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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elma Belle Benefiel: Birth: 11 OCT 1877 in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana. Death: 19 SEP 1976 in Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana

  2. Roscoe Monroe Benefiel: Birth: 30 DEC 1880 in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana. Death: 19 FEB 1959 in Logansport, Cass County, Indiana

  3. Rebecca Elizabeth Benefiel: Birth: 22 OCT 1886 in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana. Death: 23 JAN 1929 in Farmland, Randolph County, Indiana


Family
Marriage:
Sources
1. Title:   The Alexandria Times-Tribune, Alexandria, Indiana
Page:   obituary; Monday, June 23, 1930
2. Title:   Cemetery Inscriptions of Randolph County, Indiana
Page:   Volume I, pages 43-44
Author:   Wagner, Beverly
Publication:   1982

Notes
a. Note:   She stated in an article that she moved from Maryland to Perkinsville in 1875.
b. Note:   Her father's death left the family in poor financial circumstances. Young Emily had to learn the dressmaker's and the milliner's arts in Philadelphia. At age 18 she moved to Indiana to live with sister Gulia Patton, somewhere near Marion, Grant County, Indiana.
  Information is from the World Family Tree, Volume 11, Tree # 2757
  Other information is from oral family tradition passed on by Emily's daughter, Elma Benefiel Gwinnup.


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