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Elias Benton
1835 - 1906 (~ 70 years)
Generation: 1
1. Elias Benton was born in Nov 1835 in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York; died on 15 Jul 1906 in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York; was buried in 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)Elias married Catherine M. Cherry on 12 Feb 1867 in Hardin County, Ohio. Catherine was born in 1843 in New York; died on 29 Jun 1894 in Grand Traverse County, Michigan; was buried in Fife Lake Cemetery, Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
- 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.