Please see captions under both photograph and obit, attached to this memorial.

Company A, 7th California Infantry-Civil War

Nathaniel W. Henderson enlisted as a private on October 20, 1864 at Sacramento, CA, and, in Company A, California 7th Infantry Regiment on October 28, 1864. Mustered out on November 17, 1865 at Maricopa Wells, Arizona Terr. Sources: Register of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867.

He applied for veterans benefits while residing in Washington on November 2, 1895, and his widow Carrie S.M. Henderson was awarded widow's benefits, in Oregon, on Mar 9, 1914. Burial, per the records at Chico Cemetery Association, indicate he was "age 68" on February 2, 1914.
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Chico Record, Tuesday, February 3, 1914, pg 5 col 3: Former Butte Man Dies in Tehama. The funeral of N.W. Henderson, a former well known resident of Chico, who died at Red Bluff Sunday was held from Fetters & Williams' chapel yesterday afternoon. Rev. C.E. Winning of the First Methodist church officiated.

Henderson resided formerly near Magalia and had many friends in both the mountain town and Chico.

The funeral was held under the auspices of old soldiers. Henderson was a veteran of the civil war. The pall bearers were: J.A. Glenn, D.M. Birdseye, D.A Bennett, F. Woods, James Fish, C. Lindsay.
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Chico Record (Chico, California) 12 Apr 1929, Friday Page 1: Graves of Chico Civil War Veterans Marked By Stones. Graves of 13 Civil War veterans were marked with appropriate tombstones yesterday when W.M. Bundy, adjutant of Halleck Post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic, his son, Fred Gwinnup, and his grandson, George Gwinnup, placed the stones in the Grand Army plot in the Chico cemetery.

Mr. Bundy, as adjutant of the Chico post, supervised the work. The stones were furnished by the federal government and were sent to Chico from Boston.

Those whose graves were marked follow: George W. Tipton, R.B. Richards, D.M. Birdseye, John M. Irwin, C.C. Maltby, Samuel Baker, John Sauber, D.D. Cornick, Hugh W. Hughes, Watis Batchelor, Henry M. Stevens, Frank Popplewell and N.W. Henderson.