Person:Benjamin Queen (1)

•Fact 1: 2nd Lieutenant in Confederate Army 1 2 •Fact 2: defended Cumberland Gap with the 62nd regiment of NC, according to Chris Queen m 1 2

1831 - born May 6 to William B. and Mary Nicholson Queen.

1844 - a Benjamin N. Queen received a land grant for 100 acres in Macon Co. NC on 1 March 1844. On the same day a Dicy Queen and a Hannah Queen ALSO received a grant for 100 acres.[30]

1855 - married Mary Catherine Carson.

1856 - Jackson Co., NC bastardy bonds, June 1856 - Martha Hooper vs. B.N. Queen (defendant confesses).[31]

2nd Lieutenant in Confederate Army defended Cumberland Gap with the 62nd regiment of NC, according to Chris Queen memo, Chris is a grandson of Benjamin. Listed as amember of the 62nd North Carolina Infantry. The 62nd was formed ion July , 1862, and was assigned to Generaal Gracie's command at Cumberland Gap in July 1863. Many of the 62nd wee captured there in September of 1863, but a number escaped capture and reformed at Ashville NC. records show that 443 men of the 62nd were prisoners at Camp Douglass, Chicago, Ill. The unit was later disbanded.

Pastor of Sol's Creek Baptist Church in East LaPort, NC

1870 Caney Fork, Jackson Co., NC

1871 - moved from the John’s Creek area (where his parents lived) to Canada, Jackson Co., NC.

1908 - died January 6, and is buried in the Sol’s Creek Cemetery

From Vicki Shaffer.

150/150 QUEEN BN 39 Mary C. 39 Thos C. 14 Wm A. 12 Askew C. 9 Seguria A. 7 Gustavus B. 4 Harman R. 1