Marriage:
Sarah Benton - James Ward
25 May 1857
Marriage Records
Stehenson County, Illinois
Licence No. 285
Daughter of Joal & Margaret (Miller) Benton.
Wife of James E. Ward.
Sarah & James were the parents of the following children:
Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1962)
William Eugene Ward (1862 - 1942)
Edith Viola (Ward) Punter (1865 - 1959)
Oscar (Bud) Ward (1866 - 1922)
Oliver Wendell Ward (1869-1956)
Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
A Tribute to American Pioneer Woman, Sarah Jane Benton Ward -- She began her life in Sandusky County, Ohio as the second oldest daughter and third born child of pioneers, Margaret (Miller) Benton (1807-1889) and Joel Benton (1810-1882). Sarah Jane spent her early childhood years in Northern Ohio, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. One year and one day after Sarah Jane was born, on March 15, 1836 her father, Joel Benton, purchased land, through the U.S. Land Offices, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. The Benton homestead was near the homestead of a Michael Miller, whose family were probably close relatives as Sarah Jane's mother, Margaret, was a Miller before she married.
The following is based on an account of the Benton family's lives as pioneers, given by Sarah Jane's younger sister, Angeline, on the occasion of her one hundredth birthday. Sarah Jane's sister, Angeline "Angie" Benton Rood lived to be 102 years 9 months and 1 day old. Two of Sarah Jane's daughters also lived to be centenarians; Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1862), lived to be 102 years old, and her sister Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
lived to be 104. In addition, Sarah's great nephew, Calvin David Benton and his sister, Mary J. Benton Pemberton (1910 - 2011) lived to be over 100 years old.
About 1845, when Sarah Jane was around ten years old, the Benton family left their home in Sandusky, Ohio headed west to a land claim a mile and a half beyond the Wabash River, in Adams County, Indiana. When they reached the Wabash River, it was flooded and the family had to wait three weeks for the river waters to recede, before they could cross to the far bank. When the river finally returned to its normal course between its two banks, all the family's belongings and each family member were ferried to the other side of the river in a canoe. One at a time, the Benton family crossed the now calm river waters. Two men, one at each end of the canoe, paddled the craft across the recently wild Wabash, depositing the Benton's safely on the far bank.
The river's proximity to the Benton's new land claim provided them with an ample source of water and a place to wash clothes as the family settled into their new home. At first, the Benton's used roughly made furniture in their new homestead. Their beds were made by forcing four forked tree limbs into the dirt-swept prairie house floor. Brush was placed atop the poles that provided a bed-frame for the crude four-poster bed. The family's new home had a large fireplace where the family cooked all their meals. Eventually, an outdoor oven was added which helped to keep their prairie house cool in the summer. Sarah Jane was at least nineteen years old before she ever saw a store-bought cook stove. Since Sarah Jane's family made and used brown maple sugar, she was at least twenty-two before she ever saw white sugar purchased from a store.
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Sarah Jane and the other members of the Benton family appear in the 1850 Federal Census on their Wabash Homestead. However, at some point in the the next seven years Sarah Jane moved to Stephenson County, Illinois, where she married James Ward.
