Benjamin Franklin ZENTMYER

1851 - 1903  (51 years)

• Name	Benjamin Franklin ZENTMYER
  Birth	01 Jun 1851	Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Death	01 Apr 1903	Montesano, Grays Harbor Co., Washington
  Notes	Benjamin Franklin Zentmyer (Frank) and his brother William went from Vermillion Illinois to Kentucky by oxen, pulling a saw mill across the frozen Ohio River in the winter of 1883-1884. They settled near Manitou, Kentucky. Bill and his family lived in Madisonville and their younger brother Thomas Jefferson Zentmyer worked on a railroad near St Louis and fell off the train and was killed. Don't think he ever married. After Elena died, Frank sold the sawmill and went West. He traveled and worked as a sawyer and a machinist, and worked in Colorado, Hawaii, California, and Washington. Uncle Bill and Aunt Kasie looked after the children who were not married. They had a very hard time. Thanks again! Charlotte Gayle Zentmyer Price Effingham, Illinois It does not escape our attention that Benjamin's twins by his first wife Josephine were born as much as two years after his marriage to his second wife, Mary. And the marriage record to Mary York is well documented.
  Person ID	I3046	Zentmeyer Main Tree
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Gorgas ZENTMEYER,   b. 12 Aug 1826, Warwick Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania d. 21 Apr 1863, Warwick Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania (Age 36 years)
  Mother	Caroline SANDS,   b. 17 Dec 1830, Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania d. 19 Apr 1900, Warwick Twp., Lancaster Co., PA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	28 May 1848	Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA
  Family ID	F460	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Josephine Sarah SHULER,   b. 12 Dec 1850, Warren, Warren, Pennsylvania d. 1 Jun 1938, Chicago, Cook, Illinois (Age 87 years)
  Children	1. Ivy Nellie ZENTMYER,   b. 1871 + 2. Phil Orrin ZENTMYER,   b. 1 Dec 1872, Illinois d. 13 Mar 1940, Johnson City, Washington, Tennessee (Age 67 years)   3. Edwin Sands ZENTMYER,   b. 1877   4. Earl Archie ZENTMYER,   b. 1877
  Family ID	F1469	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Elena YORK,   b. 29 May 1850, Eldridge Twp., Edgar Co., Illinois d. 22 Jan 1896, Richland, Hopkins Co., Kentucky (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	1 Aug 1875	Elbridge, Edgar, Illinois
  Children	1. Carrie (Callie) ZENTMYER,   b. 10 Aug 1877, Oliver, Edgar Co., Illinois d. 04 Feb 1957 (Age 79 years)   2. Lizzie ZENTMYER,   b. 08 Jan 1880, Clark Co., Illinois d. 16 Dec 1941, Manitou, Hopkins Co., Kentucky (Age 61 years) + 3. Henry ZENTMYER, Sr.,   b. 28 Dec 1882, Sims, Edgar, Illinois d. 24 Apr 1970, Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky (Age 87 years)   4. Mary Mollie ZENTMYER,   b. 03 Oct 1885, Hopkins Co., Kentucky d. of Typhoid   5. Annie Mae ZENTMYER,   b. 12 May 1889, Hopkins Co., Kentucky d. 02 Dec 1982, Christian Co., Kentucky (Age 93 years)   6. Nellie May ZENTMYER,   b. 08 Dec 1891, Hopkins Co., Kentucky d. 1972, near (Age 80 years)   7. Delilah (Delcia) ZENTMYER,   b. 01 Aug 1894, Hopkins Co., Kentucky d. 07 Feb 1899, Hopkins Co., Kentucky (Age 4 years)
  Family ID	F464	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2021

  
  

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  Birth Date for Benjamin Franklin Zentmyer This is the bottom of the Army Survivors Pension application of Carolyn Sands Zentmyer, Benjamin's mother. The birth date claimed elsewhere, 23 May 1852, was from a record of a church meeting on that date, it was not a birth record, and pertained to a different Benjamin Zentmyer, who was an adult.