Benjamin Franklin Cantrell, I

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Benjamin Cantrell
BIRTH 10 May 1768
Rockingham County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 1846 (aged 77–78)
DeKalb County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Old Bildad Cemetery
Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 31252281 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 0
FLOWERS 20
He was the son of Rev. Isaac & Talitha (Cloud) Cantrell.

He grew to adulthood in Orange County, North Carolina. As a young man he and a brother made the move to the old 96th district of South Carolina. The section where he settled would later become Spartanburg County.

He married Charity Legate in 1788 and on the 1790 census were living near his brother, James and his family.

In 1805 he moved his young family to White County, Tennessee. He settled on the banks of Sink Creek and when Warren County was formed his land was in the new county.

Ben was an herb doctor and a farmer. It is mentioned that a daughter, Mary, was the first white child born on Sink Creek. He was a faithful member of the Bildad Baptist Church. He laid Charity to rest in the churchyard here in 1835.

He married 2nd widow Mary "Polly" (Durham) Magness.

He married 3rd Hannah Matilda Powell.

Family Members
Parents
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Isaac Cantrell
1729–1805

Nancy Talitha Cloud Cantrell
1729–1768

Spouse
Charity Legat Cantrell
1770–1835

Siblings
Jacob Cantrell
1752–1813

Robert Cantrell
1753–1787

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Mary Cantrell Bethel
1754–1820

Thomas Cantrell
1755–1833

Reuben Cantrell
1757–1808

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Elijah lige Cantrell
1758 – unknown

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Charles Cantrell
1759–1835

Elizabeth Cantrell Cantrell
1761–1832

Isaac Cantrell
1763 – unknown

Richard Cantrell
1764 – unknown

John Cantrell
1765–1826

James Cantrell
1767–1838

Half Siblings
Sarah Cantrell Pirkle
1769–1819

Daniel Cantrell
1770–1841

Peter Cantrell
1772–1848

unknown Cantrell Pirtle
1773 – unknown

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Abraham Cantrell
1774–1858

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Nimrod Cantrell
1780 – unknown

Mark Cantrell
1782 – unknown

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Caleb Cantrell
1785–1851

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Lanceford Cantrell
1787 – unknown

Enoch Cantrell
1789–1844

Children
Sarah Nancy Cantrell
1793–1860

Elizabeth Cantrell Thomason
1796–1864

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Raben (Rayburn) Cantrell
1800–1850

Peter Cantrell
1802–1874

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