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I'm
Rob Salzman of
4130 SW 117th Ave # 415 Beaverton, OR,
97005 USA.
Welcome to e-familytree.net. E-familytree.net is my personal genealogy hobby site.
The data contained here has been gathered through 20 years of genealogy. Some small
part of it is my original research, but most of it has been shared with me.
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: John Blassingame BensonMale Note
Born: 2 Sep 1828 1828-9-2 at Pendleton District, SC Pendleton District, SC
Married: 2 Sep 1847 1847-9-2
Died: 27 Jan 1892 1892-1-27 at Hartwell, GA Hartwell, GA
Father: Col Enoch Berry Benson
Mother: Ester Blassingame
WIFE
Born: 24 Sep 1824 at SC
Died: 6 Jun 1881 at Hartwell, GA
Father: Jeptah Norton
Mother: Elizabeth Moore
CHILDREN
Born: 23 Sep 1848 at Pendleton, Anderson Co., SC
Died: 14 Aug 1879 at Hartwell, GA
Husband: Dr Charles Archibald Webb
Name: Infant Benson
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Died:
Born: 19 May 1852
Died:
Wife: Alice Elizabeth Adams
Name: Fanny Norton Benson
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Name: Fannie Norton Benson
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Husband: S Walker Peek
Name: Mary Elizabeth Benson
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Name: Mary Eliza Benson
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NOTES
1). John Blassingame Benson built the first home in Hartwell, Georgia, as it did not become Hart County until 1854. Sourcehttp homepages.rootsweb.com scroots sc01376.htm This information is taken from History of Hart County , written in 1933, by John William Baker p. 49 and 50. JOHN BLASSINGAME BENSON Son of Enoch Berry and Esther Blassingame Benson, born at Pendleton, SC, September 2, 1822. Died at Hartwell, Ga., January 27, 1892 He married Miss Elizabeth Arlesa Norton, daughter of Jeptha and Elizabeth Moore Norton, Pickens, SC., September 2, 1847. Mrs. Elizabeth Arlesa Benson died June 6, 1881. Their children Myra Postell, married Dr. C. A. Webb an infant son died soon after birth Enoch Berry Benson Fannie Norton, married A. G. McCurry Mattie Cater, married S. W. Peek and Mary Eliza of whom only E. B. Benson and Mrs. Fannie N. McCurry are now living. Enoch Berry Benson, born May 19, 1852, married Miss Alice Elizabeth Adams, daughter of Moses H. Adams and Lavinia McMullan Adams, May 21, 1873. The children of E. B. Benson and Alice E. Benson John Berry Lavinia Norton both died in childhood Paul Edwin, married Miss Lola Josephine Cox Alice Elizabeth died in childhood Grace, married J. Loyd Teasley, Ethel, married Charles E. Matheson Myra Edna Enoch Blassingame, married Miss Christine Sanders of Birmingham, Ala. Children of Paul E. and L. Josephine Benson John Berry deceased Paul Edwin. Children of J. Loyd and Grace Benson Teasley Elizabeth Benson, Alice Benson, Grace Benson and James Benson deceased . Children of Charles E. and Ethel Benson Matheson Charles Edward, Berry Benson and Julius Daniel. Child of Enoch Blassingame and Christine Sanders Benson Beverly Sanders Benson. John Blassingame Benson married Miss Martha A. Ethridge June 25, 1882. No children by this marriage. Mrs. Martha A. Benson died August 12, 1911. Tracing the line of forbears of the Bensons, who came from Virginia to South Carolina Thomas Benson, who married Miss Martha Prince their son Enoch Berry Benson married Miss Esther Blassingame, daughter of John Blassingame, and grandparents of Enoch Berry Benson, now living in Hartwell. Thomas Benson and John Blassingame were both Revolutionary soldiers. Jeptha Norton, father of Mrs. John B. Benson, was a captain under General Andrew Jackson in the war of 1812. He and his company fought the British in the battle of New Orleans, the last battle of that war, fought, in fact, after terms of peace were agreed upon, but in those days of slow communication the news had not reached New Orleans. In that battle, bales of cotton were used as breastworks by our troops. The different lines of the Benson family have their Enochs and Berrys, the later having been a surname on the mother s side several generations back. John B. Benson built the first house in Hartwell and had the first stock of goods in the beginning of the town, in 1854. He was the first postmaster here. He had been postmaster at Fairplay, S. C., before moving to Hartwell. Acted in that capacity in both places parts of the same quarter. He served this district, then Hart, Franklin and Habersham, as State Senator during the Civil War and represented the county in the Legislature one term since. He was engaged in mercantile business as Benson & Justice when the War Between the States began. At his death the firm name was J. B. and E. B. Benson. Succeeding that business, E. B. Benson operated in his own name several years, followed by E. B. Benson and Son the son being Paul E. Benson. In 1877 J. B. and E. B. Benson bought The Hartwell Sun and printing outfit From R. E. Belcher who, with John H. Magill, established it in Hartwell in 1876. For several years the Bensons, in connection with John H. Magill, published the paper. J. B. Benson was business manager while connected with the paper and established a free delivery for The Sun which served the communities of Ford s Store, Parker s Store, and Kings Bench, and people along the route. This was continued until a mail route from Toccoa to Hartwell was established. This, perhaps, was the first and only free delivery ever operated by a country newspaper. Source http homepages.rootsweb.com scroots sc07104.htm
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