Gathering the Clan in Alexandria

Vol. XXI No. 1
Winter 2009
Walk � Ceilidh
pages 4-5
Will Ye No
come Back
page 6
Alistair Henderson of Fordell, Chief of the Name and Arms of Henderson; Chieftain David
S. Henderson; Russ Henderson, Editor of An Canach; David Henderson; and Larry James
Henderson, Vice President of the Clan Henderson Society of the United States.
DNA Review
page 7
Gathering the Clan in Alexandria
From the Chaplain
page 9
Flowers
page 17
Nathaniel Henderson
page 18
Sir David Henderson
page 21
by Rex A. Maddox
W
e were honored, in
early
December,
to have our Chief,
Alistair Henderson of Fordell
and his fiancé, Ms. Audrey
Pluis, of Brisbane, Australia,
in the Washington area to
join with us at the Alexandria
Christmas Walk. Although
their stay was a short one,
they were kept busy with a
gathering hosted by Peggy
and Fred Sanford, other
dinners, business meetings
and the Christmas Walk
ceilidh. They departed after
only four days for England and
Scotland where they will visit
with Alistair’s brother and
daughter over the Christmas
and New Year’s holidays. We
will, however, be seeing them
President Rex A. Maddox at
the Christmas Walk Ceilidh
again in July at the “Gathering
2009” in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Speaking of the “Gathering
2009,” I am looking forward
to being present there with
at least forty of our members
from the US and probably
many more Hendersons from
Australia, Belgium, Canada,
England and Scotland. We are
to have two large tents which
should be of sufficient size
to hold all of us in the event
of inclement weather and
will probably be amongst the
largest of Clan presentations.
The tents are to be managed
by Laura Henderson and
Thomas Franta, two very
experienced conveners from
the Mid East Region. Several
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President
President's Message
by Rex A. Maddox
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Rex A. Maddox
Larry James Henderson
Earl R. Hendry, JD
ARE HERE!
Gregory L. Schwartz
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THE HENDERSONS
Recording Secretary
Dottie Henderson
VP General Counsel
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1745! (And even then, some didn’t show
up!!)
Our host, Alex Hood, has scheduled some
events following the Gathering which will
be somewhat of a whirlwind tour through
the north of Scotland into the Highlands and
will include a stop at Glencoe for an evening
ceilidh is planned.
We will include a visit to the Glencoe
School which has received a Clan/Society
grant to ensure the children receive musical
instruction. For most of the attendees, the
trip will end after an evening at the Airport
Hilton in Edinburgh, on the 29th; however,
Pat and I will be visiting friends in Aberdeen
for a few days prior to returning home.
A reminder to the leadership that it is time
to recognize individuals who have excelled
in 2008. If you are uncertain about categories
or eligibility please review your Clan Manual
or contact me. Youth scholarships are
initiated by the individual sending a letter
of application to the regional commissioner
for a recommendaion and forwarding to me.
You may find a reminder might be required.
All 2008 nominations and youth scholarship
applications need to be received by 1 March
2009.
We have been without a commissioner
in the North Pacific Region for some time—
but no longer! I take great pleasure in
announcing the appointment of Ellen Bentley
to the position of commissioner of that region
effective 1 January 2009. Ellen is known by
many Society members as the “Washington
lady who provides the wine at our ceilidhs.”
Actually, she really does much more than
that and is very active in the Scottish events
of her Washington state and neighboring
Oregon. We look forward to meeting with
Ellen on her territory later this year when I
may be able to attend an event or two and
greet cousins with -
Vice President
was honored to have our Chief, Alistair
Henderson of Fordell and David S.
Henderson, Chieftain for North America
at the Christmas Walk ceilidh and to be
installed as your president by our Chief.
You will recall the election took place way
back in early June at the AGM in Glasgow,
Kentucky. It has certainly been a long wait
to get to this point and I don’t recommend we
put any other prospective officers through
such a long and exasperating wait. One
thing I intend to do, when we have our Board
meetings at the AGM’s is to recommend
to the Board that all elections take place at
an event held in the latter part of the year
(September – November).
As you may be aware, we have lost our
most capable secretary and dear friend, Carol
Maley. She joined her Henderson ancestors
early in the morning on 10 December. She
will be missed by all who knew her and
especially by me as she was a trusted right
hand in ensuring the Society ran smoothly.
A service was held in her town of Minersville
on Saturday, 13 December and it was obvious
by the number of mourners present that she
was extremely well liked and cherished by
so many people.
I have promised quite a number of our
members during the past few months that
I would set a travel schedule to the regions
to visit with my cousins. I am working on
a list of events that will see me traveling
throughout the states. I will start with some
visits to games and festivals in Florida and
southern states that have their events early
in the year. Then I’ll try to move west and
see how things are going on the coast, with
some stops in between. Of course, there’s the
AGM scheduled at Kansas City in June where
Lori Henderson is planning great things for
our visit and we are looking forward to the
opportunity to visit with Bob Henderson (the
original Kansas Convener) and his family. In
July, Pat and I will be traveling to Scotland
where we will attend the wedding of our
Chief and Ms. Audrey Pluis at the middle of
the month. We’ll join other Hendersons at
the Gathering of the Clans in Edinburgh the
weekend of the 24th where we’ll set up two
tents for the anticipated fifty or so cousins
who are expected to be in the area. This will
be the first time for all Clans to get together
since they met on the field at Culloden in
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Clan Henderson at the Alexandria Scottish Christmas Walk
Photos courtesy of Garry and DAwn Canaday
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Clan Henderson Ceilidh at Alexandria, Virginia
The really good news story is that we
have a combined collection of $1475 dollars.
As a result, twenty-six soldiers (junior
enlisted personnel with children) will
Winter 2009
receive $50.00 gift certificates for Christmas.
These certificates are being sent to soldiers
deployed in Afghanistan.
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by James E, Henderson
Clan Genealogist
t is a measure of a family how they honor the memory
of the mothers and fathers who went before them. We
inherited more from our old Scottish ancestors than just
the DNA of their blood. We received the gift of their sacrifice
that allowed us birth in a land of opportunity, far from
the hardships and tyranny of the places they left behind.
I sometimes let my thoughts fly when I
read the names of our “First Hendersons
in America” on the clan website. These
men and women were the first of their
family bloodline to set foot on American
soil, leaving their friends, family, church
and congregation, and sometimes their
own dear children behind in Scotland
or Ireland to make a new life in the new
world. This was their sacrifice for us,
and it is up to us now to honor them
by keeping their stories alive, so future
generations of Hendersons will know.
Their stories began the very day they
sailed from grey Scotland, or maybe it
was Ulster Province, Northern Ireland.
I’m certain it was a day of sorrow, tears
and heartache. Brothers and sisters saw
brothers and sisters board aging wooden
sailing ships, wondering if ever they would lay eyes on their
blood kin again in this life. The older folk feared they would
nae ever see their children or grandchildren again. No doubt
the departures were blessed by common prayer as the men and
women, friends and neighbors gathered round their minister
in someone’s front yard or perhaps on the ship’s deck, holding
hands, arms upon shoulders, heads bowed. They prayed for
God’s protection and divine blessing for the travelers and the
ones left behind.
Not all departures were voluntary nor planned. In the early
18th century the separation of families was ordered by the
heavy hand of the English monarchy as punishment on those
involved in the rising of 1715, 1719 and more famously in the
year of 1745. We don’t know how many Hendersons found
themselves at a ropeís end or were otherwise caught up in the
ill-advised Jacobite Rebellions. We do know that after the Battle
of Culloden, mass deportations to the colonies of America were
common.
In the 19th century, land agents began to appear in populated
regions of Scotland and Ulster enticing families to leave their
homes for a better life in the new American states. Men often
made the trip alone with plans to send for their families later.
Some agreed to be bound for a period after which they could
buy a small parcel of land. Others sold all they had to buy
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the promise of a piece of land on the hostile American frontier.
They formed traveling groups of multiple families setting
out for America knowing the journey would be harsh and
sometimes deadly.
Eventually God smiled on these new immigrants. They
made new homes for themselves, formed new communities
and created new fortunes.
Their
stories are the stuff of history, and we
should pass those stories on to future
generations, telling how they came to
America, how they survived the bloody
civil war, how they carved a new nation
out of the woods and prairies of Texas,
Tennessee, Virginia, the Carolinas and
then on into the wild west. They were
the main characters in numerous heroic
stories all worth writing down.
And writing it all down is exactly
what we must do. Interview the old
kinfolk before they pass on. Write down
their thoughts and the facts of their lives
that intertwined with the facts of our
nationís history. Turn their words into
a story that will be interesting for your
own children to read and perhaps they
will read it to their children and grandchildren as well. That
is how memories are preserved and that is how family history
remains relevant.
Okay, here is where this article finds its happy ending. Fast
forward another four hundred years, somewhere in America
in the year 2525. American society is a blended blur of
homogenous people. Surnames are hyphenated and truncated
with the occasional addition of alphanumeric code. Pulp based
paper is only seen in museums along with Egyptian papyrus.
