George Benson
Birth 27 Feb 1838
Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
Death 5 Feb 1917 (aged 78)
Putnam County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Pleasant Home Cemetery
Worthington, Putnam County, Missouri, USA
Benson, George C. —Enlisted 14 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. C,103rd Infantry. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Description at enlistment: 5'8", light hair, blackeyes.
Benson, George C.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,DC
Born 27 February 1838 in Greenbriar Co., Virginia to William C. Benson of Virginia. George married Rachael M. Rambo in Knox Co., Illinois on 12 March 1857, who was born 6 May 1837 and died 15 February 1920. Their children: James
Emry born 22 July 1866; Lura J. born 5 March 1871; John William born 17 February 1858 and died by 1915; Harvey born 2 July 1860 and died by 1915. In 1865 they lived in Copperas Creek (Banner) Illinois; 1869 moved to Iowa; 1873 moved to Missouri; 1908 living in Martinstown (Putnam) Missouri; and in 1917 were in Worthington, Missouri. George Benson died 5 February 1917 of pneumonia. Burial
in Pleasant Home Cemetery, Worthington (Putnam) Missouri.
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