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The Benedict Family History News
Formerly The Benedict Family News

Volume 7 Number 2 Fall 1999, pp. 15-26

Editor: Mary Alice Benedict Grindol

Table of Contents This Issue

Nathaniel Benedict Follow Up

Benedict Mail List

Free Web Pages

Family History Library Web Site

Benedicts in Ohio 1850

Marshall/ White Bible Record

Our Veteran Ancestors: Albert Benjamin Benedict

Corrections and Additions: Benedict/ Dart/ Kinyon

Queries: Benedict/ Depew/ Crosman/ Sager/ Chadderdon/ Chatterdon/ Mattice/ Williams/ Miner/ Gleckner/ Crowell/ Weed/ Cooley/ Sherman/ Johnson/ Frazee/ Shipley/ Pratt/ Stevens/ Mullin/ Edwards/ Kirkpatrick

Follow up on Family of Nathaniel Benedict of Barry County, Michigan

Nathaniel Eden Benedict and wife Francis (Bassett) Benedict
and daughters
Anna and Bertha Benedict (sitting)

Charles Benedict (standing),
John Wesley Benedict, George Asa Benedict (in middle),
and Chester Eden Benedict
Photographed ca. 1886 - 1888.

The following corrections and additions to the article "Newspaper and Manuscript Research, With the Nathaniel Eden Benedict Family of Barry County, Michigan as an Example" (last issue) came from subscriber Ila Fleming Mitchell, <lvmitchell@i2k.com> daughter of Frances and Clinton Fleming (no. 26, p. 7). Mrs. Mitchell’s comments demonstrate what we suggested in our article - that newspaper and manuscript research, though valuable, could not stand alone. Use of any scrapbook and newspaper material should be supplemented with family, census, and vital records research. For instance, none of the obituaries in the manuscripts examined at Western Michigan University, mentioned the first wife of George Benedict about whom Mrs. Mitchell has so graciously written.

Leah Pearl, Lawrence N. and Frances Mary Benedict
(Frances was named after her grandmothers)
Seated are George Asa Benedict and L. Kate Benedict

"Thank you for all the work you did in putting together the family of Nathaniel Benedict for the summer 1999 issue of Benedict Family History News. He was my great-grandfather.

"I noticed you had a little trouble with my grandmother, Kate Healy Benedict's scrapbook and the Healy history. She was the second wife of my grandfather George A. Benedict.

"George Benedict married first on the 1st of January 1900 to Christina Margareta Christiansen, born December 16, 1878 in Tubel, Schleswig, Denmark (now Germany). She was also known as Daisy Baldwin, having been adopted at a young age by the Baldwin family following the death of her mother. She was also the sister of Christian Frederick Christiansen who married a sister of George Benedict - Anna Elizabeth Benedict.

"Christina died July 18, 1902, Barry County, of pneumonia. She and my grandfather had one child, Lawrence Nathaniel Benedict who was born September 18, 1900.

"Uncle Lawrence was almost four years old when my grandparents were married. My mother, Frances Mary Benedict, had a half-brother, a sister, and two step-brothers.

"It was my understanding that George Benedict was born on September 20th [G of BA has September 21, 1878]. (I have a son who was born on the anniversary of grandpa's birthday.)"

Benedict Mail List

In the Winter 1999 issue (Vol. VI, no. 3) of The Benedict Family History News, page 33, we described the electronic mailing lists that are available through the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative.

We discovered recently that a BENEDICT-L list was already in place at RootsWeb but needed a coordinator. Your editor volunteered to take the position.

So far, our job has been simple - welcome newcomers to the list; keep the list interesting; read and respond to messages; and help others.

If you are able to send and receive e-mail, whether or not you have access to the World Wide Web, you could join the BENEDICT mail list.

Generally people submit genealogical queries about their close families. Discussions about ancestors further back also occur. The list is still fairly quiet and the number of subscribers small. Spread the word! The more subscribers, the better!

To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject and the body of the message to <BENEDICT-L-request@rootsweb.com> (for mail mode) or to <BENEDICT-D-request@rootsweb.com> (for digest mode).

With the latter, instead of multiple messages from other subscribers to the list each time they respond, you will receive one message each day (or so) with all of the responses combined. Especially if you have many other correspondents, the latter plan makes it easier to handle incoming mail.

Free Web Pages at RootsWeb

In October 1999, RootsWeb began provision of unlimited free Web site space to all RootsWeb users. A user can maintain multiple sites at no charge, each containing literally hundreds of megabytes of material.

