The First Homecoming
1957 Officers
President 
Minnie Twidwell
Vice President
Etta Beauchamp
Secretary/Treasurer
Sally Gravenor

Directors
W. G. (Bill) Gravenor
L. C. (Lawren) McCarty
Lindsey Twidwell
Lynn McCarty
Charles Gravenor
Joe Patterson
Lewis Jennings
Wiley Felps
Kirby Smith
Otis McCarty
Wilson Fairley

IN THEIR OWN WORDS
    Personal Reflections
 on life in Henly

By June McCarty
"I'll never forget my first trip to Henly.  I was a newly married young girl from Salt Lake City..."
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By Sally Gravenor
"One year when the government had excess cotton the material was given to the community to make a mattress for each family that applied..."
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MEMORIALS - View the List of Henly friends no longer with us. 
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HENLY LANDMARKS


Henly Baptist Church
Henly Baptist Church was organized July 12, 1914, by a group that met at the school house in ‘Old Henly’.  They voted to construct their own church building on September 19, 1937.   The Building Committee, led by Reverend J. N. Marshall, included Tom Joy, Joe Patterson, Joe Rust, L. C. McCarty, A. S. Walker, J. M. Smitherman, W. G. Gravenor, Lewis Jennings, Allen Davis and John Mosely.   

Two acres of land were purchased from Tom Beauchamp, Jr., and the building was completed August 18, 1939, through the time, materials, volunteer efforts, and loving service from both church members and non-members.

Henly Store
and Post Office
The first store in Henly was established in 1881 by M.L. Reed, along with a Post Office.  Other owners followed through the years:
 

Read More of the History by Ross Shelton Jennings

Postmasters
M. L. REED
OVE OLDHAM
ORIS ANDERSON
JOHN ROSS
PAULINE JENNINGS
RUTH GRAVENOR
JUNE McCARTY


Mail Carriers
FRANCIS BERRYMAN
WAYNE DAVIS
JOHN SPAW
SAM McCLENDON
EARL PURSLEY
ROBERT EARL PURSLEY

The Henly Post Office was closed April 8, 1966.



Henly School

Henly Volunteer Fire Department