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Descendants of John Abraham Henson
since it appeared that it had never been changed since the day it was put on.
Another story recently acquired while doing family research which appears to have some credence:
The story is that John Abraham Henson (b. 1861) died after eating a poisoned pie at home in Colbert Oklahoma
and is buried there somewhere. His grandson, Connie Henson (1933), from Bokchito, Oklahoma, said that he had
tried locating the cemetery where buried but could not find it. He also states emphatically that John Abraham
Henson was 1/4 Cherokee Indian.
It is thought perhaps that John married or lived with the widow, Josephine "Joscie" (Hunt) Tate, near Colbert,
OK, and that they may have had a child. It is believed that John died about 1906/7 and if there was a daughter,
this child could be the child adopted by Hollan and Luetta Singletary who christened her Myrtle Mae Henson, my
mother, born 31 Oct 1906. How or why this situation occurred, if it did, is anybody's guess. However, Joscie Tate
did have five or more other children to raise as a single parent, since her previous husband, Tom Tate, died about
1900 in Tyler, Smith, Texas.
Old letters uncovered in my parent's estate reflect that Carl W. Henson (1920), the son of Robert Henson (1899)
the son of John Abraham Henson, corresponded with mother as early as 16 Oct 1972 and addresses her as "Aunt
Mae". Discussing the lineage with Charlie Henson (1938), also Robert's son and grandson of John Abraham, he
relates that it had been suggested he visit his half sister in Arkansas, but said that he never did.
Connie Henson relates that when he got out of the service in 1955 that Robert, his father, suggested he visit Aunt
Mae in Arkansas but that he never did also. He did state that he had been shown early school pictures of me which
my mother had sent his, Mary Lodemi Henson (1899), wife of Robert.
A school picture, 1949-1950, of Wadel Coleman Henson (1935), a brother of those already mentioned, was found
in the family picture box so it appears that correspondence with Mary Henson, his mother, occurred. Coleman
indicated he had visited mother once and tried again in 1989 while traveling with his oldest daughter, Martha Sue,
but that he could not find her. There may be other Henson pictures without names which I and other family
members do not recognize.
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