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- [S137] Merlyn Wetzel, e-mail: Merlyn WETZEL, consolidate 20200506HAv- (4) .... (4).
Brice Briggs Benson, b. June 11, 1851 in Ceres; m. Eva Finch ,1883; 2 children, Anna and Glenn.
- [S161] FamilySearch.com, (Name: AFamily Search Ancestral File;).
Husband's Name Brice Briggs BENSON (AFN:17H5-JBK) Born: 11 Jun 1851 Place: , Ceres, Mckean, Pa Died: Nov 1927 Place: , Olean, Cattaraugus, Ny Buried: Place: Myrtle Cem., Ceres, Mckean, Pa Father: Potter BENSON (AFN:17H5-J7X) Mother: Henrietta Caroline GILBERT (AFN:17H5-J85) Wife's Name Eva Jane FINCH (AFN:17H7-21K) Born: 23 Jul 1861 Place: , Belfast, Allegany, Ny Died: Jan 1909 Place: , Ceres, Mckean, Pa Buried: Place: Myrtle Cem., Ceres, Mckean, Pa Father: David J FINCH (AFN:17H7-1WR) Mother: Ida May HOLMES (AFN:17H7-2BF) Children 1. Anna Lucile BENSON (AFN:17H5-JD0) Born: 27 Aug 1885 Place: , Ceres, Mckean, Pa Died: 17 Aug 1971 Place: Buried: Place: , Allegany, Cattaraugus, Ny 2. Glen David BENSON (AFN:17H5-JF6) Born: 15 Jan 1887 Place: , Ceres, Mckean, Pa Died: 18 Jun 1958 Place: , Winfield, , Alberta Buried: Place: Mt. Clair Cem. 3. Harold Potter BENSON (AFN:17H5-JGD) Born: 23 Jun 1891 Place: , Ceres, Mckean, Pa 4. Allen Charles BENSON (AFN:17H5-JHL) Born: 6 Aug 1893 Place: , Ceres, Mckean, Pa Died: Jul 1984 Place: , , Allegany, Ny 5. Marian Adele BENSON (AFN:17H5-JJS) Born: 4 Aug 1896 Place: , Ceres, Mckean, Pa Died: Mar 1984 Place: , , Hughes, Sd
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. ShirleyHitchcockBrown, Owner: Shirleyann85 Last viewed: Potter Benson, Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Eva Jane Finch
Information from the grave website
Civil War: 189th Infantry. Age 38 years. Enlisted September 14,1864 at Belfast, to serve one year; mustered in as private, Co.I, October 3,1864;
wounded in action, March 31,1865 at Boydton Plank Road, VA;
mustered out, June 17,1865 at Finlay Hospital, Washington,DC.
History of Service: Was in five battles; was wounded in the arm and breast near South Side Road March 31,1865;
was in Finley Hospital two months; discharged at said hospital June 17,1865
Shirleyann85added this on 25 Jul 2012
jodyo8151originally submitted this to Hitchcock Family Tree on 18 Jul 2012
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David wounded in Civil War
I have a paper that indicates David was wounded on February 5, 1865. It also shows the date Feb 7, 1823 or 1825 for his birth, and April 11, 1872 for his death.
Shirleyann85added this on 19 Jun 2011
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Ida Marie Holmes Finch Ida Marie Holmes Finch Shirleyann85added this on 20 Apr 2011 |
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David J. Finch, New York David J. Finch, New York Shirleyann85added this on 5 Aug 2010 Kathleen_Cawleyoriginally submitted this to Duncan, Finch, Gary & Weed with allied families on 2 Feb 2008 Civil War |
- [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.
- [S959] census 1900 USA NY, ED#17, Sheet Number 9B Benson.
Benson; Finch (7) facts
20250506GHLn- edited. Nothing here.
- [S959] census 1900 USA NY, ED#17, Sheet Number 9B.
- [S249] 1920 United States Federal Census, New York, Allegany County, Genese Township, ED#27, Sheet Number 6B.
- [S161] FamilySearch.com, (Name: AFamily Search Ancestral File;).
- [S161] FamilySearch.com, (Name: AFamily Search Ancestral File;), no information here, but (78) facts.
20181108HAv- NO information in this source, (78) facts
- [S302] Julie Randolph (email address jarandolph@msn.com), Roots Web WorldConnect, (Name: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com;).
- [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
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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."
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