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1 Benjamin Graham Sr
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Birth: 4 Mar 1792, Province of Ulster, County Tyrone, Ireland
Death: 24 Mar 1855, Coshocton County Ohio, age: 63
Burial: Amity Presbyterian Cemetary, Keene twnshp, Coshocton Cnty.
Occ: Farmer
Reli: Presbyterian

Came to America in 1816 with his wife Mary and two sons Miller and Benjamin. They came to Washington County, PA where Thomas was born and then to Steubenville Ohio where Mary Jane was born. From there they came to Keene Township, Coshocton County, Ohio where the other children were born. Benjamin purchased 11 tracts of land (in Morgan and Coshocton Counties) from the government for a total of 643 acres. Per the 1850 census his farm was valued at $3000.

Spouse: Mary Jane (?) Miller
Birth: 16 Mar 1792, Ireland
Death: 13 Sep 1868, Coshocton County, Ohio, age: 76
Burial: Amity Pres. Church Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio
Marr: abt 1813

Children: Miller (1814-1891)
Benjamin (1816-1882)
Thomas (1818-1892)
Mary Jane (~1819-1899)
William (1821-1836)
Elizabeth (~1822-1850)
James K. (1823-1866)
Margaret (~1827-1848)
Sarah Ann (1828-1828)
Sarah Anne (1829-1896)

1.1 Miller Graham
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Birth: 27 Aug 1814, Province of Ulster, County Tyrone, Ireland
Death: 4 Sep 1891, Died of Bright's disease(Glomerulonephritis-a serious kidney disease) at home in Avondale Ohio, age: 77
Burial: 6 Sep 1891, Amity Church Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio
Occ: Farmer
Reli: Presbyterian

Miller lived in Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio. In 1870, his farm was valued at $6000 and personal assets at $700. Seven of Millers 12 children died before him.

Spouse: Mary Reamer
Birth: 20 Sep 1822, Sugar Creek, Tuscarawus County, Ohio
Death: 3 Aug 1896, Coshocton, Ohio, age: 73
Burial: Amity Church Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio
Father: Adam Reamer (~1767-1845)
Mother: Mary TBD (~1779-1852)

Mary's father was born in Ireland.

Marr: 20 Jul 1837, Coshocton County Ohio

Children: Mary Elizabeth (1840-1917)
Benjamin (1842-1881)
Susanna G. (1843-1927)
Sarah Margaret (1844-1861)
William Miller (1846-1934)
George Thomas (1848-1851)
Sena Jerusha (1850-1851)
Caroline (1854-1861)
Louisa (1856-1907)
Christopher C. (1852-1934)
James Karr (1858-1944)
Christena (1858-1861)
Lola Jane (1861-1886)
Armour John (1864-1936)

1.2 Benjamin Graham Jr
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Birth: 4 Mar 1816, Province of Ulster, County Tyrone, Ireland
Death: 18 Apr 1882, Iowa City, age: 66
Burial: Lot 53-6 Oakland Cemetery
Occ: Farmer
Reli: Presbyterian

Benjamin was living with his parents in Coshocton County, Ohio in the 1840 Census. On 1 October 1849, he and his wife (Jane Love) moved to Iowa traveling in a covered wagon . Arriving in Dubuque 31 days after leaving Ohio. They then settled in Iowa City, Iowa..

Spouse: Jane Love
Birth: 11 Jul 1818, Coshocton County Ohio
Death: 1 Apr 1904, Iowa City, Johnson County, IA, age: 85
Burial: Lot 53-6 Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, IA
Marr: 14 Nov 1844, Coshocton County, Ohio

Children: Robert B. (1845-1914)
Caroline S. (1848-1914)
James K. (1851-1918)
Annis Elizabeth (1854-1822)
Louisa (1857-1946)
Josephine (1858-1933)

1.3 Thomas Graham
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Birth: 5 Oct 1818, Washington County, PA
Death: 5 Jul 1892, Grove, Jasper County, IL., age: 73

Thomas was living with his family in Keene Township, Coshocton County, Ohio in the 1850 census. In 1855, Thomas moved his wife and six children to Jasper County, Illinois. In 1856 he purchased land in Grove Township where he lived until 1892

Spouse: Rebecca Stillwell
Birth: 5 Sep 1826, Keene Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
Death: 22 Jan 1900, Gila, Jasper County, IL, age: 73
Marr: 11 Jun 1844, Coshocton County, Ohio

Children: Arthur Thomas (~1845-)
Mary Ann (~1847-)
Margaret (~1849-)
Elvira (~1852-)
Gertrude (~1854-)
Sarah (~1858-)
William Karr (1862-)
Charles (~1865-1902)

1.4 Mary Jane Graham
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Birth: abt 1819, Steubenville, Jefferson County,Ohio
Death: 11 Apr 1899, White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, age: 80
Reli: UP Church of Avondale