There will be some non-obtrusive advertising included as banners on the pages. For more information about this offer, visit: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/press/freepages.html

RootsWeb is also encouraging online genealogists to upload their GEDCOM files to: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ Information and guidelines are available at the website.

Have You Visited the Family History Library Web Page Yet?

There has been significant expansion of the FamilySearch website in the past year. It is now possible to search online the International Genealogical Index (IGI), review other data bases; search The Family History Library Catalog for films that can be ordered at your local Family History Center (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). Check out: <http://FamilySearch.org>

Corrections and Additions to the Family of Betsy (Dart) and John Thomas Benedict of Connecticut and Wisconsin and their daughter Mary Ann (Benedict) Kinyon/Kenyon
Contributed by Alice Davis Cates, 1762 Vale Terrace Dr., Vista CA 92084-5312 e-mail <ACates4140@aol.com>

There are several points in The Genealogy of the Benedict in America (hereinafter G of BA) [ Vol. I] that I question. These are on pages 163-165 under "Descendants of John Benedict."1

On page 163 under number 181: John Thomas Benedict6 (Abraham,5 John,4 Thomas,3 John,2 Thomas,1): although it says that he married "Betsy, daughter of Nathan Dart of Boston, Mass.," I suspect that her father was Nathan Dart of Bolton, Ct.. and a hand-written "l" was misread as an "s." Bolton is where you find a Nathan Dart of the approximate age with a sister Elizabeth (for which Betsey is a likely namesake).2 Also, our family tradition has it that they were Connecticut settlers during the Wyoming Valley massacre. Betsey (aged one) and her mother are said to have escaped the massacre.3

Also, on the top of page 165, Mary Ann [daughter of John Thomas Benedict] is said to have married Nelson Kenyon (no further information given in the genealogy). Actually, her husband’s full name was James Nelson Kinyon. They moved from south-central New York to near Sharon, Wisconsin, where he was a successful farmer despite his complete blindness.

In their latter years, they moved to Normal, Illinois to live with their daughter Numantia (Kinyon) and her husband, Prof. Henry McCormick. However, they were buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Sharon, Wisconsin, a short distance from where they had farmed.4

Mary Ann (Benedict) Kinyon’s gravestone gives a death date of 28 June 1896. [There is no death date given in G of BA.] James Nelson Kinyon’s date of death according to his gravestone was 16 Oct 1908. The date of birth for Mary Ann is the same as that given in G of BA: 8 Feb 1816.5

The couple gave their children unusual names. James was blinded from a woodchip in his eye when he was a young man in New York. He moved to the Illinois-Wisconsin line area where other members of his family had settled. There he farmed successfully, doing all jobs on the farm himself except driving the team. Mary Ann would read to him in the evening and they picked their children's names from words in the reading that they liked. My great grandmother, Numantia for instance, received the name of a city in Spain.

Genealogical Summary6 for some of the descendants of :

1. Mary Ann Benedict7 (John Thomas,6 Abraham,5 John,4 Thomas,3 John,2 Thomas,1) born 8 February 1816 near Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania; died 28 June 1896 Normal, McLean County, Illinois who married James Nelson Kinyon born 8 August 1813 Tioga County; died 16 October 1908 Bloomington-Normal, McLean County, Illinois. Children:

2. i. Vestilina Kinyon8 born 11 June 1838 Addison, Steuben County, New York; died 21 October 1927 Ft. Dodge, Iowa; married Oleander O. Salisbury of Boone County, Illinois; died Estherville, Iowa.

Children:

3. ii. Numantia Betsey Kinyon born 1 August 1839 Addison, Steuben County, New York; died 8 December 1905, Normal, McLean County, Illinois; married Prof. Henry McCormick born 5 February 1837 Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland; died 17 July 1918 Normal.

Children:

4. iii. Ferdinand Kenyon [sic - this family changed the spelling of their name.] born 11 January 1841 Steuben County, New York; died 31 December 1931 near Sharon, Walworth, Wisconsin; married Athareda Jane Lowell born 1847; died 1908. Children:

5. iv. Claudius Kinyon, M.D. born 6 January 1851; died 21 December 1924 Detroit, Michigan married Maria R. Waldron.

6. v. Franklin Brazillo "Zillo" Kinyon born 19 February 1856 near Sharon, Walworth, Wisconsin; died 26 May 1937 Ladysmith, Wisconsin; married (1) Etta Lowell; married (2) Jeanie Lowell; and (3) Mary Farley who died about 1898.