--Rebecca Benton McKnight, descendant of George W. Benton
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The following is the obituary from a Henry County Newspaper at the time of Sarah Jane Benton Ward's death:
Henry Co, MO - Mrs. Sarah J. Ward passed away at the home of her granddaughter Mrs. W. W. Huey, near LaDue, at 3 a.m. Sunday, from indigestion and infirmities of advanced age. She had been in declining health a number of years, but only took seriously ill on Saturday morning before she died. Deceased was born in Ohio and was 86 years old the 14th of last March. She was united in marriage about 68 years ago to James Ward, who preceded her in death about 22 years ago. They came to Missouri in the fall of 1866, from near Springfield, Ill., and lived in the Bethlehem neighborhood. To them were born 11 children, six of whom survive: Mrs. Etta V. Cook, Clinton; Wm. E. Ward, north of Clinton; Mrs. Edith Panter, Los Angeles, Calif.; Oscar Ward, Sterling, Colo.; W. O. Ward, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Mrs. Eva Wells, Eaton, Colo. There are 24 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, and she is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Angie Rood, Guthrie Center, Iowa, and one brother, Levi Benton, who is in the old soldiers home in California. Mrs. Ward came to Clinton from the Bethlehem neighborhood about 8 years ago and lived some time with her daughter Mrs. Wells; then later lived on West Allen street, and about a year ago she went to the home of her granddaughter to make her home. She was a good Christian woman and had been a member of the Bethlehem Baptist church for many years. She was loved by a wide circle of friends and all deeply sympathize with the children and other relatives in this time of deep sorrow. Funeral services were conducted about noon Wednesday at the Bethlehem church and the remains interred in the Bethlehem cemetery.
Sarah Benton - James Ward
25 May 1857
Marriage Records
Stehenson County, Illinois
Licence No. 285
Daughter of Joal & Margaret (Miller) Benton.
Wife of James E. Ward.
Sarah & James were the parents of the following children:
Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1962)
William Eugene Ward (1862 - 1942)
Edith Viola (Ward) Punter (1865 - 1959)
Oscar (Bud) Ward (1866 - 1922)
Oliver Wendell Ward (1869-1956)
Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
A Tribute to American Pioneer Woman, Sarah Jane Benton Ward -- She began her life in Sandusky County, Ohio as the second oldest daughter and third born child of pioneers, Margaret (Miller) Benton (1807-1889) and Joel Benton (1810-1882). Sarah Jane spent her early childhood years in Northern Ohio, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. One year and one day after Sarah Jane was born, on March 15, 1836 her father, Joel Benton, purchased land, through the U.S. Land Offices, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. The Benton homestead was near the homestead of a Michael Miller, whose family were probably close relatives as Sarah Jane's mother, Margaret, was a Miller before she married.
The following is based on an account of the Benton family's lives as pioneers, given by Sarah Jane's younger sister, Angeline, on the occasion of her one hundredth birthday. Sarah Jane's sister, Angeline "Angie" Benton Rood lived to be 102 years 9 months and 1 day old. Two of Sarah Jane's daughters also lived to be centenarians; Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1862), lived to be 102 years old, and her sister Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
lived to be 104. In addition, Sarah's great nephew, Calvin David Benton and his sister, Mary J. Benton Pemberton (1910 - 2011) lived to be over 100 years old.
About 1845, when Sarah Jane was around ten years old, the Benton family left their home in Sandusky, Ohio headed west to a land claim a mile and a half beyond the Wabash River, in Adams County, Indiana. When they reached the Wabash River, it was flooded and the family had to wait three weeks for the river waters to recede, before they could cross to the far bank. When the river finally returned to its normal course between its two banks, all the family's belongings and each family member were ferried to the other side of the river in a canoe. One at a time, the Benton family crossed the now calm river waters. Two men, one at each end of the canoe, paddled the craft across the recently wild Wabash, depositing the Benton's safely on the far bank.
The river's proximity to the Benton's new land claim provided them with an ample source of water and a place to wash clothes as the family settled into their new home. At first, the Benton's used roughly made furniture in their new homestead. Their beds were made by forcing four forked tree limbs into the dirt-swept prairie house floor. Brush was placed atop the poles that provided a bed-frame for the crude four-poster bed. The family's new home had a large fireplace where the family cooked all their meals. Eventually, an outdoor oven was added which helped to keep their prairie house cool in the summer. Sarah Jane was at least nineteen years old before she ever saw a store-bought cook stove. Since Sarah Jane's family made and used brown maple sugar, she was at least twenty-two before she ever saw white sugar purchased from a store.
