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 . . .
