My Genealogy Hound

ISAAC N. HENDRICKS. One of Sheridan’s honored citizens and old settlers is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Cape Girardeau county, Mo., May 13, 1833, and moved with his parents to Illinois at the age of eighteen. At that time the advantages for obtaining an education were very small, but he obtained a meager education in Missouri and Illinois, and staid at home until thirty years of age, and farmed with his father and brother for a share of the crop. In May, 1863, he was married to Miss Sarah J. Barington, daughter of Malinda Barington, She was born Jan. 15, 1841, in Illinois. After Mr. Hendricks was married he farmed five years, then came to Jasper county and located on his present farm of 171 acres. He has six children, three living: Mary E., Charles T., and Daniel. Adam E., died with bone cancer. At the time of his death his knee measured thirty-six inches around. The bone was eaten away for several inches above his knee. The doctors thought it was white swelling and did not know the difference until the limb was amputated, but not soon enough to save his life, as the cancer had got into his system, and he died Sept. 22, 1882. Mr. Hendricks was the first settler out on the prairie away from Coon Creek. His farm was first owned by a Mr. Stanley who sold it to Mr. Perry, who built the first house out on the prairie. He had to leave owing to the war, but his house stood during the war and was known as the Perry house. At the time Mr. Perry settled there was one store at Dublin and no other trading point nearer than Carthage, and there were only about ten families in the township. He had to pay ten dollars a barrel for salt, twenty dollars a hundred for meat, flour six dollars and fifty cents per hundred, and land was worth from four to six dollars an acre. Mr. Hendricks now has 160 acres finely improved; 120 under cultivation, the rest is in blue-grass pastures, and timothy, and he has 11 acres of timber. He has water on each of his three forties for his stock. Mr. Hendricks now has sixty-five head of cattle, six head of horses, and a thorough-bred bull, and one that is three-fourths, one year old. He raises an average of from fifteen to eighteen bushels of wheat to the acre, and about thirty-five of corn. He raises all kinds of vegetables. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks are members of the Dunkards, or German Baptist Church, and are highly respected by their friends and neighbors.