Notes for Abel BENSON

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Notes for Abel BENSON

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Birth: 1816
South Carolina, USA
Death: Oct. 3, 1890
Pittsburg
Hickory County
Missouri, USA
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Obituary from The Index, Hickory Co. MO, 9 Oct, 1890:
Our old friend and neighbor Mr. Benson died at his home Friday morning at 3 o'clock. The old gentleman has been sick five or six weeks. He was buried in the cemetery near the Pittsburgh school house. He will be sadly missed by his many friends.
Born in South Carolina, Abel Benson married Harriet Lindley in Morgan county, MO on 17 Dec 1840. They had the following children: Amanda F, John B, Abel McLeod, Perion Taylor, and Sarah E. Harriet died about 1852, and he remarried Virginia Jane Turner.
He was in Hickory county, MO as early as 1852. Abel and Virginia had the following children: Mary M, Susan E, Henryetta B, Eliza Jane, Fannie E, Abel, Frank, Theadocia, Orlee, and Homer. He was a blacksmith.
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http://www.looktothepast.com/index7.html [accessed 11/26/14]:
Pittsburg, Hickory County, MO
From 64 Highway, take county road 318 in Pittsburg. The cemetery is
behind the Pittsburg Community Building.
Cemetery walked and transcribed by Johnna Quick and Jane Owens on
May 11, 2004. There are several fieldstones and unreadable markers
in this cemetery. The southwest corner is said to contain a number of
unmarked slave graves.
BENSON
Abel MUS Co G 8th MO S M Cav died in 1890
Dick died 9/6/1901 No marker
Lee died 7/9/1913 No marker
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