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Darius

Champion Benjamin
Birth Date:

September 1, 1858

Birth Location:

Iroquois County, Illinois

Death Date:

March 25, 1953

Death Location:

Jackson County, Minnesota

Burial:

Riverside Cemetery
Jackson, Minnesota

Parents
Father
Elijah Benjamin
(1807-1882)
Mother
Cynthia Lane
(1812-1896)
Siblings (in birth order)
1
Jacob
 Benjamin

1829-1902
2
William
 Benjamin

1831-1918
3
Elijah W.
 Benjamin

1833-1910
4
Stephen L.
 Benjamin

1835-1872
5
Joseph
 Benjamin

1836-1897
6
Marshall
 Benjamin

1839-1842
7
Anson
 Benjamin

1842-1842
        Died at age 3.

 

Died at birth.

 

8
Andrew M.
 Benjamin

1843-1919
9
Sidney
 Benjamin

1845-1927
10
Hiram
 Benjamin

1848-1910
11
Cynthia
 Benjamin

1851-1867
12
Daniel
 Benjamin

1853-?
13
John
 Benjamin

1855-1934
14
Darius
 Benjamin

1858-1953
         
Marriage

Darius C. Benjamin married Mittie Alice Clipperton on January 14, 1879.

Darius and Mittie on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1929.

Children
1
Thomas H.
 Benjamin

1879-1937

2
Wesley E.
 Benjamin

1881-1964

3-1
Harvey C.
 Benjamin

1885-1974

3-2
Dora E.
 Benjamin
1885-1886

       

5
Alfred P.
 Benjamin

1887-1979

6
John
 Benjamin

1890-1891

7
Pearl
 Benjamin
1892-1978

8
Ella
 Benjamin
1894-1959

       

9
Frank
 Benjamin
1896-1965

10
Mary Jane
 Benjamin

1899-1936

11
August
 Benjamin
1901-1986

12
Angie
 Benjamin
1905-2004
       
Notes

Below:  Darius and Mittie with nine of their ten children who lived to adulthood.
Left to right:  Darius, Mittie, Tom, Wes, Ford, Pearl, Ella, Frank, Mary, Gus, and Angie.
(The kids are lined up by age.   Harve is the only one missing. Probably in the early 1930s.)

Mittie Clipperton Benjamin died November 5, 1934, in Jackson County, Minnesota.

 

 

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