Children:

7. vi. Laverno Virgil Kinyon born 17 January 1860 near Sharon, Walworth, Wisconsin; died 2 July 1930, Lake Mills, Wisconsin; married Bessie Dullam. Children:

References:

1. Benedict, Henry Marvin, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America, Vol. 1 (Albany, N.Y.: Joe Munsell, 1870; republished with annotations by Elwyn E. Benedict, 1969), pp. 163 - 165.

2. Bolton, Thaddeus Lincoln, Genealogy of the Dart Family in America, (Philadelphia: Cooper Print County, 1927) p. 8-9, gives as a son of Samuel Darte, Nathan Darte born 18 Feb 1745/6.

3. Letters from Alice McCormick Trowbridge, granddaughter of Mary Ann (Benedict) Kinyon, written in the 1920’s. Copies (transcriptions) of letters in possession of the author. The letters were collected by Hal Diehl of Normal, Illinois, who shared transcriptions in the 1940’s with Kinyon family members in Wisconsin who shared the transcriptions with the author. The dispute in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania between settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania was spiced up by Tories and Indians and the ongoing Revolutionary War. The original letters are possibly stored with Mary Diehl Voelker of East Lansing, Mich.

4. Personal visit to Oakwood Cemetery, Sharon, Wis., August 1998 by author.

5. Ibid.

6. Kinyon, Wallace V., Descendants of Laverno & Bessie Kinyon 1860-1981 (1981, LDS microfilm #1035945, item 13.)

Our War Veteran Ancestors
Copied with permission from The Kansas City Genealogist (Kansas City, Mo.: Heart of America Genealogical Society, July 1971), p. 23.

[Editor’s note: the subject of this sketch and his descendants are detailed in The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America, Vol 2 (by Elwyn E. Benedict, 1969), beginning p. 158 and 159. His father’s ancestry is Alvin7, (Aaron6, Thomas5, Thomas4, James3, John2, Thomas1). According to G of BA, Albert Benjamin’s mother’s maiden name was Julia Thompson. The second wife named here, Julia E. Wallace, is not mentioned in G of BA.]

"ALBERT BENJAMIN BENEDICT, farmer and carpenter of Polk Twp., Atchison Co., Mo., was born in Wenango Co., Pa. on August 4th, 1826, son of Alvin (who died at age of 82 in 1889) and Julia Benedict. He was the eldest in a family of 13 children. With his parents he migrated to Atchison Co., Mo. in 1854. When he was 21 years of age he began working as a carpenter and followed this trade in connection with farming. In 1868 he was elected Justice of the Peace of Polk Twp. and up to and including 1905 - served in this office 33 years. On October 14, 1861 Albert B. Benedict enlisted in the Union Army, 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry and was mustered out July 1st 1865. He participated in several important battles. Among them Antietam, 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Stony Creek, Todd's Ferry, Seven Days before Richmond (Va.), Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg, Culpepper and Gettysburg. On October 30, 1846, Mr. Benedict married Lois Hitchcock, (his first wife) who died July 3rd, 1879 - their children were:

Hannah Mahal Benedict - born July 26, 1847 who married John B. Gibson

Thomas Levi Benedict - born September 4th, 1850

John W. Benedict - born January 13, 1853

Francis J. Benedict - born October 25th, 1859

Julia Luvica Benedict - born January 1st, 1868

"On December 3rd, 1879 Mr. Benedict married Julia E. Wallace. She was born in Lorraince [sic] County, Ohio on September 3rd, 1831. Her parents were Eli and Elizabeth Wallace. Her father died in Ohio in 1833. Her mother moved to Atchison County, Mo. in 1843 and died there in 1863.

"NOTE: From Biographical History of Atchison Co., Mo. by H.F. Stapel, Publisher, 1905. There is no mention of any children by the 2nd wife of Alfred B. Benedict - page 72."

From the Bible Records of Samuel E. Marshall and Mary Creel (White) Marshall, Whitewright, Grayson Co., Texas
Copied with permission from Midwest Genealogical Register (Witchita, Kansas: Midwest Genealogical Society, Inc., Dec. 1977) Vol. 12, No. 3, p. 125. This record was originally submitted to Midwest Genealogical Register by Claudine G. Doyle

[Editor’s note: the Benedict portion of this family is covered very briefly in the "unconnected families" section of Genealogy of the Benedicts in America, Vol. 2 (by Elwyn E. Benedict: 1969), p. 443. Harney Morehead BENEDICT is identified as the son of Willis BENEDICT and Lucy Mildred HARNEY. Further ancestry is not revealed. The only child named of Harney Morehead BENEDICT is Gladys Mildred (see Mildred below) who married Ellis Gains BOW. Their marriage date differs slightly from the Bible record (17 April 1917 rather than April 26.) Gladys Mildred’s birthdate given in the book is the same as Mildred, below. Comments in round parentheses below ( ) are apparently by the original transcriber.]

