Husband: Benjamin Franklin Jaco
Birth name: Benjamin Tucker
Born: 1843 in Virginia (now West Virginia) 1
Died: Dec-14-1930 in Chetopa, Labette Co, Kansas 2,3
Buried: (unmarked) in Wirtonia Cemetery, Crestline, Cherokee Co, KS 4
Census: 1930 in Labette Co, KS (see note 1)
Census: 1920 in Leavenworth Co, KS
Resided: 1915 in Larned, Pawnee Co, KS (see note 2)
Census: 1900, 1910 in Cherokee Co, KS
Census: 1870, 1880 in Pettis Co, MO
Census: 1850 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA
Occupation: 1900 engineer in lead mines 5
Occupation: 1886 justice of the peace
Occupation: 1870 farmer 1
Military: Sep-20-1861 - Sep-27-1864 Pvt, Co E, 6th W.Va. Inf, Civil War (POW) 6 (see note 3)
Father: Luke Jaco (1807 - 1868)
Mother: Elizabeth Prunty (1817 - )
Other spouse 1
Other spouse 2
Notes
Wife: Lidia Shepard Census name: Lida Divorced: May- 3-1929 in Cherokee Co, KS 7
Born: ca 1854 in Kentucky 8 Census: 1925 in Galena, Cherokee Co, KS Father: Mother:
Sources: (1) 1870 Census. (2) Headstone. (3) West Virginia Archives and History (http://www.wvculture.org/history/archivesindex.aspx), Manuscript 91-3. (4) Findagrave.com. (5) 1900 Census. (6) U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line], Ancestry.com. (7) Newspaper article, Joplin (Missouri) Globe, May 4 1929. (8) Newspaper article. Event Notes Note (1) In household of son James H. Jaco. Note (2) Kansas State Census. Enumeration date March 1, 1915. Benjamin is living with his second wife, Cordelia Eliza Rodarmel, and her daughter, Stella May Beechum/Beechem. Note (3) Captured by Confederates at Bridgeport on April 30, 1863, and sent to a convalescent camp.