The Proeger Family · Generation 5 — the immigrants and the frontier

Henry Henderson

Father of Bessie Hill Henderson · Roberts step-line

Henry Henderson

Confirmed

Father of Bessie Hill Henderson · Roberts step-line

Born
12 June 1864
Died
30 March 1949
Married
Artie H. Morrison
Children
James Henderson
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on Bessie Hill Henderson's 1890 Vermont birth record, S195.

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1864
🆕 Full name Henry William Henderson, born at Ryegate 12 June 1864, son of William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan) S357S361; added 24 September 2026.
Death1949
Died at South Ryegate on 30 March 1949, aged 84, a retired farmer and a widower; informant his daughter Winona M. Sulham S361.
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920, 55, on his own (mortgaged) Ryegate dairy farm in 1920 with Artemiza, 52, their son James, 21, and daughter Winona, 14 Confirmed S950. added 29 September 2026
Census1870
🆕 In July 1870, aged 6, Henry W. was at school and in the Ryegate household of William J. Henderson, 41, a farmer, and Caroline, 32, with Virginia, 14, Capitola, 10, and Sarah, 72, born Maine Confirmed S963. That census states no relationships; his parents are named in S357S361. His age there fits the 1864 birth. added 29 September 2026
Census1910
🆕 In 1910 Henry W. Henderson, 44, was farming his own mortgaged farm at Ryegate with his wife Addie M. (married 23 years, six children, five living) and Marion E., James M. and Winnona M. Confirmed S1039. added 29 September 2026
Census1940
🆕 In April 1940, 75, he was living at South Ryegate as the father-in-law of Perley A. Sulham, in the household of his daughter Winona M. Sulham, the informant; usual occupation farmer, now unable to work Confirmed S1051. The enumerator wrote him “single”, surely a slip, and marked him a veteran of an “other war or expedition”, which is not yet explained. added 29 September 2026
Census1880
🆕 In June 1880, aged 15, he was at school and at home in Ryegate with his parents William J., 51, a farmer, and Caroline K., 43, and his sister Virginia J., 24, all born Vermont. It is the first census read here that enters them as his parents; his 1887 marriage card S357 and his death card S361 name the same William J. and Carrie (Caroline) K. Confirmed S1087

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents1890
Farmer; father of Bessie Hill Henderson, born 10 December 1890 at Ryegate, Vermont; her mother Artie Morrison of Topsham S195
Marriage1887
Married Artie H. Morrison at Ryegate on 1 January 1887 S357. In 1930 a dairy farmer at Ryegate, aged 65, with his wife and their daughter Winona Sulham's family S358.
Parents1898
🆕 His son James Henderson, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898, died at Woodsville, New Hampshire, on 16 March 1968, married, with a wife Hazel; his death certificate names his father as Henry Henderson and his mother’s maiden name as Morrison Confirmed S1147. The informant was the hospital, not the family.

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Henry Henderson · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

10 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S195Vermont birth record — Bessie Hill Henderson, Ryegate, 10 December 1890. Ancestry record 925685. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Bessie Hill Henderson, born 10 December 1890, Ryegate; father Henry Henderson, farmer; mother Artie Morrison of Topsham.
  2. S357Vermont marriage card (groom) — Henry W. Henderson and Artie H. Morrison, Ryegate, Vermont, 1 January 1887. Ancestry record 925750. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 22, farmer, born Ryegate, son of William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan), married Artie H. Morrison; C. H. Farnsworth, clergyman; Alex Cochran, town clerk. The first image of the marriage and of Henry's parents. His age, 22 on 1 January 1887, fits a birth of 12 June 1864.
  3. S3581930 U.S. Federal Census — Henry W. Henderson household, Ryegate, Caledonia Co., Vermont (ED 3-19, sheet 7A). Ancestry record 124392317. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry W. Henderson, 65, dairy farmer; wife H. Artmiza, 62; their daughter Winona Sulham and her husband Perley, with four grandchildren. The grandchildren are not named here in case any is living.
  4. S361Vermont death card — Henry William Henderson, Ryegate, 30 March 1949. Ancestry record 124148. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henry William Henderson, retired farmer of Pleasant St., South Ryegate, widowed, died 30 March 1949 aged 84 years 9 months 19 days; born Ryegate 12 June; father William J. Henderson, born Ryegate; mother Carolyn Gillfillan, born Barnet; informant Winona M. Sulham. The card writes the birth year as 1865, but its own age line and every census give 1864.
  5. S9501920 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, ED 13, sheet 9A, lines 45–50 (January 1920). Ancestry record 37186200. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Farm, owned, mortgaged: Henderson, Henry, head, 55, dairy farmer; Artemiza, wife, 52; James, son, 21, farm labourer; Winona, daughter, 14, at school; with a boarder and a hired man. All born Vermont. Ages fit Artie born October 1867 and Henry born June 1864. Collection: 1920 United States Federal Census.
  6. S9631870 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont (P.O. McIndoes Falls), page 6, dwelling 40, family 42 (30 July 1870). Ancestry record 36853529. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Henderson, William J., 41, farmer, real estate $5,000, personal $2,000, born Vermont; Caroline, 32, keeping house; Capitola, 10; Henry W., 6; Sarah, 72, at home, born Maine; Virginia, 14. All but Sarah born Vermont; the three children at school. The 1870 census states no relationships. His parents William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan) are named by his marriage and death records (S357, S361). Sarah, 72, is perhaps his grandmother, but nothing here says so. His age, 6, fits the June 1864 birth. Collection: 1870 United States Federal Census.
  7. S10391910 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, enumeration district 50, sheet 4B. Ancestry record 28904537. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 71: Henry W. Henderson, 44, farmer, owning a mortgaged farm, born Vermont; Addie M., 42, married 23 years, six children born, five living; Marion E. 17, James M. 12, Winnona M. 5. Next door: Mary A. Morrison, 78, widow.
  8. S10511940 United States Federal Census — South Ryegate, Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, E.D. 3-22, sheet 3-A. Ancestry record 42500741. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed 4 April 1940: in the household of Perley A. Sulham, 51, sawyer at a granite shop, and Winona M., 35, the informant, with their children, is Henry W. Henderson, 75, father-in-law, born Vermont, parents born Vermont, usual occupation farmer, unable to work, same place in 1935. The page marks him “S” (single), which cannot be right for a widower with a married daughter; and it marks him a veteran of an “other war or expedition”, which no other record yet explains and which is not published as a war.
  9. S10871880 United States Federal Census — Ryegate, Caledonia County, Vermont, page 16, dwelling 144, family 154. Ancestry record 22412397. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 15–16 June 1880: William J. Henderson, 51, farmer; Caroline K., 43, wife; Virginia J., 24, daughter; Henry W., 15, son, at school; all born Vermont. Henry W. Henderson of Ryegate married Artie Morrison there on 1 January 1887 (S357). It is the first census read for this page that states the relationship; the 1870 census [S963] states none. His marriage card [S357] and death card [S361] already name the same parents.
  10. S1147New Hampshire certificate of death, state file 68-1328, Haverhill, 1968 — James Henderson. Ancestry record 75791217. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed James Henderson, white, married, of Woodsville, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898; died 16 March 1968, aged 70, at Cottage Hospital, Haverhill (Woodsville), Grafton County; surviving spouse Hazel; father Henry Henderson; mother’s maiden name Morrison, given name blank. Entombed at Horsemeadow, Haverhill, 18 March 1968. The informant was the hospital’s medical records office, so the parents’ names are weaker than a family informant’s.

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