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Sarah Jane and the other members of the Benton family appear in the 1850 Federal Census on their Wabash Homestead. However, at some point in the the next seven years Sarah Jane moved to Stephenson County, Illinois, where she married James Ward.
--Rebecca Benton McKnight, descendant of George W. Benton
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The following is the obituary from a Henry County Newspaper at the time of Sarah Jane Benton Ward's death:
Henry Co, MO - Mrs. Sarah J. Ward passed away at the home of her granddaughter Mrs. W. W. Huey, near LaDue, at 3 a.m. Sunday, from indigestion and infirmities of advanced age. She had been in declining health a number of years, but only took seriously ill on Saturday morning before she died. Deceased was born in Ohio and was 86 years old the 14th of last March. She was united in marriage about 68 years ago to James Ward, who preceded her in death about 22 years ago. They came to Missouri in the fall of 1866, from near Springfield, Ill., and lived in the Bethlehem neighborhood. To them were born 11 children, six of whom survive: Mrs. Etta V. Cook, Clinton; Wm. E. Ward, north of Clinton; Mrs. Edith Panter, Los Angeles, Calif.; Oscar Ward, Sterling, Colo.; W. O. Ward, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Mrs. Eva Wells, Eaton, Colo. There are 24 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, and she is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Angie Rood, Guthrie Center, Iowa, and one brother, Levi Benton, who is in the old soldiers home in California. Mrs. Ward came to Clinton from the Bethlehem neighborhood about 8 years ago and lived some time with her daughter Mrs. Wells; then later lived on West Allen street, and about a year ago she went to the home of her granddaughter to make her home. She was a good Christian woman and had been a member of the Bethlehem Baptist church for many years. She was loved by a wide circle of friends and all deeply sympathize with the children and other relatives in this time of deep sorrow. Funeral services were conducted about noon Wednesday at the Bethlehem church and the remains interred in the Bethlehem cemetery.
Marriage:
Sarah Benton - James Ward
25 May 1857
Marriage Records
Stehenson County, Illinois
Licence No. 285
Daughter of Joal & Margaret (Miller) Benton.
Wife of James E. Ward.
Sarah & James were the parents of the following children:
Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1962)
William Eugene Ward (1862 - 1942)
Edith Viola (Ward) Punter (1865 - 1959)
Oscar (Bud) Ward (1866 - 1922)
Oliver Wendell Ward (1869-1956)
Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
A Tribute to American Pioneer Woman, Sarah Jane Benton Ward -- She began her life in Sandusky County, Ohio as the second oldest daughter and third born child of pioneers, Margaret (Miller) Benton (1807-1889) and Joel Benton (1810-1882). Sarah Jane spent her early childhood years in Northern Ohio, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. One year and one day after Sarah Jane was born, on March 15, 1836 her father, Joel Benton, purchased land, through the U.S. Land Offices, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. The Benton homestead was near the homestead of a Michael Miller, whose family were probably close relatives as Sarah Jane's mother, Margaret, was a Miller before she married.
The following is based on an account of the Benton family's lives as pioneers, given by Sarah Jane's younger sister, Angeline, on the occasion of her one hundredth birthday. Sarah Jane's sister, Angeline "Angie" Benton Rood lived to be 102 years 9 months and 1 day old. Two of Sarah Jane's daughters also lived to be centenarians; Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1862), lived to be 102 years old, and her sister Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
lived to be 104. In addition, Sarah's great nephew, Calvin David Benton and his sister, Mary J. Benton Pemberton (1910 - 2011) lived to be over 100 years old.
About 1845, when Sarah Jane was around ten years old, the Benton family left their home in Sandusky, Ohio headed west to a land claim a mile and a half beyond the Wabash River, in Adams County, Indiana. When they reached the Wabash River, it was flooded and the family had to wait three weeks for the river waters to recede, before they could cross to the far bank. When the river finally returned to its normal course between its two banks, all the family's belongings and each family member were ferried to the other side of the river in a canoe. One at a time, the Benton family crossed the now calm river waters. Two men, one at each end of the canoe, paddled the craft across the recently wild Wabash, depositing the Benton's safely on the far bank.
