Louisiana Riverside Press
March 1890

The bell at the Christian church tolled ninety–one times yesterday during the funeral service of the veteran John B Headrick. He died March 8 1890.

Burial was in the Headrick Cemetery.

Submitter: Marilyn H Moore

Taken from an old newspaper Obituary owned by
Ira Reed of Louisiana
Received December 5, 1983

In this city, Saturday, March 8th, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs Louisa Marian Benning, John B. Headrick, aged 91 years, 4 months and 7 days, died.... The deceased was a native of Rowan County, N. C. and for the past fifty-three years had been a resident of Pike County,. having settled here in 1837. He was married in White County, Tenn., in 1822 to Miss Maria B. Work, who, several years since preceded him to the grave.

Of this union there were nine children, seventy grandchildren and eighty-six great-grandchildren, in all 165 descendants, a most notable family record.

Mr. Headrick was a soldier in the war of 1812 and also a pensioner, and for five years, from 1817 to 1819, his command was busily engaged in a warfare against the Indians, then raging between the Allegheny and Rocky Mountains. He was a first cousin of General Frank P. Blair, their mothers being sisters.

In 1821 he joined the Christian Church of which he remained a steadfast member. The funeral took place yesterday, Rev. jR. L. Wilson of the Christian Church officiating, and the remains were laid to rest beside his wife in the family burial ground on the John Headrick farm on Grassy Creek.

Submitter: Anna Belle Benning

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