Jabez Benedict and Family
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Jabez Benedict and Family
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Posted: 18 Sep 2008 11:49PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Benedict, Grimes
Pioneer History of Meigs County
by Stillman Carter Larkin
c. 1908
"He was a son of Felix Benedict and wife, Clarissa, and was born October 13, 1802, and removed with his parents to Leading Creek, Ohio, October 13, 1803. He married April 4th, 1833, Miriam Chase, daughter of John and Miriam Chase, of Athens county, Ohio. Their children were four---Clarissa, born May 7th, 1835; William S., died young; John Merrill Benedict, born September 17th, 1839. He enlisted in the Eightenth Ohio volunteer Infantry as a private and was promoted to lieutenant colnel, served four years in the Civil war, was wounded twice at Nashville, but recovered, and was brevetted colonel at teh close of the war. He married October 18th, 1882, to Miss Bettie Rife, of Morgantown, West Virginia.
George W. Benedict, son of Jabez Benedict and wife, was born July21st, 1843. He served three years in the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Invantry, was married March 4th, 1878, to Florence Grimes, a daughter of James Grimes, of Rutland, Ohio.
Jabez Benedict died January 28th, 1886. He was noted for his fondness for reading, and with a retentive memory he was familiar with the best authors of his time, and of the Holy Scriptures."
by Stillman Carter Larkin
c. 1908
"He was a son of Felix Benedict and wife, Clarissa, and was born October 13, 1802, and removed with his parents to Leading Creek, Ohio, October 13, 1803. He married April 4th, 1833, Miriam Chase, daughter of John and Miriam Chase, of Athens county, Ohio. Their children were four---Clarissa, born May 7th, 1835; William S., died young; John Merrill Benedict, born September 17th, 1839. He enlisted in the Eightenth Ohio volunteer Infantry as a private and was promoted to lieutenant colnel, served four years in the Civil war, was wounded twice at Nashville, but recovered, and was brevetted colonel at teh close of the war. He married October 18th, 1882, to Miss Bettie Rife, of Morgantown, West Virginia.
George W. Benedict, son of Jabez Benedict and wife, was born July21st, 1843. He served three years in the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Invantry, was married March 4th, 1878, to Florence Grimes, a daughter of James Grimes, of Rutland, Ohio.
Jabez Benedict died January 28th, 1886. He was noted for his fondness for reading, and with a retentive memory he was familiar with the best authors of his time, and of the Holy Scriptures."