Communication is visual, audible, or tactile depending on how
your brain is wired. Virtual images on the inside surface of
stylish eyeglasses are the new printed media, and it is on such
a device that a new Henderson generation reads an article in
their family clan periodical:
Will Ye No Come Back Again?
As 25th century members of Clan Henderson Society of
Planet Earth, we owe more to our 21st century mothers and
fathers than just the inheritance of their blood. We owe a great
debt for their gift of education. They taught us to remember
the sacrifices of those First Henderson immigrants who came
to this land from the four corners of Scotland and Ireland. To
those old ancestors we say, “Aye, ye did come back again, and
we are proud of you and thankful for what you gave us.”
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Winter 2008 Henderson DNA Update
by James E, Henderson
Project Administrator
A
s we tumble heel over teakettle into winter of 2008,
let’s review the Henderson DNA project to see what’s
going right and what’s going wrong and how we can
improve.
First, I want to thank you for your participation.
You may not have seen a direct benefit to your genealogy
study as yet, but one day either you or your descendents will
reap the rewards of your decision to join a systematic surname
study such as ours. It may take years, but eventually we will
have our genetic map of Clan Henderson, and it will become
an important genealogy tool for generations to come.
Currently we have 168 participants with about three new
members joining each month. Our Hendersons in the study
fall mainly into two branches of ancient genetic populations.
These include Haplogroup R1 originating in Iberia from
which the Celtic and to a lesser degree Nordic people arose
and Haplogroup I1 originating in Northern Germania from
which the Saxon and Nordic people came, and we have a
few in Haplogroup J indicating an early immigration from
the Caucasus region. There is also a small percentage in
Haplogroup E thought to have originated in East Africa. This is
not unusual as all known Haplogroups had their very earliest
origins in Africa.
I find it interesting that my family came out of Saxon
barbarians who migrated into the Scottish lowlands during the
7th century, but I find it more interesting that my great great
grandfather boarded a ship off the coast of Ulster Northern
Ireland and came to the United States in the early 19th century
where he fathered a family of three boys and three girls and
possibly several others in the mountains of east Tennessee. I
would like to know what became of those missing cousins,
both legitimate and illegitimate, who are out there waiting for
me to find them. The Henderson DNA project is the silver
bullet that will fulfill my wish.
To make this “Shazzaam” moment happen I am asking
you to take the time, right now, and send me at DNAadmin@clanhendersonusa.org. the following information:
1. Your FTDNA Kit Number
2. The name, birth date/place and death date/place of the
most recently deceased male in your direct paternal line.
3. The names, birth dates/places and death dates/places
of all those male Hendersons in your direct paternal line who
predeceased the first name you provided.
My second request is your e-mail
Please keep your email address up to date so we can maintain
our line of communication with each other.
Approximately 12% of the addresses on the email you are
now reading will bounce back to me with a “Cannot Deliver”
message. To remedy this problem, just send me your new
email address when you change.
My third request is for assistance
I need a volunteer who possesses computer skills and a basic
knowledge of systematic research. Some knowledge of DNA
Genetics would be helpful but probably more than I could
hope for. Just let me know if you are interested in helping the
Henderson DNA project, and you have the time to do so.
Well, that’s all for now. Keep in touch and keep promoting
the Henderson DNA Project. We need more participants to
make this tool work for the benefit of all Hendersons all across
the planet.
At the Henderson Stone
Paula Helms and her cousin, Elaine McKendree, taken
at the Henderson Stone last September on their trip to
Scotland.
Okay, let me get back to the point of this epistle
How we can make our project better, or at least more useful
to the family genealogist. When we post our DNA results
on the Henderson web site, we leave cookie crumb clues
for other Henderson genealogists to follow. These clues are
more useful if we attach to our DNA numbers the names of
the male linage that correspond to these numbers, names that
we have documented through traditional research. If another
Henderson genealogist sees my DNA numbers and male
lineage and they match his/her numbers and male lineage,
then we have what is referred to by professional genealogist as
a “Shazzaam” moment. We are probably related and can work
together to document our relationship.
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Henderson, Kentucky
by Jim Henderson
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his article continues a series intended to educate the clan body
on our history and how the Hendersons left their mark on the
map of the United States and Canada. In this issue, we focus on
Henderson, Kentucky, the seat of Henderson county, along the Ohio
River in Western Kentucky.
This area of Kentucky was called “Red Banks” by native Americans
who originally lived and hunted there because of the reddish clay soil
on the banks of the river. In 1797, the town of Henderson was laid
out for the Transylvania Company and named for Colonel Richard
Henderson. It is located on a bluff overlooking the Ohio river near its
confluence with the Green. The Henderson post office opened in 1801.
As of the 2000 census, the city population was 27,373. For more than
100 years, the city has been home to the Southern Cherokee Nation.
Henderson’s roots lie in a land speculation scheme by a North
Carolina judge, Colonel Richard Henderson, and a group of investors
who sought to buy much of modern-day Kentucky and Tennessee from
1,200 Cherokee Indians gathered at Sycamore Shoals and later resell
these frontier lands to settlers. Henderson’s group, the Transylvania
Company, hired Daniel Boone to help settle the region. The Virginia
General Assembly ultimately voided the deal, but granted Richard
Henderson & Company approximately 200,000 acres in exchange for
their efforts in developing the wilderness region.
That ground was located where the Green River
flows into the Ohio River. Richard Henderson
died several years before the site was developed.
In the latter half of the 19th century, Henderson
County became a major producer of tobacco,
much of which was exported to Great Britain.
Henderson was reported to be the largest dark
tobacco producer in the world with large tobacco
warehouses dotting the downtown area.
Among Henderson’s many famous residents
was John James Audubon, a naturalist who lived
in the town in the early 1800s.
While many cities were inundated during
the devastation of the Ohio River flood of 1937,
the city of Henderson, because of its position on
a bluff above the river, was spared much of the
damage that Rittsburch, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Evansville, Paducah, and others suffered. That
prompted Leigh Harris, publisher of the Henderson
Gleaner and Evening Journal newspapers, to boast:
“Henderson is on the river but never in it!” That
helped prompt industrialization of the city.
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From The Chaplain
A Problem With Virtue
by C. Fred Sanford
S
ola Virtus Nobilitat. Surely many words have been written
about what our Henderson motto says and means. Virtue
and nobility are topics that I do not take lightly, and as
chaplain I feel a responsibility to share my research. This
really is a religious matter because so many people link their
belief in God and their purpose in life to these two qualities.
Nobility, as I define it, is the personal achievement of high
ethical standards, showing others one’s moral strength of
character. Back in medieval Britain, one could be born into a
“noble” family, and thus inherit a title using that word, but this
is not the way I’m using it here. Nobility is integrally related to
the positive human values known as virtues.
Virtue is the generic term for a very long and complex
list of what human beings regard as exemplary, beneficial,
helpful, necesssary, vital, and constructive for life on earth.
Religious belief even carries these values beyond the earthly
life, qualifying a person for heavenly rewards, and living out
the values in an eternal paradise. LOVE is probably the most
prominent of the virtues, because of its unselfish and generous
quality. But we can also consider other virtues such as fidelity,
mercy, compassion, kindness, honesty, politeness, gentleness,
humility, gratitude, graciousness, justice, courage, tolerance,
temperance, simplicity, truthfulness, purity, and maybe even
humor. The Ten Commandments of Moses have also been
added to a list like this.
But there’s a problem with assuming the attainment of any
or all of these virtues, or even commandments. It’s not that
they are all the mere opposite of evil or general immorality.
It’s that they can never become absolute in themselves, and
always the ends and means toward a goal beyond perfection.
Also, because what is virtuous for one person may not mean
the same as for another. And what is virtuous one moment
may not work the next moment. For example, a parent can be
kind even while disciplining a child. Or, an honest doctor can
“fudge” the truth to avoid shocking a terminal cancer patient.
I think the point is made. As much as we like to assume
that we are all alike, in goodness or in misbehavior, each of
us is an independent unit, unique in experiences and hopes
and dreams. “Only through working toward virtue can we
achieve a measure of nobility,” paraphrasing the Henderson
motto. And as each of us may draw upon the “gifts of God”
for direction even there we must practice critical thinking while
being accountable to ourselves, to others, and to the world at
large.
Canadian Legion Day 2008
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lan member Xavier Allen reports that he is
serving as a Drummer in The Essex and Kent
Scottish Regiment of Canada. He is shown here
performing for The Canadian Legion “ Poppy Day”.
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Games, Festivals, and
Gatherings
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South East Region
FL, GA, NC, SC
Harry Keifer
Commissioner
Waxhaw Highland Games,
Waxhaw, North Carolina
by Fred Sanford
Clan Chaplain
T
he 29th Annual Waxhaw Scottish
Highland Games and Gathering
of the Clans assembled slowly
on Saturday, 25 October, as the
overnight rains came to an end, but
leaving cloudy skies most of the day.
George Henderson convened the
tent, but could not even use his patron
parking place because of mud. Peggy
and I showed up soon to help George,
and were joined by Mack Henderson, all
manning the tent for the day.
