from copilot ai Henry Secrist, who married Delana Gross, was the father of John H. Secrest, born in 1846 in Ohio. Based on available genealogical records, Henry Secrist himself was likely born around 1814, and while his exact parentage isn't definitively confirmed in the sources, some family trees suggest he may have descended from George Secrist and Mary Ann Fry, or possibly Abraham Segrist-Secrist-Sechres and Veronica Mary Knepper, depending on the branch.