BIRTHS

Samuel E. MARSHALL born May 28th 1838

Mary C. WHITE born April 19th 1840

Samuel Edwin MARSHALL born June 2nd 1864

Isabella MARSHALL born July 1862

Minnie Jackson MARSHALL born Dec 15th 1866

Rosalie MARSHALL born Oct 17th 1869

Beulah MARSHALL born Sept 12th 1872

Bevily B. MARSHALL (Beverly) born Feb 15th 1875

Joseph Luther MARSHALL born March 27th 1877

(There were 2 other children one of whom might be Barnett Marshall. Bevily B. might be Barnett.)

Lucile BENEDICT born Nov 27th 1887

Mildred BENEDICT born Feb 13th 1891

Mary Lee BENEDICT born Dec 18th 1893

Hazel Harney BENEDICT born Dec 9th 1895

Sam Marshall BENEDICT born March 14th 1897

These are the children of Rosalie Marshall BENEDICT and Harney Morehead BENEDICT.

MARRIAGES

Harney M. BENEDICT and Rosalie MARSHALL were married on the twentieth day of March 1887.

Thomas SELF and Beulah B. MARSHALL were married Dec 24th 1897.

Austin B. LEWIS and Lucile BENEDICT were married June 14th 1906.

Will DuPUY and Mary Lee BENEDICT were married Feb 24, 1916.

Gaines BOW and Mildred BENEDICT married April 26, 1917.

(Not entered in Bible)

Armond S. GLIDEWELL and Hazel BENEDICT were married 15 January 1919.

Samuel M. BENEDICT married Mary McCLOUD Sept 6th 1920.

DEATHS

Samuel Edwin MARSHALL died June 7th 1865 Aged I year, 5 days

Isabella MARSHALL died July 1862

Minnie Jackson MARSHALL died Feby 10th 1870 Aged 3 years I month and 26 days

Joseph Luther MARSHALL died March 27th 1878

Lucile Benedict LEWIS died March 10th 1907 Aged nineteen years three months and eleven days

Samuel E. MARSHALL died Nov 4, 1911 Aged 73 years 5 mon 6 days

Mary C. W. MARSHALL died Mar 5th 1924

Mary Lee DuPUY died Nov 21, 1928

Rosalie BENEDICT died Mar 3, 1932

Beulah M. SELF died Feb 18, 1932

End

Benedicts in Ohio 1850 (Continued from Vol. 7, No. 1, p. 13)

Transcribed from microfilm by Mary Alice Benedict Grindol at Archives and Regional History Collections, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, September 1999. The Accelerated Indexing System book was relied on to find these names. The indexing was sometimes done using the handwritten page numbers and sometimes using the stamped-on page numbers. The roll numbers given here are the original roll numbers of the National Archives.

Abbreviations:

Dw = Dwelling; Fam = Family; $ RE = Value of Real Estate; BP = Birth place; att. school = attended school within year.

Roll No. 710, Meigs Co.

Rutland Twp. Page 90

1297 1297 Benedict Elisha 55 M Farmer 1000 NY Indexed as BENEDICK

Page 99

1443 1443 Benedict Jabez 48 M Farmer 600 CT

Roll No. 724, Richland County

Butler Twp., page 511

107 107 Benedict Joshua 40 M Farmer 900 PA

Butler Twp., page 517

146 146 Benedict Nathaniel 33 M Farmer 1400 NY

Roll No. 726, Sandusky Co.

Woodville, p. 67

2015 2015 Benedict Ira 43 F[sic] Farmer 1500 NY some higher numbers are at the beginning of this roll

Roll No. 728, Seneca Co.

Read Twp., p. 122

174 180 Benedict John 39 M Wagonmaker NY higher numbers are at beginning of roll

Roll No. 730, Summit Co.

Northhampton Twp., p. 626

100 104 Benedict Eli 53 M Farmer 1000 CT

Roll No. 733, Trumbull Co.