Three of us represented the Hendersons in the opening parade of Tartans,
and settled back to watch the events. Beth
Calhoun came by to sign the attendance
sheet, and young folks stopped to have
the Henderson mark on their clan ID
competition. A small but enthusiastic
crowd cheered the athletes on the field,
and the Loch Norman Pipe Band stopped
to honor our tent with song.
Once again local NBC weatherman
Larry Sprinkle aroused the event with his
exciting voice as master of ceremonies.
We never know what kind of weather
to expect for this annual event on the
last Saturday of October, but we look
forward to next year, hoping for more
Hendersons to be present.
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(l-r) Alan and Rebecca Waldram and
children, Joan Henderson, and John
Mallernee at Anne Arundell
Mid East Region
(DC, DE, MD, NJ,
PA, VA, WV)
Leon Hicks
Commissioner
Anne Arundel Scottish Festival
Crownsville, Maryland
By John Robert Mallernee
O
n Saturday 11 October 2008,
I attended the Anne Arundel
Scottish Festival, which was held
at the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds
near
Crownsville,
Maryland.
I planned to get there early, so I could
help Mike and Joan Henderson set up
the Clan Henderson tent, but when I
got there, they already had everything
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put together. The
weather was perfect,
with a clear sky and
warm sun. Joan
Henderson
had
baked a nice cake for
us to enjoy.
Mike and Joan
showed me the latest
issue of An Canach,
which they’d just
received in the mail
that very day.
We were located
near one of the
stages, so we could
enjoy
watching
contestants perform
Scottish Highland dancing, accompanied
by a very adept bagpiper. Not all the
Highland dancers were girls. Quite a
few boys were demonstrating their skill,
which is certainly appropriate, since
Highland dancing was originally a male
ritual. Also, not all the Highland dancers
wore tartan. Several of the lads were in
sailor uniforms, and several of the lassies
wore conventional frocks.
A good number of folks stopped by
the Clan Henderson tent and signed their
names in the guest book, including Harry
and Faye Henderson, from Glenwood,
Maryland; Linda Henderson Boughner,
born in Scotland, but presently living
in Crownsville, Maryland, and her son,
Colin; and a Navy family just back from
Sicily, Alan
and
Rebecca Waldram,
with their three little ones—You
should have seen their delightful little
four-year-old daughter, Anika, when
she spontaneously began imitating the
Highland dancing. As Mike Henderson
said, “It’s in her blood!”
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Clan member Ed Brett, a drum major,
from Fair Haven, New Jersey, signed in,
and he and his wife, Mikki, and Mike
and Joan all had a good visit.
There was a HUMONGOUS wooden
statue of a guy who looked exactly like
Paul Bunyan. I couldn’t figure why Paul
Bunyan would be featured in Maryland.
When I read the sign at the base of the
statue, it identified him as “The Fair
Giant.” Folks said that in previous years,
a kilt was draped around him for the
Scottish Festival, but that they couldn’t
do it anymore because of liability issues.
Apparently, the power company, which
furnished the truck for climbing up on
the huge statue, was concerned that
someone might get injured. Although it
was a Scottish festival, the Irish and the
Welsh were also there.
At 11:30 a.m., Mike and myself, carrying
the Clan Henderson sign, plus Donna
Toole, of Whitehall, Maryland, her son,
Jon Arnold, of Littlefield, Colorado, and
the Waldram family went to march in the
big parade of massed clans, accompanied
by a huge pipe and drum band. I was the
only one in our clan with a sword, which
I carried in a salute. In fact, I only saw
one other participant, from another clan,
who had a sword, so I copied what I saw
him doing. A lot of guys wore dirks, but
almost nobody wore a sword. An Army
unit, in camouflaged battle dress, formed
the color guard. As we marched onto the
field, the athletic competition was still
going on, with a hammer tossed in our
direction.
After the grand entrance of stirring
Highland music by the massed pipes
and drums, a chaplain, Reverend Ernest
R. D. Smart, gave an invocation, which
to my ears didn’t sound at all like an
invocation, but more like introductory
remarks. Mike said that might be because
no one’s allowed to pray anymore.
Then a native Scottish lady, Helen
Toni, sang the national anthems of Great
Britain, Canada, and the United States.
I wondered why, at a Scottish festival,
she chose to sing, “GOD SAVE THE
QUEEN”, instead of “SCOTLAND THE
BRAVE”? Maybe it’s because Scotland
doesn’t yet have it’s own official national
anthem, and is still officially ruled by
England.
I did notice that among all the drum
majors, there was one who refused
to render a military salute during the
national anthems. One of the drum
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majors
was
a
wee lad, maybe
following in his
father’s footsteps?
Clan Davidson
was presented with
an award for BEST
CLAN - SEPT at the
festival. Their tent
displayed
handcrafted miniatures
of a Highland croft
and a historic Battle
of the Clans.
Then we politely
endured a speech
by the mayor of
Annapolis, Ellen O.
Moyer.
After
the Alex Waldram being entertained by John’s singingl
opening ceremonies
concluded and we had returned to the went scampering and rolling about the
Clan Henderson tent, we took turns grass. The little children were obviously
wandering about the grounds and having the time of their lives! The many
inspecting the exhibits. I particularly puppy dogs were also quite pleased at
wanted to see the animals. There were the affair.
Highland cattle, Clydesdale horses,
Alas, eventually all good things
and many breeds of Scottish and Irish must come to an end, and it was time
dogs, with some available for adoption. to take down the tent and load up Mike
I briefly watched the sheep herding Henderson’s pickup truck. I remembered
demonstration, before returning to the to bring my camera to the festival, but I
tent to allow Mike and Joan time to go never took one single picture the entire
look at the exhibits.
day. However, Joan Henderson did take
When there was a break in the some photographs, and also, a gal from
Highland dancing, I’d play my guitar the Festival committee took pictures of
and sing. Lee Catlett, from Chesapeake the Clan Henderson tent and us. This
Beach, Maryland, who helped man the was, by far, one of the best events I’ve
Clan Johnston tent next to ours, came attended.
over and joined with me in singing “THE
If you get the chance to go next year,
BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD”, and don’t miss it!
he also signed our guest book. A famous
Scottish singer, Carl Peterson, stopped
by the Clan Henderson tent, and sang
along with me, as I performed “THE
SKYE BOAT SONG”. I didn’t know who
he was, but after he left, Joan Henderson
told me about him.
A large group of young military
recruits came in, dressed in shorts and
T-shirts, so I couldn’t decipher which
service they represented. They had a tug
of war with each other, and then, they had
a tug of war with the wee tykes. Oh, you
never saw such laughing, screaming, and
hollering as those little ones did! Earlier,
the wee tykes had a sack race, and since
it was on a grassy slope, there were a few
falls. Ah, yes, it was very joyful watching
throughout the afternoon as all those “Tartan Dog” (yup, the collar is
little young’uns and all the family pets Henderson tartan).
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Ligonier Highland Games
Idlewild Park Ligonier, PA
6 September 2008
by Mike and Joan
Henderson
A
lthough the crowds were fairly
heavy, threats of rain from
Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna
most likely kept the attendance below
the record level expected for the 50th
Ligonier Games. As it turned out, Hanna
made her presence known about 2 P.M.
with some light showers following a
short time later with heavier showers
that created a sizable moat in front of
our tent. Aside from the many children
that stopped by our tent to have their
passports stamped, traffic was fairly
light.
We were pleased to welcome two new
members to Clan Henderson: Bob and
Pam Ashton of Glassport, Pennsylvania
and Sandra McMichaels from Pittsburgh.
We were delighted to have Bethany
Bateman and husband Mike set up their
tent next to us, assist with the convening
duties and share a great lunch of burgers,
hotdogs and fried chicken. We also
enjoyed long chats with friends made
over the years.
Virginia Scottish Games
Sky Meadows State Park,
Delaplane, VA
13-14 September 2008
by Laura Henderson
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T
he
Virginia
Scottish Games
was formerly a
two-day event held in
the heat of July in the
crowded DC suburb of
Alexandria, Virginia.
Invariably, it would
either be rainy and
miserable, or stifling
hot and miserable. In
an effort to make the
games more enjoyable,
the organizers decided
in 2007 to narrow the
scope of the games
to one day and to
migrate the setting into the foothills of
northern Virginia’s Blue Ridge. The new
venue at Sky Meadows State Park was
more evocative of the highlands, and the
new date in the fall was more disposed
to be cool. Turnout last year was good,
the scenery was spectacular, and the
weather was pleasant. Based on early
success, organizers restored this year’s
event to two days in mid-September.
Tom and I were excited about the
games this year because we live on Blue
Mountain, just on the other side of the
ridge from the park. We awoke that
September morning, how-ever, to an
odd stillness in the
air. The normally
breezy ridge was
unseasonably
warm, and not a
leaf stirred. My
kilted skirt no
longer fits, so I
wore khaki pants
and a long-sleeved
white shirt and tall
boots. I would have
been better served
that weekend by a
tartan bikini and a
gallon of sunscreen
(although no visitor who saw me
in such a get-up
would have considered their eyes well
served at all). Rex and Pat Maddox and
Christian Garin were just beginning to
set up the tent when we arrived, and Pat
had brought along a battery-operated
digital thermometer. During the course
of the first day, temperatures soared to
99 degrees in the shade. On a mountain.
