BENJAMIN F. IRVINE
from the files of Karen Lawless
Benjamin Franklin (Franklin) Irvine, was born in about 1821 in Mercer County, Kentucky. In about 1838, he immigrated to Montgomery County, Texas, with his parents, Benjamin Fielding Irvine, and Mary (Polly) Belles. He was the brother of Peter B. Irvine.The family settled in the Danville area, and Benjamin married Catherine L. Tabor, the sister of Peter's wife, Minerva Tabor, and daughter of Isaac Tabor and Susannah Bullock on 23 September 1844. They are enumerated on the 1850 census of Montgomery County with no children.
Franklin served as a notary public in Montgomery County, beginning in 1849.
On February 14, 1862, Franklin was listed on the muster rolls of the Danville Mounted Riflemen, a militia unit of the Seventeenth Brigade, Texas State Troops. He was a private.
He was not on the rolls of Co. B, 24th Cavalry, and his name is not found in CSA records; he was probably exempted from service because he was over age.
After the war, Franklin became the third person in Montgomery County to sign the amnesty oath. This oath was a pledge of loyalty to the Union, and it paved the way for voting rights to be restored. Some years later, he and Katherine left Montgomery County.
The couple was in Williamson County by 1880, and they were enumerated in Navarro County in 1900. The photo that appears here was taken at their home in Corsicana in 1881 and was provided by Karen Lawless.
The biographical information on Benjamin Franklin Irvine was furnished by
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