Lordstown, p. 207

207 208 Benedict Aaron 64 M Farmer 1500 MA

Warren, p. 401

418 460 Benedict Luther 24 M Blacksmith 400 OH

Braceville Twp., p. 463

19 19 Benedict William 59 M Farmer 3400 CT

20 20 Benedict Jesse [?63] M Farmer 3500 CT

Braceville Twp., 470

135 140 Benedict Lewis 27 M Farmer 800 OH

Braceville Twp., p. 473

173 179 Benedict Mary 4 F OH In HH Caroline HUMPHREY, 34 y/o, b. OH

Roll No., 736, Union Co.

York Twp., p. 33

419 426 Benedict Jeremiah 22 F Farmer OH

Roll No. 737, Warren Co.

Clear Creek Twp., p. 419

14 14 Benedict Amoretta 12 F IN att. school, HH of Erastus

Roll No. 738, Washington Co.

First Ward, Town of Marietta, p. 414

165 177 Benedict George 34 M Capt. W. Bt. 3500 OH Indexed BENEDICK

Indexed as Marietta. Looks like Harmon Twp., p. 415

96 106 Benedick Caroline 18 F NY HH Daniel ROLF, 47 y/o Mechanic, b. OH

Belpre, p. 548

61 64 Benedict Ebenezer 70 M Tavern Keeper 2400 CT Indexed as Ebeneser BENEDICK

Warren Twp., p. 762

204 [213]Benedict Amos 45 M Farmer 1200 NY

(End of Ohio Benedicts 1850)

Queries

Abbreviations used this issue:

b. = born m. = married ca. = circa, about d. = death dau. = daughter res. = resided bur. = buried ch. = children
G of BA = Genealogy of the Benedicts in America

Two letter zip code abbreviations are used for states
Three letter abbreviations are used for months

BENEDICT/DEPEW/CROSMAN
Looking for the parents of Daniel BENEDICT b. 14 Feb 1811 in Orange Co., NY. I am hoping he is the son of Wallace BENEDICT b. Warwick, Orange Co. NY in 1776, and Rachel DEPEW. Wallace and his family departed for Blackford Co. IL in 1839. Daniel may have m. in NY Sarah CROSMAN and moved to IL with his parents and brother Peter BENEDICT. Any information on my Daniel BENEDICT gratefully accepted.
—-Joan Bray, 3497 L Ave., Adel, IA 50003, e-mail: dbray43217@aol.com

BENEDICT/ SAGER
Searching for information concerning Julia Ann Benedict, b. ca. 1840-1860, in IA? She apparently d. after 1888 but before 1900. She had married Oliver Burgess Sager about 1880 and had three children, Earl Charles, Fred Marshall, and Georgia L. We have no additional information about her.
— Ann Hall, 155 Bear Drive, Evergreen, CO 80439 e-mail: ramonhall@prodigy.net

BENEDICT/ CHADDERDON/ CHATTERDON/ MATTICE
My gggrandfather Peter Chadderdon/Chadderton m. 17 May 1862 Cora Benedict b.ca. 1849 d. ca. 1911 Lexington MN. My Chadderdon line moved to MN from Schoharie Co. NY in 1850. Peter's brother Henry Chadderdon m. Isabelle Benedict in MN. In addition, my gggrandfather Jonathan Chadderdon/Chadderton m. Sophie Mattice dau. of Peter J. and Mary Elizabeth (Benedict) Mattice in Schoharie Co. NY.
— Corinne Chadderdon, 3421 Hudson Court #55, Antioch, CA 94509 e-mail: <corkyc@pacbell.net>

BENEDICT/ WILLIAMS/ MINER/ GLECKNER/ CROWELL
I am trying to locate info on my great grandparents, Sereno W. MINER and Sarah Louise WILLIAMS through research on the BENEDICT line. Frank Edward BENEDICT, b. Dec. 22, 1853 m. Sarah Louise (Williams) MINER 14 Dec. 1872 after the death, in 1870, of Sarah Louise's first husband, Sereno MINER. They res. Canton, Pennsylvania ca. 1870.

Frank BENEDICT adopted my grandfather, Frederick Weston MINER, b. 5 Sep 1866 and his sister, Hattie Louise MINER, b. 3 June 1869. Frank and Sarah Louise had two dau. of their own, Maude Gertrude BENEDICT, b. 21 June 1875 and Georgia BENEDICT who married Robert GLECKNER. Frank's brothers were Samuel Newell, Elijah Bingham, Elipahz Crowell, and Henry Jay BENEDICT, all sons of Samuel BENEDICT and Harriet N. CROWELL.

