Friday, July 09, 2010

Francis Marion Benton.


Francis Marion Benton.

Birth: 15 Jul 1841 Tennessee.

Death: 2 Dec 1911 Lyon Co., Kentucky.

Burial Dec 1911 Macedonia Cem., Kuttawa, Ky.

Photo provided by Kenneth A. Allgood

Father: JOHN BENTON
Mother: MARTHA RODGERS

Francis Marion Benton.

Wife: MARY ELLEN PERIN.

Married June 30, 1861, at Dycusburg, Kentucky.
No record of any children.

Civil War Vet.

Enlisted in November of 1861 as a private in the Union Army, 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Company H., was mustered out in January of 1865, as a private, with a honorable discharge. Between the years of 1865 and 1911, he was a farmer.

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