Vena Mary Egbert Henry was the daughter of Israel Egbert and his wife Mary Coleman Egbert. She was born in Morgan County, Indiana Dec 11, 1888. The Egberts and Colemans were a prolific family with a long family history stretching back to the first settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Dutch on New Amsterdam/New York. They were also among the notable patriots from the French and Indian Wars, through the Revolution and all the way to her many descendants in the modern age.

In Morgan County the Egberts and Colemans were farmers and merchants who are well documented in the History of Morgan County. When Vena was a toddler, her family packed up and moved to Cimarron, Kansas, the point on the map where the Santa Fe and Cimarron Trail split south and west. Cimarron was a boom town west of Dodge City. Israel died shortly after arriving in 1891, but his children became scions of vast land and cattle, merchants, teachers and many were involved in political affairs of the towns of Gray County. They married into the most norable families of the county.

In 1898 she married George Anderson Henry Jr in Foote, Gray County, Kansas. George was b 1872 in Time, Illinois. His family were also well off farmers and had arrived in Cimarron in 1892, quickly becoming among the leading families in the county.

After a year of marriage Vena gave birth to twin boys, Rollie Keith and Ollie Vern Henry in 1899. In 1898, a maternal family relation had written the Foster Family Geneology (via Vena's mother Mary Coleman) which had purported to discover a relationship to Charlemagne. Vena, being a romantic and related to various teachers, apparently named her two sons after Roland and Oliver, the two favorite knights of Charlemagne in the Song of Roland. She would also name a daughter, Grovelene, after Pres. Grover Cleveland.

In 1899, the family moved to Quinlan, Woodward, Oklahoma near one of Vena's brothers. George was a man of business with many irons in the fire including land and oil speculation as well as running a livery and working as a Ad Man for the Witchita Eagle. Most of the family is sure the ad writing came from Vena while George was the salesman.

After 11 years of marriage and the safe delivery of five children, tragedy struck. A few short says after giving birth to their 6th child and 3rd daughter, Mable, Vena died of suspected Child Bed Fever also known as Sepsis April 16, 1908. The baby died a few days later.

The service was held at the Christian Church and then her body was interred at Union Cemetery in Quinlan, Woodward, Oklahoma per her obituary. No headstone has yet to be identified. The baby is said to have been buried in the same grave.

Her Children:
Ollie Vern Henry
1899–1961
Rollie Keith Henry
1899–1959
George Anderson Henry
1901–1946
Grovelene M. Henry
1903–1918
Mary Alene Henry
1906–1974
Mable Vena Henry
1909–1909