Genealogical Summary:
Frank Edward BENEDICT, b. 22 Dec 1853, d. 4 Dec 1933
Sarah Louise (Williams) BENEDICT, b. 6 Mar 1842, d. 18 Sept. 1914
Fred W. BENEDICT, b. 5 Sept. 1866, d. 25 Apr. 1942 (née Miner)
Harriet Louise BENEDICT, b. 3 June 1869, d. 19 Jun 1954 (née Miner)
Maude Gertrude BENEDICT, b. 21 June 1875, d. 27 Feb 1959
Georgia BENEDICT, m.s Robert GLECKNER, Sr. had son, Robert GLECKNER, Jr.
— JB Wilson, 5315 SW 166th Avenue, Beaverton, OR 97007 e-mail: <designs@hevanet.com>

BENEDICT/ WEED/ COOLEY/ SHERMAN/ JOHNSON/ FRAZEE/ SHIPLEY
Seeking descendants of Walter BENEDICT of Fabius, Onondaga Co. NY, son of Gilbert BENEDICT (1745-1827) and Mercy WEED (1752-1826) formerly of CT. Walter's family is alluded to but never listed as a [complete] group in the two Benedict Genealogies I have seen. I am trying to assemble his family, his wife and children....I have his wife as Anna (surname unknown.) and by secondary evidence seven children: Eunice (b. c. 1817), George (1820-1904), Rosetta B. (1821-1894), Delia (1823-1867), Levi J. (1826-1905), Helen S. (b.c. 1830), and Olive (b. 1835).

Eunice and Rosetta B. married brothers in my COOLEY family of Pompey NY; Eunice to Lewis COOLEY Jr. and Rosetta to Thomas Franklin COOLEY (my gg grandfather). Both settled in WI. George m. Helen SHERMAN. Their families are well documented locally. Delia m. Isaac JOHNSON and settled in WI, noted in genealogies. Levi J. m. Margaret FRAZEE and settled in IA. Documented in genealogies. Olive m. Benjamin Franklin SHIPLEY in WI. If you can add to or subtract from this story, be my guest. I'm open to corrections.
— Bill Cooley, 208 A Creekside Circle, Prescott, AZ 86303 e-mail spade@northlink.com

BENEDICT/ PRATT
According to the sparsely documented G of BA, Vol. 1 [p. 134] Hiram Gideon Benedict (called "Gideon") was b. in Underhill, VT to Moses and Lois (Pratt) Benedict on March 9, 1808. Does anyone know where the birth records for Hiram Gideon and his siblings, Samuel Pratt, Elijah, Elnathan, Julius, Russel, and Louisa might be found - ? church records or a family Bible? I have already searched the town records and been to the local cemeteries. I have seen the "Child's Gazetteer" which gives a lot of info, but again no sources are mentioned.
—- Liane Lyle, 993 Portage Rd, Victoria, BC, V8Z 1K9, CANADA, Phone: (250) 479-3405 e-mail: <liane.lyle@home.com>

BENEDICT/ STEVENS/ MULLIN
According to my family tradition and clues, Hiram Burton BENEDICT (called "Burtie") was b. 26 Dec 1873 to Waite Moses BENEDICT and Isabel Lydia STEVENS. I have checked both MA and NH records, places where the family had lived, but to no avail. Can anyone confirm or correct? According to G of BA, [Vol. II p. 134] Hiram later m. Mary Mullen. Only one child, Earl Wait b. 20 Jun 1902 is given. In addition he had: Ralph b.1899; Ellis also b. 1902 (these two d. in infancy); and Samuel b. 1906.
—- Liane Lyle, see previous query for address

BENEDICT/ EDWARDS/ KIRKPATRICK
The children of Emma Edwards (1855-1926) and Evan Kirkpatrick (1851-1926) were Elizabeth, James, Lucy Jane (my grandmother), Martha, Sarah, Mary, Mabel, and John. Mary KIRPATRICK's first marriage was to Frank BENEDICT 9 Oct 1897. Their ch. were Aden, Geraldine, and Paul. They res. Ypsilanti, Michigan. My mother remembered them, her first cousins fondly. Mary is bur. in Blue Creek Cemetery, Oakwood, Ohio. I have other info from her obit. If you think these might be your kin, I'll send whatever other tidbits I have as they turn up. Aden had a son who was killed at age 18 in WWII, and I have his obit also.
Ruth Barry, gbarry@alpha.wvup.wvnet.edu

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