Benjamin was the husband of Eliza J. Lippincott. He was first married to Lydia Ann Baker who preceded him in death.

Known children born to the union with Eliza were:
William Clement
Benjamin Clement
Sumner Clement
Jarius Clement
Julien Clement (Julie Ann Clement Sweet)
Louis Sherman Clement
James Bailey Clement
Hannah Clement
Nellie Clement
Grace Clement (Hutchins)
Reillea V. Clement
Minnie Clement
Honess Clement
(Names gathered from census records - spelling varies)

Julien is listed as being an eight year old female in the 1870 census records.

"The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, Jan. 18, 1907, p 1.

Elder Benjamin Clement was born in the Parish of Hungerford, Berks County, England on the 31 of July, 1817; and died January 13, 1907, making his age 89 years 5 months and 13 days. His parents, John and Hannah White Clement, were conscientious, God fearing people, and his mother a devoted member of the Methodist Church.

When he was just a teenager, his sister and her husband decided to come to America, and they gave Benjamin a opportunity to come with them. His seventeenth birthday was spent on the Atlantic Ocean, and they were eight weeks and four days on the voyage. Landing in Quebec, Canada, he soon found work among farmers in harvest fields at good prices.

After harvest of the year he went with his brother-in-law 130 miles farther west where the latter had purchased land, and worked for him two and a half years. Not satisfied in Canada, he started on foot for the United Stated, walking 120 miles to Detroit, enroute for southern Indiana; but his money ran out before reaching journeys end.

He worked for the state of Ohio for a while in extending the canal. After a few weeks of that he hired out to a carpenter. By then he was 21 years old, and the next 20 years he lived in Shelby County, Ohio.

On January 31st, 1839 he was married to Lydia Ann Baker, who died April 3rd, 1857, leaving six living children-four boys and two girls. In July 1858, he married Eliza Jane Lippincott, who died December 11, 1885, leaving him 12 children.

In 1859 he moved to Iowa, where he spent the next twenty years.

In September 1875 he had the misfortune to loose his left leg by being thrown under the train in Clinton, Iowa. Two years after this accident, in 1877 he moved to Nebraska and settled on Davis Creek.

The last years of his life were spent in North Loup. At the time of his death he left, 17 living children, sixteen grandchildren and 53 great-grandchildren. Theo. L. Gardiner"

Obituary courtesy of: FindAGrave contributor Jon Saunders.

Three known children by his first marriage are:
Nathaniel Clement
John Wesley Clement
Mary Matilda Clement Sayre

Thanks to Contributor Jerry Sayre for the above information.