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Note: LAND OWNERS, SEABROOK P.O. 1902-1903 "THE LIVING TREE HARRIS CO. GENEALOGY SOCIETY, VOL. 9, SPRING 1983, PG. 70 Land records show Jordan Henry owning 252 acres. Both of the Henrys are buried off Bay Area Blvd., directly across from the exit gate of Bay Area Park Located just inside trees in fenced in area. Their daugher Aleda (Tillie) and her husband Charles Engelmann are buried at the foot of their graves. Only the Henrys have headstones. Bay Area Blvd. is off Red Bluff Rd. just south of Pasadena, Harris Co., Texas.
http://www.tsha.uTexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/AA/rha6.html Handbook of Texas Online Armand Bayou, also known as Middle Bayou, rises in central Pasadena twenty miles south of Houston in southeastern Harris County (at 29�40' N, 95�09' W) and runs ten miles southeast along the eastern edge of the Clear Lake oilfield to its mouth on Mud Lake, just west of Taylor Lake Village on the eastern edge of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (at 29�34' N, 95�04' W). The creek flows through urban Pasadena into a flat grassy prairie surfaced by clay and sandy loams that support wild hickory, holly, oak, elm, and ash. The area was the site of an early Cajun settlement. The 1,600-acre Armand Bayou nature preserve surrounding the bayou protects the interlocking ecologies of prairie, marsh, and forest, the indigenous habitat of the area, and was one of the state's first urban wilderness preserves. The preserve was established after a 1970 campaign to rename the bayou for Armand Yramatagui, a leader of the 1960s environmental crusade who was murdered in January 1970, and is operated by the Committee to Preserve Armand Bayou, a nonprofit corporation formed in 1974. The reserve remains outside the state park system.
http://www.freewebs.com/graveyardwolf/ Cemeteries of Harris Co., Texas III by George E. Wolf Jr. Early Settlers of Armand Bayou The Henry family from Louisiana was one of the first to settle in the Armand Bayou area in the early 1800s. They cleared and farmed the land that is now Bay Area Park. The Henry family was joined by the Gossmans, Dodsons and Ballentines. Together their settlement was known as the French Settlement or Junker's Cove. The French Settlement had a school named the Middle Bayou School. This school was located near the edge of what is now Red Bluff Road and Armand Bayou Nature Center. The school was destroyed by the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston.
(From AT REST, by Trevia Wooster Beverly/92. List the Henry Cemetery with dates from the 1870's and 25 graves. Endangered by subsidence.?) page 41. (From TREASURES of GALVESTON BAY by Carroll Lewis/77.) States that {since then the settlement gradually vanished and now only a few graves markers on the north side of Big Island Slough remain as evidence of this pioneer group.} Chapter 11, page 101.
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State of Texas
County � Harris Know all men by these presents, that we J. N. Van Howten and Mary N. Van Howten, husband and wife of the above named county at Clear Lake. For and in consideration of eighteen dollars ($18.oo) to us paid in hand by Jourdan Henry, at Clear Lake, Harris County Texas have granted, sold and conveyed and by these presents, do hereby grant, sell, and convey unto said Jourdan Henry all our interest in track of land situated on Middle Bayou in the county of Harris & out of the Wm. P. Harris League. Being the property of Sylvain Henry & his wife � Rosalia Trosclair Henry. Have granted release and just claim and do by these presents grant release and just claim unto the said Jourdan Henry all our interest in the above named and prescribed property to have and hold in the prescribed premises together. With all and singular, their rights and appertances, thereto in anywise belonging to the said Jourdan, his heirs and assigns forever. Witness our hand this 18th day of Dec. AD 1891.
Signed in presence of witness.
-J. N. Van Howten - 1880 Census, Harris Co., Texas; ED 78, Line 28, Vol. 16, Sheet 39, Prec. #3 Jordan Henry, 35, farmer, born LA., parents born LA. Malee D. 25, born LA, parents born LA. Gustave 11, born LA. Gustaane 10, born LA. Ledah 8, born LA. Frazer 7, born Texas Thomas 5, born Texas Emma 1 born Texas No one in the family can read or write
1900 Census, Harris Co., Texas; ED 98, Line 59, Pg. 107B, Sheet 12, Seabrook Jourdan Henry, 54, farmer, born Dec. 1845 LA. Emily G. (wife) Fredich (son) 27, born Dec. 1873 La. Thomas (son) 25, born Nov. 1875 Texas Ulis (son) 17, born July 1882 Texas Cordelia (daughter) 16, born Dec. 1883 Texas Victoria (daughter) 12, born Jan. 1888 Texas Had 10 children, 9 now living. No one in family can read or write.
1910 Census, Harris Co., Texas; ED 111, Sheet 18A, Line 1, Vol. 69, Seabrook, Bayou Rd., pg. 242 Jordan Henry, 65, farmer, married 45 years Emily (wife) 60 Fredrich (son) 36, single, farmer
1920 Census, Harris Co., Texas; ED 109, Sheet 4, Vol. 82, Line 12, Seabrook Jourdan Henry, 75, widower, farmer Fredrich (son) 46, single, farmer Tom Franklin (son-in-law) 35, born Texas, father born Texas, mother born LA Cordelia (daughter) 34 Earnest (grandson) 13, born in Texas Beuleh (granddaughter) 12, born in Texas Gus (grandson) 10, born Texas Naomi (granddaughter) 6, born Texas Everett (grandson) 4 & 3/12, born Texas
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