Elizabeth Sargent Henshaw

┌── David Henshaw │ 1744-1808 ┌── Andrew Henshaw ───────────┤ │ 1783-1853 │ │ └── Mary Sargent │ 1755-1831 Elizabeth Sargent Henshaw ───┤ B: 1827 │ ┌── John Lewis Isbell D: 1856 │ │ └── Elizabeth Isbell Carson ──┤ 1786-? │ └── Ann Hannah Anderson M: Rufus Campbell Torrey

Elizabeth and her brother Andrew were taken as children to the Henshaw home in Leicester, Massachusetts to be educated. Their parents returned to Alabama. Elizabeth became an accomplished artist.³

She married Rufus Campbell Torrey^2,3 [Judge Rufus Campbell Torrey⁴], Jun 24 1846^2,3. Rufus was born about 1813, Mississippi.⁵ Elizabeth and Rufus were distant cousins as they were both descended from John Alden.³

Elizabeth Sargent Henshaw died Dec 18 1856, Monroe County, Alabama.⁷ Elizabeth Henshaw died of hemorrhage at the birth of her son Andrew Henshaw Torrey, who reportedly weighed 18 pounds (!!).³

Widower Rufus and family were shown in the 1860 census (Sep 17 1860), residing with the family of Elizabeth's brother Andrew in Monroe County, Alabama:⁵

After Elizabeth died, Rufus remarried Feb 3 1869 in Monroe County, Alabama to Mary Anderson (Isbell) Henshaw,^4,9 widow of Elizabeth's brother Andrew⁴ (and also Elizabeth's first cousin).⁴

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