In September. Who knew?
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In spite of the suffocating heat, there
was a reasonably good turnout over
the course of the two-day event. Clan
Henderson cousin Matthew Branson of
Alexandria joined us on Saturday to lend
a hand. We added two new members
to our rolls: Gabriel Thomson and
Corinne Buraks of Chantilly, Virginia,
and Patricia King, of Berryville, Virginia.
Lots of old friends dropped by, including
Zeke Maddox, Leon Hicks, and Mike
Henderson (former vice president of
the clan). Since the tent was well manned, everyone had an opportunity to
browse the vendors of Celtic goods and
to take turns enjoying the music, food,
competition and entertainment. Those
of us back at the tent kept moving our
chairs around to try to stay in the shade
as the sun crept westward over the
mountain. The heat made everyone
sluggish and sleepy, so we were able
to snap the usual shot of Leon Hicks
napping in the afternoon. It’s become an
enduring tradition.
Christian Garin came home with me
and Tom that night and since the French
(Belgian) are such great fans of English
humor, we had a special screening for
him of Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
Henceforth if you pay close attention at
future events you may enjoy the comical
sight of the kilted Clan Henderson men
mounting up and galloping away in a
Grail Quest as Tom trots along behind
them rhythmically banging coconut
shells.
Sunday was slightly more temperate,
especially towards the afternoon, and
attendance picked up a bit. Hopefully
next year we will all have better luck
with the weather. The setting is truly
magnificent, and the short drive from
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the DC metro will take you through the
heart of Virginia’s famed hunt country.
Come and join your kinfolk next year, if
for no other reason than to see the Clan
Henderson men mount up and go rideabout.
Richmond Highland Games and
Celtic Festival
Richmond Virginia
25-26 October 2008
by Laura Henderson
T
he dark side of dawn is an unlikely
time to catch me out and about.
I’m more of an up-at-10:00am-ish
kind of girl, so dragging my backside out
of bed in the wee hours of the morning
is a real testament to how much I love
ya’ll in Clan Henderson. It was still dark
when Tom, Waffles and I hit the road to
Richmond for the Richmond Highland
Games and Celtic festival, a two-day
affair at the International Raceway. We
arrived to find Christian Garin and
Tony Henderson pulling in as well, and
since the tent was already set up for us,
all we had to do was assemble the clan
accoutrements. We made short work
of that, and good thing too, as the skies
turned increasingly gray, and it began to
drizzle as Christian pulled the truck off
the field. Tony, Tom and I settled in for the
day as Christian went and kilted himself.
(Is kilted a verb? To kilt? Kilting? Kilted?)
We were soon joined by Clan
Henderson cousin Tim Clonts, who spent
all of Saturday with us, as did the rain
(although Tim’s company should not be
compared to rain, and no comparison
is implied).
By mid-afternoon, the
tablecloths were sopping wet, the books
were damp and buckling, the ground
was muddy, and the weather was
turning distinctly cool. Ann Henderson
(wife of Claude) and her grandson-in-
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law Tommy Potter came by and spent
the afternoon with us. She and I spent
an hour or so huddled up in the middle
of the tent, dodging raindrops and
gossiping as the male contingent roamed
the vendor stalls and bandstands.
Two highlights of the event were
the Clan Henderson Coconut-Horse
ride-about (see Virginia Scottish Games
article), and the Christian Garin Memorial
Axe-Throwing Event. Tom won first prize
in the axe-throwing competition, and his
prize, appropriately enough, was an axe.
As soon as he and the guys returned to
the tent, they promptly placed an apple
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on Christian’s noggin and the rest is
history. This is what we get up to when the
commander is at sea…
Things were so wet by the end of
Saturday that Tony took the tablecloths
home to put in his dryer. Unfortunately
he forgot to bring them back with
him on Sunday morning, so the tent
looked like it was standing there in its
underwear all day (so, no photos from
Sunday). Sunday was a much nicer
day though, with sun and pleasant
temperatures, and the visitors came out
en masse! We even recruited two new
members, Richard Allen of Richmond,
and Terrence and Kerri Henderson
of Mechanicsville. Lots of fresh faces
as well as old friends dropped by the
tent, including the Jarrells family, Terry
Cavet, Toni Henderson, Marc Henry,
Kenan Dakota, Troy Thompson, Paula
Moore, Mark Henderson, Mark Sledge,
the Rappold family, and Jay Henderson.
Great turnout! Thanks for coming by,
everyone.
Next year the event will be moving to a
new location (closer to me and Tom, perhaps
within coconut-horse riding distance) so I
will be able to sleep approximately fifteen
minutes later. Oh joy!
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South West Region
AZ, CO, NM,
UT, WY
Buzz McEldowney
Commissioner
45th Colorado Scottish Festival
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
9-10 August 2008
by Linda McEldowney
T
wenty-eight years—A little mind
boggling. As we were getting
organized for the 45th Annual
Colorado Scottish Festival on 9-10
August, we stood back a moment and
we were stunned. We realized we had
been attending these games since our
kids were six and ten years old. They
are now thirty-four and thirty-eight.
Wow! And furthermore, we have been
part of Clan Henderson and convening
these games for nineteen years. How
time flies when you’re having fun?
The marshal of these games said
he thought it was the best games they
had ever had. It was sunny and warm.
Another perfect Colorado weekend!
There were forty-nine clans in attendance
this year. These games used to be held on
the fields at the Colorado School of Mines
in Golden, Colorado. They outgrew this
venue and moved to Highlands Ranch
area. That was when we took over
convening the games.
Clan Henderson was very busy,
especially on Saturday. We also had our
COSCA table ready to help others find
their Scottish roots. This is always so
enjoyable. We participated in both noon
ceremonies and again visited with all of
our friends that we so look forward to
seeing at each games. Peggy Zanin, from
Montrose, Colorado came to visit us each
day. She even donated some leftover
tartan material for us to use. Thanks,
Peggy.
We usually call these games the
“HOT” games and the following games
in Estes Park the “COLD” games, as
they lead us into fall and are held in our
beautiful Colorado mountains. The St.
Andrew Society of Colorado hosts the
Colorado games in Highlands Ranch
and always does such an amazing job.
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They are always so well organized and
so “clan oriented.” These games just
seem to get better and better every year.
Guess that is why we keep coming back
for more.
32nd Longs Peak
Scottish Irish Highland Festival
Estes Park, Colorado
4-7 September 2008
by Buzz McEldowney
T
he 32nd edition of the Longs Peak
Festival was held 4-7 September. The
first event of the weekend was the
tattoo on Thursday evening, 4 September,
at the Stanley Park Fairgrounds arena.
The tattoo is always a great show and
a perfect way to catch all of the guest
bands and drill teams in a single venue.
This year the festival field was
scheduled for three full days. For the
past several years, Friday has been a
half day affair, but this year the gates
opened at 9:00 A.M. which meant we had
to have the Clan Henderson space all set
up and ready to go Thursday evening.
My wife, Linda, and I arrived about 3:30
P.M. Thursday afternoon and got started
with the unloading and set up. We have
been doing this for a while now and
seem to have it down to a science. With
her brains and my muscle we seem to get
things done fairly quickly.
Friday morning greeted us with some
very Scottish weather when we awoke.
The clouds were hanging low on all of
the mountains around Estes Park and
the fog was pea soup thick in places. My
niece Melissa, and her husband TJ, had
driven up from Denver that morning to
help out and said the visibility was very
bad most of the way up. As the morning
progressed, the clouds lifted and the fog
dissipated but the temperature did not
show any signs of warming up. It was
definitely time to break out the sweaters
and blankets.
Our Clan Henderson space was
located in the corner of the first big clan
tent just a couple of spaces from the main
tent entrance. We were hoping the space
would turn out to be as good a location as
it has been in the past. We were not sure
what to expect, with this being the first
year for a full day on Friday. The past
couple of years, the half-day on Friday
has been quite busy with a lot of visitors,
both Hendersons and folks stopping at
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the COSCA table. We were pleasantly
surprised, although not terribly busy,
we did have a steady stream of visitors
interested in learning more about possible
connections to Clan Henderson, as well
as many more checking out our COSCA
information. We handed out quite a few
applications and Henderson pamphlets.
There were 90 clans in attendance this
year, and the two large clan tents were
as full as they have ever been over the
past several years. This year’s honored
clans were Clans MacCallum, Maclnnis,
MacTavish, Montgomery, and Scott.
There were several bands from around
the country and Canada, including the
U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat
Center Band, the U.S. Military Academy
Field Music Group (The Hellcats),
Niagara Regional Police Pipes and
Drums, Canadian Legion Highland Mist
Pipe Band as well as the U.S. Army
Fort Carson Mounted Color Guard.
There were well over a dozen local and
regional pipe bands.
Kevin and Lori Henderson stopped
by on Friday to say hello. Kevin was
scheduled to compete in the athletic
events on Sunday afternoon. I learned
afterwards from Lori that Kevin took
third place in his class, the young guys
beat him! She reports that he is getting
strong through this fall/winter and
vowing to take revenge next year!
