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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: [INMONROE] Henry Henley Dies Suddenly
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 12:56:39 -0500

Bloomington (IN) Weekly Courier, Feb 20, 1912, p. 1. NOTE: Knights of the
Golden Circle were southern sympathizers living in the north while
surreptitiously supporting the southern effort. It appears that a portion
of this news item was unintentially omitted when copied. It is noted by an
ellipsis.

DEATH CLOSES LIFE OF HONORED CITIZEN
Capt. Henry Henley, Gallant Soldier and Prominent Stone Man Died at Ripe
Old Age

Capt. Henry Henley, aged 85, died suddenly yesterday evening at the home of
his son, Att. J.E. Henley, West Kirkwood Avenue. He had just said good bye
to his son, as the latter was getting ready to go to Vincennes on a
business trip. Before Mr. Henley had left the house his father had expired
while seated on a couch.

Although he had been failing in health for several months, Capt. Henley
appeared to be about as well as usual yesterday. He and his wife had been
living with their son during the winter.

Capt. Henley was one of the best known citizens of this part of the
state. And as (an) officer of of the Civil War, his most notable service
was rendered when he communicated to Governor Morton and the Adjutant
General the secrets of Knights of (the) Golden Circle and sent his soldiers
to arrest the conspirators, thus breaking up that organization.

He was made captain of Company A, 17th Indiana volunteers, April 14, 1862,
and served more than two years. He was commissioned a Major at Louisville,
November 17, 1864. He took part in the following
engagements: Mumfordsville, Hoover's Gap, Peach Tree, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, Shelbyville and Farmington, Tennessee, Kenesaw Mountain,
Mariette, Flat Rock and Selma, Alabama.

He was a native of Orange County and was born October 25, 1826. He was
married to Miss Lydia Patton of Orange County, May 11, 1852. Capt. and
Mrs. Henley moved to Bloomington in 1871 to educate their children, and in
the fall of 1872 Capt. Henley ws elected surveyor of Monroe Counoty, which
position he filled for four years. After the expiration of his term he
engaged in civil engineering and was engineer of the City of Bloomington
for several years. In 1873 he purchased a mill at Gosport and was its
proprietor...

Capt. Henley was educated at Earham College at Richmond. He was a member
of the Methodist Church and the Masonic faternity. He was the founder of
the South Side Stone Company and also assisted in organizing the Hunter
Quarry, now known as the Consolidated. He is survived by the widow and two
sons, J. E. and George W. Henley.

No man in Bloomington was more loved or respected by the general public
than Capt. Henley. He had a kindly disposition which won him friends
everywhere. As a pioneer stone man he had a great deak to do with the
upbuilding of the stone industry in the Bloomington district which has made
this city known all over the country.

Funeral Wednesday at ten o'clock at the residence of Atty. J. E. Henley,
West Kirkwood Avenue, in charge oof Dr. J. W. Jones. Honorary
pallbearers: Capt. W. J. Callen, Walter Collins, James Karsell, Capt. J.
T. Eller, W. A. Fulwider and James D. Showers. Active pallbearers: Joseh
H. Campbell, Claude Malott, H. A. Woolery, Judge L. B. Wilson, J. W. Gentry
and S. C. Dodds.

The G. A. R. and Masons will attend the funeral in a body.

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