Henderson, Daniel Jr. (17 JUN 1818 - 8 FEB 1879)

Daniel Henderson Jr., a Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle born in 17 June 1818 in Pulaski County, Georgia son of Daniel Henderson & Sally McBride. He married Fairby A. Whiddon 18 November 1841 in Irwin County, Georgia. Dan Henderson and wife settled at the place near the Alapaha river, where Manasseh was born. He then moved west of Sycamore, across Little River, and settled within one mile of Pleasant Hill church. It was then a log house, which was utilized for school and church purposes. The congregation afterwards built a new meeting-house East of Sycamore, where it now stands, on the east side of Little River, several miles away from the old location. They remained on the place until the older children were grown and some of them married, when they took up their abode at Isabella for several years, where the younger children received their education and where Daniel represented Worth county in the legislature. In March,1862, he joined the war effort and would served as the Captain of Company B, 10th Georgia Battalion. This company of 130 Worth County soldiers, was referred to as the "Worth County Rebels". His first service was guarding prisoners at Macon, Georgia. He was ordered to Virginia and served in the Army of Northern Virginia, arriving there just after the second battle of Fredericksburg. He led this company until sometime in 1863, when he resigned having been elected to serve Worth County in the Georgia Legislature in 1863-1864. He did not return to the army as he was in the Legislature until the close of the war. They returned to their old home near Pleasant Hill church site. When old Daniel's health began to fail, and they decided to cross both Little and Alapaha rivers, to a place where Daniel had purchased land, near where Ocilla now stands. Daniel Henderson was taken sick at the home of Wiley Whitley (who served with Co F, 49th Georgia Volunteer Infantry), his son-in law, while the family were moving to Ocilla. He died on 8 February 1879 in Worth County Georgia.

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