History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 439, Astoria Township
S. A. Henderson, farmer amd stock-raiser, sec 6; P. O.,
Vermont. S. A. Henderson is numbered among the early settlers of
this township. His father, William Henderson, was among the first
pioneers who founded homes in Illinois; he was born in Westmoreland
Co., Pa., and followed farming from boyhood, and there united his
fortunes with those of Miss Nancy Russell, by whom he had 9
children. What is somewhat remarkable is that all of them are
living. S. A. was but 10 years of age when his parents settled in
Fulton Co. on farm property, where he spent his youth, receiving a
liberal education; 1860 he married Miss Hannah, daughter of John and
Julia Ingle, by whom he had 9 children: 8 are living, - Edith, Alice,
Lela, Marion, Edgar, Willie, Elsie and Anna. Charles is deceased.
