Laura Montgomery Henderson

[2] She was the daughter of Thomas Alexander and Sarah Hill (Dowtin) Montgomery,[3] the former a Confederate States soldier, planter and commission merchant, who removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1871, where he died two years later.

She was a great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Ward, a member of the Halifax congress, which met in Halifax County, North Carolina, November 12, 1776, to frame the State constitution, and was also a prominent member of the Provincial council of safety, proposing the measure, immediately adopted, whereby each head of a family became a member of the committee of safety, and was high sheriff of Bute County, from which both Warren and Granville counties were formed.

The club women of Alabama selected her as president of the State federation in 1912 and reelected her for a second term the year following.

[1] Henderson served as president of the Nineteenth Century Literary Club and of the School Improvement Association.

She was one of many vice-presidents of the Southern Industrial Association, Washington, D.C.[3] She was a member of the Colonial Dames and the Daughters of the Confederacy.