Person:Luella Jones (3)

1860 Titus Co., TX, census, p.142B, Precinct #7, P.O. Grey Rock, July 5, 1860: LUCY E. JONES, 13 F, IL; with 22/22, E. W. JONES, 66 M, farmer, $300 real, $700 personal, OH; Phebe, 45 F, KY; Thomas J., 26 M, day laborer, IN.

1870 March 5, Will of Sarah Jones, Hamilton Co., OH; beneficiaries include" "to my neice [sic] Luella Jones youngest child of E.W. Jones $50.00 Fifty Dollars . . . to draw legal intrest from my Death untill the Farm is Sold." (Elizabeth Jones Wyckoff sold the farm and personal property in 1887 and moved to Mason, Warren Co., OH. See Ella's June 27, 1878, letter below.)

1870 Hamilton Co., OH, census, Symmes Twp., p.734, P.O. Montgomery, June 28, 1870, James I. Ross: LUELLA JONES, 18 F W, at school, IL; with 48/49, William WIKOFF, 56 M W, clerk, $2100 real, [blank] personal, OH; Elizabeth, 59 F W, keeps house, OH; Ada W. HOPKINS, 30 F W, seamstress, OH; Reason JONES, 64 M W, retired farmer, OH; William S. PERKINS [Luella's nephew], 10 M W, at school, TX. Luella, William attend school.

1870 Nov. 30, Luella was Evan's youngest child, and was at least age 18 when she witnessed the Will of her first cousin, Francis Marion Jones, in Hamilton Co., OH.

1870 Dec. 26, Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "Luella is waiting to take this to the [post] office / she is still with us but I dont know how long she will remain . . . Luella says tell Jane she received a letter from Mr Love [probably Jane's father] last week / he was well."

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella last week / she is well and doing well / aunt is getting better,"

The Panic of 1873 began in Europe and reached the United States in the fall of 1873. <http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h213.html>

[1873] Nov. 13, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received a letter from cousin Ella last week / they were all well, / she said the panic had not effected Henrys business very much for where they couldnt pay him the money he can get orders for coal or Groceries, / But there are a great many poor families that will suffer this winter in the large cities, / the shop where Ella an Lydia worked stopped two weeks but expected to resume last Monday."

no date [ca. 1876 between Sept. 18 and Dec. 10], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You asked me about aunt Phebe / she is at Lizzie Mercers / has been there 4 years. Her P.O. address is Delaware City, Delaware. Care Henry Mercer, / Luella is there now / has been very ill indeed not expected to live. Naaty Consumption / I had a letter from Lizzie Friday, / Ella was better so she could sit up a little while / Her Physician says if he can prevent her lungs ulcerating again she may get along but if her lungs ulcerate again there is no hope . . . write soon and wirte to Ella and aunt Phebe / it would do Ella so much good."

1876 Dec. 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "I was so glad that I was here in time to meet my cousins, as I presume it is the only opportunity I will ever have to seeing them, and I should have been rejoiced, had you been with them . . . I expect to remain here untill Spring at least, dont know whether I will then go back to Philadelphia or to Delaware, circumstance will decide."

1877 Feb. 6, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "we received a letter from Ella on frida / she was well / she sais she will not start home untill the weather gets warmer . . . Ma is writing to Ella / she sends her love to all and asks to be remberd to the neighbars"

1877 May 6, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "I received a letter from Ella last monday / she was right well and expect to start home a bout the 14 of this month"

1877 July 17, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "Ella and I have both been prety poorly for the last three weeks / Ella came home the nineteenth of may / she is helping us milk / the Dr sais it would bee good for her to bee among the cows . . . we are milking fifty seven cows and it takes your uncle the two boys Ella and me to milk them and it keps ma buisy doing the chores a bout the house for she is cripled in both hands so that she cant milk atall"

1877 Oct. 22, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I also had a letter from Luella too weeks ago / they were all in their usual health . . . Ella is talking some of going to Philadelphia again to go into business / I would be glad to hear of her marriage for she has to work so hard to make her living and is not strong, / her side is hurting some again."

1877 Dec. 16, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "ma is very well and Ella is looking so mutch better than she did when she came home / she still has that paine in her side at time / we have been (?)yan?ing Leectrisety [trying electricity]* and she thinks it helps her / we have a small butery [battery] and I have tried it in sevaral ca?es and it has always relieved all that has tried it"

• Lizzie may be referring to a devise powered with a battery that applied small electric shocks to the body to relieve pain. See Medical Antiques: Quack Medicine <http://www.collectmedicalantiques.com/quack.html>

