Benson, Statira C. b. 21 Mar 1837 Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA d. 20 May 1916 Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA: WETZEL Extended Family & More

Benson, Statira C.

1837 - 1916 (79 years)

Name	Benson, Statira C. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Birth	21 Mar 1837	Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA [6]
	1880 United States Federal Census about Justus Rice Name: Justus Rice Home in 1880: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania Age: 66 Estimated Birth Year: 1814 Birthplace: New York Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Statira Rice Father's birthplace: Massachusetts Mother's birthplace: Vermont Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Justus Rice 66 NY MA VT farmer Statira Rice 43 PA NY PA Ellison Rice 13 PA NY PA Ellen Rice 11 PA NY PA Elsworth Rice 9 PA NY PA Edith Rice 8 PA NY PA Enoch Rice 2 PA NY PA Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1154; Family History Film: 1255154; Page: 265C; Enumeration District: 87; Image: 0241. Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. PA in all of the censi; parents in Ceres, PA since 1832 -jcw20181117HAv
Gender	Female
Census 1850	2 Sep 1850	Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA [7]
	age 13, PA
	20250505GHLn- re-worked 20181117HAv- Ages revised, Potter Benson & John Bee, from 55 to 33- 1850 United States Federal Census about John Benson date 2nd Sept 1850 John Radachick? Name: John Benson Age: 7 birth: ca 1843 Pennsylvania Gender: male Home: Ceres, McKean, PA Family: 640 Household Potter Benson 33 NY farmer Henriette Benson 34 PA Stalira Benson 13 PA Gulielma Benson 11 PA Mary Benson 9 PA John Benson 7 PA Elizabeth Benson 3 PA Harriet Benson 1 PA 637: Thomas Bee 61 England farmer Mira " 51 PA wife Olge " 16 PA laborer Mary " 13 PA Mira " 13 PA Robert " 10 PA Adelaid " 8 PA Thomas " 6 PA 839: John Bee 33 England farmer Deborah Bee 49 NY Mary Bell 92 England 641: Thomas Gilbert 43 PA farmer Deliann " 23 NY Statira " 1 IA Mary " 60 England Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_795; Page: 42B; Image: 748. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Census	1870	Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA [8]
census 1880	1 Jul 1880	Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA [6, 9]
	age 43, PA NY PA (i.e. born in PA?- jcw 11.03.2011)
	1880 United States Federal Census about Justus Rice date: 01 June 1880 Name: Justus Rice Home in 1880: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania Age: 66 Estimated Birth Year: 1814 Birthplace: New York Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Statira Rice Father's birthplace: Massachusetts Mother's birthplace: Vermont Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age 346/385 Justus Rice 66 NY MA VT farmer Statira Rice 43 PA NY PA wife Ellison Rice 13 PA NY PA Ellen Rice 11 PA NY PA Elsworth Rice 9 PA NY PA Edith Rice 8 PA NY PA Enoch Rice 2 PA NY PA 347/386 David B. Root 42 Head NY NY RI? Laborer Emma Root 36 wife NY NY NY Jessee Mithey(?) 21 boarder NY NY NY laborer
Census	1900	Pennsylvania, USA [10]
Census	1910	Pennsylvania, USA [11]
Name	Statira Rice Mrs [6]
Death	20 May 1916	Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA [3]
	age 79y 3m 1d. old age, heart failure.
Burial	23 May 1916	Myrtle Cemetery, Myrtle, Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA
Person ID	I5722	WETZEL-SPRING

Father	BENSON, Potter, b. 18 Feb 1814, Cincinnatus, Cortland, New York, USA d. 14 Aug 1889, Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 75 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	GILBERT, Henrietta Caroline, b. 31 Dec 1814, Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1898, Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 83 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	4 Jun 1836	Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA
	Henrietta was a member of the "Friends" when she married Potter Benson. He was not a member.
Married	4 Jun 1836	Cincinnatus, Cortland, New York, USA [3, 12]
Issue, jt	14 Aug 1889 [5]
	Eight, total: He (Potter) left four daughters and one son.
	20200325HAv- pasted and edited from front Source Citation Text: "Potter BENSON, and his brother Daniel, came to Ceres in 1832. He married Henrietta GILBERT, daughter of Robert and Mary GILBERT. He was a farmer and owned a farm about a mile above town, where his wife still lives with her youngest son. Potter BENSON was a good citizen, honorable in all his dealings, and a truly good man. He left four daughters and one son. One son had died for his country during the rebellion. His oldest daughter is the widow of Justus Rice, of Eldred. She has four children living (pub. 1896). One of her sons was drowned the past winter, and was brought to Myrtle, making the fifth generation of his mother's people buried there. The second daughter is the wife of G.W. Lewis, of Vineland, and has eleven children. The third daughter, Elizabeth, is the wife of Rowland R. Bell. She has eight children; his son, Brice B., has five, and the youngest daughter, Harriet, wife of Alvah HALL, of Allegany, has three. Few have left a larger circle of descendants, and if they prove as worthy as they now give fair promise of being, his name will long be honored through them. His wife is now in her eighty-second and shows the infirmities of age."
Family ID	F9376	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Rice, Jr. Justus, b. 12 May 1814, New York, New York, USA d. 10 May 1889, Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 74 years)

