Nora Lee Bowen
Nora Lee Bowen
Photo of Ira Dalton Henderson and Nora Lee Bowen Henderson.

Nora Lee had a short life.  She married at the age of 21.  She had a daughter just under a year later.  But Vivian died tragically just a month or so after she was born.  Two years later she had a son, Farris, but she didn't live long after he was born.  Farris was born December 1, 1901, and Nora died December 16, 1901.  Farris was only fifteen days old.  Nora Lee was buried in the Tilden (Union Grove) Cemetery in Itawamba County.  Ira Dalton remarried and had a number of other children.


Children of Nora Lee Bowen and Ira Dalton Henderson

Vivian Henderson (died at 43 days)
     Vivian only lived forty-three days.  According to Farris Henderson, Nora accidently rolled over the baby while asleep and the baby smothered.

Farris Dalton Henderson (md. Mary Evelyn Thompson and Elizabeth Wester)
     Farris married Mary Evelyn in 1927 in San Benito, Texas, and had four children.  When she passed away he married Elizabeth though they divorced shortly afterwards.  He died in Raymondville, Texas in 1975 at the age of 73.



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The photo of Nora Lee and Ira and of Farris Dalton (along with most of the information on this page!) was provided by Mary Henderson Rhodes, of Raymondville, Texas, granddaughter of the couple.