Charlie Benjamin was a twin to Robert "Bob" McGlothlin. They had twin sisters, Bessie and Stella, two years older. Charlie died of whooping cough when he was a year old.
Charlie’s older sister, Mary Belle (McGlothlin) Childress, who was four-and-a-half years old at the time, later wrote about it:
"Some new neighbors moved in, in about one
mile of us. We didn't know the family had whooping cough. So two of the daughters came to visit, and they just kept coughing all day long. My mother thought they just had real bad colds, so she went and made them some ginger tea. Thought that would help the coughing spells, but it didn't.
"One of the girls wanted to hold one of the twins, so my mother let her hold it, not knowing that they had whooping cough. So, in about 10 days, some of the children started coughing and vomiting, so it was a long time before we all got over it. We lost one of the twin boys.
"[Charlie] got pneumonia, didn't live but a few days after it got it. So that left the whole family saddened by its death."
Charlie Benjamin was a twin to Robert "Bob" McGlothlin. They had twin sisters, Bessie and Stella, two years older. Charlie died of whooping cough when he was a year old.
Charlie’s older sister, Mary Belle (McGlothlin) Childress, who was four-and-a-half years old at the time, later wrote about it:
"Some new neighbors moved in, in about one
mile of us. We didn't know the family had whooping cough. So two of the daughters came to visit, and they just kept coughing all day long. My mother thought they just had real bad colds, so she went and made them some ginger tea. Thought that would help the coughing spells, but it didn't.
"One of the girls wanted to hold one of the twins, so my mother let her hold it, not knowing that they had whooping cough. So, in about 10 days, some of the children started coughing and vomiting, so it was a long time before we all got over it. We lost one of the twin boys.
"[Charlie] got pneumonia, didn't live but a few days after it got it. So that left the whole family saddened by its death."
Family Members
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Burk McGlothlin
1895–1977
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Frank McGlothlin
1897–1918
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Vernie Bee McGlothlin Staton
1901–1983
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Mary Belle McGlothlin Childress
1902–1982
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Stella McGlothlin Sanders
1905–1976
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Bessie Winnie McGlothlin Mutter
1905–1986
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Rev Robert Nathan McGlothlin
1907–1995
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Edd Lewis McGlothlin
1908–1989
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Hattie Virginia McGlothlin Weisburg
1912–1979
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Myrtle McGlothlin Addison
1914–1994
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Rev Carlice McKinley "Kin" McGlothlin Sr
1916–2006
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Clara Ruth McGlothlin Street
1918–2016
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