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Frank E. and Mary Benham Family

by | Oct 20, 2026 | Uncategorized

We mentioned that Frank and Mary Benham had six children in eight years. When you have that many kids in quick succession, chances are grandchildren may follow in the same way. Here are twelve of the Benham grandchildren with Grandma Mary in around 1951 or 1952 on the...

Here is a picture of the Frank E. Benham family in the late 1920s. Frank Edwin Benham married Mary Etta Young when he was 53 and she was 27. They had a farm on Rudy Road just south of Tipp Elizabeth Road. Their grandson, Jim and great-grandson Doug and his family now own and farm that farm.

by | Oct 20, 2026 | Uncategorized

Mary Young Benham also grew up in Elizabeth Township on the dairy farm on what is now Tipp-Elizabeth Rd. just east of Gearhart Rd. Frank and Mary had six children in eight years, including Robert Woodrow, who was born in 1917, Frank Arthur (1919), Roy Edwin (1920),...

by | Oct 20, 2026 | Uncategorized

This is a photograph most likely from around 1890 of the children of John V. and Cassa (Bousman) Benham. Cassa was born in Elizabeth Township in 1831, the daughter of Leonard Bousman (also spelled Bausman) and Elizabeth Jackson Bousman. Both the Jacksons and the...

by | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized

This is a charcoal drawing of Mary Emma Benham who was born in Elizabeth Township in 1862. Emma (or Aunt Emmie), a descendant of the Gearhart, Bousman, Jackson and Benham pioneer families of Elizabeth Township, spent virtually her entire life living in the same home....