Benson MERRY ²

  General Notes:

FAMILY TREE MAKER'S MARRIAGE INDEX: OHIO 1789-1850:
Benson "Marry" married Rachel Fogle 1/29/1835 in Morgan Co.

NOTATION, Source Unknown:
"Benson Merry killed a bear with a pen knife near a spring when it came up behind him and attempted to hug him to death while he was drinking at the spring. In Ohio, near Caldwell, where he grew up. This was told to me a few years ago by Rufus Merry retired bank president of Caldwell, Ohio."

OH, MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1774-1993:
Name: Benson Marrey
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 10 Dec 1834
Marriage Place: Morgan, Ohio, USA
Spouse: Rachel Fogle
Film Number: 000910657

1840 OH CENSUS, Noble Co, Union Twp:
Benson Merry
1 m. under 5 (Thomas)
1 m. 20-30 (Benson)
1 f. under 5
1 f. 20-30 (Rachel)
1 person engaged in agriculture
1 person over age 20 could not read or write
(Listed on census near Ambrose Merry, Thomas "Bayles", Samuel Millslagle, Lewis Ackley, Andrew Millslagle, Anson "Wickam" and Rouse Merry.)

1850 OH CENSUS, Monroe Co, Union Twp:
Benson Merry, 36, farmer, $1000 real estate, b. NY;
Rachel, 36, b. OH;
Thomas, 10, attended school, b. OH;
Michael, 8, attended school, b. OH;
Miles, 3, b. OH;
Samantha, 3/12, b. OH;
Margaret Durmel, 14, attended school, b. OH.

1860 OH CENSUS, Noble Co, Center Twp, Sarahsville P.O.:
Benson Merry, 46, farmer, $2500 real estate, $3251 personal property, b. NY;
Rachel, 46, domestic, b. OH;
Michael, 18, farm hand, b. OH, attended school;
Miles, 12, farm hand, b. OH, attended school;
"Semantha", 11, b. OH, attended school;
Annannias, 3, b. OH;
"Meriah" Sheppard, 7, b. OH, attended school.

U.S. CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS, 1861-1865:
Name: Benson Merry
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Ohio
Regiment: 66th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
Company: G
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: Benson/Mury
Film Number: M552 roll 73

1870 IN CENSUS, Lawrence Co, Spice Valley Twp:
Benson "Marry", 56, farmer, $2500 real estate, $$600 personal property, b. NY, cannot read/write;
Rachel, 56, keeping house, b. OH, cannot write;
Ananias, 13, at home, b. OH, attended school.

1880 IN CENSUS, Lawrence Co, Spice Valley Twp:
Benson Merry, 66, farmer, disabled, cannot read/write, b. NY, father b. MA, mother b. NY;
Rachel Merry, wife, 65, keeping house, cannot read/write, b. OH, father b. Prussia, mother b. PA;
Lillie J. Henderson, ad. dau, 7, attended school, b. IN, mother b. IN.
(Michael Merry was listed on the same census page.)

U.S., CIVIL WAR PENSION INDEX: GENERAL INDEX TO PENSION FILES, 1861-1934:
Name: Benson Merry
Service: G 66 OH Inf
Invalid: 8 May 1882
Place Filed: Indiana, USA
Relation to Head: Soldier

FIND A GRAVE:
Name: Benson Merry
Birth Date: 1814
Birth Place: Milford, Otsego County, New York, United States of America
Death Date: Jul 1885
Death Place: Lawrence County, Indiana, United States of America
Cemetery: Connerley Switch Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Lawrence County, Indiana, United States of America
Has Bio?: Y
Father: Ambrose Hunt Merry
Mother: Margaret Merry
Children: Samantha Angeline Johnson; Michael Merry

U.S. RECORDS OF HEADSTONES OF DECEASED UNION VETERANS, 1879-1903:
Name: Benson Merry
Event Type: Cemetery
Event Date: 19 Jul 1885
Event Place: Huron, , Indiana
Pvt., Co. G, 66th OH Inf

Benson married Rachel FOGLE, daughter of Jacob FOGLE and Margaret WHITE, on 10 Dec 1834 in Morgan Co, OH.¹ (Rachel FOGLE was born in 1814 in Belmont Co, OH,⁵ died in 1908 in Lawrence Co, OH ⁵ and was buried in Connerley Switch Cem, Spice Valley Twp, Lawrence Co, IN ³.)