Our story begins about 1715, when the teenaged indentured servant, Josias Hendon, came to America. He and his brother, Richard, settled in what is now Baltimore County, Maryland. They would both become successful planters in the Gunpowder River region of Maryland. Josias died in 1738; Richard in 1768. Many of their descendants migrated to the Carolinas. The end of the century saw Hendons in Georgia and Alabama. Hendons were in Mississippi and Tennessee by the mid 1800's. Josias Hendon's great great grandson, William Lafayette Hendon, married Mary Caroline Walker in Alabama (1858). Their oldest son, Erastus Lafayette Hendon married Francis Rosella Walker in Holmes County, Mississippi(1880). William and Erastus moved their families to Texas in the late 1880's. After a few years in Limestone County, William relocated to Henderson County; Erastus went to Knox County. Erastus and Rosella had the following children: Addie(1881), Claudie(1884), Tom(1886), Minnie(1889), Archie(1893), Barney(1897), and Bert(1899). Erastus died in 1931 and Rosella in 1943. Some Hendons resided in Knox County until the 1940's.

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