Son of Cornelius Clemans and Salome Wantz/Wautz, according to his death certificate. Informant: Louis L. Clemans of Wabash, IN.
1m: Marietta Andrews on 27 Jul 1868 in Sodus, Berrien Co., MI. He was a resident of Liberty Mills, IN. She was a resident of Sodus, Berrien Co. MI and was born in 1850 in Knox Co., OH. (1870: She was living w her parents in Sodus, MI as Marietta Andrews??)
2m: Emma T. Benson on 11 Apr 1870 in Lagrange Co., IN.
3m: Henrietta Travelbee
Occupation: attorney-at-law
His obituary reads that several thousand persons were at his funeral.
Civil War Service:
Residence Liberty Mills IN;
Enlisted on 11/15/1861 as a Private. On 11/15/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. IN 47th Infantry (date and method of discharge not given)/ Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* 5/1/1864 from company B to Field & Staff
157th Indiana Spanish
History of Wabash County, IN; pub 1884:
Benjamin F. Clemans, attorney and Justice of the Peace, North Manchester. Benjamin F. Clemans was born in Preble County, Ohio, December 19, 1843. His parents, Cornelius and Saloma, removed with their family to this county in 1853. During the war, Benjamin enlisted in Company B, Forty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Regiment and served two years as Quartermaster Sergeant, remaining in the army until the close of the war. On the 10th of June, 1870 he married Miss Emma Benson, who died July 4, 1875. On the 25th of December, 1879, Mr. Clemans married Miss Etta Travelbee. He was elected in the spring of 1878 to the office of Justice of the Peace and the following fall was admitted to the bar, and is now practicing law at North Manchester. He is a member of the Knights of Honor and both himself and wife are members of the Lutheran Church.
Obituary:
WABASH, Ind.. April 22. The funeral of Capt. B. F. Clemans, of North Manchester, this county, who was killed last evening by being thrown under a wagonload of stone at his Pleasant township farm, will held at North Manchester at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. To-day the Wabash County Bar Association, of which he was a member, met and adopted appropriate resolutions.
The Indianapolis Journal
April 23, 1904
Son of Cornelius Clemans and Salome Wantz/Wautz, according to his death certificate. Informant: Louis L. Clemans of Wabash, IN.
1m: Marietta Andrews on 27 Jul 1868 in Sodus, Berrien Co., MI. He was a resident of Liberty Mills, IN. She was a resident of Sodus, Berrien Co. MI and was born in 1850 in Knox Co., OH. (1870: She was living w her parents in Sodus, MI as Marietta Andrews??)
2m: Emma T. Benson on 11 Apr 1870 in Lagrange Co., IN.
3m: Henrietta Travelbee
Occupation: attorney-at-law
His obituary reads that several thousand persons were at his funeral.
Civil War Service:
Residence Liberty Mills IN;
Enlisted on 11/15/1861 as a Private. On 11/15/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. IN 47th Infantry (date and method of discharge not given)/ Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* 5/1/1864 from company B to Field & Staff
157th Indiana Spanish
History of Wabash County, IN; pub 1884:
Benjamin F. Clemans, attorney and Justice of the Peace, North Manchester. Benjamin F. Clemans was born in Preble County, Ohio, December 19, 1843. His parents, Cornelius and Saloma, removed with their family to this county in 1853. During the war, Benjamin enlisted in Company B, Forty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Regiment and served two years as Quartermaster Sergeant, remaining in the army until the close of the war. On the 10th of June, 1870 he married Miss Emma Benson, who died July 4, 1875. On the 25th of December, 1879, Mr. Clemans married Miss Etta Travelbee. He was elected in the spring of 1878 to the office of Justice of the Peace and the following fall was admitted to the bar, and is now practicing law at North Manchester. He is a member of the Knights of Honor and both himself and wife are members of the Lutheran Church.
Obituary:
WABASH, Ind.. April 22. The funeral of Capt. B. F. Clemans, of North Manchester, this county, who was killed last evening by being thrown under a wagonload of stone at his Pleasant township farm, will held at North Manchester at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. To-day the Wabash County Bar Association, of which he was a member, met and adopted appropriate resolutions.
The Indianapolis Journal
April 23, 1904
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