History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
617.

JAMES A. HENNING was born on the old homestead, two and one-half miles 
southeast of Knottsville.  He received a common-school education.  
Married Jan. 9, 1872, Miss Kate Vanmeter, daughter of Josiah Vanmeter, 
of Owensboro.  She was born in Hardin County, Ky.  They have five 
children--James I., Ada C., Mary F., Anna M. and Felix L.  Mr. Henning 
owns 344 acres of valuable land, and is engaged in farming and 
stock-raising.  He has also been buying tobacco for the past three 
years, and has been very successful.  Mr. Henning and family are 
Catholics.  William Henning, the father of the above, was born in Nelson 
County, Ky., Jan. 17, 1811, and is a son of Ezekiel Henning, a native of 
Maryland, who brought his family to this county in 1821, and settled 
near Knottsville.  He was in the battle of New Orleans.  Mr. Henning was 
married Sept. 11, 1834, to Mrs. Sally Wells, by whom he had nine 
children, five living--Harvey E., Lyman, James A., Elnora and Robert.  
Mrs. Henning died Oct. 25, 1853, and he married, Oct. 25, 1854, Mary A. 
Mattingly, by whom he has four children--Sarah E., Ida A., John L. and 
William L.  Mr. Henning has been a life-long Catholic.

Henning Vanmeter Wells Mattingly 
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Hardin Nelson-KY MD
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