Kelsy Henderson-Parker and her
daughter, Lindsay, stopped in to visit
and catch up on the past year. Kelsy
graciously donated several pieces of her
Celtic artwork to the clan to sell to help
with some of the weekend’s expenses.
Anyone interested in her work, which
is phenomenal, can check it out at
maceanruigdesigns@yahoo.com.
Just a little commercial plug there.
Thanks Kelsy, and good luck in the
future. Kelsy even managed to work in
a little time to help out at the space and
with the COSCA table.
Saturday, the day of the big parade
through town, dawned a beautiful Rocky
Mountain day with a clear blue sky and
sunshine, although still a wee bit on the
cool side. Several Henderson cousins
and family members showed up bright
and early to take part in the parade
and march with the clan, including Dr.
William Henderson, Sandy Hall, Lou
La Montia, my son Jason, his wife Julie,
and granddaughter Maggie. My sister
Collene and her son Patrick with his two
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children Danni and Connor. My niece
Melissa and her hubby TJ were there to
bump up our numbers. John Burt, along
with his wife Traci, and Jeff Rutt, who
is our convenor for the Elizabeth Celtic
Festival, rounded out our contingent for
the parade. My better half, Linda, was at
the field holding down the fort. She was
unable to march with us due to a broken
ankle. We were not as many as we have
been in the past, but we still made a great
showing, and received quite a few cheers
as we passed through town.
At the end of the parade, we all
headed for the fairgrounds to grab a bite
to eat and get ready for the noon opening
ceremonies. We managed to recruit
several clan members to take part and
carry the Henderson colors onto the field
for the parade of clans.
We were quite busy all day Saturday,
handing out quite a few membership
applications. Clan Henderson gained
two new members. Welcome to Travis
Henderson of Colorado Springs, and
Luke Lamphear from Greely, Colorado.
The COSCA table was very busy most
of the day. It is certainly a lot of fun to
help folks make a connection with a clan
or family.
Sunday turned out to be the best day
of the weekend weather-wise, clear and
sunny. In spite of the nice weather the
number of people at the festival seemed
to be less than on Saturday. We think the
cold weather earlier in the weekend may
have discouraged a lot of people from
coming up.
Clan Henderson took part in the Kirkin
of the Tartan on Sunday as well as the
opening ceremony at noon. Following the
ceremonies we all headed back to the tent
for some lunch and to catch a break. We
remained fairly busy until mid afternoon
when the crowds started to thin out and
the number of people visiting the clan
tents dropped off.
As closing time drew near we got
things organized to pack up, and began
to reflect on why we do what we do,
for the games and festivals. With all the
preparations, the busy and, sometimes
hectic days, we realized that it is like a
big family reunion every year. We meet
a wonderful array of people, have some
great conversations, and learn a lot about
our past and how it sometimes ties in
with others. We also catch up with many
of our friends from some of the other
clans and most importantly we reaffirm
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the fact that Clan Henderson is still the
“ Friendliest Clan.” Clan Henderson will
be back next year and we are already
looking forward to it.
a number of destructive wild fires in
the Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
The Friday night Scottish events
began with their annual whisky tasting,
followed by a buffet supper with
entertainment by Alex Beaton, The
Browne Sisters and George Cavenaugh,
and the annual kilted fashion show. Clan
Henderson members Mary and Willard
South Pacific Region
CA, HI, NV Dobrzensky joined me at the dinner, but
unfortunately, my wife, Joyce, had an
Joe Henderson eye infection that kept her in our hotel
Commissioner room for most of the weekend.
During the festival, visitors were
able to attend lectures on genealogy by
our member, Beth Gay, watch bagpipe
competitions and performances, athletic
sports, and dance competitions. They
also had the choice to watch Border
Collie demonstrations, and performances
Seaside Highland Games
by the reenactment groups, Byland
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Forever and Highland Warriors. On
by Joe Henderson different stages, entertainment was
provided by the Royal Scottish Country
his year’s Seaside Highland Dance Society, Alex Beaton, The Browne
Games Festival at Seaside Park in Sisters and George Cavenaugh, Celtic
Ventura, California, happened to Rock groups—the Wicked Tinkers and
be held during one of the worst Santa Tempest, and Celtic Spring, a family of
Ana windstorms this year. The winds five talented children and their parents,
started on Friday night, damaging who entertain with their fiddling, singing
our tent and returned each afternoon and dancing. Eight pipe bands and their
starting about 3:00 P.M. and continuing members were entered in both band and
during the evening. The winds were individual competitions, including the
also made it difficult for firemen to battle famous Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band.
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Clan March participants Joe Henderson, Mary Dobrzensky, John
McKendry, George Henderson, Patricia and Tony Huskey and Roger
Hunt, our body guardsman.
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Photos from
Pleasanton,
California
Joe Henderson, and Larry
Henderson
Will and Mary Dobrzensky
A new record of seventy-six clan and
Scottish organization tents were set up to
represent their members along with Clan
Henderson. Clan Graham welcomed
their chief and members from around
the USA for their AGM on Saturday
morning. Clan Ross also held their AGM
on Saturday.
Clan Henderson members who
visited during the games were Joan
Lopear, John and Sherrilyn McKendry,
Michael McKendry, Mary and Willard
Dobrzensky of Yucca Valley (Southern
California Conveners), Roger Hunt,
Beth Gay, Nellie Lowry (treasurer of
the Seaside Games Association), George
Henderson, Patricia and Tony Huskey
with daughter Shannon Huskey and the
Henderson sisters of Bakersfield: Kacey
Pipkin, Kerry and Ron Petty, and Kathy
Blain.
Shannon Huskey, George
Henderson, Patricia and Tony
Huskey at Seaside.
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Katie and Jessica Emerson with
Scotty MacHendrick
Jeff Emerson, Art and Larry
Henderson
Gathering the Clan from page 1
other conveners are expected to be among the attendees and will be present to assist
with meeting and greeting of visitors and our Henderson cousins. This being a very
special occurrence, we will be providing Laura and Tom with some new display
items for the tents that have not been in use previously. With several of the larger
Clans deciding not to have tents at this event, I would expect our Henderson tents
to be the focus of quite a bit of attention. We will attempt to be prepared for any
large influx of visitors and will welcome all as our cousins.
My program for the next two years is to reenergize our members’ pride and
involvement in our clan. I will contact members in the area of any event that I will
be attending (and there will be many) and encourage them to gather with their kin
at the coming event.
With our involvement in the DNA program and because we have a very active
clan genealogist, I believe every member would be interested in keeping their
membership active just to keep abreast of the ever changing input to our Henderson
data .
I will be meeting with your Commissioners to determine if there might be more
events we can attend in order to find more cousins. I expect to be attending some of
the lesser known events around the country as listed on the next page. When you
see that I will be in your area, please come to the event, so we might meet and chat.
I am always proud to say . . . . .
THE HENDERSONS ARE HERE!
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Some Events To Be Attended
Some of the events that President Rex Maddox is considering for his planned tour of Henderson
Gatherings. He would appreciate Commissioners and Convenors to let him know whether the events
will take place as scheduled and who will convene them.
17-18 January
Central Florida Scottish Games
Orlando, FL
Larry Henderson, Convenor
14-15 February Queen Mary Scottish Festival
Long Beach, CA
Joe Henderson, Convenor
21 March
Sarasota Highland Games
Sarasota, FL
28-29 March
Mint Hill Highland Games
Mint Hill, NC
6-8 June
Texas Scottish Festival &
Highland Games
Arlington, TX
12-14 June
Kansas City Highland Games
(AGM)
Riverside, MO
20 June
Prosser Scottish Festival
Prosser, WA
27-28 June
San Diego Scottish Highland
Games
Vista, CA
5-6 July
Monterey Highland Games &
Celtic Festival
Salinas, CA
4-5 April
Hawaiian Scottish Festival
Honolulu, HI
21-22 February Arizona Highland Games
Margaret G. Hance Park
Central Phoenix, AZ
17-19 April
Loch Norman Highland Games
Huntersville, NC
28 February
Northeast Florida Highland
Games
Jacksonville, FL
26 April
Celtic Festival of Southern
Maryland
Saint Leonard, MD
7-8 March
Zephyrhills Celtic Festival &
Highland Games
Zephyrhills, FL
Larry Henderson, Convenor
1-2 May
Triad Highland Games
Greenboro, NC
9 May
Frederick Celtic Festival
Urbana, MD
24-25 July
Edinboro Highland Games
Edinboro, PA
4-25 May
United Scottish Highland
Gathering
Costa Mesa, CA
24-26 July
The Gathering 2009
Edinburgh, Scotland
14 March
Panama City Highland Games
Panama City, FL
Carol Ann Maley passed away
Wednesday 10 December 2008 at
3:30 A.M., with her three children,
Jamie, Jason, and Heather, and
long time friend Greg Schwartz
by her side.
Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 24 April 1948 she was
the daughter of the late Charles
and Isabel Henderson Rhoades
(who came over from Scotland).