1878 June 27, New York City, 200 Canal St. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "You will doubtlless be some what surprised to receive a letter from me post marked New York but as my Sister Lizzie says, "you need not be surprised at any thing I do." . . . As you are aware, I have been out of employment since I last my situation, at the time I had that attack of typhoid fever, untill now. The firm I was with at the time I was taken sick, left Philada for New York soon after, and a bout two week ago, through the marriage of one of the young ladies in the store, there were enabled to offer me a steady situation here which I was not slow to accept. I regretted having to come so far, but it is not as if I was going entirely among strangers. I have several friends here, one boarding at the same place. I left home on the 18th, all were well then. I have not heard from them yet. I left home on Friday, stopped in Philada. till Monday, then came on to this city. I like it here very well so far. I have a very nice boarding place, convenient to the store. There are about sixty boarder's but every thing is quiet and orderly. . . . I fear aunt Lizzie and uncle Reason are not long for this world they are so frail. Jennie will you please tell me what our cousins intend doing about uncle Joels share in the place in Ohio? I wish to know, as I have an interest there, through aunt Sarah's will, which cannot be settled till the place is sold but I do not wish to do any thing while they live."

1878 Aug. 17, New York City, 200 Canal St. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "we have been very busy at the store and had very little time to my self for any thing. We are a little slack now for the first time since I came here, and runing the sewing machine from morning till night day after day is not the easiest work in the world, Jennie, and I feel pretty well run down, but I hepe to get a little rest now before the fall trade begins / I wanted very much to go to Del. City for two or three weeks this month, but could not get off, and I cunducted to wait til winter, then perhaps I can go and stay longer."

1878 Oct. 4, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Luella was well last week, she is so very fleshy, I am rejoiced to think she is recovering her health."

1878 Dec. 8, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Zillman Jones: "Aunt Phebe is with us / came the first day of November / is going to remain all winter." and to her cousin Jane Love: "Your Grandma is with us this winter. She says cousins Lizzie and Ella have both written to you and were wondering why you did not write and the last letter I recived from Ella she asked me when I had heard from you. Ella is still in New York / her address the same / 200 Cannal st. / her side is hurting her a good deal. She is taking Cod Liver Oil."

1880 March 9, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousins Jane Love, Lillice Jones, and Zillman Jones: "I would have written sooner but I was waiting for a letter from Ella as I wanted to know their address as they intended moving but she says direct your letters the same as before 200 Canal St, / that is the number of the store she is in. Auntie is very well satisfied and likes New York city very much and she is not exposed at all as, Bath, room, coal closet, water, are all along their Hall, all she has to do is to go out of the kitchen and across the hall, the coal closet will hold half a ton of coal, and every room on the flat has a closet in it. I sent Ella your address"

1880 New York (Manhattan), New York City-Greater, New York, census index, p.339C: PHOEBA JONES, head, widow, F W 64, keeping house, KY SC KY; Ella, dau, single, F W 28, mattress maker, IL OH KY.

ca. 1883 May 14, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Had a letter from Luella a few days ago. She and auntie have broken up housekeeping for a while and auntie is thinking of coming to Ohio and Kentucky to spend the summer / thinks her health will be better. Lizzie Mercer is still living in Philadelphia / aunt Phebe intended going there the first of this month / we will be glad to have her come."

1883 June 9. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella / Auntie is in Philadelphia / intends going to Kentucky the middle of this month and Ella expects to meet her here on her return trip."

1883 Aug. 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You wished to know Ella's address / it is 123 Baxter st / New York City."

1883 Oct. 24, Denton, Denton Co., TX. Sarah Belle Wilkinson wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Do you know Luela P.O. / we have not heard from her for some time"

1883 Oct. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You wished Ellas address / it is, 120 Baxter st, New York. N.Y."

1884 Jan. 18, New York City. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love that her mother "is now back to Phil. with sister Lizzie. / I went on Saturday before Christmas, stayed with them a week. Enjoyed the visit very much, but the weather being so very severe, kept me in a great deal more than was agreeable. . . . Ma intends returning here in the Spring, and I presume we will begin housekeeping again. / I have been boarding with a friend since she went away."

1884 Dec. 3. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I am better than when Ella wrote you . . . Aunt Phebe only remained a few days with us / she arrived home safely and was feeling quite well."

1886 Aug. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have not heard from Aunt Phebe nor Ella since I wrote you last, as I wrote you they were both sick then."

1887 June 6, Box 259, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella / she and auntie were well and their address is still the same 42 east 12th street."

1887 Sept. 22. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received a letter from cousin Ella last week / she and aunt Phebe are well."

1888 May 10, Madisonville, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Ella and aunt Phebe hae moved to Brooklyn New York / no 20 E Washington Avenue"

1889 Jan. 9, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Have you heard from aunt Phebe and Ella lately / they have broken up housekeeping / Ella has gone back to New York and aunt Phebe lives with Lizzie Mercer this winter"

1889 April 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I hear frequently from Lizzie Mercer and Luella. Luella is still in New York. Her address is No 46 east 10th st New York"

1889 July 15, Philadelphia, PA. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You will no doubt be surprised to receive a letter written by me from here . . . Aunt Phebe is here / has been since last October. I have not seen Ella yet as she has been so busy she couldnt come / she expected to come next saturday / I will be so glad as I am anxious to see her."

