Benjamin Honeyman

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• Name: Benjamin Hunnaman
• Census: 1850, Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States; as Benjamin Honeyman, farmer, in the household of Benjamin Honeyman
• Census: 1860, Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States; as Benjamin Honeyman, farm laborer, in the household of Benjamin Honeyman
• Census: 1870, Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States; as Benjamin, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1900, Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States; as Benjamin Honeyman, landlord, head of household
• Census: 1910, West Milton, Miami County, Ohio, United States; as Benjamin Honeyman, own income, head of household; Address:
  Miami Street
• Will: 19 Sep 1911, Miami County, Ohio, United States
• Probate: 10 Nov 1911, Miami County, Ohio, United States

Notes:

Benjamin and Mary had no children. He was very, very wealthy, owning over 1100 acres in Miami County, Ohio; also a number of town properties. Oddly enough he did not inherit his wealth and he could not read nor write, but figured in his head.

WILL
Dated 19 September 1911
Miami County Probate Court, p418-421
Proven 10 November 1911
In the name of the Benevolent Father of All, I, Benjamine Honeyman, of West Milton, Miami County, Ohio, being of sound mind and disposing memory do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking al wills by me heretofore made.
Item I - I desire that all my just debts including thse of last sickness and burial be paid.
Item II - I give and devise to Josephine Lesh and her daughter May M. Lesh Harshbarger share and share alike, the following described real estate, situate in the County of Miami, State of Ohio, and in the Township of Union: being the undivided one half of thirty acres of land situate in County of Miami, State of Ohio, Township of Union. Being part of the S.E. quarter of Sec. 11, Town 6, Range 5, E. Being the land deeded from Susie Fox to Benjamine Honeyman as recorded in deed book 117, Page 475, Records of Miami County, Ohio. Also Twenty Acres, being part of the East half of the S.W. quarter of Sec. 11, Town 6, Range 5, East in said Miami County, State of Ohio, and Township of Union; Also the undivided one half of Thrty acres, more or less being a part of the S.E. quarter of Sec. 11, Town 6, Range 5, East, in said County of Miami, State of Ohio and Township of Union. The last two described tracts more fully described in deed from Isiah Frank Thomas, Administrator to Benjamine Honeyman, as recorded in Vol. 117, Page 476, The amount herein devised to contain Fifty Acres more or less.
Item III - I give, bequeath and devise the remainder of my porperty both personal and real of every kind and description absolutely and in fee simple to my beloved wife, Mary C. Honeyman.
Item IV - I hereby nominate and appoint my Wife, Mary C. Honeyman, executrix of this my last Will and Testament, and request that no bond be required of her.
...In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of September, 1911.
Benjamine (his mark) Honeyman)
Signed b(by the said Benjamine Honeyman making his mark), published and declared by the above named Benjamine Honeyman as and for his last Will and Testament in presence of uys, who in his presence and in the presence of each other and at his request have here subscribed our names as witnesses.
E. W. Spitler
U. Grant Earnest
Carrie Neer Earnest

Benjamin married Mary Catherine Miller on 8 Mar 1866 in Miami County, Ohio, United States. Mary was born in Dec 1849 in Maryland, United States; died on 26 Mar 1923 in West Milton, Miami County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 27 Mar 1923 in West Milton, Miami County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]