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Here's a little more information on this Benjamin... b. 1821 in Belmont, Ohio, d. Nov.
22, 1865 in San Antonio, where he was serving with the 15th Ohio Volunteers. (source:
U.S. Military History Institute booklet, "The Fifteenth Ohio Volunteers and Its
Campaigns, War of 1861-5, pgs. 784-5. Privately published by author, Alexis Cope,
Captain, 15th Ohio Vol. Inf., Columbus, Ohio, 1916.) Benjamin was m. to Delilah Groves,
b. 1827 in Pa., d.1862 in Cambridge, Ohio. They had 2 sons, John, b. 1857, and Wm., b.
1858.
Benjamin's father was Samuel, b. 1785 in Pa., who died aft. 1860, probably in Ohio.
Samuel's first wife's name is not known... she was the mother of Benjamin, James,
and an unnamed daughter. James and 3 children are found living with Samuel and his 2nd
wife, Mary, in 1850 on the Belmont Co., Ohio Census. These young children may be the
children of James, but this has not been proven.
Samuel's parents were Benjamin and Jane Howard Chance of Pa. and Ohio.
Happy 2003, all!
Earlayne