From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 703-704.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JAMES N. HENDRIX

James N. Hendrix, teacher at Wood Hill, on Fairview Ridge, was born 
in Marshall county, March 17, 1871.  He received his education at 
Benwood, and began actively in his profession in October, 1889.  His 
work has been of a high order of excellence, and his life promises to 
be one of usefulness and honor.  He is a son of Thomas and Luema 
(Scarlet) Hendrix.  His father is one of three brothers, Jesse, 
Thomas and Isaac, of whom Jesse is the only survivor.  Jesse Hendrix 
was born in Maryland, but at the age of three years removed to 
Mechanicstown, Carroll county, Ohio.  There he was reared as a 
farmer, and in 1851 was married to Luema Scarlet, of Jefferson 
county.  They removed afterward to Sistersville, W.Va., and after 
living there two years, made their home in Benwood. He and wife had 
six children:  John, who was married in 1879, to Aurelia Peabody, and 
lives at Benwood; Elizabeth, deceased; Tobitha, deceased; Nancy, 
deceased; Ida, who married Oliver Williams, and James N.  Thomas 
Hendrix was united with the Methodist Episcopal church at the age of 
sixteen years, and was a class leader for thirty-seven years, and a 
devout Christian.  He died February 7, 1889, aged sixty-four years.   


(Linda Fluharty)