The river's proximity to the Benton's new land claim provided them with an ample source of water and a place to wash clothes as the family settled into their new home. At first, the Benton's used roughly made furniture in their new homestead. Their beds were made by forcing four forked tree limbs into the dirt-swept prairie house floor. Brush was placed atop the poles that provided a bed-frame for the crude four-poster bed. The family's new home had a large fireplace where the family cooked all their meals. Eventually, an outdoor oven was added which helped to keep their prairie house cool in the summer. Sarah Jane was at least nineteen years old before she ever saw a store-bought cook stove. Since Sarah Jane's family made and used brown maple sugar, she was at least twenty-two before she ever saw white sugar purchased from a store.
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Sarah Jane and the other members of the Benton family appear in the 1850 Federal Census on their Wabash Homestead. However, at some point in the the next seven years Sarah Jane moved to Stephenson County, Illinois, where she married James Ward.
--Rebecca Benton McKnight, descendant of George W. Benton
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The following is the obituary from a Henry County Newspaper at the time of Sarah Jane Benton Ward's death:
Henry Co, MO - Mrs. Sarah J. Ward passed away at the home of her granddaughter Mrs. W. W. Huey, near LaDue, at 3 a.m. Sunday, from indigestion and infirmities of advanced age. She had been in declining health a number of years, but only took seriously ill on Saturday morning before she died. Deceased was born in Ohio and was 86 years old the 14th of last March. She was united in marriage about 68 years ago to James Ward, who preceded her in death about 22 years ago. They came to Missouri in the fall of 1866, from near Springfield, Ill., and lived in the Bethlehem neighborhood. To them were born 11 children, six of whom survive: Mrs. Etta V. Cook, Clinton; Wm. E. Ward, north of Clinton; Mrs. Edith Panter, Los Angeles, Calif.; Oscar Ward, Sterling, Colo.; W. O. Ward, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Mrs. Eva Wells, Eaton, Colo. There are 24 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, and she is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Angie Rood, Guthrie Center, Iowa, and one brother, Levi Benton, who is in the old soldiers home in California. Mrs. Ward came to Clinton from the Bethlehem neighborhood about 8 years ago and lived some time with her daughter Mrs. Wells; then later lived on West Allen street, and about a year ago she went to the home of her granddaughter to make her home. She was a good Christian woman and had been a member of the Bethlehem Baptist church for many years. She was loved by a wide circle of friends and all deeply sympathize with the children and other relatives in this time of deep sorrow. Funeral services were conducted about noon Wednesday at the Bethlehem church and the remains interred in the Bethlehem cemetery.
Sarah Benton - James Ward
25 May 1857
Marriage Records
Stehenson County, Illinois
Licence No. 285
Daughter of Joal & Margaret (Miller) Benton.
Wife of James E. Ward.
Sarah & James were the parents of the following children:
Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1962)
William Eugene Ward (1862 - 1942)
Edith Viola (Ward) Punter (1865 - 1959)
Oscar (Bud) Ward (1866 - 1922)
Oliver Wendell Ward (1869-1956)
Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
A Tribute to American Pioneer Woman, Sarah Jane Benton Ward -- She began her life in Sandusky County, Ohio as the second oldest daughter and third born child of pioneers, Margaret (Miller) Benton (1807-1889) and Joel Benton (1810-1882). Sarah Jane spent her early childhood years in Northern Ohio, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. One year and one day after Sarah Jane was born, on March 15, 1836 her father, Joel Benton, purchased land, through the U.S. Land Offices, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. The Benton homestead was near the homestead of a Michael Miller, whose family were probably close relatives as Sarah Jane's mother, Margaret, was a Miller before she married.
