Rev. Henry, was born in Nash Co., N. C., Dee. 18, 1795. He was left an orphan at an early age. He moved in 1817 to Twiggs Co., Ga., where he spent the remainder of his life.

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Rev. Henry, was born in Nash Co., N. C., Dee. 18, 1795. He was left an orphan at an early age. He moved in 1817 to Twiggs Co., Ga., where he spent the remainder of his life. By steady industry and prudent management he accu- mulated a handsome estate, which he shared liber- ally with benevolent institutions and good and wise schemes for the benefit of his fellow-men. He for years acted as justice of the peace and judge of the County Court, and between 1825 and 1831 he represented his county in several sessions of the State General Assembly. He made a public pro- fession of religion in 1837, and thenceforth scru- pulously practiced all his religious duties. Tis church called, him to the gospel ministry in 1851, and on the 7th of December in that year he was ordained. For several years he was pastor of the Richland church; for many sessions he was mod- erator of the Ebenezer Association, and, also, a trustee of Mercer University and a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgia Baptist Con- vention. He was eminently a pacificator by his influence and prudent counsels ; he settled or pre- vented many troubles among neighbors and in churches; he was scrupulously honest, fair, and liberal in all transactions; many widows and or- phans found in him a friend and a wise counselor. In all the relations of life, as husband, father, citi- zen, church member, and minister, he illustrated the characteristics of a genuine Christian, no blot ever stained his fair fame; yet, looking heaven- ward, he felt the power and ruin of sin,‘and for salvation trusted in the merits of Jesus only. He passed away peacefully on the morning of Sept. 23, 1878, in the sixty-first year of his residence in Twiggs County, and in the eighty-third year of his age. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart drawing from findagrave