Elias Benton

1835 - 1906  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Elias Benton
  Birth	Nov 1835	Liberty, Sullivan County, New York
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Jul 1906	Liberty, Sullivan County, New York
  Burial	Parksville Methodist Church Cemetery, Parksville, Sullivan County, New York
  Notes	1860 Liberty, NY with her sister, Eunice Dewitt's family 1870 Paradise, Grand Traverse Co., Michigan 1900 living with the Elijah Parks family in Liberty,NY Elias Benton of White Sulphur Springs was buried at Parksville Tuesday by Undertaker Brand. Benton, whose age was 70, was an old woodsman and hunter of the Egypt section, and was the man who about two years ago, while out hunting, mistook a boy’s gray cap for a woodchuck and sent a bullet through the hain of a son of Alfred Bryon, who was sitting on the opposite side of a rock, with nothing visible to Benton but the cap. (Sullivan County Record, Thursday, July 19, 1906)
  Person ID	I44437	OurNorthernRoots
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Julius Benton,   b. ca 1805, Liberty, Sullivan County, New York
  Mother	Cynthia Parks,   b. ca 1809, Sullivan County, New York d. Abt 1854 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1825
  Family ID	F15905	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine M. Cherry,   b. 1843, New York d. 29 Jun 1894, Grand Traverse County, Michigan (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	12 Feb 1867	Hardin County, Ohio
  Family ID	F16112	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2020

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Birth - Nov 1835 - Liberty, Sullivan County, New York Marriage - 12 Feb 1867 - Hardin County, Ohio Death - 15 Jul 1906 - Liberty, Sullivan County, New York Burial - - Parksville Methodist Church Cemetery, Parksville, Sullivan County, New York  = Link to Google Earth
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