[642] He represented his county in the State legislature one term, was captain of the local rifle club during the Hampton campaign of 1876, and afterward served as lieutenant-colonel on the staff of Gov. Hugh S. Thompson. He has served four terms as intendent of Walterboro. He was married, in October, 1863, in Charleston, to Jessie Melville Kirkwood, daughter of the late William Kirkwood, for many years an alderman of that city. They have four living children: Carrie H., wife of George R. Fraser, of Walterboro; Lottie H., wife of Rev. T. P. Burgess, of Madison, Ga.; Rev. LeRoy G. Henderson, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Americus, Ga., and Lillie M. In addition to the universal satisfaction which he gives the bench and bar, he has been characterized by the grand jury of Colleton as ‘the right man in the right place.’ He is noted for great method in business, has always been interested in the cause of education, and is at present chairman of the board of trustees of the local graded school. Lieutenant Henderson is of Scotch-Irish descent, and has been for thirty-two years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church and superintendent of his church Sabbath school. He looks ten years younger than he really is, and many years of usefulness below seem apparently ahead of him.
Calloway Kirksey Henderson, a prominent merchant of Aiken, S. C., was born in Edgefield county, near the town of Trenton, April 20, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of the town of Granville, Edgefield county, and was at work for the Granville manufacturing company when the war began. He enlisted in April, 1861, as a private in Company F, Seventh South Carolina infantry, and he was soon made corporal and then sergeant, serving as such until the close of the war. He participated in the following engagements: First Manassas, Seven Days around Richmond, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Tenn.; siege of Knoxville, Bean's Station, Tenn.; Strawberry Plains, Tenn.; Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and North Anna River. On the night before the battle of Manassas, which was Saturday night, while he with a comrade, Benjamin Sharpton, was on picket guard on the outer line, on the left hand side of the road leading from Manassas to Centreville, via Mitchell's ford across
