Note: I downloaded Lemuel Hensley's family from the internet site of Ni ck C. I have his little book, but did not want to type it all in. I subscribe to the Searcy County Newsletter. Found your Descendants of Lem uel Hensley interesting. You have listed the name Nancy T. Hensley in mar riages to McBride and Hodges. I feel the T. is possibly a typo error a nd your records probably show her as Nancy D. but just in case. I am a descendant of Nancy Duncan Hensley thru her marriage to Jesse Hodge s. She named her youngest son Lemuel Taylor Hodges, after her father, a nd one of HIS daughters was named Pernina Duncan Hodges (my grandmother) a fter Nancy D. It has been our family legend the Duncan came from the fami ly name of Nancy's mother's family. We do not know the real name of Nancy 's mother, it seems no one else does either... !BIOGRAPHY: Willie Mae Thomas Siegel cited in; LDS #6051363; Arkansas Pion eers and Allied Families; p.391-392

" The father of my grandfather, Benjamin W. Hensley, is believ

ed to be Lemuel Hensley, who is in the 1820, 1830, and 1840 census of Way ne County, Tennessee. Lemuel Hensley served in the War of 1812...Many Hen sley ... families are in various counties in Virginia in the early 1700 's and scattered from there. My Hensley ancestors are in Buncombe and Bur ke Counties, North Carolina... By 1820 (they) are in southeastern Wayne Co ., TN, in the area of Butler and Holly Creeks."

!BIOGRAPHY: Searcy Co. Hist.-FHL book The HENSLEY Family by Howard Hensley

"The Hensley name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and in the book `The Orig

in of 10,00 Family Names,' it is said to mean home of the wild birds.' T wo of the early settlers coming to America who bore the Hensley name we re Benjamin and Samuel Hensley. They settled along the Potomac River in V a. Benjamin's line is thought to have migrated to N.C.; and are fou nd on the 1790 census rolls of the Morgan Dist. of Burke County. About 180 0, James and Lemuel migrated to Wayne County, Tenn. It is thought that Ja mes is the father of Lemuel and the records show that Lemuel is the fath er of the following people: John M. Hensley, Marcus Howard Hensley, Perni na Bromley, Nancy D. McBride, Presley W. Hensley, William L. Hensley, a nd others by second marriage."

!BURIAL: Letter from Ruth White, PO Box 4, Dowelltown, TN 37059, 5 Feb 19 94 "We visited where Lemuel, Mark's father was supposedly buried in southe ast Wayne Co. near the Alabama line. He died between Jun 30th and Sept. 2 4, 1840. The rock stone says Sept. 17, 1839 but it is so weathered we cou ld not read more and lots of times they carved the wrong dates."

PROBATE: This copy of the settlement of Lemuel Taylor Hensley's property w as given to Donna Dodson, HC 32 Box 216, Mt. Judea AR 72655-9417 by Das on Hensley. Instrument dated September 24, 1840, registered April 3, 18 41 in Deed Book E, Pages 195-196-197, entitled, "Agreement between the Wid ow and Heirs of Lemuel Hensley, Deceased"; Wayne County, Tennessee: STA TE OF TENNESSEE WAYNE COUNTY SEPTEMBER 24, 1840

Know all men by these presents that one Mary Hensley, John M. Hensl

ey Samuel Bromley and his wife Pernina, William L. Hensley, Mark H. Hensle y, Presley W. Hensley, Andrew jackson McBride and Nancy D. McBride his wif e, the State of Tennessee, for the purpose fo preventing lawsuits, stri fe and litigation about the property and distribution of said Estate, do m utually agree to the following divisional settlement of said Estate, to-wi t:

John M. Hensley takes a negro man called Payton and a negro woman nam

ed Nannie, to him and his heirs forever.

W. L. Hensley takes Peter a negro man, to have and to hold to him a

nd his heirs forever, and also the Wacousta Filly to make his share of neg ro property equal.

Mark H. Hensley takes a negro man named Jim and a negro girl named Ev

aline, to have and to hold to him and his heirs forever. He is also to ha ve One Hundred Dollars to be paid by John M. Hensley, Wm. L. Hensley, Samu el Bromley and Presley W. Hensley, Twenty five Dollars each.

Presley W. Hensley takes a negro boy named Peter and one named And

y, to have and to hold to him and his heirs forever.

