{"id":2493,"date":"2020-10-20T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=2493"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:21:03","slug":"j-f-henry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/j-f-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"John Franklin Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jfhenry.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2494\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jfhenry-217x300.png\" alt=\"J F Henry\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jfhenry-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jfhenry.png 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>John Franklin Henry (Madison County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House:\u00a0<\/strong>1884-1885<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:<\/strong> c. 1858 in Mississippi<br \/>\n<strong>Died:<\/strong> 1917 in Madison County, MS<\/p>\n<p>According to the 1884 House Journal, he was a preacher and a farmer. Some records indicate that he went by the name Frank. Listed on the 1880 census with wife Emma Lambert (m. 1876), on the 1900 census with wife Agnes P. Moody (m. 1899), and on the 1910 census as a divorced clergyman. An F. Lucinda Churchill paid the bond as administrator of his estate in 1917.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2536\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-k-atwood\/daily84\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2536 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/daily84-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/daily84-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/daily84-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Mississippian, February 4, 1884<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2689\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/j-f-henry\/sums\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2689 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sums-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sums-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sums-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Ledger, March 14, 1884<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6429\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/j-f-henry\/henrymar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6429\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6429\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/henrymar-150x150.png\" alt=\"Marriage record, June 17, 1899\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/henrymar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/henrymar-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marriage record, June 17, 1899\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6431\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/j-f-henry\/005818265_00879\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6431\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/005818265_00879-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Probate record, August 2, 1917\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/005818265_00879-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/005818265_00879-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Probate record, August 2, 1917<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Franklin Henry (Madison County) State House:\u00a01884-1885 Born: c. 1858 in Mississippi Died: 1917 in Madison County, MS According to the 1884 House Journal, he was a preacher and a farmer. Some records indicate that he went by the name Frank. Listed on the 1880 census with wife Emma Lambert (m. 1876), on the 1900 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/j-f-henry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Franklin Henry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2493\/revisions\/6432"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}