Lorenzo Henderson was born 16 January 1894 at Lake Bird, Taylor
County, Florida, the fifth child of Robert James Henderson and Annie
Helena Cox. He commenced his schooling in Lake Bird at the
Sylvan Abby School. He left Florida with his parents when ten years
of age. They travelled by train to Raymond, Alberta, Canada where
he lived until 29 June 1907 when he moved with his parents to a
homestead in Purple Springs, Alberta, where he lived and worked
on the homestead for thirty-seven years.

Lorenzo was blessed with a brilliant mind. He was an avid reader of
good books. He loved to study and became an excellent mathmatician,
and through diligent study became a very good scriptorian. While
Lorenzo was in Purple Springs he was secretary of the Sunday School,
also organist and Sunday School teacher.

It was while he was living in Purple Springs that he received a call to
serve a short term mission representing the L.D.S. Church in the North
Central States, Billings, Montana Mission. He departed 20 November
1927 and returned 20 March 1929. Serving this short term mission made
it possible for him to return in time to put his crop in that spring.

He continued to live at the homestead in Purple Springs until 1944
when he moved to Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. In Lethbridge he was
employed by the Galt Hospital. Lorenzo loved good poetry and could
quote from memory many poems of well known poets such as
Shakespear, Robert Burns and Edgar A. Guest and others as well.
He also composed many poems and delighted in doing so. It was
while he was working at the Galt Hospital that he was asked to
compose a poem to honor the graduating nurses on their
graduation day. His poems were published in the graduation books
"Night and Day" for the years 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958 and possibly
others as well.

When the move was made from the Galt Hospital to the new
Municipal Hospital in Lethbridge he continued his work at the
Municipal Hospital.

Lorenzo never married. He passed away 7 August 1969 in Lethbridge,
Alberta and is buried in the Magrath, Alberta Cemetery in the same plot
with his brother Oswald Clayton Henderson.

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