Alfred Vorhes Snook

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• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Alfred V. Snook, in the household of Ephraim Snook

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• Census: 1850, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Ephraim Snook, carpenter, in the household of Elason Snook
• Census: 1860, Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States; as E. K. Snook, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Ephraim Snook, farmer, head of household
• History / Bio: 1882; The History of Warren County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882) p778

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History / Bio:

E. K. Snook, Farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1831, and was named after his grandfather, Maj. Ephraim Kibby, an officer in the Revolutionary war. his parents, John M. Snook, who was born in 1785, and Julia Ann (Kibby) Snook, Born in 1791, were both of Welsh descent. Young E. K. was reared on a farm, and attended the schools of Union Township until seventeen years of age, when he commence learning the carpenter trade, in which he served a three years apprenticeship. In 1852, after a two years' trial of carpentering, he returned to farming and has from that time to the present continued, with much success in that occupation. In 1853 , he married Miss Rebecca Ann Benham, who was born in 1831, and was a daughter of James Benham, an early settler of Warren County, a leading farmer and a very prominent man in the county, wealthy in this world's goods, and owner of several valuable farms. Four children were the issue of this union, viz.: Ella, the wife of Albert Keever; Horace M., a farmer on one of his father's farms; Alfred V. and Anna. Mr. Snook is the possessor of 216 acres of the best land in the county. He is a Republican of considerable prominence, a director in Lebanon National Bank, and one of the Board of County Commissioners. He took an active part in the enterprise which procured a railroad, for his county seat, and became one of the incorporators and directors, as well as a heavy stockholder in the company. He has been a member of the board of Education of Lebanon, and has held many other offices of minor importance. He is one of Warren County's energetic, enterprising, representative men.

Ephraim married Rebecca Ann Benham in 1853. Rebecca (daughter of James Benham and Lydia Moore) was born about 1832 in Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died in 1905 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in 1905 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Rachel Benham, in the household of James Benham
• Census: 1860, Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States; as Rebecca Snook, in the household of E. K. Snook
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Rebecca Snook, in the household of Ephraim Snook

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• Military: Officer in the Revolutionary War
• Religion: Universalist
• Census: 1840, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States
• Census: 1850, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as James Benham, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1860, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as James Benham, in the household of Joseph Bone
• History / Bio: 1882; The History of Warren County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882), p713

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History / Bio:

Union Township
James Benham was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania August 9, 1784, and died in Union Township, Warren County, Ohio at the age of eighty-five years and sixteen days. His father, Peter Benham, removed with his family to the present site of Newport, Ky., in the winter of 1793-94, where he stopped on a tract of land belonging to Capt. Robert Benham. The next year, Peter Benham returned to Pennsylvania on business and died there, leaving in Kentucky his widow and five children, James, John, Peter, and two daughters, afterward Mrs. Thompson Lamb and Mrs. Nathan Smith. The widow removed to lands near Turtle Creek, purchased with the proceeds of Peter's estate. She died in 1805, when her eldest son, James, was just twenty-one years old. At his mother's request, he promised her not to marry until his young sisters were grown up, and to keep them together. True to his promise, he remained single until 1818, when he married Miss Mary Robinson; in 1821, he married Miss Mary Russell, and in 1827 he married Mrs. Lydia Irwin. By his first two marriages he had no children; by his third wife, his children were James I., Mrs. Rebecca Snook, Mrs. Martha Stokes and Mrs. Lizzie Bone. James Benham was twice elected Justice of the Peace, but he never sought office. His long life was passed as a quiet farmer; in politics he was a Whig, and afterward a Republican; in religion he was for the last forty or fifty years of his life a Universalist. Gen. Durbin Ward, who was the intimate friend of James Benham wrote soon after his death: "The writer who knew him as the highest type of humanity--an honest man--and who loved him for nearly thirty years, mourns the loss of the wisest man he ever knew, and whose daily life he would be glad to be good and great enough to follow as an example."

James married Lydia Moore on 20 Dec 1827 in Butler County, Ohio, United States. Lydia was born about 13 Sep 1798; died on 12 Oct 1847 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Oct 1847 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 31 May 1759, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; Address:
  Old Tennent Church
• Residence: Between 1793 and 1794, Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, United States; for one year before returning to Pennsylvania
• Death: 1799, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States

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Benham, Peter; (bro. of Capt. Robert); to Ky. 1793, where he d 1799; widow to Ohio 1800, d 1805; issue-- Robert, *James, Peter, **John, Ann, wife of Thompson Lamb; Martha, wife of Nathan Smith. *James, Union Township, b Washington Co. Pa. Aug. 9, 1784 - d Aug. 13, 1869; m (1) Mary Robinson; (2) Dec. 9, 1827, Mary Russell; (3) Lydia Irvin Moore, who d Oct. 12 1847; issue-- James, Rebecca, Martha and three others; James Jr. b.

Peter married Elizabeth Ellsworth. Elizabeth was born about 1753; died in 1805 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Betsey Ellsworth
• Residence: Abt 1800, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States