Henry Rhine
Born about 1824, death date unknown
Henry was naturalized in DeSoto Mississippi, in 1845. In that Document, he claimed to have been a US resident for at least five years, which would make him the second of the brothers to arrive (circa 1839-1840).
By the 1850s Henry was established in business with his brothers in Clarksville, Texas, though it is not clear if he was living in Texas at the time.
He was presumably married to Alice Hyneman, of Philadelphia sometime before 1851. Their first child, Benjamin, died in infancy in 1851. A daughter, Grace, died in 1860 at the age of 4.
During the Civil War, the Rhine brothers were active in Texas selling goods to the Confederate Army.
Henry petitioned President Andrew Johnson for clemency inder the 13th Exception: All persons who have voluntarily participated in said rebellion, and the estimated value of whose taxable property is over twenty thousand dollars. He left the State of Texas in July, 1865. His clemency was granted in December, 1865.
He was enumerated in the 1870 Census taken in June in New York City, residing with various members of his wife's family. In that same census, Alice was living in Philadelphia with her parents and some of her sisters. By December, when the second enumeration of 1870 took place, they were reunited and living in New York City.
By 1880, Henry was once again missing, Alice was residing with her sister's family in New York. When Alice married Charles Southeran in 1893, she indicated that she was a widow. That being the case, Henry died sometime between 1874 and 1893.
