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|--Lauretta KEYES ANDERSON
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| _Thomas Jefferson NORTH _+
| | (1801 - 1891) m 1823
|_Martha HENKLE NORTH _|
(1827 - 1863) m 1847 |
|_Elizabeth HENKLE _______
(1805 - 1905) m 1823
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_Calvin Aaron BENNER ______|
| (1864 - 1936) m 1890 |
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|--Robert Rice BENNER
| (1894 - 1918)
| _Levi WOLFE ______________+
| | (1836 - 1901) m 1857
|_Margaret Elizabeth WOLFE _|
(1867 - 1935) m 1890 |
|_Christina Matilda LANTZ _+
(1836 - 1917) m 1857
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On the 11 page scroll or Wolfe Family tree is that Robert Benner was killed in World War I
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There are two American Legion Post named after Robert Rice Benner
1) Robert R. Benner American Legion Post of Lewis, Kansas
2) S.R.G.B. American Legion Post of Eads, Colorado
(initials stand for) Schmachtenburger, Rainey, Gish, and Benner, for the young men who left Kiowa County and Eads during WWI.
Robert left the train depot in Eads with other Kiowa County boys to Camp Kearny in California, the train to the war in France went through Kit Carson, Colorado and because of time and communications, Robert could not let his family know how close he had came back home before being killed in the Argonne Forest in France. He was buried in France and later was reburied in Fremont, Ohio, next to his grand parents, Levi and Matilda Wolfe, sometime in late 1919 or 1921
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Was named after old Dr. Rice. (From the history of Sandusky County, Ohio there were three Doctors by the name of Rice. Robert S. Rice was the father of John B and Robert H. Rice. He was born May 28th, 1805 and died August 5th, 1875)
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In the city of Fremont, Ohio, there are a two parkways. Soldier's Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway. The Soldier's Memorial Parkway had horsechestnut trees planted, each with plaques with the names of the fallen soldiers from the area. On the McKinley Memorial Parkway, the sidewalk is imbedded with Bronze plaques in honor of the service men and women of WWI, WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War. In April of 1989, a newly formed neighborhood organization began the restoration of Fremont's Soldier's Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway. Missing horsechestnut trees replanted, shield-like plaques at the entrances have been repaired, painted and relettered. Broken-down cement posts have been replaced with new steel ones. On January 25, 1991, these two parkways were entered into the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
(article writen by Irene and Ray Semer, 521 Memorial Parkway on behalf of the Soldier's Memorial Parkway Association)
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ROBERT BENNER DIED ON FRENCH BATTLEFIELD
Word of the sad death of another Edwards County boy on the battle fields of France reached this community Sunday morning from the boy's family in Colorado.
Robert Rice Benner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Benner, for many years' residents of this county, was killed in action September thirtieth. The word came to Mr. and Mrs. E.T.Fox. old neighbors of the Benner family on Sunday morning, nearly five months after the death of the boy who was their nephew.
His family has been worried about him for a long time because they did not hear, but as the casualty lists were corrected and the mail congestion relieved they kept hoping for a letter from the son.
Robert went to Colorado with his parents and later enlisted and had been overseas but a short time when he is reported ot have been killed. He was engaged in agricultural work and might have claimed exemption from service, but he was not built that way.
Thru this action, this soldier proved himself every inch a man, of whom we can all be proud, in that he did not shirk his plain duty. He had the making of an ideal soldier, strong and healthy, with a fine clean face and clear eyes with which he could look all the world straight in the face.
Many of these young soldiers who hardly realized how great the danger that threatened, did realize, that it was a time that called for real men, whose hearts were strong and true, and they would not be slackers. They preferred death with honor, rather than life and the contempt of those who think straight. And so with the family, we all grieve over the sadness of the death of this American soldier, who gave youth and all that life meant to him for patriotism and Christianity. More than that, we share with them a pride in their son who gallantly did his full duty, and met death doing it. Surely such sacrifices, are what will bring a crown of glory in this world and the better world to which Robert Benner has gone. We claim him, even tho he enlisted from Colorado. The old neighbors and friends here extend the deepest sympathy to the father, mother and brothers who are left. And also congratulate them on having so trained their son, that when his country called he responded, and went into the great army of young Americans who helped save the world, and gave to his own country security against the Hun beasts who would have trampled its flag in the dust. He would rather be where he is today, than that poor thing of a man, the slacker, who having stayed at home, will in the future live in peace and plenty because of the glorious fight, which American men made for freedom. We mingle out tears with those of his family, and we shall help them to keep his dear memory alive.
(From a newspaper clipping assumed to be from Edwards Co., Lewis, Kansas)
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This letter was written by Gayetta Benner in August 1918: she was 10 years old. The letter is to Robert Benner, her brother, who was stationed at Camp Kearny, California, with the Army. Gayetta's mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Benner, Gayetta, and Marguerite, Jim's wife, were going to make a trip to Manhattan, Kansas, soon to visit Jim, Gayetta's oldest brother. He was in the Army also. Possibly this letter was in with the one Robert's mother wrote and was returned as Robert had been killed by the time the letter got to France.
