Life History

Notes

• I have not found much information about Cynthia.  She appears to have been the youngest child in her family.  One Rogers family genealogy that includes the Henry and Henderson lines reports some basic information about her, including her marriage to Charles Henry.  This and some other genealogies have mixed records form two different couple with the same names, born about the same times.  A careful review of the records has helped us sort a bit to distinguish the two couples.
  
  The Cynthia Strange in our record here married Charlie Henry in Cocke County in Cocke County in 1918, while a related Cynthia Strange who was born 16 June 1899 did not marry until 1920, also to a Charles Henry.  All four of these individuals were born about the same time, and records have been confused in various incomplete genealogies and others that copied data form them without documentation or care.  One even has both marriage recordds attached to the same peron.  I have found only one burial, which is for the couple who married in 1920.  The birth date in the Wiebe genealogy is also fomr the grave for the other Charles Henry.
  
  There are two marriage records, one in Jefferson County, in 1918 for Cynthia Strange and Charlie Henry and another for Cynthia Strange and Charles/Chas Henry in Cocke County.  Members of this Strange family have marriages in both of these counties.  They lived near the county line between the two counties.
  
  This appears to be two different couple with the same names.  I have very little information on this Cynthia Strange, and less on either of the Charles Henrys.  It could be for some reason these are the same couple, but for some reason two marriage records 2 years apart. for which I cannot account.  But the two Cynthias seem to be daughters of two different related Strange families.
  
  The draft registration report of Sinth Henry as the wife of Charlie Henry matches the firs marriage record in February 1918 for Charlie Henry and Cynthia Strange.  The second marriage of Charles (also referred to in the license as Chas) Henry to Cynthia Strange in 1920 in Cocke County, Tennessee seems thus to be a different couple.  Records appear to be mixed in some genealogies.  At least one, the Rogers genealogy, actually attaches both the see marriage records to the same couple, reporting no parents for Cynthia.  The genealogy makes no comments on the two marriage records two years apart!
  
  Both marriage records are reported here for comparison and reference.  One was married in 1918 in a ceremony in Jefferson County, their county of resience.
  
  Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
  Cynthia Strange, age 18
  Charlie Henry, age 18
  Marriage bond of $1250 signed by Charley Henry and W J Strange
  Marriage 21 February 1918 Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
  Ceremony performed by W C Lyle, JP
  Recorded in Jefferson County Marriage Book, p 49
  
  The other Cynthia Strange, daughter of Porter and Sarah Strange, was still single and in her parents' home for the 1920 census. the marriage in 1918 was for the Cynthia who was the daughter of Since they were married in 1918, the 1920 marriage record, in neighboring Cocke County, where many residents of the area went to get married, would be for Porter and Sarah's daughter.  The 1918 record, then is for the daughter of John and Mary Ann (Beeson) Strange and a different Charlie Henry.
  
  Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
  Cynthia Strange
  Charles Henry
  Marriage bond of $1250 signed by Charles Henry and O G Hill
  Marriage 28 Sep 1920 Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
  Ceremony performed by Oscar O Neil, JP
  Recorded in Cocke County Marriage Book, p 353
  
  This latter are the couple that are buried in HIlls Union, reported on find a Grave.  Several other members of this Cynthia's immediate family, including her father and motehr, are buried here.  The burials and their dates are sometiems reported by genealogies for the other coule, who apparently lived in Danderisge.
  

Sources

• 1. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
• 2. World Family Tree Vol. 4
  • Pedigree #2932