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About Robert H. Benge
Not the same as Bob "the Bench" Benge
Robert Benge was a white man, the son of Obediah Martin Benge. He married a Cherokee woman, named Jennie Lowrey. They had eight children: Mary, Eliza, John, Robin, McLemore, Young, Pickens, and Sarah. The son John married a woman named Caroline Gordon. Neither Robert, nor his brother Martin (who married Jennie’s sister Eliza) had a daughter named Nancy.
Robert H. Benge settled in the Old Skin Bayou District of the Cherokee Nation. On March 10, 1840 his son John Riddle Benge was born in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. Riddle, as he was always called, married in 1867 Caroline Takey Gordon, daughter of John Gordon and Lucy McPherson.
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Robert H. Benge's Timeline
| 1803 |
June 7, 1803
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Rutherford, Tennessee, USA
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| 1829 |
1829
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Georgia, United States
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| 1830 |
1830
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| 1831 |
1831
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Cherokee, Alabama, USA
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| 1832 |
1832
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| 1834 |
1834
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1835
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| 1840 |
March 10, 1840
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Old Skin Bayou District, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, Cherokee nation
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| 1848 |
1848
Age 44
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