Dear Brother, -- Will write you a few lines to let you know that I am all right. We bought three new cows and there were two new calves, one is a roan one and the other is a red one and the big ? cow that we bought has tits but the two front ones are about a half a foot long and the back ones are about a quater(? - quarter) long. Oh yes, we are going to Manhattan to see Jim. We are going to Kit Carson and straight to Manhattan and on the way back we're going to stay at Uncle Thompsons and Uncle Rob on the way home. Marguerite is going along. I wish you could go along too. We bought a calf at Eders and it is mine too. It is a white face and we are going to by one of Spielmans. It is a white face too.
Well must close now, hoping this will find you all right. Well good bye for this time.
From Gayetta Benner, Eads, Colo
Margarete Benner (mother) ps: I put $1.00 in here. If you get this all o.k. will send you some more.
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Robert's Insurance as mentioned above was being paid to Margarite E. Benner (mother) @ 57.50/month from 10/1/18 to 3/31/35 then payments were stopped because of the death of Margarite Benner, the beneficiary. there were 198 installments paid, with 42 still unpaid. This was sent in a lump sum of $2,279.00 to the estate of Robert R. Benner and Calvin A. Benner as administrator of the estate. A deposit slip to the First National Bank in Eads shows it was deposited on the 24th of June, 1935.
Sometime in 1921 Fremont Monumental Co on 307 W. State Street was given an order for a monument to be erected in Oakwood Cemetery at Fremont, State of Ohio for the sum of $45.00 and said work was to be erected on or about (soon as Possible) 1921. Work to be of Westerly granite with inscription:
Robert R. Benner
Co. L. 109 Inf 28 Div 1894 - 1918
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Argonne - a plateau comprising portions of the departments of Ardennes, Meuse, and Marne in northeastern France and providing a natural barrier between the former provinces of Lorraine and Champagne. A rocky, heavily forested area, the Argonne is 10 miles wide and stretches 44 miles in a southeast-northwest direction; its eastern boundary is marked by steep cliffs, and its western slope is traced by the Aisne. The Aire and its tributaries divide the plateau longitudinally. As a field of military operations, the Argonne has long figured in French history. Bitter fighting raged in its 25 mile wooded section during the campaign of Dumouriez in 1792, and in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The Battle of the Argonne in September 1918 gave the Allies ample evidence of the strength of the American Expeditionary Force when the American First Army and the French Fourth launched simultaneously an attack on the German positions in the woods of the Argonne. The operation was brought to a victorious finish with the Allies in control. German losses: 847 cannon, 3,000 machine guns, 26,000 prisoners. The American Army suffered 117,000 killed and wounded, but the success of the campaign led the way to further Allied gains which were a deciding factor in the German request for an armistice.
(Article by Marie V. Kowalk in the Collier's Encyclopedia, 1964)
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In September of 1918, Robert Rice Benner was killed in action in the Argonne Forest, France. In October of 1918, a cease war announcement was declared which was cause for celebration. On November 11, 1918, the Armistice was signed, thus ending the First World War. Up until 1954 it was called Armistice Day and then it was changed to Veteran's day.
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Debi Faris: Bertha died at the Davis Memorial Hosp. in Elkins. She is buried
in the Maplewood Cemetery in Elkins. She is there with her husband William,
two sons and a grandaughter. Bertha died of Arteriosclerotic heart desease.
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|--Joseph Nicholas CARBONETTI
| (1925 - 1993)
| _John R. STROBACH _________+
| | (1859 - 1918) m 1888
|_Josephine Barbara STROBAUGH _|
(1900 - 1984) m 1922 |
|_Margaret Sophia KARLHEIM _
(1861 - 1944) m 1888
[197] !Death: Obit.- Erie Morning News 22 Mar 1993
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_Elijah (Key) KEE ___|
| (1863 - 1951) m 1891|
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|--Dewey Wilson KEE
| (1896 - 1966)
| _Isaac TETER ___________+
| | (1844 - 1928) m 1866
|_Cora Alice TETER ___|
(1872 - 1902) m 1891|
|_Sarah Elizabeth TETER _+
(1850 - ....) m 1866
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!Naturalization: 11 Apr 1751 (Quaker)
!Will: 6 Apr 1766
!Death: Piladelphia Will; Book N, p. 514
!Burial: Mennonite Cemetery
_Adam "AD" Clay TETER _+
| (1848 - 1909) m 1873
_Adam Clay TETER ____|
| (1873 - 1944) m 1906|
| |_Mary Ellen NELSON ____
| (1857 - 1941) m 1873
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|--Gaylord Crowell TETER
| (1911 - ....)
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|_Elsie Lee BENN _____|
(1889 - 1971) m 1906|
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_Noah WARNER ________|
| (1843 - 1929) m 1866|
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|--Gertie A WARNER
| (1883 - 1963)
| _Philip TETER _______+
| | (1801 - 1871) m 1826
|_Rebecca TETER ______|
(1843 - 1937) m 1866|
|_Sidney BLAND _______
(1809 - 1861) m 1826