Samuel HENDRICKS
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Marriages of Sumner County, Tennessee, 1787-1838
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NOTE: Died of smallpox in Dec 1835. Samuel took family to Nashville, then by steamboat to New Orleans and finally to Minden, LA where he resided for several years in Claiborne Parish. Three of the children--Elizabeth, Sarah, and Tabitha, were taken by their older sister Rebecca (and her husband, Neriah Lewis) in 1843 to IL, and ultimately on to SLC. This family also picked up the orphaned children of Allen Hendricks & Elizabeth Reed--Rebecca Eliza & Samuel--once they reached SLC. (The Henry Hendricks & Sarah Thompson Family--From New Amsterdam to New Frontiers, 2nd Ed., Cannon & Hart, 1991, pp. 78-79)
He married Rebecca Dorris 4 Oct 1813 at Fountain Head, Sumner, Tennessee . Rebecca Dorris was born at Sumner, Tennessee 22 Feb 1793 daughter of William Dorris and Catherine Frost .
They were the parents of 13
children:
William Barnett Hendricks
born 1814.
Catherine Hendricks
born 1816.
Rebecca Hendricks
born 23 Dec 1817.
Allen Hendricks
born 12 Jun 1819.
Albert Hendricks
born 21 Jan 1821.
Nelson Hendricks
born 16 Jul 1823.
Josiah Hendricks
born 19 Oct 1824.
Giles Hendricks
born 12 Mar 1826.
Elizabeth Hendricks
born 9 Nov 1827.
Sarah Hendricks
born 25 Oct 1829.
Tabitha Hendricks
born 30 Sep 1830.
Abraham Hendricks
born 15 May 1834.
Hendricks
born Dec 1835.
Samuel Hendricks died 18 Apr 1856 at Louisiana .
Rebecca Dorris died 17 Dec 1835 at Simpson, Kentucky .