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Re: Thomas Benson - Vina Tollison - NC/AL
Posted by: Linda Beaugez (ID *****1563)	Date: April 26, 2008 at 03:15:29
In Reply to: Thomas Benson - Vina Tollison - NC/AL by Carol Eason	of 3770

I have been working this Benson line for over 40 years.
There is NO Vina Tollison.

Vina was a name made up for proof of Indian heritage in order to garner monitory/land gain.

If someone can show me proof of her existance, other than

Vol. 1, No. 2, Page 11 of the Benson Trace:

"John (1) Benson Family of Franklin Co. Ala. he married Rhoda Tollerson circa 1814/5 in Bledsoe? Co., Tenn. She was the daughter of Erasmus & ______(______)Tollerson and was born circa 1792 in Tenn or N.C."

In a petition by Braxton C. Benson for Identification as a Mississippi Choctaw, June 20, 1900, he claimed that Vina and Rhoda Tollison were sisters and 1/2 blood Mississippi Choctaw Indians.

please let me know, as there is NO proof, as far as I know.

Thanks!

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