Marriage 25 Nov 1865 Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA

Children

	1. Rice, Edith, b. 27 Feb 1872, Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA d. 5 Sep 1955, Olean, Cattaraugus, New York, USA (Age 83 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. Rice, Enoch, b. Abt 1878, Pennsylvania, USA d. Abt 1895, Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 17 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. Rice, Elsworth, b. 1871, Pennsylvania, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. Rice, J. Ellison, b. Abt 1867, Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA d. 5 Nov 1936 (Age 69 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	5. Rice, Ellen, b. Abt 1869, Pennsylvania, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F1095 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Census - 1870 - Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA
	census 1880 - age 43, PA NY PA (i.e. born in PA?- jcw 11.03.2011) - 1 Jul 1880 - Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA
	Census - 1900 - Pennsylvania, USA
	Census - 1910 - Pennsylvania, USA
	Death - 20 May 1916 - Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA
	Burial - 23 May 1916 - Myrtle Cemetery, Myrtle, Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA

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Photos		census 1850 USA PA McKean Ceres 20250505GHLn- re-worked 20181117HAv- Ages revised, Potter Benson & John Bee, from 55 to 33- 1850 United States Federal Census about John Benson date 2nd Sept 1850 John Radachick? Name: John Benson Age: 7 birth: ca 1843 Pennsylvania Gender: male Home: Ceres, McKean, PA Family: 640 Household Potter Benson 33 NY farmer Henriette Benson 34…
Photos		census 1880 USA PA McKean Eldrid Rice 1880 United States Federal Census about Justus Rice date: 01 June 1880 Name: Justus Rice Home in 1880: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania Age: 66 Estimated Birth Year: 1814 Birthplace: New York Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Statira Rice Father's birthplace: Massachusetts Mother's birthplace: Vermont Neighbors: View…

Notes

[Lewis by Edna Lovesky.FTW]

Information on birth came from Roots Web. and this information was furnished by Julie Randol p her email address is jarandolph@msn.com.

According to the Eldred Census of 1900 she was listed as head of Household and had 5 living and 4 dead children.

Sources

[S171] jslater@telenet.net, GEDCOM: 95791- John Benson b1582 England, (Name: Ancestry.com;), 95791.
12. STATIRA C.9 BENSON (POTTER8, DIDYMUS7, JACOB6, JOB5, JOHN4, ISAAC3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 1837 in Cortland County, NY1, and died 21 May 1916 in Ceres Twp., McKean Co., Pa.. She married JUSTUS RICE 25 November 1865 in Ceres, McKean, PA, son of JUSTICE/JUSTUS RICE and POLLY BARNETT/BARNARD. He was born 12 May 1814, and died 10 May 1889 in Ceres Twp., McKean Co., Pa.2. Children of STATIRA BENSON and JUSTUS RICE are: 13. i. J. ELLISON10 RICE, b. 1867, PA; d. 05 November 1936. ii. ELLEN RICE, b. 1869, PA3. iii. ELLSWORTH RICE, b. 1871. iv. EDITH RICE, b. 1872. v. ENOCH RICE, b. 1878.
[S137] Merlyn Wetzel, e-mail: Merlyn WETZEL, Source Medium: Electronic "Beers History of McKean, Cameron, Elk, and Potter Counties".
BENSON (12) facts
20250620Chicago- edited
Potter Benson's children were:
Brice Briggs Benson, b. June 11, 1851 in Ceres; m. Eva Finch ,1883; 2 children, Anna and Glenn.
Statira C., m. Justus Rice
Guliellma M., m.F.G.Fuller
Mary, m. G.W.Lewis
John, (killed at the battle of Gettysburg)
Elizabeth, m. R.R. Bell
Harriet, m. Alvah Hall
Rebecca
Mrs. Benson's maternal grandmother, Mary Law, was born in England and married, for her first husband, Thomas Bee, and for her second husband, John Bell, and with her second husband came to America , about 1800, bringing her five children, Thomas, Mary, and John Bee, and William and John Bell, and were among the first settlers of Ceres Township. Thomas Bee and his Brother John, uncles of Mrs. Benson, and natives of England, were also pioneers of Ceres, John paying for the homestead and caring for his mother and stepfather while they lived.
... copied from Beers history of Mckean, Cameron Elk and Potter Counties.
[S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Henrietta Caroline Gilbert
[S202] J.H.Beers & Co, Publishers, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania with Biographical Selections 1890, (Name: PA-Roots; Date: 1890;), 0531 Potter Benson, P.O. Ceres, NY (21) facts0531 Potter Benson, P.O. Ceres, NY (20) facts, 24238? http://www.pa-roots.com/index.php/pabooks/24-historymecp.
531 Potter Benson, P.O. Ceres, NY (21) facts
531 Potter Benson, P.O. Ceres, NY (20) facts ....... (24)

