J. P. Hendrix, proprietor of the grocery department of the State Wheel Store at Jackson, was born March 7, 1855, in Henderson County, Tenn., and is of a family of three sons and five daughters, born to R. L. and Mary (Grider) Hendrix, of which our subject and four sisters are the surviving members. The parents were born in South Carolina and married in Henderson County, Tenn., where they farmed till their deaths, 1865 and 1875, mother and father respectively. After the mother's death the father married Miss Emeline Allen, whose death occurred in 1885. Our subject remained at home till he was sixteen, since which time he has held clerkships for various mercantile firms of Jackson until the fall of 1886, when he took charge of the grocery department of the Jackson store for the State Wheel. Their stock consists of general groceries to the amount of about $3,000. October 24, 1882, he married Miss Sally H. Taylor, a native of Jackson, to whom one son and one daughter, both still living, have been born: John P. and Mary Theodocia. Mrs. Hendrix is a member of the Episcopal Church, and he of the I.O.O.F. and K. of H. Politically he is a Democrat.

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