Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

ROBERT W. HENDRICK is a native of Warren County, Ky., and was born about
ten miles east of Bowling Green in 1824.  He is a son of James and
Elizabeth (Walker) Hendrick, and is of English extraction.  His father was
born in Virginia in 1793, and immigrated to Warrren County, Ky., prior to
1815, and here he died in 1833.  He was a soldier in the battle of New
Orleans.  The mother was a Kentuckian and died in this State in 1831.  Mr.
Hendrick was reared on the farm and attended the country schools.  In 1845
he began teaching school, and taught in this county till 1849, when he
went to Missouri and there taught one year in Cass County and then
returned to Kentucky.  In 1851 he was elected county surveyor, which
office he filled creditably and successfully for eleven consecutive years,
and was one of the most accurate surveyors the county ever had.  In 1867
he engaged in the tobacco business at Bristow Station, this county, and
there continued until 1883, when he removed to Bowling Green, where he
continues the business.  In 1884 his sales amounted to 184 hogsheads, and
in 1885, 320 hogsheads.  This year he started a new enterprise in this
city, which is that of stemming the leaf and shipping direct to European
markets; his sales for this season were sixty-five hogsheads.  He married,
in 1851, Mary E. Graham, a native of Warren County.  They have seven
children, viz:  Samuel E., who resides in Red River County, Tex.; James
A., Forrest, Henry L., Eddie L., Annie E., and Sarah C.  Mr. Hendrick is a
Democrat, and became a Mason in 1853.  He and wife are members of the
Christian Church. He is a man of sterling worth, an influential citizen
and a successful business man.

Hendrick Walker Graham
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VA LA Cass-MO Red_River-TX

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