Re: DAVID BENTON 1779-1800 NORTH CAROLINA
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DAVID BENTON 1779-1800 NORTH CAROLINA
Debra Lane 5/04/07
Children :
Martha Catherine (1808-)
Isiah (~1805-)
John Presley (1810-1867)
William Cross (1815-)
David Washington (1817-1899)
Namesake of Benton Co., David Benton was the son of consummate Revolutionary patriot of the same name who spent the entire war in the services of North and South Carolinian Militias. The subject was born inthe mist of the conflict about 1778. The family lived in several localeswith both states following the war counted among the rising tide ofTennessee bound emigration just after 1800.
In middle Tn. David married Pheriba (Phebe) ca. 1775, born daughter ofJohn Melton and Elizabeth Jones, a native of Nash Co., N.C. who had struck out for the new frontier with her siblings Mary (Mrs. ThomasHart), Matthew, Thomas, Joseph and Cooper. All but Joseph were residing together in Warren Co. by 1812, where David and Cooper enlisted as"Tennessee Volunteers" and served in the push to drive the Creek Indians from Northern Alabama.
Following his father's death in 1819, David returned to northern AL(Jackson Co.) joining others from his state "squatting" on Indian territory. He and Phebe became key players in the establishment of the region's first Baptist Church, the Mud Creek Primitive congregation,where their names were inscribed first on the list of charter members.David's active role in the group's maintenance included penning church records and supplying the planking for the pews of the log-cabin meetinghouse.
Within a few years the inability to secure land titles and internal bickering had made much of the community restless. When David's brotherSamuel who had previously settled in Humphries Co. passed word of Cherokee land on the lower Tennessee soon to be available for settlement, many were ready to follow David down the River in 1825. One of the few to claim the required letter for transferring church membership was MudCreek charter elder John Horn, later prominent in Baptist history within this county. Reunited with his brother, David and his closer relatives were welcomed into Adam Harmon's neighborhood.
David appears to have been instrumental in generating public support forthe creation of a new county in 1836. when a name was to be chosen, most citizenry opted for David's, but another faction insisted on that of Ephriam Perkins, for most in the political duties for organization. top reserve local unity, David agreed to a compromise adopting "Benton" in honor of his second cousin, Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and both David and Perkins were appointed magistrates in the county's first court.The legistlature renamed the county in 1852 in recognition of Davids'scontributions in the region's development.
David's children would include Martha Catherine (the first Mrs. J. BerryVester). John P., William Cross, a son (possibly Isiah or Josiah) who died in late youth, and David Washington Benton. Their father died of heart failure in April 1860. and was survived by Phebe until the early years of the Civil War. Both were interred in unmarked graves on the family's 423-acre farm on Harmons Creek. Cedar trees on the site weretransplanted by David from saplings originationg fron S.C.
THE ABOVE INFORMATION TAKEN FROM VOL.# 1 OF THE BENTON CO. HISTORY BOOK.
Source: Families and Histories Benton County, TN 1836-1986, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, page 64.
In the 1850 census these are listed:
Benton, David 71
Feriba 71
Martha and Elizabeth (twins) 23
SC, NC, Be-690-657
Benton, D.W. (David Washington) 33
Elizabeth 34
Mary 14
Mary Ann 12
Martha 7
Missouri 5
Margaret 4
William 2
Ala, T. Be-680-656
Benton, John P. (Presley) 40
Winny 40
Martha 19
Lemuel 15
Isabella 14
David 9
John 8
Mary 7
James 2
Ferebee 20
T., T., Be-689-557
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