Albert Hendricks was born on 21. Jan. 1821 at Simpson County, Kentucky. He was the son of
Samuel Hendricks and
Rebecca Dorris. Albert Hendricks married
Lucinda (Unknown). Albert Hendricks married
Francis Sarah Jones, daughter of
Jeremiah Cogswell Jones and
Hannah Clark; Albert was the second of her four husbands. Albert Hendricks died on 15. Sep. 1868 at Upshur County, Texas, at age 47. As of 1963 the only available source of information concerning Albert and his descendants is from three old letters which pertain to him, copied verbatim:
Upshur County, Texas
July 20, 1868
To James Hendricks or Neriah Louis
Dear Uncle & Brother:
I adopt this method of writing to you a few s & I have no doubt if you ever get this letter but you will be surprised & anxious to hear the news about the family, as I am to hear from you all. You will want to know who of the Hendricks family are yet living. Sister Sarah and myself and families and Brother William's family are all of the close kind that I know of now living. I have not heard from any of the rest of the family for a long time. Father died 11 years ago in La. Sister Catherine died a year or two before father and left a husband and two children, a boy and girl, that are both since marryed. Brother Abraham died in the army six years ago with measles. Brother William died four years ago and also two of his sons. His wife and five children are all living at home, none marryed yet, on Red River in La. I was over in La. to Sister Sally's and Nancy's two years ago. The first time I had seen them since we were children. Sally was well and hearty and her family. Her son John Wattis, is grown and is a nice young man. Her husband's name is Lunsford. He appears to be a good, kind-hearted man and all appeared to be getting along very well. They belong to the Baptist church. So did father and Catherine in their life time. William never joined any church. He lived and I recon, died, a Universalist. I forgot the Edwards family, James and Newt, and their sister Elizabeth, all have familys and are living in Dallas County, Texas. All are good citizens and doing very well. Cousin John Hendricks and Ruthy are alive yet and live in Grason County, Texas, and are doing very well. I hear from them onst in a while. We have not heard of Brother Nelson for a long time and suppose he is dead. Giles died in the Mexican war upwards of 20 years ago. We have not heard from Josiah for a long time. He was in California the last time we heard from him. He was single and then living near Sister Elizabeth. Now will tell you something of myself and family. I am living with my second wife and have two children by each one. My oldest daughter is grown, and Sam my oldest boy is 14 years old. The youngest is small. All stout, healthy children. I have not enjoyed good health for a long time until this summer. My health has been better than usual. The health of our country is generally good. We have fine crops and provision is very plentifull in Texas except wheat that has been destroyed for a year or two by the grasshoppers. Now I have wrote to you what will most immediately interest you at this time and now I must ask of you both if living or either and if not your familys to answer my letter soon as possible for you do not know how much I crave to hear from you all and especially Sister Tabitha and Elizabeth and Josiah and Brother Allen's children and all the kind and friends you know of. My post office is Upshur County, Texas Point Pleasant P.O. Please send my letter to any of the family you can. I want you all to write soon and I will write more when I hear from you. No more at present,
Yours til death
Albert Hendricks
I know Tabitha or Aunt Drusilla will write to me if they are alive & dont
delay.
Exact copy--written by the second wife of Albert (Francis Sarah):
February 7th-1869
Dear sister I with a heavy heart take pen in hand to try to write to you again for fear you never received the other as the distance is fair between us I will write manney things that I wrote before I must tell you again that youre brother is dead he departed this life on the 13 of September 1868 he has suffered agradel for the last seven years with a pain in his head and a ginrel debility of health and then he was taken with a sore mouth it comensed eating as tho he was salivated tho he was not it continued spreading untill it destroied over on half of his fase and extended down his neck he was violentley attacted the first day of August and remained in great agony untill September the 13 when he departed this life he was in his right mind untill the last he was a unprofessor tho he was strictley honest and lived a normal life he expressed a great desire to hear from you all and sed if he lived if he ever did recover and cold hear from you he wold moove our thar We received youre leter November the 1 and one from Aunt December the 2 when you read this please send it two her for fear she never got the one I sent We was truly glad to hear from you all and I want you to continue writing for we will be truly glad to hear from you all Henerety is the name of his oldest daughter she will be nineteen 19 the 6 day of August next his sone name Samuel James these two his first wifes our oldest is a daughter her name is Ann Tabitha her Paugh named her expressley for you he sed you was his favorite sister when you was small and he expressed agreat anxiety to se you Tabitha is a rosey child her hair is red i will send you some. She is 11 years old next July the 15 hoursone is a mischevous babe 2 years old August next his name is John. I have one daughter by my first Husband her name is Sarah Gabrellah Watson there is six of us in famley We have a small farm two hundred and fifty achors of land forty in cultivasion a good orchard and ayverry good house and stock a nuff to answer our purpos I again take my pen in had to try to finish this letter this being the twelfth I was called off to se one of my neases dye and leav her dear husband and babe I sent your letters to Sarah and Nancy I received letters from them last week they were all well Salleys oldest boy has left home to try what he can do for his self you sed you wanted youre Brothers potograps I only wish I had it it wold be a pleshure to me to send it to you I requsted him to hav it taken time after time he always sed he never wanted no one to se him when he was gon and he wold not have it taken I will git the childrens taken the first chanse and will send you Tabithas I wold like to have yourse. I want you to write to me I wold like to ceep up corrispondence with you pleese send this to Aunt give my love to all and receiv a portion youre self write soon yourse truley from youre sister in adistant land with her little children round her and there paugh is not hear my heart srinks at the thoights of it
excuse my bad ritten letter my pen is bad and a bad hand to youse it I shal look for a answer soon Yourse truley from Mis Francis Sarah Hendricks to her
sister in a distant land.
January the 1 - 1872
Dear Sister and famley I am blest with the opportunity of informing u how we are agitting along we are all enjoying moderate good health except Heneretty she
departed this life December the 18-1870. She died with the pneumona she was taken verrey severe lived only 7 days we had all dun for her that was in the
power of man to do it was heart rending to give her up She was a dutiful child and as kind to me as my own daughter we feel lonely now My daughter is staing with my brother agoing to school two hundred miles from home Samuel and Almira Tabitha is going to school from home My self and Johney and the oald black woman keps house you may know that I am truley glad to get letters from my departed husbands friends they are comfort to me we are agitting along verrey well make aplenty for anet suport and have the kindest uv neighbors Sam is a great boy he is like a man more than a child William Hendricks was to se ues last fall he ses they are agitting along verrey well I heard from them recently they are all well Heneretty spent 18 months with her Ant Salley they did not git along verrey well so she came home again tho her health was ruend she sed all she craved was home she sed she received no kind words from her Aunt She called me to her bead the evening she died she said O Maw I never knew uncindness untill I left home I ever am thankful for your kindness and thank God that I can dy in youre pres. I never saw u sister Sarah I always imagined I would love her like a sister My dear husband loved her and requested his daughter to spend a portion of her time with her. She has forbid me sending her anny letters that I receive from Salt Lake tho me and her husband keepes up correspondans as ever he was a friend to Heneretty and she sends her love to me in every letter I wrote to her to send me the famley record that I mite send it to u to se she refused Albert Hendricks was born 30 November 1855 Henretty Hendricks was born August the 6 she departed this December the 18-1870 Sameul was born Feb the 9-1855 Myne F. S. Hendricks was born Feb 27-1828 A T Hendricks was born July the 14-1858 John Hendricks was born No the 5-1866 Youre Father Departed this life April 1856 We went to git our potographs taken Samuel was looking rather pale and he would not have his taken Then he ses he was (rest of letter is gone).