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Note: don, Mass., Nov. 23, 1764. Died at Jamestown, N. Y., May 23, 1848, aged 83 years and 6 months. Grave in Lake View Cemetery, city of Jamestown, Chautauqua county NY. Enlisted Feb. 8, 1781, for a term of 3 years in Capt. Amidon's Company, Col. Tyler's Reg't, Mass. Militia. Also as private in Capt. Joseph Killam's Company, Col. Rufus Putnam's Reg't. Was described at that time as "statue 5 feet, 5 in., complexion dark, occupation farmer." His wife, Esther Benson Staples, was born in the year 1767 and died Aug. 31, 1855. Their children were: Pamelia, Anna, Phila, Sibbel, Abraham, Rocksey, Esther, Marinda, Scammel, Ira Franklin, Maria, Warren B., Fanny Minerva, Eveline. Marinda married Aaron Taylor, and Warren B., who was born 1803, married Fanny Cross. The wife of Isaac Staples was buried beside her husband in Lake View Cemetery. From The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 67, page 67: Miss Ella Jean Gray. DAR ID Number: 66173 Born in Lyons, Kansas. Descendant of Isaac Staples and of Corp. Stephen Benson. Daughter of George C. Gray (b. 1841) and Euphemia Cody (b. 1849), his wife, m. 1872. Granddaughter of John Cody (1821-49) and Joan Sutherland (1822-59), his wife, m. 1844. Gr-granddaughter of Elijah Cody (1785-1831) and Phila Staples (1789-1872), his wife. Gr-gr-granddaughter of Isaac Staples and Esther Benson (1767-1855), his wife, m. 1784. Gr-gr-gr-granddaughter of Stephen Benson and Mary Holbrook, his wife. Isaac Staples (1764-1848) enlisted in the Continental Army, 1781, at the age of sixteen, serving in Col. Israel Putnam's regiment, Massachusetts Line. He was born in Mendon, Mass.; died in Jamestown, N.Y. Stephen Benson (1742-1823) served as corporal in Capt. Joseph Daniel's company, which marched on the Lexington Alarm from Mendon, Mass., where he was born. He died in Wasco, N. Y. Wedding Announcement Sent to Mrs. Mary Gray Mrs. Euphemia Gray Announces the Marriage of her Daughter Ella Jean To Mr. John Hall Chase on Saturday, the eighteenth of October Nineteen hundred and thirteen Wilson, Kansas ( insert) At home after the seventeenth of November Fifteenth twenty-six Harrison Street Topeka, Kansas
Note: From Soldiers of the American Revolution, DAR publication, 1925: STAPLES, ISAAC; Born at Men
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