"History of McKean, Elk, Cameron,..." jcw20170627 " " ", p. 531: Potter Benson, P.O. Ceres, NY, was born in Cincinnatus, Cortland Co, NY, February 18, 1814, a son of Didymus and Elizabeth (Fish) Benson. He settled in Ceres township, McKean Co, Penn., in 1832, and for a number of years was engaged in lumbering in Ceres township, and in Sharon, Potter county. He has lived on his present farm in Ceres township for the past 25 years. He married June 4, 1836, Henrietta C., daughter of Robert and Mary (Bee) Gilbert, of Ceres, by whom he had the following named children: Statira C. (Mrs. Justus Rice), Gulielma M. (Mrs. F. G. Fuller), Mary (Mrs. G. W. Lewis), John (killed in the battle of Gettysburg), Elizabeth (Mrs. R. R. Bell), Harriet (Mrs. Alvah Hall), Brice B. and Rebecca. Mrs. Benson's maternal grandmother, Mary Law, was born in England and married, for her first husband, Thomas Bee, and for her second husband, John Bell, and with her second husband came to America, about 1800, bringing her five children, Thomas, Mary and John Bee, and William and John Bell, and were among the first settlers of Ceres township. Thomas Bee and his brother John, uncles of Mrs. Benson, and natives of England, were also pioneers of Ceres, John paying for the homestead and caring for his mother and step-father while they lived. Brice B. Benson, son of Potter and Henrietta C. (Gilbert) Benson, was born in Ceres, June 11, 1851, and resides on the homestead with his parents. In 1883, he married Eva, daughter of David and Ida (Holmes) Finch, of Portage, NY, and they have two children: Anna and Glenn.
[S1558] M.W. Mann & Maria King, History of Ceres and its near vicinity, from its early settlement in 1798 to the present, (Name: Olean, NY: Gillett & Weston, 1896;), 139 "Potter BENSON, ... and the youngest daughter, Harriet, wife of Alvah HALL, of Allegany, has three. ..." (16) facts.
Potter BENSON (29) facts

20180921HAv- consolidated 3 references into this one (27) facts from (13)... (26) ..
20190228HAv-.. (27)
20200325HAv- pasted and edited from front Source Citation Text:

"Potter BENSON, and his brother Daniel, came to Ceres in 1832.
He married Henrietta GILBERT, daughter of Robert and Mary GILBERT.
He was a farmer and owned a farm about a mile above town, where his wife still lives with her youngest son.
Potter BENSON was a good citizen, honorable in all his dealings, and a truly good man.
He left four daughters and one son.
One son had died for his country during the rebellion.
His oldest daughter is the widow of Justus Rice, of Eldred. She has four children living (pub. 1896).
One of her sons was drowned the past winter, and was brought to Myrtle, making the fifth generation of his mother's people buried there.
The second daughter is the wife of G.W. Lewis, of Vineland, and has eleven children.
The third daughter, Elizabeth, is the wife of Rowland R. Bell. She has eight children; his son, Brice B., has five,
and the youngest daughter, Harriet, wife of Alvah HALL, of Allegany, has three.
Few have left a larger circle of descendants, and if they prove as worthy as they now give fair promise of being, his name will long be honored through them.
His wife is now in her eighty-second and shows the infirmities of age."

