Hanley Harrison Hendrix, who was married to Zerelda Jane Pedigo, filed for a donation land claim in Washington County, Oregon in March 1854. Their baby, Mary, died at the very end of the Oregon Trail and was buried by the side of the trail. When another daughter was born near Skipanon, Washington on March 4, 1853, she was given the infant's name, Mary.

Click here for the text of an article by H. H. Hendrix about his early school years in Tennessee.

Click here for the text of a letter written to H. H. Hendrix by an unknown nephew who had been a Confederate soldier.

Click here for transcripts of some family papers pertaining to the early years at San Jose State Normal School.

Mary Emerine Hendrix.
She would sail to California on a steamer with her parents and eventually attend San Jose State Normal School. Later, she would obtain a teaching position on the ranch of Pleasant Thompson near King City, California. There she would meet and marry Hardy Thompson.

Postcard rendition of the first San Jose State Normal School. The caption indicates it burned down on February 10, 1880. Mary was valedictorian for the second class to graduate from the school, March of 1873.

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