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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

1872 :: Birth of First Set of Henry Twins

On this date, the 31st day of January, in the year 1872, Josephine Wingfield Henry nee Davis gave birth to her first set of twins* . . . this event occurred while the family was living at Old Independence in Washington County, Texas . . . the new babies were named Emma and Edgar . . . Edgar is a maternal great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .


On the 31st day of January in the year 1889, Emma Henry would marry Samuel Houston Sharp, Jr. in Milam County, Texas . . . on the 2nd day of January in the year 1895, Emma's twin brother, Edgar, would marry Sam's little sister, Berta Mary Sharp . . . Sam and Berta were two of the children born to Samuel Houston Sharp, Sr. and Mary Alexandrien Lemaire . . .


The twins were 59 years of age when the following photos were taken at a Henry family reunion held at the Hamilton home in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas . . .




We have not yet figured out just how the Henry twins and the Sharp siblings happened to meet . . . the Sharp siblings were born and raised on the Hall Plantation in Houston County, Texas . . . the Henry family was in Milam County, Texas by 1876 . . .


* A second set of twins would be born in Grayson County, Texas in 1875 . . . only one would survive to maturity . . .
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