Louisa Glosser & George Henning and Family

George and Louisa Henning Family

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George and Louisa Henning and Family

Albert, Elizabeth, Bertha, and mother Louisa Henning

George Henning filed on his homestead located just south of the Abbott Homestead in the fall of 1916. He built a small house to live in but did not live there until the summer of 1917. They lived there until 1923 then moved to Miles City, Montana. George and Art Abbott bought the place in 1924. Mr. and Mrs. George Henning had five children: Harry, Ferdinand, Albert, Elizabeth, and Bertha. Albert and Elizabeth, for a time, farmed in the Kingsley area. George's great grandson Darryl Henning remembers that George spoke very little English and mostly communicated in his native language, German.

Elizabeth Henning

Elizabeth married Lee Rayner, homesteading in 1913, and having three of his four children (Dorothy, William, and Ester Mae) in Powder River County. The family moved to Stevensville in the early 1930s, after crops were decimated by drought and insects but before the governmental farm service programs came to the rescue of many a dryland farmer. Their fourth child, Bobby, was born in Ravalli County. Tragically, Elizabeth died in 1937 at the age of 36. Unable to raise his young son, Lee sent Bobby to live with Elizabeth's brother Ferd in California. Click here to learn more about Elizabeth Henning and Lee Rayner and family.

Ferd Henning

Ferdinand A. Henning homesteaded in northern Powder River County in 1926, eventually selling to Pete Minow in 1938 - shortly after his sister Elizabeth and Lee Rayner moved to the Bitterroot Valley where Elizabeth died. By the story that pictures and social columns tell, he enjoyed life fully - hiking in the hills and socializing often. Quick to join Elizabeth's family and visit with his other sister Bertha when she visited, he also took time to master his painting. Most of his artwork is gone to history, however a few remain such as the two paintings below.

Albert Henning

Albert Henning married Frances Weymouth in Miles City on March 14, 1919, when he was 22 years old, and she 19. The couple divorced in 1923 in Cass, North Dakota. He then married Blanche Matilda Fitzwater in Billings, Montana on March 4, 1931.

Matilda and Al Henning holding Marian Louise Hennings (to be Williams)

The couple lived in Clark, Wyoming, and moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where Marian Louis was born in 1932. Charlotte Lucille Henning was born in Hamilton, Montana, on May 7, 1938, just 15 months after Al's sister Elizabeth died in the same area - Montana's Bitterroot Valley. Al Henning's family move to Everett, Washington where Al was a millworker (in 1944). His address was listed as 614 Ave A, Snohomish. He died at 65 years of age of hypostatic pneumonia due to a stroke. He was at the Pioneer Nursing Home in Kennewick, Washington when he died.

George and Louisa Henning and Family

Harry Henning

Elizabeth Henning

Ferd Henning

Albert Henning

Bertha Henning

Excerpts from History

Humpy McDonald

Sedition in Eastern Montana

One of those off and on guys – more off than on.

Warm Springs, from Sacred Indigenous Ground to Resort to Asylum