Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JOHN B. BENEDICT was born January 6, 1838, on the farm where he now 
resides.  He is the sixth of nine children born to John and Eva (Celser) 
Benedict. He ws reared on the farm and remained with his parents until 
his marriage, March 11, 1867, with Louisa Lee, of Barren County, a 
daughter of Henry and Mary (Thomas) Lee, who were born in Barren County, 
Ky., and Jackson County, Tenn. Henry Lee was a farmer.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Benedict had born nine children:  Minnie Bell, Mary B., Emma E., Marquis 
De Lafayette, Joseph Barton Stone, Harris, John Garfield, James Tompson 
[sic] and Layton Seay.  Mr. Benedict and wife are members of the Baptist 
Church.  After his marriage he located where he now lives and is the 
possessor of 105 acres, fifty of which are under cultivation, all of 
which he has accumulated by his own industry.  In September, 1861, he 
enlisted in Company A, Ninth Kentucky Infantry; in the fall of 1862 he 
was discharged on account of measles; he returned home and engaged in 
farming.  He cast his first presidential vote for A. Lincoln, and votes 
the Republican ticket.  Mrs. Benedict's grandfather, Henry Lee, was born 
and reared in Barren County, Ky., was a farmer and in his later years a 
Baptist minister.  Her maternal grandfather, Ephraim D. Thomas, married 
Sallie Mulennix, and came from Tennessee to Barren County in the early 
settlement of the county.  They were of English and Dutch descent.

Benedict Celser Lee Lincoln Mulennix Thomas
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Barren Jackson-TN

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