[S513] census 1880 USA PA McKean, (Name: www.ancestry.com;), Year: 1880; Census Place: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1154; Family History Film: 1255154; Page: 265C; Enumeration District: 87; Image: 0241.
Record for Justus Rice
1880 United States Federal Census about Justus Rice
Name: Justus Rice
Home in 1880: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania
Age: 66
Estimated Birth Year: 1814
Birthplace: New York
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Statira Rice
Father's birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's birthplace: Vermont
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Farmer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male

Household Members: Name Age
Justus Rice 66 NY MA VT farmer
Statira Rice 43 PA NY PA
Ellison Rice 13 PA NY PA
Ellen Rice 11 PA NY PA
Elsworth Rice 9 PA NY PA
Edith Rice 8 PA NY PA
Enoch Rice 2 PA NY PA

Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1154; Family History Film: 1255154; Page: 265C; Enumeration District: 87; Image: 0241.
Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

	census 1880 USA PA McKean Eldrid Rice 1880 United States Federal Census about Justus Rice date: 01 June 1880 Name: Justus Rice Home in 1880: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania Age: 66 Estimated Birth Year: 1814 Birthplace: New York Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Statira Rice Father's birthplace: Massachusetts Mother's birthplace: Vermont Neighbors: View…
	census 1880 USA PA McKean Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1154; Family History Film: 1255154; Page: 265C; Enumeration District: 87; Image: 0241. 20240112GHLn- renamed from census 1880 USA PA McKean.jpg to census 1880 USA PA McKean Eldred 87_265C.jpg

[S273] 1850 United States Federal Census, census 1850 USA PA McKean, Year: 1850; Census Place: Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_795; Page: 42B; Image: 748.Page 84 BENSON, BEE Bell GILBERT.
John Benson (36) facts

20181117HAv reworked after Walworth merge, (40) facts .......... (36)

20200325HAv- consolidating further...

20250505GHLn- re-worked
20181117HAv- Ages revised, Potter Benson & John Bee, from 55 to 33-
1850 United States Federal Census about John Benson
date 2nd Sept 1850
John Radachick?
Name: John Benson
Age: 7
birth: ca 1843
Pennsylvania
Gender: male
Home: Ceres, McKean, PA
Family: 640
Household
Potter Benson 33 NY farmer
Henriette Benson 34 PA
Stalira Benson 13 PA
Gulielma Benson 11 PA
Mary Benson 9 PA
John Benson 7 PA
Elizabeth Benson 3 PA
Harriet Benson 1 PA
637:
Thomas Bee 61 England farmer
Mira " 51 PA wife
Olge " 16 PA laborer
Mary " 13 PA
Mira " 13 PA
Robert " 10 PA
Adelaid " 8 PA
Thomas " 6 PA
839:
John Bee 33 England farmer
Deborah Bee 49 NY
Mary Bell 92 England
641:
Thomas Gilbert 43 PA farmer
Deliann " 23 NY
Statira " 1 IA
Mary " 60 England

Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Ceres, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_795; Page: 42B; Image: 748.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

census 1850 USA PA McKean Ceres
20250505GHLn- re-worked
20181117HAv- Ages revised, Potter Benson & John Bee, from 55 to 33-
1850 United States Federal Census about John Benson
date 2nd Sept 1850
John Radachick?
Name: John Benson
Age: 7
birth: ca 1843
Pennsylvania
Gender: male
Home: Ceres, McKean, PA
Family: 640
Household
Potter Benson 33 NY farmer
Henriette Benson 34…

[S1565] 1870 United States Federal census, census 1870 USA PA McKean, Page 61.
[S513] census 1880 USA PA McKean, (Name: www.ancestry.com;), Page 39 ED#87condolisted 20201028HAv- from (1) fact to (7).
[S355] Ancestry.com, census 1900 USA PA McKean, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623,;), ED#106, Sheet Number 13A.
[S620] census 1910 USA PA McKean, ED#121, Sheet Number 3A.
[S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Francis Family Tree, Owner: Rachelle_Francis Last viewed: Henrietta Caroline Gilbert Francis Family Tree Rachelle_Francis, Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Henrietta Caroline Gilbert revisited 20181231 Martinsburg (22) facts reviewing Potter BENSON

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