She was a member of the
First Congregational Church of Minersville, and was the
Membership Secretary of The Clan Henderson Society of the
U.S.A., Inc. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph
C. Maley.
Surviving are a daughter Heather and her husband Michael
Sidella, of New Ringgold; sons, James C. Maley, Minersville,
and Jason A. Maley and his wife Denise Saint Clair; and her
friend Gregory Schwartz, Minersville; and four grandchildren,
Hunter, Gage, Tanner, and Conlan.
Thank you all for your prayers in our time of need.
Greg Schwartz, and Carol’s family.
Winter 2009
Marian Henderson Leslie has informed us that her brother,
William Grady Henderson of Loganville, GA 30052 died on
23 April 2008. He was born on 3 July 1938.
Zelma Henderson (29 January 1920–20 May 2008 died in
Topeka, Kansas, at the age of 88 of pancreatic cancer. She
was the last surviving plaintiff in the 1954 landmark federal
school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. The
case outlawed segration nationwide in all of the United States
public schools. The ruling served as a harbinger of the American
Civil Rights Movement and paved the way for the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation in all public facilities.
She was survived by her son, Donald, five grandchildren and
fifteen great-grandchildren. Her husband, Andrew Henderson,
died in 1971 and their daughter, Vicki, died in 1984. Zelma was
not born a Henderson but married into the family.
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CHAPTER 8. Who Was Nathaniel Henderson?
by Jim Henderson
[Typescript chapter of a book never completed; given to Carol Wells on 1 May 1992]
I
f there is an unsung hero of this narrative it is Nathaniel
Henderson. He is now going to be sung about.
Nathaniel seems to have been the guardian angel for the
three Henderson siblings, Samuel. James, and Mary, traced
in this book. Yet there is an irony: his relationship to them is
unknown. That he was kin is strongly implied. In 1744, about a
year after Richard Henderson’s land grant in lower Goochland
(present Cumberland) County, Virginia took effect. Nathaniel
Henderson bought 230 acres, one farm over to the southeast. In
February 1745/6 Nathaniel witnessed Richard’s will but unlike
Richard’s named brother, Edward, was not cited in the will.
As with Richard and Henrietta Henderson, Nathaniel
and his wife, Patience, are of misty background. Nathaniel
has not been tracked back reliably beyond the 1744 deed.
Some speculation is possible with Patience. Two of her and
Nathaniel’s sons were named Sherwood and Tyree (names
later to appear as Sherrod and Tyre), which were popular first
names among certain Harrises of New Kent, Hanover, and
Louisa counties in Virginia. A Tyree Harris, as did Nathaniel
Henderson, witnessed Richard’s will, and may have been kin
to a Robert Harris who had settled on Great Guinea Creek. Still,
the possibility that Patience was a Harris lacks proof.
It has been suggested that Nathaniel is the same as the
Nathan in Richard Henderson’s will. The likelihood seems
obscure. For one thing, Richard’s children were, from the text,
clearly minors while Nathaniel was an adult, a landowner,
probably married and a father himself. For another, it would
have been highly inappropriate for an heir to witness a will
benefiting him.
Another suggestive circumstance is what became of various
bits of land. Brothers Samuel, James, and Nathan inherited
the 250 acres left in their father Richard’s estate. By early 1760
Samuel and James, then living in Granville County, North
Carolina, had sold their interests in it to a former Cumberland
neighbor, Charles Lee. Nathan never sold his but the title passed
to Lee without trouble. The assumption that Nathan was dead,
or otherwise long gone, is easy to make. Nathaniel, though,
owned only the 230 acres he had bought in 1744 and sold no
more than those 230 acres, again to Charles Lee. There is no
sign of his imprint on Richard’s 250 acres in the Goochland and
Cumberland records.
It appears unarguable that after the deaths of Richard in
1748 and Henrietta in early 1750 (New Style), Nathaniel and
Patience took in three and maybe all five the Nathaniel’s
nephews. Those three were Samuel, James, and Mary. What
became of the other two, Nathan and Patience, remains a
mystery. This good deed would have been performed while
Nathaniel and Patience were breeding a family of their own
eventually numbering thirteen children.
So what kin, if any, might Nathaniel have been to the three
children of Richard Henderson? Whereas they were most
certainly minors, as indicated in Richard’s will, Nathaniel
appears to have been an adult. He clearly seems to have taken
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the orphans with him when he moved about 1 752 to Granville
County, North Carolina. There he acquired land and served
in the county militia al least in 1754. In the Revolution he had
two sons, and perhaps more, old enough to go to war, even
if those two did defend the crown, and a teen-are grandson
who fought with the rebels. After moving first to what now
is Person County, North Carolina in 1701, then to Camden
District, South Carolina, ten or so years later Nathaniel died
in Camden in 1782. Patience appears to have outlived him by
nearly twenty years.
Samuel Henderson lived from about 1737 to late 1820.
James lived from about 1740 to 1797. Like Nathaniel’s sons,
both fought in the Revolution, though on the patriot side. It
is unknown when Mary was born, but she died in late 1801.
Given the generational difference, the appealing notion is that
Nathaniel was the uncle of those three. Hereafter he will be
treated as if he were a proven uncle.
On 8 April 1757 Nathaniel Henderson had three land grants
surveyed on Island Creek in Granville County, which ran
north to the Roanoke River. The area then was deep inside a
much larger Granville but now is on its northwestern border.
Between late 1757 and midsummer 1761 Nathaniel got all three
grants totaling 1,537 acres. Over those years he sold off about
1630 acres, the last being 200 acres—possibly his home place to
nephew James Henderson on 8 August 1761
That date was four days before Nathaniel brought from
fellow Virginian John Byars a square mile tract (640 acres) on
the headwaters of the Tar River. Although the land by then lay
in Orange County, formed in part out of Granville County, the
deed identified the parties as being from Granville County, and
was filed in the Granville courthouse in present Oxford. The
upper Tar River locale fell into Caswell County when it was
created in 1771, and into Person County when it was created
in 1791. At least part of the tract stayed for years in the family,
being sold by William Henderson and Stephen Fargason on 13
January 1785, presumably in settling the estate after the death
of Patience Henderson.
The discrepancy of nearly 200 acres between the 1,537 acres
Nathaniel Henderson got in grants in Granville and the 1630
acres he sold may represent an 01 original 1752 home place that
for some reason does not show in the Granville deed books. It is
also the size of the tract he sold James Henderson. The existence
of such a place is implied by the likelihood that Nathaniel and
family had been in Granville for going on five years before he
applied for and got the first grant. The 29 November 1752, deed
selling his Virginia land seems unequivocal enough.
Why and at what point Nathaniel moved his family, or
most of it, to South Carolina is unknown. The time had to be
before 15 July 1776, when Nathaniel wrote his will in Camden
District, South Carolina. He lived on Granny Quarter Creek
in what now is Kershaw County, South Carolina. His will
was probated about 10 October 1782. A son, Sherrod, and a
daughter, Elisabeth, were executors. Personal effects were sold
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about 7 January 1785, for a bit less than 25 pounds.
Sherrod and Betsy, as Elisabeth was called, may have been
Nathaniel’s pets. Not only were they Nathaniel’s executors
but also they shared 100 acres he had left on Bear Branch in
Lancaster County. South Carolina. And all his personal estate
save a single shilling to each of the other eleven children.
Sherrod and Betsy sold the land after Patience died about 1800.
In his lifetime Nathaniel bought two slaves, a woman and a girl,
for Betsy, and that led to a later suit by her brother Nathaniel
Jr. More to the point, Nathaniel wrote in will that Betsy would
lose her share of his estate should she marry before he died.
How soon after his death she married is not known, but when
she reported the estate sale in January 1785 she was married to
William Marlow (or Marler).
In the will Nathaniel gave as heirs his wife, surely Patience
although not named, ten sons and three daughters. His listing,
which may have indicated seniority, ran this way: sons Richard.
Nathaniel, Edward, John, Wilson, Tyre, William, James,
Archibald, and Sherrod; daughters. Anne, Patience, Elisabeth.
Only a few birth years are known or guessable. Richard has
land in Granville County in 1762 and so could have been a
senior child, born about 1741. Land ownership likewise put
Edward in about 1740. Wilson was born about 1743. Sherrod
and Tyree both fought in the Revolution—on the losing side—
and could have been born as late as 1760 or 1761. No similar
approximation is available for the girls, although Elisabeth is
presumed to have been of age when Nathaniel made her an
executor of his will in 1776.
A contemporary listing might present Nathaniel and
Patience’s children this way:
i.
Richard Henderson born ca. 1740, probably in Hanover
County, Virginia.
ii.
Nathaniel Henderson Jr. probably born in Hanover
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Dear Cousin and EditorI hope that among the current officers of Clan Hendcrson
are some who remember the late Jim Henderson newspaper
editor, professional writer, and careful genealogist. Ancestor
Nathaniel Henderson of whom Jim wrote in this chapter was
not Jim’s ancastor nor mine. We both followed this Nathaniel’s
life in order to separate his records from our own contemporary
Nathaniel Hendersons. This Nathaniel Henderson was closer
kin to Jim’s ancestors than to mine, but both of us spring from
Henderson families rich with the given name Nathaniel.
