Henry Washington (planter)
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Henry Washington | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Prince William County | |
| In office October 19, 1789 – October 17, 1790 | |
| Preceded by | William Grayson |
| Succeeded by | Richard Scott Blackburn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 10, 1749 |
| Died | July 1825 (aged 75) Limestone County, Alabama, United States |
Henry Washington (December 5, 1749 – July 1825) was an American planter and legislator who served as a Delegate from Prince William County in the Virginia House of Delegates, before moving to Shelbyville, Kentucky and the later Limestone County, Alabama.[1]
The eldest son of Bailey Washington, cousin of George Washington, and his wife Catherine Storke (1723–1804). He reputedly drew lots with his younger brother William Washington (1752–1810) as to who would fight in the American Revolutionary War and who would manage their father's farm. William became a war hero, and farmer Henry developed financial difficulties which led him to move west, then south to northern Alabama. The family also included Bailey Washington Jr. and daughters Elizabeth Washington Storke (1758–c. 1798) and Mary Butler Washington Peyton (1760–1822).[2]
It is unconfirmed how many marriages Henry Washington had in his lifetime. It is speculated that he married a woman named Ann, who died without children. In 1779, he married Mildred Pratt (1761–1856), who would survive him and possibly another husband in Tennessee. Henry and Milley Washington had eleven children, all supposedly born in Prince William County. Their eldest child, Henry (1791–1818) died in Philadelphia, and their daughter Catherine Storke (1787–1869) married William Hooe Winter of Charles County, Maryland (1786–1833), and bore 15 children.[3][4]
Winter received property from his father-in-law and built a house named Bradley (which remains off Route 775 in Prince William County) but moved to Colbert County, Alabama, and their descendants would move to Mississippi. Among the grandsons who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War was William Brown Winter (1847–1929) who joined the 18th Mississippi Cavalry and whose son William Aylmer Winter and grandson William Forrest Winter become politicians. The eldest son who survived Henry Washington was Stark Washington (1796-1836), who married and moved to the Arkansas Territory before dying in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Jane Elliott Washington married William Alexander Foote of Prince William County and died in Carroll County, Mississippi. John Henry Pratt Washington (1800–1860) moved to Hardeman County, Tennessee. Augustine Burkett Washington (1802–1875) never married but survived the Civil War, as did his youngest brother Col. Thomas Pratt Washington (1806–1873), who moved to Travis County, Texas before the conflict. His son John Henry Washington (1840–1926) mustered as a Texas Ranger, was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, captured, exchanged and reenlisted. The youngest daughter, Frances (Fannie) Thacker Washington (1804–1879) married Dr. William Minor (d. 1854) and managed a plantation for her children as a widow, as well as taking care of her mother in her old age.[5][unreliable source?]
