W. D. Henderson to Richard Yates

March 2nd 1864 Dear Governor Yours of a late date requesting me to send you the names of some of the working Republicans of this County was received in due time but I was just leaving home at the time I received it. Was absent several days and have been so enguaged since my return that I have not found time untill this morning to reply.

I will now give you a few names in the diferent localities in this County that I reguard as reliable

Aledo

Ephraim Gilman, H. S. Sentes

S W McCoy, James M. Wilson

James Henderson, Joseph McCoy

John R Basset, Elisha Miles

New Boston

Gideon Ives, S V Prentiss

Enos Cummins, DJ Noble

B F Thompson, Wm Willetts

John Roberts, William Sheilds

George Warner, Jacob Kirlin

Keithsburg

Benjamin D Ellitt, Abraham [Sheriffs?]

Alexander Holland, A F Glover

B Phelps

High Point

John T McGinnis, Peter Spangler

John Jackson, Henry Heirs

Bridges Corners

Henry Bridges, C S Ritchie

John McGreenwood, S R Moore

Millersburg

Doctor Boyd, Tyler McWherter

Edward E Bay, Saml Wahrton

Violia

B C. Perkins, Doct J V Frazier

N H Pond, E S Fugate

David Collins, Henry Hoagluand

Richland Grove

Thomas Kinkaid, Warner Kinsey

Samuel Clark, J B Flerharty

Windsor

W S Petrie, James Durston

Nelson [Chidester?] Thomas Petrie

Elizabeth

John Clancy, David F Nobel

Lewis Noble, H H Roberts

North Henderson

Christopher Hart, C S Caldwell

Rev J A Edie, James Graham

Sunbeam

Wm M Hays, Wm I Nevins

S W [Dihel?], Robert Miller

Andrew Carns, Wm McCreight

I have given you a few names at the different Post Offices in this county that I reguard as good and reliable men they may not be the best but they are such as I knew to be active working men

I thank you for those photographs. They were immediately placed in albums belonging to my daughter and I lacked one of [illegible] them all, that one I shall call for when I visit Springfield which I hope to do some time within the next year.

Very respectfully your obt servant

W D Henderson

Mercer Co entered

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