County, Virginia.
iii. Edward Henderson born ca. 1740, probably in Hanover
County, VA, died 3 December 1790 in Chester County.
Virginia.
iv. John Henderson, probably born in Hanover County,
Virginia.
v.
Anne Henderson, probably born in Hanover County,
Virginia, married possibly Stephen Fargason in Chester County,
South Carolina.
vi. Wilson Henderson, born ca. 1743, probably in Hanover
County, Virginia, died 1809 in Maury County, Tennessee.
vii. William Henderson, born possibly in Goochland
County, Virginia, died 1797(?) in Pendleton, now Anderson
County, South Carolina.
viii. Tyree Henderson, born possibly in Goochland County,
Virginia, killed in action in South Carolina about 1780 as a Tory
soldier in the Revolution.
ix. Patience Henderson, born possibly in Goochland
County, Virginia, died after 1782, probably in South Carolina.
x.
James Henderson, born possibly in Cumberland
County, Virginia, died after 1782.
xi. Archibald Henderson, born possibly in Cumberland
County, Virginia, or Granville County, North Carolina, died
after 1782.
xii. Sherrod (Sherwood) Henderson, born possibly in
Cumberland County, Virginia or Granville County, North
Carolina, died after 1801 possibly in Georgia. He was a Tory
militia lieutenant in the Revolution.
xiii. Elisabeth Henderson born possibly in Cumberland
County, Virginia, or Granville County, North Carolina, died
after 1801 in present Lancaster County, South Carolina. She
married ca. 1783 William Marlow (or Marler).
Jim sent me a typescript for his whole book of which the
inclosure is one chapter. It was Jim’s hope that his documented
Henderson line would help other searchers. Dying before
his book was completed to his satisfaction, desire was never
reached. When you read this chapter, you will see that no claims
of kinship are ever made unless Jim can back up a claim with
proof found in a document of like age. Jim did not just visit a
courthouse; he COMBED the records of every courthouse he
visited. He found documents no one had ever used and happily
shared copies of them.
There are several more pages in the enclosed chapter that
reveal the careers of Nathaniel’s children. The typescript for
Jim’s book was not copyrighted.
Yours,
Carol Wells
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This schedule is as correct as we can present at time of publication. Please let
the editor know of changes. In some cases, dates have not been set and may
change. Be sure to check further to confirm before leaving for the event.
2009
January
10
Southeast Florida Scottish Festival &
Highland Games
Fort Lauderdale Stadium & Event Site
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
17-18 Central Florida Scottish Highland Games
Central Winds Park, Winter Springs, FL
Larry Henderson, Convenor
February
14
Scottish Ramble
Excelsior, MN
14-15 Queen Mary Festival
Long Beach, CA
Joe Henderson, Convenor
21-22 Arizona Highland Games
Margaret G. Hance Park
Central Phoenix, AZ
28
Northeast Florida Scottish Games
Jacksonville, FL
March
8-8
Zephyrhills Celtic Festival
Zephyr Park, Zephyrhills, FL
Larry Henderson, Convenor
13-15 Scottish/Irish Faire
Horseshoe Complex, Midland TX
14
Panama City Highland Games
Panama City FL
21
Sarasota Highland Games
Venice Airport Grounds
Venice, Florida
Larry Henderson, Convenor
21
Scottish Heritage Day
Fort King George, Darien, GA
29-29 Mint Hill Highland Games
Mint Hill, NC
April
4
Dunedin Highland Games
Highlander Park, Dunedin, FL
4
Kern County Scottish Games
Bakersfield, CA
4
NYC Tartan Day Parade
Down 6th Avenue
4
Oregon Scottish Heritage Festival
Albany, OR
5
Pace Highland Games
Pace, FL
5-5
Hawaiian Scottish Festival and Games
Waikiki, Honolulu, HI
Larry & Jackie Phillips-Convenors
Unk. Missouri Tartan Day
Frontier Park, St. Charles, MO
5-5
San Antonio Highland Games
San Antonio, TX
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17-19 Loch Norman Highland Games
Rural Hill, Huntersville, NC
17-19 Arkansas Scottish Festival
Lyon College, Batesville, AR
18
Ardenwood Tartan Day,
Fremont, CA
Suzanne Emerson Convenor
18
Highlands in the ‘Burg
West Pine Park, Warrensburg, MO
18-19 Las Vegas Highland Games
Floyd Lamb State Park, Las Vegas, NV
Joe Henderson Convenor
20
Pensacola Highland Games
Pensacola FL
24-26 Scottish Country Fair
Sumter County Museum, Sumter, SC
25
Culloden Highland Games
Culloden, GA
25-26 Sacramento Valley Scottish Games
Yolo County Fairground, Woodland, CA
25
Celtic Festival of Southern Maryland
Jefferson-Patterson Park
Prince Frederick, MD
25
Colonial Capital Scottish Festival
New Bern, NC
May
1-2
Triad Highland Games
Bryan Park, Greensboro NC
3-3
Scottish Festival and Celtic Gathering
Clarksburg, WV
2-3
Celebration of Celts
Columbia Co. Fair Grounds
Chatham, NY
2-3
Th’ Gatherin’ Fire Festival O’ Beltane
WaKeeney, KS 67672
8-10 Kentucky Scottish Weekend
General Butler State Park
Carrollton, KY
9
Savannah Scottish Games
Savannah, GA
9
Celtic Festival/Highland Games
Historic Bethabara Park
Winston Salem, NC
9
Frederick Celtic Festival
Urbana VFW Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD
9
Minnesota Scottish Games
Dakota County Fair Grounds
Farmington MN
15-17 Gatlinburg Scottish Games
Mills Park, Gatlinburg, TN
16
Colonial Highland Gathering IL
Fair Hill Racecourse, Fair Hill, MD
16
Tallahassee Scottish Highland Games
Tallahassee FL
16-17 Rio Grande Valley Highland Games
Albuquerque, NM
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16-17 Houston Highland Games
Houston Farm & Ranch Club, Houston, TX
16-17 Livermore Scottish Games
Robertson Park, Livermore, CA
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Springfield Highland Games
State Fairgrounds, Springfield, IL
23-24 Alma Highland Games
Alma College, Alma, MI
23-24 United Scottish Society Highland Gathering
Costa Mesa, CA
Joe Henderson Convenor
28-31 Glasgow Highland Games
Barren River Lake Park, Lukas, KY
Fred Sanford Convenor
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Brigadoon Beltane Festival
Maize Valley Market & Winery
Hartville, OH
June
5-7
McHenry Highland Festival
Garrett County Fairgrounds, McHenry, MD
5-7
Texas Scottish Games
Maverick Stadium, Arlington, TX
6
Greenville Scottish Games
Greenville, SC
6
Modesto Highland Games
Tuolumne Park, Modesto, CA
6
Scottish Fest/Milwaukee Highland Games
Old Heidelberg Park, Glendale, WI
6
Bonnie Brae Scottish Games
Liberty Corners, NJ
6*
Southern NH Scottish Games
Silver Ranch, Jaffrey, NH
6
Stark County Scottish Festval
County Fairgrounds, Canton, OH
6-7
Bellingham Scottish Highland Games
Holvander Park, Ferndale, WA
6-7
HCSV Celtic Highland Festival
Historic Cold Springs Village
Cape May, NJ
7
Genessee Highland Gathering
Mumford, NY
12-14 Kansas City Scottish Highland Games
Henderson AGM
Riverside, MO
Tom Henderson, Convenor
13
Prescott Highland Games
Watson Lake Park, Prescott, AZ
13
Clover Scottish Games
Memorial Stadium, Clover, NC
13
Indiana Highland Games
Concordia Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN
13
Potomac Celtic Festival
Morven Park Equestrian Center, Leesburg, VA
Christian Garin Convenor
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Biography of Lieutenant General Commanding
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submitted by Dorothy Henderson
avid Henderson was born in Glasgow on 11th August
1862. His father David was one of four brothers who built
a shipping dynasty on the Clyde. All of them had been
brought up as seamen and David commanded the troopship
Clyde during the Crimean War. Later, while he and his youngest
brother William became shipbuilders and engineers (David
and William Henderson & Co.), their brothers Thomas and
John became ship-owners (the Anchor Line).
Although many of the younger members
of this highly successful family made their
careers in shipping, David Henderson
Junior’s path lay in another direction. He
would have a very distinguished career as a
soldier and later an airman of whom a strong
case could be made that he was the ‘father of
the Royal Air Force’.
David matriculated at the University of
Glasgow in 1877, aged just fifteen, to study
engineering subjects in the Arts Faculty. At
that time his family address was at 10 Crown
Terrace. He remained at the university until
the session 1880-1881, when he was recorded
as entering the senior classes in Civil
Engineering and Mechanics, and in Office
and Field Work in Engineering. He studied
under Professor James Thomson, who had
held the Chair since his appointment in 1873.