1889 Dec. 11, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Here I am back in Ohio once more. . . I had a letter from Ella last week / her address is still the same, No 46 E. 10th st / New York City NY. Ella was looking well when I was there"

1890 Jan. 2, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter . . . last week from Ella / [her] is 46 E. 10th st / New York N.Y."

1890 Aug. 7, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt Phebe and Luella are at the seashore, Seabright N.J. where I was last summer. I would love to be with them."

1891 Jan. 28, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I heard from Luella last week / she is in New York, address No.3. Jackson St."

1891 June 12, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have not heard from Ella since in April / then she was very poorly with Grippe / I have written to her and Lizzie both to day"

1892 Nov. 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have been waiting so long for Lizzie Mercers address so as to send it to you for Jane they have gone so very far away that I never expect to see them again. The 12th of September Henry, Lizzie, aunt Phebe, Evan, John, and Johns little girl left Philadelphia for a ranch on Can[y]on Creek Wyoming. Lydia remained in Philadelphia and Luella in New York / Luella is almost heartbroken over their going. . . Luellas address is 36 E. 12th st. New York. N.Y."

1893 Feb. 5, Canyon Creek Ranch, Vermillion P.O., Sweetwater Co., WY. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "we get a letter from Sister Ella & our daughter every week / Ella is in NY / she talks of coming out in the spring / so does our daughters family"

1893 Feb. 20, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Ellas address is changed now to 24 University Place N.Y. / she likes it better than where she was before . . . Poor Ella is so unhappy I feel so sorry for her."

1894 Feb. 15, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Lillice Jones Harper: "Your welcome letter was received yesterday evening. I had written in December after Henry Mercers death. He died the 2nd of December . . . I dont know what they will do / Lydia wants them to go back to Philadelphia. Ella had prospect of getting in as a clerk in the P.O at Rock Springs and Lizzie was keeping lodgers, / it is a town of 6000 or 7000 inhabitants and Evan had work too"

1897 Dec. 23, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Lillice Jones Harper: "I had a letter from Cousin Ella last week. Aunt Phebe / Lizzie Mercer and Evan are in Whatcom, Washington, Luella and John and his family are still in Rock Spring. Wyoming." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nranck/colt-p/p1344.htm#i39927 Ella Jones lived at Cister, WA [Cispus, Lewis Co.]. She married ? Benham. She was the daughter of Evan Jones and Phebe Parmer. [S24] Chambers, George Gailey, Family Group sheets and Correspondence, copies in my files; hereafter referred to as Chambers Manuscripts.

(?) ca. 1898, Luella md. Charles BENHAM.

1900 census

1910 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.33B, Birch Bay Precinct, April 19-20, 1910, C.M. Manley: 40/41, CHARLES BENHAM, head, M W 49, md. 12 yrs., MI NY MI, teamster, logging camp, rents home; Ella, wife, F W 49, mother of 0 children, IL OH KY; Lulu, adopted dau, F W 11, WA IN IN; Jacob A. Jackson, boarder, M W 50, IN OH OH, laborer, odd jobs.

1920 Umatilla Co., OR, census, p.144A, Pendleton City, Jan. 6, 1920, Eda Blomquist: 704 E. Alta, 108/132, CHARLES BENHAM, head, rents, M W 58, md., MI NY OH, laborer, teamster; Ella, wife, F W 58, IL OH KY, no occupation.

1923 Nov. 3, CHARLES BENHAM died in Umatilla Co., OR, certificate 247. --Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998 (Ancestry.com)

1930 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.30A, Bellingham City, April 12, 1930, Mrs. J.M. Meador: ELLA BENHAM, aunt, F W 77, widow, age 30 when first md., IL OH KY; with 521 Kentucky, 160/172, John MERCER, head, owns home valued $1500, M W 66, divorced, age 29 when first md., TX PA IL, hauling mail, U.S.

Amy R. Jones Brownfield (Luella's older half-sister) > Seraphina "Sarah" Brownfield Bohn > Perry O. Bohn md. Bertha Peterson: 1930 Whatcom Co., WA, census, pp.243A-B, Bellingham City, April 14, 1930, Mrs. Lillian A. Bell: 2517 Utter St., 254/258, BERTHA BOHN, head, owns home valued $2300, owns a radio, F W 45, md.[?[, age 22 when first md., IA Denmark IL, no occupation; Flossie, dau, F W 20, IA IL IA, no occupation; Melvin, son, M W 18, IA IL IA; Oliver, son, M W 8, WA IL IA; Orville, son, M W 8, WA IL IA; Marian, dau, F W 5, WA IL IA; Carrie PETERSON, mother, 74 widow, IL NY NY.