... Frederic and Dorotha (Helms) Benard, who
removed to Indiana and thence to Pope County, Ill., in 1817. They were
prosperous farmers and reared two sons and five daughters. They died on
their own farm, two miles east of Eddyville. He died at about eighty
years of age, and she some ten years afterward, also at about eighty
years of age. Mr. Benard was born in Germany and came to the United
States at an early day, settling in Virginia, where he was married. ...