Spouse: Oliver T. Hood
Birth: 1832, Ireland
Death: 2 Apr 1903, White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, age: 71
Burial: 4 Apr 1903, Amity Cemetery, Keene Township, Coshocton, Ohio

Born in Ireland in 1832 , he came to America in 1842 and to Coshocton Co. in 1852 where he settled in White Eyes Township. He commenced the mechanical trade as a machinist in his eleventh year, entering a large machine shop im Glasgow, Scotland but afterward turned his attention to engineering. He came to Montreal, Canada and took charge of the steamer Rollin Hill on the St. Lawrence river. In the spring of 1847, he came to Oswego, New York and had charge of the steamer Victoria, running on the Bay of Fundy in the summer of 1847. In the fall of 1847, he went into a machine shop at Niagara Falls. In the spring of 1848, his parents moved upon a farm in Canada where he remained with them until 1850, when he came to Erie, Pennsylvania, and took charge of a steamer on Lake Erie, where he remained until 1852 when he came to this County (Coshocton). (Excerpt from "History of Coshocton County Ohio: It's Past and Present. 1740-1881)

Marr: 3 Sep 1852, Coshocton County, Ohio

Children: Mary Elizabeth (1853-1863)
Samuel W. (1854-1880)
Maggie (1855-1888)
Rebecca Jane (1858-)
Sarah K. (-1907)
Alice Emma (1861-1861)

1.5 William Graham
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Birth: 8 Apr 1821, Coshocton County, Ohio
Death: 16 Aug 1836, age: 15
Burial: Amity Pres. Church Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio

1.6 Elizabeth Graham
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Birth: abt 1822, White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
Death: 2 Oct 1850, age: 28
Burial: Amity Pres. Church Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio

Spouse: Michael Trottman Jr.
Birth: 14 Jun 1823, Baden Baden Germany
Death: 4 Apr 1876, Coshocton County, Ohio, age: 52
Father: John Michael Trottman (~1787-1872)
Mother: Varena Barbara Keller (1799-1888)
Marr: 30 Dec 1849, Coshocton County, Ohio

Children: Elizabeth Ann (1852-1905)

1.7 James K. Graham
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Birth: 4 Mar 1823, White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
Death: 27 Apr 1866, Christian County Illinois, age: 43

James was living with his family in White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio in the 1850 Census. In 1856, James moved his family to Iowa and is believed to have lived near his sister Sarah (Graham) Wilkinson. In the Wilkinson family cemetery near Chelsea, Iowa County, Iowa there is a monument bearing the inscription "Infant daughter of J.K. and M. Graham April 5, 1857, aged 5 months. The 1860 Census showed that James K. Graham with his wife and family of 8 children lived in Scott Township, Johnson County, Iowa. Sometime therafter, he moved his family back to a farm near Buckeye Prairie in Church not far from Pana in Christian County, IL where he died in 1866.

Spouse: Mary Williams
Birth: 18 Jul 1825, Ohio
Death: 7 Jan 1888, age: 62
Marr: 29 Apr 1847

Children: Benjamin (1848-)
Barbara Ann (1849-)
Sarah Elizabeth (1853-1941)

1.8 Margaret Graham
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Birth: abt 1827, White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
Death: 12 Feb 1848, Coshocton County, Ohio, age: 21
Burial: Amity Pres. Church Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio

Spouse: James Aikens

Name on Marriage Index was Akens.

Marr: 1 Jan 1847, Coshocton County, Ohio

1.9 Sarah Ann Graham
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Birth: 3 Mar 1828, Coshocton County, Ohio
Death: 18 Aug 1828, Coshocton County, Ohio
Burial: Amity Pres. Church Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio

1.10 Sarah Anne Graham
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Birth: 15 Oct 1829, Coshocton County, Ohio
Death: 26 Dec 1896, Chelsea, Iowa, age: 67
Burial: Family Cemetery, Anthony Wilkinson Farm

Sarah went to Iowa as a child bride in 1858 probably traveling by canal, river boats and ox carts to reach the pioneer farm two miles south of the village of Chelsea in Salt Creek Township, Iowa County, IA where she lived and raised a large family. There she was buried in the family cemetery on the Anthony Wilkinson farm.

Spouse: Anthony Wilkinson
Birth: 28 Jul 1817, County Donegal, Ireland
Death: 10 Nov 1888, Salt Creek, Tama County, Iowa, age: 71
Marr: 20 Nov 1850, Coshocton CO, Ohio

Children: William Benjamin (1851-1851)
Harriet Elizabeth (1853-1854)
Milton Byron (1854-1936)
Albert Anthony (1856-1935)
Mary Albinette (1858-1953)
Lincoln Pope (1860-1925)
Edith (1862-)
Ulysses Grant (1863-1886)
Thomas R. (1867-1889)
Robert (1869-1869)
Wilford (1870-1871)




 

Contributed by: James T. Graham