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- from "The Angelica Advocate", 4 Oct 1917 (fultonhistory.com)
GEORGE W BENJAMIN
George W. Benjamin of Nickerson, Kansas died on Sept. 13th of cancer. Mr. Benjamin was born in Belfast and spent his boyhood days in this vicinity. He enlisted In the Civil War in Co E 85th Reg. He was captured at Plymouth, North Carolina April 20, 1804 and endured the hardships of Florence and Andersonville prisons. He was discharged June 7, 1805 and in Sept. of the same year he was married to Miss Addie Dean of Friendship and they lived there until 1887 when they moved to Kansas and located at Nickerson . The Nickerson paper speaks very highly of him. He was a brother of Mrs. Amos White of Angelica and Elias Benjamin of Belfast.
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- from "The Bolivar Breeze", 27 Sept 1917 (fultonhistory.com)
GEORGE BENJAMIN DIES IN THE WEST
Former Allegany County Man Passed Away on September 13.
George Benjamin, a former resident of Allegany county, died Sept. 13, at his home in Nickerson, Kan., at the age of 70 years. His early life was spent in and near Friendship, where he has many relatives and friends, and he had on several occasions during the past few years come east to attend the Benjamin family reunion. Failing health would not permit of his attending the gathering this year, although he was present last year in company with his granddaughter, Miss Sibyl Benjamin, who remained with him to the last and faithfully ministered to his wants during his lingering illness at his home in Nickerson, where he preferred to remain. His was a cheerful, genial, optimistic temperament, and it was seldom that he spoke of bodily ailments, although he suffered acutely from rheumatism ever since his release from Andersonville prison at the close of the Civil war. Although thus handicapped, he a few years later migrated west with his wife and son William and achieved a competence as a Kansas farmer and was ever a loyal citizen , proud of the Sunflower state and all it had achieved politically and in other ways. During his incarceration In Andersonville prison he was in company with Thomas Fay, the husband of Mrs. Miriam Fay of this place, and also our well known townsman, Alvia Jordan. The story of their escape and re-capture is a thrilling one. They hid during the day and traveled at night, many time so weary and worn they nearly collapsed by the wayside, each encouraging and trying to cheer the other, and "Uncle George," whom the boys said was a famous whistler, helped them mightily as the one of the trio remarked to the writer not long since, with his low, cheerful whistle, when the boys urged him to "tune up," but usually he needed no urging. Deceased is survived by two sons, William and Merle, who are in the west; three sisters, Mrs. Abagail Todd and Mrs. Harriet Smalley of Friendship; Mrs. Amos White of Allen; one brother, Elias A. Benjamin of Belfast, and nine grandchildren. His wife died about two years ago.
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1838 - 1917 (79 years)