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Sidney

M. Benjamin
Birth Date:

October 30, 1845

Birth Location:

Odessa, Addington County
Ontario, Canada

Death Date:

June 11, 1927

Death Location:

Illinois

Burial:

Jones Cemetery (Beaver Creek)
Rural Papineau, Illinois

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

Sidney Benjamin married Eliza David on November 21, 1865
at the David family home in Iroquois County, Illinois.

Sidney and Eliza shown with their
 youngest daughter Cynthia in the 1890s.

Children (in birth order)
1
Laura
 Benjamin

1866-1867
2
Lovina
 Benjamin

1868-1946
3
Leroy
 Benjamin

1869-
1961
4
Charles
 Benjamin

1872-
1953
5
Alfred
 Benjamin

1874-
1940
6
William
 Benjamin

1875-1895
7
Dolly
 Benjamin

1877-1878
8
Bertha
 Benjamin

1882-1883
9
Cynthia
 Benjamin

1889-
1992
Died in infancy.         Died in infancy.

 

Died in infancy.

 

Notes

This newspaper clipping is not an "obituary;" it was printed in the social
news column for Papineau, Illinois in the Kankakee Daily Republican.

 

 

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