The following is based on an account of the Benton family's lives as pioneers, given by Sarah Jane's younger sister, Angeline, on the occasion of her one hundredth birthday. Sarah Jane's sister, Angeline "Angie" Benton Rood lived to be 102 years 9 months and 1 day old. Two of Sarah Jane's daughters also lived to be centenarians; Etta Ward Cook (1860 - 1862), lived to be 102 years old, and her sister Eveline Ward Wells (1873 - 1978)
lived to be 104. In addition, Sarah's great nephew, Calvin David Benton and his sister, Mary J. Benton Pemberton (1910 - 2011) lived to be over 100 years old.
About 1845, when Sarah Jane was around ten years old, the Benton family left their home in Sandusky, Ohio headed west to a land claim a mile and a half beyond the Wabash River, in Adams County, Indiana. When they reached the Wabash River, it was flooded and the family had to wait three weeks for the river waters to recede, before they could cross to the far bank. When the river finally returned to its normal course between its two banks, all the family's belongings and each family member were ferried to the other side of the river in a canoe. One at a time, the Benton family crossed the now calm river waters. Two men, one at each end of the canoe, paddled the craft across the recently wild Wabash, depositing the Benton's safely on the far bank.
The river's proximity to the Benton's new land claim provided them with an ample source of water and a place to wash clothes as the family settled into their new home. At first, the Benton's used roughly made furniture in their new homestead. Their beds were made by forcing four forked tree limbs into the dirt-swept prairie house floor. Brush was placed atop the poles that provided a bed-frame for the crude four-poster bed. The family's new home had a large fireplace where the family cooked all their meals. Eventually, an outdoor oven was added which helped to keep their prairie house cool in the summer. Sarah Jane was at least nineteen years old before she ever saw a store-bought cook stove. Since Sarah Jane's family made and used brown maple sugar, she was at least twenty-two before she ever saw white sugar purchased from a store.
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Sarah Jane and the other members of the Benton family appear in the 1850 Federal Census on their Wabash Homestead. However, at some point in the the next seven years Sarah Jane moved to Stephenson County, Illinois, where she married James Ward.
--Rebecca Benton McKnight, descendant of George W. Benton
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The following is the obituary from a Henry County Newspaper at the time of Sarah Jane Benton Ward's death:
Henry Co, MO - Mrs. Sarah J. Ward passed away at the home of her granddaughter Mrs. W. W. Huey, near LaDue, at 3 a.m. Sunday, from indigestion and infirmities of advanced age. She had been in declining health a number of years, but only took seriously ill on Saturday morning before she died. Deceased was born in Ohio and was 86 years old the 14th of last March. She was united in marriage about 68 years ago to James Ward, who preceded her in death about 22 years ago. They came to Missouri in the fall of 1866, from near Springfield, Ill., and lived in the Bethlehem neighborhood. To them were born 11 children, six of whom survive: Mrs. Etta V. Cook, Clinton; Wm. E. Ward, north of Clinton; Mrs. Edith Panter, Los Angeles, Calif.; Oscar Ward, Sterling, Colo.; W. O. Ward, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Mrs. Eva Wells, Eaton, Colo. There are 24 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, and she is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Angie Rood, Guthrie Center, Iowa, and one brother, Levi Benton, who is in the old soldiers home in California. Mrs. Ward came to Clinton from the Bethlehem neighborhood about 8 years ago and lived some time with her daughter Mrs. Wells; then later lived on West Allen street, and about a year ago she went to the home of her granddaughter to make her home. She was a good Christian woman and had been a member of the Bethlehem Baptist church for many years. She was loved by a wide circle of friends and all deeply sympathize with the children and other relatives in this time of deep sorrow. Funeral services were conducted about noon Wednesday at the Bethlehem church and the remains interred in the Bethlehem cemetery.
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Ward
James
Apr. 12, 1835
Jan. 29, 1899
Sarah J. HIS WIFE
Mar. 14, 1835
Jan. 1, 1922
AT REST
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m: May 25, 1857 to James E. WARD
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