Hendrix Family Genealogy

Abt. 1845 in District 13, Giles County, Tennessee, USA^1-2

1850 ; Jonas E Hendricks¹

1860 ; Jonas E Hendrex⁴

1866 in Giles County, Tennessee, USA; Hammond's Store, Southern Division

1870 ; Jonas E Hendrix⁵

1878 ; Jonas Hendricks⁶

1880 ; Jonas Hendricks⁷

1896 in Cameron, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, USA; Information by George Andrew Hendrix on application for Life Insurance Policy gave his father's age & year of death.²

1896 in Greenhill Cemetery, Cameron, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, USA; Memorial Stone in Milton Cemetery, Milton, Le Flore County, Oklahoma²

Dec 1843 in Lauderdale County, Alabama, USA^{8, 10-11}

1850 ; Rhoda Barr -- was missed/skipped on the 1850 Census⁹

1860 ; Rade Bear⁸

1870 ; Rhody Hendrix⁵

1880 ; Rhoda Hendricks¹²

1900 ; Rhodie Gorris (Goins)¹¹

1910 ; Rhoda Handrick¹³

Apr 1923 in Milton Township, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, USA¹⁰

Apr 1923 in Milton Cemetery, Milton, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, USA¹⁰

Rhoda Barr was  the daughter of Nathan & Martha (Cottrell) Barr.  She had four (4) brothers; Thomas, Jesse, Reuben, and John t., and three (3) sisters; Nancy, Susan , and Martha.

Rhoda was from Tennessee but most accounts indicate that she was born in Alabama.  Note that Giles County, Tennessee is just north of Lauderdale County, Alabama.

Roda is found on the 1860 Census, Tennessee, USA, Giles, Roll 1251, Book 1, Page 195, Post Office Hammond's Store.

She married Jonas E. Hendrix in 1866 while living near Hammond's Store, Southern Subdivision, Giles County, Tennessee.

Rhoda & Jonas had five (5) children, Sarah A., Nancy E., George Andrew, William Riley, and Dora.

George Andrew Hendrix is my grandfather.

According to the 1870 Census, Jonas Hendrix, wife Rhody Hendrix and two children, Sarah A & Nancy E. were living in Giles, Tennessee, USA.

Jonas was sentenced to 10 & 1/2 years in prison on June 8, 1877, Wayne County, Tennessee, USA for housebreaking & larceny.  

The 1880 Census, District Two, Wayne County, Tennessee, USA, taken the 16th of June, 1880, shows Rhoda Hendricks as a head of household with all the right siblings, Sarah age 14, Nancy age 12, George age 8, Riley age 6, and Dora E. age 3.  

According to the 1880 Agricultural/Farm Census of Wayne County, Tennessee,  Rhoda Hendricks/Hendrix was a sharecropper on two (2) acres of tilled land.  She had $5.00 worth of machinery, $25.00 worth of live stock (2 cows) which produced 40 pounds of butter and had 12 head of poultry producing 72 eggs.  The two (2) acres of tilled land was planted in corn and produced 15 bushels.

It was during this time that Jonas E. Hendrix, was in Grundy, Tennessee serving a 10 & 1/2 year sentence for housebreaking and larceny. He escaped from the Tracy City Prison, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA on Sept. 22, 1882.

Mrs. Rhoda Hendrix, age 55, married William Goins, age 59, April 8, 1900, Cameron, Oklahoma, USA (ref note: LF@A@389).  Note: the last official record of Jonas was his being jailed on July 12, 1893, in Fort Smith, Arkansas for assault with intent to kill. Rhoda's son, George Andrew Hendrix, indicated in 1923 on an application for life insurance that Jonas passed in 1896 of Bright's diease.

Rhodie (Goins) is listed on the Choctaw Nation 1900 Census, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, as head of family with William Riley Hendricks living with her at that time.

Rhoda Hendrix is listed in the 1910 Census, Le Flore County Braden Township, Oklahoma, as mother-in-law living with her daughter, Sarah, who was married to William Clinton.

Rhoda Barr/Hendrix died in April of 1923 and was supposed to have been buried in Milton Cemetery, Milton, Le Flore County, Oklahoma.  A grave stone has not been found that can be associated with this burial in the Milton Cemetery.  A memorial stone for Rhoda Barr/Hendrix was placed in the Hendrix section of the Milton Cemetery.

Sara Hendrix shows up on the 1910 Census, Le Flore County, Braden Township, Oklahoma, USA.  This census shows her first name to be spelled, Sarah, not Sara, and that she was 40 year old and born in Tennessee, USA.

