 While ministering at a Salvation Army church in Ohio in 1926 , Hensley met Irene Klunzinger . He married her in 1927 , although he was about 25 years her senior . After the wedding , they moved to Washingtonville , Ohio , near one of Hensley 's brothers . There Hensley found employment at a coal mine and Irene gave birth to their first child . They later moved to nearby Malvern , Ohio , where she bore their second child . 
