The results of this incidents left Henrietta and her seven children were homeless. She would eventually marry John Paxton Holt. By now the place of residence is Cave Springs, Georgia.
Henrietta was well known for her beauty and for her family history. The family legend has it that General Lafayette, while visiting the United States in 1825 described Henrietta as the most beautiful woman in America.
One of her sons W. O. served in the Cherokee Battery of Artillery of the Georgia volunteers. He would fight at Vicksburg where he was paroled after the surrender, Later in the war he would face Peterson Roff (see Roff family page) at the Battle of Resaca in Georgia in 1864. Their units were heavily involved on different days of the three day battle. On the 14th of May the 27th Kentucky Infantry was in heavy fighting against the Confederates, on the 15th the Cherokee Battery suffered the loss of its guns after getting cut off from the rest of the Confederate Defenders.
Neither Peterson nor W.O. knew each other but Peterson's daughter would later marry W.O.'s younger brother in Kansas.
A daughter Adriana was married to a man named Edwin A. Wright. One day Edwin who was on leave from the 1st Regiment Alabama Calvary was taken into custody by Union troops and was never heard from again.
Another son died from disease while serving in the Confederate Navy. My future grand father W. S. Connor was too young for the fight would move to Kansas after the war to teach.
