Joseph M. Henry, Sr. was born in 1902 on Melrose Plantation in rural Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, to John Hampton Henry and Cammie G. Henry. Henry attended the Hunt Chamberlain Academy in Huntsville, Alabama, where he graduated in 1919. He then attended the Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolona. Henry also attended Louisiana State University while working on a degree in electrical engineering. During his college years, he was a member of the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. Henry was also a member of the Reserve Officer's Training Camp, and in 1923 began training at Camp McClellan, Alabama. Henry was employed as an engineer for a utility company.
He lived in Natchitoches, Louisiana the last twenty years of his life, where he pursued his interest in the history of his family and the local area. Henry was killed in an automobile accident sometime in the period between the late 1970s and early 1980s. Few other details of Henry's life are available.
From the description of Joe Henry Collection 1700s(copies)-1977. (Northwestern State University of Louisiana). WorldCat record id: 54318989
