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- Source Medium: Electronic "Beers History of McKean, Cameron, Elk, and Potter Counties" 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.
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