Andrew Jackson McBride and Nancy D. McBride his wife take a negro gi

rl named Margaret and one named Lethy, to have and to hold to them and the ir heirs forever. They are also to have One Hundred Dollars to be pa id by John M. Hensley, William L. hensley, Samuel Bromley and Presley W. Hensley, twenty five Dollars each.

Mary Hensley has reserved for her portion out of the personal proper

ty of said Estate an old grey mare, a young mare at Sixty Five Dollars a nd ten Dollars to make said mare seventy five Dollars, to be hereinafter p aid by John M. Hensley, ten head of sheep, six choice of cows and calves a nd is to have delivered to her at a suitable time for saving, Twelve Hundr ed pounds of good pork, fifteen year old shoats, two sows & pigs, one Gil t, fifty barrels of corn, two plows and one set of gear, Twenty bushe ls of wheat, Bacon enough to do her, the cotton and potatoes except five r ows, two stacks of fodder and two of oats, all the household and Kitchen f urniture and all in the house and Kitchen except one bed and furnitu re to be given to Mrs. McBride, all the Turkees on the farm except four, a ll the chickens Ducks and Geese, Eight gallon of whiskey, five Bee gums, t wo hoes and enough leather to shoe the family, we convey to her and her he irs forever, and agree that the said Mary shall hold forever, free and qu it of our claim, forty five acres and sixty poles of land to be laid o ff of the East end of an Eighty acre tract grant No. 19509 Beginni ng on an Ash and running West so far that by running South to the origin al south boundry and East and North with the same to the beginning will ma ke the said 45 acres and 60 poles. If there should be an excess in the tr act of land when surveyed out, we give her an equal benefit with ourselv es to be laid off in in said 80 acre tract by a paralell line the whole le ngth of the western boundry of the 45 acre and sixty pole tract in the sa me proportion that the excess divided by 4 will make, the said tract of fo rty five acres and 60 poles being the tract including the late residen ce of Lemuel Hensley, Deceased on Butlers Creek in the County of Wayne a nd State of Tennessee, and the said Mary in consideration of said proper ty releases all further claim on said Estate.

Samuel Bromley and his wife Pernina agree to take a ten acre tract Gr

ant No. 27003 and the balance of the Eighty acre tract so far as will h is 45 acre and 60 poles, he also being entitled to his proportion of the e xcess, if any.

Andrew J. McBride and his wife Nancy D. agree to take their 45 acr

es and 60 poles North of Mary Hensley's tract upon Swanegan Branch of Butl er Creek, they also to be entitled to any escess ther may be.

Presley W. Hensley agrees to take his tract of 45 acres and 60 pol

es on Swanegan Branch above the tract of Andrew J. McBride and wife, al so having equal benefit of any excess there may be in said tracts, the tr ue interest and meaning of this contract and agreement being to make the s aid four equal in quantity.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed o

ur hands and seals the date above. The balance of the personal proper ty we will divide equally among ourselves excluding the widow, and we wi ll refund equally if necessary to pay Debts, the widow excepted.

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Test. Wm. Davis Mary X Hensley P.W. Hensley

Isom R. Guinn mark Wm. L. Hensley
Sam Bromley J.M. Hensley
her Mark H. Hensley
Pernina X Bromley
mark
A.J. McBride by their eturney
her William L. Hensle

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Nancy D. X McBride
mark
Father: Unknown Hensley

Marriage 1 Nancy Duncan Children 1. John Mack Hensley b: ABT 1805 in Tennessee 2. William Lewis Hensley b: BET 1810 AND 1815 in Tennessee 3. Pernina Hensley b: 4 JUL 1811 in Wayne County, Tennessee 4. Marcus Howard Hensley b: 1817 in Wayne Co. , Tennessee 5. Presley W. Hensley b: ABT 1823 in Wayne County, Tennessee 6. Nancy Duncan Hensley b: ABT 1827 in Wayne county, Tennessee

Marriage 2 Mary Brewer b: 1811 •Married: 1828

Children 1. Wesley Green Hensley b: 10 JAN 1829 in , , Tennessee

2. Martha Hensley b: ABT 1832 in , , Tennessee 3. Permelia C. Hensley b: JUN 1832 in , , Tennessee 4. Porter Marion Hensley b: 12 MAY 1833 in , Wayne, Tennessee 5. Lemuel Perry Hensley b: MAR 1834 in Tennessee 6. Tennessee Hensley b: ABT 1835 in , , Tennessee 7. Benjamin White Hensley b: 26 SEP 1837 in Wayne County, Wayne, Tennessee

Sources: 1.Title: lemhensley.FTW