Kentucky Family Group Sheet for the James Madison BENTON Family *********************************************** Copyright © Sue Heflin Woolsey. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml *********************************************** Submitted by: Sue Heflin Woolsey Email address: Husband: James Madison BENTON Birthdate: 09 June 1830 Birthplace: Ceralvo, Ohio County, Kentucky Death date: 13 February 1880 Place of death: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Burial: McDougall Cemetery Father: James C. BENTON Mother: Nancy E. FULKERSON Marriage date: 17 July 1860 Marriage place: Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Wife: Mary King MABRY Birthdate: 11 March 1842 Birthplace: Wilson County, Tennessee Death date: 23 July 1912 Place of death: Centertown, Ohio County, Kentucky Burial: Centertown Cemetery Father: William Henry MABRY Mother: Narcissus BREWER CHILDREN Child No. 1: Frances A. BENTON Sex: F Birthdate: 13 December 1861 Birthplace: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 2: Nancy Emaline BENTON Sex: F Birthdate: 31 October 1866 Birthplace: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death date: 23 October 1953 Place of death: Centertown, Ohio County, Kentucky Burial: Centertown Cemetery Marriage date: 24 December 1890 Marriage place: Ohio County, Kentucky Spouse's name: George William ROWE Child No. 3: Thomas Henry BENTON Sex: M Birthdate: 15 July 1868 Birthplace: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death date: 04 July 1943 Place of death: Ohio County, Kentucky Burial: Centertown Cemetery Marriage date: 04 March 1895 Marriage place: Ohio County, Kentucky Spouse's name: Ida Mae Stroud Child No. 4: Maria Etta BENTON Sex: F Birthdate: 27 October 1870 Birthplace: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death date: 28 August 1952 Place of death: Ohio County, Kentucky Burial: Marriage date: 05 October 1893 Marriage place: Ohio County, Kentucky Spouse's name: William Pender Render Child No. 5: Berta D. BENTON Sex: F Birthdate: 29 March 1875 Birthplace: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death date: 19 October 1960 Place of death: Ohio County, Kentucky Marriage date: 28 February 1898 Burial: Marriage place: Ohio County, Kentucky Spouse's name: John T. RONE Child No. 6: Mattie Lou BENTON Sex: F Birthdate: 31 July 1878 Birthplace: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death date: 04 September 1882 Place of death: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Burial: McDougall Cemetery Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 7: Don Carlos BENTON Sex: M Birthdate: 18 November 1872 Birthplace: Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death date: 16 July 1950 Place of death: Jefferson County, Kentucky Burial: Marriage date: 1894 Marriage place: Spouse's name: Bertha L. MATTINGLY Documentation: 2nd Marriage for James Benton, Frances August Fox, daughter of Arthur & Rachel McGraw Fox, died in 1858 leaving James widowed with three children: Margaret Underwood, Malvina, and James William Benton. Information from Civil War Pension files, extant Civil War letters, Ohio County marriage, birth, and death records, Muhlenberg County birth, marriage, and death records, McDougall and Centertown Cemetery photographs, and family bible records.