Tombstone has that Sarah was born 1858, died 1915

Directions to Lees Chapel Cemetery, Muldrow.

Starting on US-64 E    

Take the a right onto 4th St/​Breed Love St/​Old U.S. 64/​Sequoyah St.  and go 0.1 mi

Turn right onto Wilson Rock Rd  and go 2.9 mi  

Turn left onto E1140 Rd  and go 0.5 mi  

Take the 1st right onto N4745 Rd and go 0.6 mi  

The following links a marriage record for a May Hendrix whose mother was Nancy Hendrix.  May was 16 years old.

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61379&h=1563797398&indiv=try

Obituary

03 Mar 1947

McCurtain, Oklahoma

George Andrew Hendrix was the son of Jonas E & Rhoda (Barr) Hendrix.

He had three (3) sisters; Sarah A., Nancy E., and Dora E.; and

one (1) brother, William Riley Hendrix.

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George Andrew Hendrix was in the Fort Smith jail when Cherokee Bill was hung -- Information by Roger Hendrix (Apr 2009).

My Grandfather, George Andrew, passed away when I was only 6 months; therefore, I do not remember anything about him.  My mother, father, and I lived in the old Hendrix home near Rosedale Hill.  Rosedale is some 4-5 miles south of Milton, Oklahoma.

The house was a two room house with covered front and back porches.

Dad told me that his father was an expert (natural) pistol shot and could point a pistol at any object and hit it, even from the hip.

He also told me that when his father came to McCurtain from Hackett, Arkansas, that Ervin was with him as was a Bill Hendrix and Sam Hendrix.  Dad indicated that Bill or Sam settled near the Walls community and ran cattle and hogs from the Walls Plains up to the San Bois Mountains West and North of Walls.  

UPDATE: added 17 Jan 2013 by Roger P. Hendrix:  I believe that Bill could have been William Riley Hendrix and I doubt that Riley was a cattle man. I have found evidence of a Sam Hendrix selling illegal liquor in the Fort Smith, Arkansas, Criminal Case Files Index, 1866-1900, with a start date of 1890.  This possibly could have been the Sam Hendrix that was with my grandfather in the McCurtain/Walls area.

World War I Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918 shows that William Riley Hendrix was born February 14, 1877, however the 1900 Census record shows a different date. This registration card also shows that Rhoda Hendrix was living with William Riley Hendrix dated 9-12-1918 in McCurtain, Haskell County, Oklahoma, USA.

Life Sketch:

William Riley Hendrix was the son of Jonas E. & Rhoda (Bear) Hendrix. He had 4 siblings; Sarah A., Nancy E., George Andrew, and Dora E..

On the opposite page of William & Etta's Marriage there is a record for the marriage of T. H. Farris of Spiro & Mattie Hendrix of Spiro? Do not know which family this Mattie Hendrix is associated with.

William married Mary Etta Clowers on June 7, 1901 (note: this date is in question as it could possibly be 1907), in Indian Territory, Cameron, Le Flore County, Oklahoma. Together they had five (5) children; Jessie Lee, John Jonas, Ned & Fred (possibly twins - passed at birth or shortly thereafter) and James Arthur.

William died as the result of being ran over by a car in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA on November 18, 1944. Place of death was the Albert Pike Hospital in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.

William Hendrix was also married to Barbara A. Banks aka "Barbie" Banks/Hendrix.

William's World War I Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918 shows that he was born February 14, 1877, however the 1900 Census record shows a different date. This registration card also shows that Rhoda Hendrix was living with William Riley Hendrix dated 9-12-1918 in McCurtain, Haskell County, Oklahoma, USA."

Dora E. was the daughter of Jonas E. and Rhoda (Barr) Hendrix.  She had four (4) siblings; Sarah A., Nancey E., George Andrew, and William Riley Hendrix.  

Dora was the youngest.

According to Dora's brother, George Andrew Hendrix, on a Life Insurance Policy Application he had to give information on his siblings.  He stated that Dora only lived to be 5 years of age; thus, based on her birthday of Mar 1878 she would have passed in 1883.  Between the January 1883 and 1893, her family traveled from Waynesboro, Wayne County, Tennessee, to Dunklin County, Missouri, Craighead County, Arkansas, Midland Township, Sebastian County, Arkansas, Hackett, Sebastian County, Arkansas, ending in Cameron Township, Le Flore County, Oklahoma.

So Dora probably passed in the Southeast corner of Missouri or Northeast corner of Arkansas early during the trip from Waynesboro to Cameron.