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Note: SHELBY CO., TN MARRIAGES & MISC. NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS 1835-1846 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These abstracts were submitted by: Helen Rowland Land For Sale � As Trustees of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches of Memphis, we offer the Camp Ground containing 14 acres. It has a good spring on it, and is situated about 4 miles from Memphis, near the stage road. For particulars, apply to either of us, or to C. BIAS, Memphis. Littleton HENDERSON, Dudly DUNN, Trustees. P.S. I have 10 acres adjoining the above land which is also offered for sale. Littleton Henderson. Memphis Enquirer, Friday, 4/26/1839. Little Henderson was a partner and relative to Thomas Jefferson. In 1851 a boy approached the late Judge J. W. Pettit, then acting Superintendent of public school in Memphis, and asked: " Are you the man who takes care of the fatherless children?" This appeal moved his benevolent heart, and led him to confer with the late Littleton Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. John Kraft, Mrs Doyle and a few others; who met at the home of Mrs. Kraft, on Court Street, and organized the "Widows and Orphans Asylum" of the city of Memphis. On the 12th of February 1852 the asylum was incorporated by an act of the legislature, with Littleton Henderson, John A Caruthers, Mr. Davis, Sidney Smith, J. W. A. Pettit, Dr. Conditt, and A. O. Harris as corporators. In 1854, Mrs. Sarah A. Leath donated to the institution nine acres of ground fronting the Raleigh Road. On her death it was found that she had bequeath five acres to the asylum in addition to the nine acres donated, also an additional twenty acres in trust for educational purposes. The First Presbyterian Church This church was organized with five members by Reverend W. C. Blair, on the 17th of June, 1828, when Littleton henderson, one of only two male members, was chosen and ordained as a ruling elder. Until 1834 the congregation worshiped in an old school house in what is now Court Square. In that year a lot of ground near the corner of Third and Poplar Streets was presented to the Society and a house of worship was erected on the corner of the above streets. The First Presbyterian Church was probably the second church in the city of Memphis to effect an organization. This was done June 17, 1828 under the direction of Reverend W. C. Blair aided by Mr. L. Henderson, one of the two gentlemen in the membership who was chosen as ruling elder. Copied From the north west window that was erected by the congregation and is in the present church. Littleton Henderson was a ruling He was a good man of elder from 1828 to 1857 Faith and of the Holy Ghost Littleton Henderson was a Mason and the First Secretary of the Blue Lodge of Germantown, Tennessee, Number 85, which was organized April, 1840.
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