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Benjamin Franklin WILLIAMS

Benjamin Franklin WILLIAMS

Male 1851 - 1920  (68 years)

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  • Name Benjamin Franklin WILLIAMS 
    Born 30 Oct 1851  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • Birth date on headstone is 1852, but death record states birth date as Oct 30 1851.
    Gender Male 
    Occupation pumper at city water works  [1] 
    Died 22 Jun 1920  Salem, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Buried IOOF Cemetery, Salem, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I62076  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 5 Nov 2019 

    Father Mark WILLIAMS,   b. 24 Oct 1828,   d. 5 Apr 1899  (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Susan STARKEY,   b. CA 1830,   d. 13 Dec 1891, Tenmile District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Family ID F27895  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Alice SKINNER,   b. 15 Jul 1858, Bristol, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jan 1942, Salem, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)  [3, 4, 5] 
    Married 7 Mar 1878  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Children 
    +1. Cora WILLIAMS,   b. CA 1879, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Mark J. WILLIAMS,   b. 1880, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1945  (Age 65 years)
    +3. Frederick Martin WILLIAMS,   b. 1890,   d. 1963  (Age 73 years)
    +4. Edgar Franklin WILLIAMS,   b. CA 1895, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F25768  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).

    2. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    3. [S2243] Cemeteries of Tenmile District, Harrison County, WV, (Harrison County Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV (1989, revised 1995)).

    4. [S1583] Marriage record of daughter.

    5. [S1567] Marriage record of son.

    6. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 120.
      Identified as Benjamin F. Williams, 24, farmer, b. & res. in Harrison Co, son of Mark & Susan Williams; and Sarah A. Skinner, 18, b. & res. in Harrison Co, dau of Stephen D. & Margaret Skinner. Married Mar 7 1878. (Note: Ages appear to have been misstated to some extent.)