History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, 1921 by Thomas McAory Owen.

HENDRICK, GUSTAVUS, physician, was born in Butts County, GA, September 7, 1833, and died December 11, 1899, at Brundige, to which place he had removed in 1866, from Brier Hill, Montgomery County; son of Gen. Gustavus and Martha (Hurt) Hendrick, the former of Virginia and the latter of Hancock County, GA, who after marriage lived in Butts County, GA, the father a planter, a general of Militia of Georgia, member of the legislature from Jones County, and represented Butts County both in the house and senate; grandson of John and Lucy (Ellington) Hendrick, the former a farmer of North Carolina who moved to Georgia about 1795, and who served in the Revolutionary Army as a member of Capt. Robert Porter's company of troops from Tyrone County, NC ; great-grandson of David Ellington, of Virginia, a Baptist minister, whose grave is near Washington, Wilkes County, GA.

Dr. Hendrick received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania; practiced for thirty-five years; co-operated with Dr. Jerome Cochran in organizing the State board of health; was for ten years president of the Medical society of Pike County; grand counsellor of the Medical association of Alabama. He was a Democrat; a Baptist; and a Mason.
Married in 1860, Mary Frances, daughter of Simeon and Amarintha (Fears) Copeland of Putnam County, GA, who removed first to Chambers County and later to Brundige.
Children:
1. Albert Sidney, m. Mrs. Bettie (Hinson) Sterns, residence Geneva;
2. Lowndes, M. D. From the Medical department University of Alabama, and of the New York polyclinic, practices at Brundige;
3. Annie Augusta, m. John Thomas Ashcroft (q v.);
4 Henry O., a druggist of Brundige, m. Hamse, daughter of Dr. Henry Stone of Montgomery;
5. Patty Hurt, m. George W. Rainer, lives at Elba;
6. Hallie Estelle. Last residence; Brundige.