Col. John Henderson,
Second son of John and Anne Henderson, was born in Greenbrier County, Va., Tuesday, August 30, 1768, and died at Henderson, Mason County, Thursday, August 19, 1824. In 1792 he married Eleanor Stodghill, daughter of John and Elizabeth Ramsey Harvey Stodghill, of Greenbrier. She was born August 3, 1776, and died Friday, February 20, 1846. The family was of English descent. Her father owned a considerable quantity of land, four hundred acres of which was granted to him in 1787, a portion of which is still owned by descendants of his son James. Elizabeth Henderson's grandfather John Harvey, owned for a long time the now famous Red Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County. Her sister Nancy married John Arbuckle, and her sister Rhoda married Hugh Caperton of Monroe County.