Queen Victoria established the Chair itself in 1840, although
there was not yet a separate Faculty of Engineering (established
1923). Among David’s fellow students was another son of
Glasgow’s shipbuilding elite, Robert Barclay Curle. For
whatever reason, David did not graduate, but chose instead to
go on to Sandhurst. In 1883 he joined the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders and began a military career that took him to South
Africa, China, Ceylon and, nearer home, the battlefields of
France.
David Henderson was an experienced soldier by the time
the First World War broke out. He served in the Sudan and in
the South African War, where he was besieged at Ladysmith,
and wounded in an attempt to destroy enemy guns. His
personal courage and professionalism were rewarded by being
mentioned in dispatches and by promotion to Lieutenant
Colonel. Already it was becoming clear that he had particular
talents in military intelligence.
From 1900 to 1902 he served as director of military
intelligence under Lord Kitchener and brought a new scientific
approach to gathering and collating information. For his work
in the war he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in
1902. He published two important manuals, Field Intelligence:
Its Principles and Practice (1904) and Reconnaissance (1907).
David Henderson went on to make two great contributions
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to victory in the Great War. His interest and experience in
intelligence remained central, but was now combined with a
fresh enthusiasm for flying. In 1911, at the age of 49, he learned
to fly and became the country’s oldest pilot. The Royal Flying
Corps was established in 1912. Henderson saw its potential
from the beginning and was instrumental in developing its role
in gathering information on German troop positions to pass to
the British Expeditionary Force.
In 1914 he went to France to take command
of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), but his
energies were split between that service
and his workload in military aeronautics,
so that in August 1915 he handed over
command of the RFC to Brigadier-General
Hugh Trenchard. He continued to fight for
the autonomy of the RFC, however, and
worked hard to ensure that it was neither
swallowed up in the army nor damaged
by rivalries with the fledgling Royal Naval
Air Service (RNAS) in a competition for
resources.
In 1917 the Cabinet agreed to a plan,
attributed to General Christian Smuts
but understood as having been largely
written by David Henderson who had been
seconded to the General to advise him on the
air war. On the basis of the ‘Smuts Report’
the RFC and the RNAS were amalgamated to become the Royal
Air Force on 1st April 1918. Although Hugh Trenchard is often
given the credit, David Henderson may stake a claim to being
the Father of the RAF.
David Henderson had married in 1895. He and his wife
Henrietta, daughter of Henry Robert Dundas, had one son.
Captain Ian Henderson was killed in a flying accident in June
1918. After the war David Henderson still had important public
roles. In October 1918 he served as a military counsellor in Paris
during peace negotiations.
After the peace, he went to Geneva to organize the league of
Red Cross Societies. He was frequently honored, created Knight
Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1914 and Knight
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1919. On
24th June 1920, he returned to the University of Glasgow, this
time to receive an Honorary LLD. Sir David Henderson died in
Geneva on 17th August 1921. His brilliant career was reflected
in his name being the first on Glasgow University’s Roll of
Honour.
Sources
University of Glasgow Registry and Faculty Records.
Richard A. Smith, ‘Sir David Henderson’ Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
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Hendersons Leave Their Mark in Nevada
City of Henderson email reply of 5/29/2008:
(From the AnCanach Summer Edition 2008)
Recall that in the summer edition of AnCanach, we ran an
article about Henderson Nevada but could not nail down the
Henderson for whom the town was named. The following is
a very kind note from the City of Henderson explaining this
apparent oversight in the narrative history of the town.
AnCanach email of 5/25/2008 to the City of Henderson, Nevada:
Dear Sir: I am researching an article about Henderson,
Nevada and cannot find any information on its namesake.
Who was Henderson, Nevada named for and why does this
founder’s name not appear in any of your online information
sources?
Please advise.
Hello Mr. Henderson –
I’m Kathy Blaha, and I work in the City of Henderson Public
Information Office and received your inquiry regarding the
origin of the name of Henderson, Nevada. According to our
records, Midway City was renamed to Henderson in March
1942 after U.S. Senator Charles Belknap Henderson.
We are currently updating portions of our website
including our historical pages and will be sure to consider this
information.
Thank you for your interest in the City of Henderson.
James E. Henderson
Genealogist
Clan Henderson Society of the United States
Kathy
Kathy Blaha
City of Henderson
Public Information Office
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Chief of the Name and Arms of Henderson
High Commissioner for
North America and Chieftain
David S. Henderson
Chief
Alistair D. Henderson of Fordell
PO Box 3070
Stafford DC
QLD 4053
AUSTRALIA
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Ennobles
213 Broad Street
New Bern, NC 28560 USA
davidshenderson@embarqmail.com
Clan Henderson Society
of the
United States of America
Society Web Site
www.ClanHendersonUSA.org
Recording Secretary
Vice President
Officers
President
Rex A. Maddox
7504 Range Road
Alexandria VA 22306-2422
(703) 765- 8819
HENDBDYGD1@aol.com
North East Region
(CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT}
Gary Henderson, FSA Scot
2403 Lake Mead Road
Wheatfield, NY 14304
(716) 731-1832
bagpipes@adelphia.net
Mid East Region
(DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV)
Leon Hicks
4506 Penwood Drive
Alexandria VA 22310-1463
(703) 922-4647
alhich@cox.net
Appointed
Officials
- Oes Dana Clan Piper
Patrick A. Heston
5913 SE 71st Street
Oklahoma City OK 73135
(405) 596-1473
paheston@hotmail.com
Clan Genealogist
James E. Henderson
88 Eltham
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
(252) 452-2161
jimhen45@gmail.com
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Past President
Billy J. Henderson
863 Hwy 469 North
Jackson MS 39208-8056
(601) 939-8656
kilted@bellsouth.net
Vice President—General Counsel Membership/Treasurer
Earl Ronald Hendry, JD
PO Box 220
Roan Mountain TN 37687-0220
(423) 725-5152
LawVeteranUSA@aol.com
South East Region
(FL, GA, NC, SC)
Commissioners
Dottie Henderson
686 Thrush Court
Marco Island FL 34145-1932
(239) 389-5515
dottiehenderson@embarqmail.com
Larry James Henderson
2054 Ronald Circle
Seffner FL 33584
(813) 654-7008
larryseffner@aol.com
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Harry J. Keifer
4511 Ridgeland Drive
Lilburn GA 30047-4347
(770) 925-9015
hjkeifer@hotmail.com
Great Lakes Region
(IN, IL, MI, OH, WI)
Douglas W. Henderson
3410 Wooster Road, #119
Rocky River OH 44116
(440) 356-2825
North Central Region
(MN, ND, SD)
Virginia M. Broussard
4152 Campbell Road
Snellville GA 30278
Gregory L. Schwartz
19 Sunbury Street
Minersville PA 17954-1441
(570) 544-3428
glspddgm@aol.com
Mid Central Region
(IA, KS, MO, NE)
Lori Henderson
10251 130th St.
Valley Falls KS 66088
(785) 945-3952
khenderson@grasshoppernet.com
Mid South Region
(AL, KY, LA, MS. TN)
Billy J. Henderson
863 Hwy 469 North
Jackson MS 39208-8056
(601) 939-8656
kilted@bellsouth.net
Far South Region
(AR, OK, TX)
Tom Hendricks
2509 SW 45th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73119
(405) 685-9734
South West Region
(AZ. CO, NM, UT, WY)
Joseph H. McEldowney,Jr.
14996 East Columbia Drive
Aurora CO 80014-3812
(303) 690-2586
buzzmceldowney@aol.com
North Pacific Region
(AK, ID, MT, OR, WA)
Ellen M. Bentley
935 Court Street
Prosser,WA 99350
(509} 786-2908
ebentleyst@edudchlink.net
South Pacific Region
(CA, HI. NV)
Joe Henderson
(562) 498-2291
joehendy526@aol.com
tomff2376@yahoo.com
Head of the Bodyguard
Christian Garin
14025 Sterling Point Drive
Gainesville VA 20155
(703) 753-9041
Crgarin1@aol.com
Clan Chaplain
C. Frederick Sanford
520 Dogwood Road
Statesville NC 28677-3417
(704) 878-6094
cfsnfrd@bellsouth.net
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Russell L. Henderson
8500 Wendell Drive
Alexandria VA 22308-2158
(703) 780-1068
edancan@aol.com
Clan Bard
John Robert Mallernee
AFRH-W # 158
Washington DC 20011-8400
(202) 449-9436
writesong@yahoo.com
Historian—Archivist
Elizabeth Gay
347 Rocky Knoll Road
Walhalla, SC 29691.
(864) 638-2986
bethscribble@aol.com
Quartermaster
Robert G. Shimp
1836 Paris Ave
North Augusta SC 29841
(803) 278-1564
rshimp4@comcast.net
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Youth Activities
Ann Henderson Hicks
4506 Penwood Drive
Alexandria VA 22310-1463
(718) 922-4647
alhlch@cox.net
Clan Webmaster
David C. Henderson
232 Kinney Avenue NW
Walker MI 49534
(616) 453-6537
dcthenderson@yahoo.com
DNA Project Administrator
James E. Henderson
88 Eltham
Rocky Mount, NC 27809
(252) 452-2161
jimhen45@gmail.com
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