Abraham HENDRICKS

1834 - 1862  (27 years)

• Name	Abraham HENDRICKS
  Birth	15 May 1834	West Fork of Drakes Creek, Simpson, Kentucky   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1862	Columbus, Carlisle, Kentucky   [3]
  Person ID	I3942	HHDHA
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2010

  
  

  Father	Samuel HENDRICKS,   b. 18 Apr 1791, Little Buffalo Creek, Rockingham, North Carolina d. 18 Apr 1856, , Claiborne, Louisiana (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Rebecca DORRIS,   b. 22 Feb 1794, Mt. Savage, Allegeny, Maryland d. 17 Dec 1835, Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	4 Oct 1813	Sumner Co., TN   [4]
  Family ID	F402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S13] Allen, Marguerite Hendricks, Henry Hendricks Genealogy, (Henry Hendricks Family Organization, Third Ed. 1995), Third Generation, p 22., JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 H384a. [S12] Leavitt, DelLynn W., Probabilities, Possibilities, Commonalities and Plain Common Sense., ((Recently out of print)), Third Generation, p 22. Samuel Hendricks lived on the West Branch of Drakes Creek in Simpson Co., Kentucky with his father Abraham Hendricks very near to the Tennessee boarder. [S13] Allen, Marguerite Hendricks, Henry Hendricks Genealogy, (Henry Hendricks Family Organization, Third Ed. 1995), Third Generation, pp 22-23., JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 H384a. Abraham served as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. The following is a letter he wrote shortly before his death from measles, about three months after entering the service: Columbus, Ky December the 19th, 1861 Dear Brother & Sister & Nephew: I again write to let you know I am not well nor have not been for seven or eight weeks. I have had the jaundice, diareah and bad cold. I am fearful I am taking the liver complaint. I am so hoarse now I can scarcely talk. I can't sing or hollow at all. I have nothing interesting to write you. I have written twice to you since the battle here. The health of the Company is improving, we have some 8 or 10 sick in our Company at present. Clay Gryder and Dick Holomon have been discharged. James Barnard will probably go home on furlow. If my health does not impove I will go home on furlow in a week or 2 more. Some of the Officers say I ought to be discharged but I don't. I would accept a discharge unless I find I can't get well in camp. It is a bad chance to get well here, the Surgeons and Doctors have so much sickness to attend to they will not notice a person unless he will tumble down and groan and hollow like he is nearly dead. So no more on that subject. We are expecting another battle here every day. We are preparing for them Northerners. We are still forting up yet, building winter quarters and we have 30 or 35 thousand soldiers here and more coming in every day. We have a floating battery here with 18 or twenty cannons on it. 5 or 6 gunboats, also, with lots of cavalry and flying artillery and infantry. I have nothing more to write to you at present only give my respects to all my friends and accept a share yourself. If I do not go home, do write to me, write anyhow. I have looked for letters from you but in vain. If I do not go home soon I want you to do the best you can for me and I will pay you for your trouble when I do go home. I don't need any money from Claiborne and hope I will not need anymore than the Confederate States will pay me. I have been paid $28.60 cts. and I would send you some money if I knew I would get healthy but I reckon I had better keep my money for fear I may need it. So no more at present, but I remain yours sincerely. Abraham Hendricks Sarah I want you and John to write to me. You know not how it makes me rejoice to get letters from relatives. I got a letter from Mag Hendricks yesterday. I was glad to hear from them. (It is assumed that this letter was written to Peyton and Sarah Lunsford and Sarah's son John Wattis.) [S6] Research Notes. Beverly Hathaway and Mary Hart, Sumenr Co., TN., Marriage Records, 1787-1828, FHL Film # 467,485, p. 57. Samuel Hendricks and Rebecca Dorris, 4 October 1813 by William Summers. Page 9. of notes.