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To: rkhen@softhome.net,
              bryanh@giraffe-data.com
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:32:17 -0500
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Subject: Robert E. Henderson, 2 letters and attached photo
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Robin and Bryan (and anyone else interested) --

My sister Sarah spent the past week with our mom in Farmington (IL), and in the 
course of looking for other things she and I found two letters written by your 
grandfather (our father's first cousin), transcribed below with our notes in 
[brackets].

(BTW, the funny little numbers and letters with the names are the formal 
genealogical convention for identifying people who might be confused with one 
another, with numeral 1 designating the first of the line to have emigrated to 
this country, descendant generations counting up chronologically, and letters 
A, B, C, etc. assigned to the last non-emigrant generation and going up in 
reverse chronological order.  Thus we have relatively objective identifiers, 
although in our branch we simply knew two same-named cousins as "Uncle Jim's 
Robert" and "Uncle Tom's Robert"!)

As you no doubt know, your grandfather's handwriting is quite distinctive.  And 
as is often the case in the genealogy business, learning one fact suddenly 
illuminates another mystery.  There's a small snapshot that came to us from my 
father's sister's household, with an unknown fellow holding an dead deer, with 
an extended hard-to-read caption on the reverse side.  We had speculated that 
it might even have come from Scotland, and this was probably what kept us from 
tossing it as hopelessly unknown.  When I encountered this photo again 
yesterday, I at once recognized the handwriting, and my sister set herself to 
transcribe it now that we had a context to put it in.  I attach the snapshot 
and transcription (2 attachments).

Hopefully at least some of this is new and interesting to you.  Better safe 
than sorry, in any case!

Harold

[Letter from Robert Ernest3 Henderson (1900-1981, Tom2, Robert1, RobertA) to 
Alexander2 Henderson (1874-1957, Robert1, RobertA); found at Henderson house in 
Farmington, Illinois, and transcribed 29-30 September 2006]

Dec 16 55
5217 Ivanhoe Pl.

Dear Uncle Aleck:

I haven't any hunting adventures to brag about this year as I was too busy to 
hunt.  This was the busiest year of my life, as I wrapped up my old life and 
started a new one.  You did the same thing at about the same age so you know 
why I didn't hunt.  

I sold my old house and got a new and more modern one, got married, moved in 
with Bob and Beryl.  Bot furniture which we have moved all around the house 
ever since.  

Business keeps me grinding from ten to fourteen hours a day, so evenings are 
usually pretty short, but we have visited and been visited by new and old 
friends, and have taken many weekend trips as well as two ten-day vacations, 
and I've become a grandfather (Beryl's son and daughter in law).  

Bob is in his second year at the U. now, and I hope and think he is doing a 
little better than he did the first year.  He didn't do much growing up till he 
lost his mother.  She'd have a hard time recognizing him now.  When I measured 
him last, some time ago, he lacked 1/4" of six feet in his sock feet.  

Each branch of our family seems to be having their own separate Christmas this 
year so we probably will too but it will be great to have three whole days to 
forget dental lab. in.  

I hope you will be seeing your family and I hope the New Year will bring you 
more comfort and happiness.  

Sincerely,
Robert.


[Letter to Ronald A.3 Henderson (1914-2002, Aleck2, Robert1, RobertA) from 
"Robert" presumably Robert Henderson, his cousin (1900-1981, Tom2, Robert1, 
RobertA); found at Henderson house in Farmington, Illinois, and transcribed 29-
30 September 2006]

[no date, most likely late 1957 or early 1958, but certainly after Aleck's death on 20 Oct 1957 and before Tom's in 1960]

5217 Ivanhoe Pl, N.E.
Seattle, Wash.

Dear Ronald:

	I've wanted to write to you for a long time.  I am sorry I wasn't home when you called,
some time ago about your father.

	Until the last couple of years I have managed to write to your father at least once a year.
He was the youngest acting, and warmest toward me at least of all the Henderson men of his 
generation.  We had a lot of fun together during the two years I was in Illinois, and on his 
visits out west.  We did quite a bit of shooting, fishing, and even a little drinking together.

	When I saw you last, you were quite a small boy and I thot I was quite a man.  The 
fifteen or so years between us wouldn't seem like much today to either of us.  On the other
hand tho, I have always been a bit scared of school teachers, or professors.  They seemed 
to be able to read my inmost thots.  Perhaps I would be the small boy.

	Altho I have lived in the city ever since I saw you last I have always been a rube at heart.
I still love the wood and farms and all the outdoors.  I close up my peanut stand for a week 
or two every year and go hunting, (nothing bigger than deer or black bear).  I usually hunt with
flintlock rifles or shotgun which have made my self, and I usually get game.

	Whenever I think of Chicago I get a tight feeling in the middle.  I would like to see you
all, but I doubt if I could ever get up enough nerve to travel any farther east than the
Mississippi.  Do you think you might ever come west?  It isn't the west it was when I was a boy
but I still have a piece of land on a mountain top about 200 miles from here where you can't
hear any traffic noises.  Also we go to San Juan Is. once or twice a year.  We are going up
for a week right after Christmas this year.  That is my favorite spot, right now.  We can get
there in four hours.  Have all modern conveniences in a fine log cabin with a great big fire
place.  The Island has deer, rabbits, and birds.  I got my buck up there two months ago with
my flintlock and will probably get some rabbits this next trip.

	I don't remember if my father has told me but I think I remember that you have a pretty
good sized family.

	I have only the one boy.  He has just gotten into the army.   So we may not be hunting 
together for some time.

	We wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas, and a happy and prosperous New Year.

									Sincerely,
									
									Robert

#Harold Henderson, researching HENDERSON, DAVIDSON, ANDERSSON, 
STENBERG, THRALL, FLINT, SCHRIBER, JOSS, SCHOLES, MOZLEY, 
BOREN, LINHART, BASSETT, BLISS, BURDICK, CRANDALL and many more  
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~hendersonscholes    	http://justonestory.com


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