her father and the family. "Do you remember if your mother's death had a visible effect on your father? Do you think he had to compartmentalize his grief and just get on with the business of living, with raising his young family? Did he even have time to grieve?" She paused a moment, thinking backwards, parting the curtains of time to let me peer through. "I remember momma was laid out in the bedroom. Back then they laid people out in their houses, not in a funeral home. He picked me up and carried me in the bedroom to look at her and I remember tears running down his cheeks." And what of the small family once she was gone? "Everyone had their chores. Charlie and J Van and John did the cooking and the dishes...everybody had to contribute, and we worked hard."4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overview provided by THELMA HENDERSON SCHOOLFIELD A. H. Henderson was born in Chatham County, NC, and spent a great deal of his younger life there, moving to Randolph County when he was fourteen. His later life was lived at Julian, NC. He was a Methodist for life and is buried at Shiloh United Methodis Church, Julian, NC along with his first wife and son, John. He had an excellent bass voice and sang in the church choir until shortly before his death. Of note, he organized a singing group called the "Henderson Chorus" which was quite active for a few years in the early 1940's. He worked for the A&Y Railroad Company for 46 years -- beginning employment April 15, 1900. (A&Y was purchased by Sourthern Railroad; his last years employed as depot agent at Julian, NC). He lost his leg on the first day of his first run at Selma, NC. The Sourhtern and ACL lines crossed at Selma at the time of the accident. After recovery from the loss of his leg, he served as railway agent at the Julian, NC station unitl retirement. In his possession was a picture of the old Staley-Payne Schoolhouse (1827-1878) which was replaced by a frame building. A note on the back of the picture indicates that it was attended by Manie Henderson and possibly A. H. Henderson.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Remarks by Thelma Henderson Schoolfield regarding her father's first wife, Esther Burgess. 18 Nov 1988. "...Of course, I didn't know [Esther Burgess] myself, but from what I understand, she must have been quite a remarkable lady. She was very able in all of the social graces. She could sing beautifully, and she could play any musical instrument. She could cook and sew. She made all of the children's clothes, you know. She just took care of everyone. A very gracious and talented lady. She won a scholarship to Peace College, but she wanted to get married instead. So when she was thirteen years old, she eloped with Bill Phillips. He was such a handsome man... By 1895 she'd had William Jr., and then in 1897 Cabel, and Mabel in 1899. In 1900 William Phillips Sr. was in an accident while he was at work. He worked for the railroad, and apparently he fell under a train. He was badly mangled, and he died. It wasn't too long before she met dad [Artemas "Teem" Hezekiah Henderson] and they got married. He was really nice looking too. But on his first day at work for the railroad, he slipped when he jumped from one car to another, and his leg was cut off by the wheels of the train. They had five children together between 1906 and 1917. Esther Burgess Henderson was 44 when she died. She had a blood clot and she had to have her leg amputated. She got blood poisoning and died a month short of her 45th birthday." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified 22 Jul 2006 | Created 8 Feb 2007 Laura K. Henderson |
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