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I Born: Jan. 31, 1837, Died: Sep. 4, 1895 Anrul'(Goulding) Benner Born: Apr. J!· 1837, Died: Oct 29, 1899 rwins), George L., Jesse w., Mary, Anni�M. Children: William A. and Edward A. . 3 -rJ;;n .S ;:. Fourth Generation: Parents William A. Benner lM''J ttt) 1 4 z., � Born: Jun. 11, 1864, Died: Jul. 5, 1901 Annie (Spedding) Benner Born: Oct. 22, 1866, Died: Apr. 27, 1958 Children: Walter E., Roy E., William C., Floyd E. Fifth Generation: '( Floyd E. Benner Edith (Culmer) Benner /. }... Children: Floyd E. Jr., Richard A. w { a-/Tet- Roy E. Benner, Sr. Elizabeth Drysdale Glen Born: 4-15-1888, Died: 1980, 92 yrs. Born: 10-20-1893, Died: 1950, 57 yrs. Children: Roy E. Jr., and Bruce Melvin j:; u// lf(«111 S �Generation: ,..3. Born: Aug. 22, 1S95, Died: Born: Jun. 10, 1901, Died: BC... Roy E. Benner, Jr. Marjorie Gamble Children: Born: 4-12-1921 Born: 5-5-1920 Beverly Elizabeth, Born: 8-25-1951. Kevin Roy, Born: 3-1-1954, married Sandy Giancola, Born: 7-19-??, no children. Sheree Lyn, Born: 3-29-1957, married Ku Castano, Born: 3-22-1952, no children. Bruce Benner Geri Simmons Children: Born: 4-26-1928 Born: 4-4-1926 Gregory, Born: 7-31-1954, married Suzanne Van Wie, Born: 12-21-1950, no children. Ronald, Born: 9-14-1956, married Leslie VanLoan, Born: 2-10-1957. Children: Ronald, Jr., Born: 9-14-1977, Kathleen, Born: 12-18-1979, Brian, Born: 25-1984. Patricia, Born: 10-22-1958, married Donald Schneggenbilrger, Born: 1-25-1957. .r!Jl,"·.,,.��,, .�.;-·��:' . 9· · ,•- ""'�-<�,.- ,,.;; · •' Children: Andrew, Born: 7-26-1987, Todd, Born: 9-14-1990, Ryan, Born: 7-23- 1992. Paul, Born: 10-25-1965 married Lynn Militello, Born: 3-3 l-t969, no children. Floyd E. Benner Jr. Born: Jan. 23, 1930 J �Noel (Taylor) Benner Born: Dec. 18, 1929 Richard A. Benner Born: Sep. 24, 1934 Children: Keith A., Eric A. Scott A. Patricia (Hosterman) Benner Born: Nov. 23, 1938 Children: Richard A. Jr., Mark, Edith, Christopher, Jody Ancestors of the Benner Family The authenticity of this narration of our family descendants is not completely reliable at the beginning, as much of this information is handed down hearsay. But there has to be a beginning the same as the Bible had a beginning with Adam and Eve. Many �tr"l"t)I years back the Benners came from ffotta:nd, at a time in all probability, when Holland had possession of considerable territocy on the Eastern seaboard. Before New York was named by the British was surrendered by the Dutch. it was called New Amsterdam. The �!_tysburg, Pa. during the war between England and the United States after the Duke of York, and before it Benners settled in the vicinity of some migrated to Canada, which became a British possession. , .. They crossed over from the American side which is now known as Black Rock, to the Canadian side of Niagara River, and landed at a point on what is now Niagara Falls Boulevard at Frenchman's Creek, about five miles North of the Peace Bridge at Fort Erie. the great, great grandfather of Floyd E. Benner, Sr. They had a son, Jacob B. Benner, who became At Black Rock, flat bottom rowboats were rented out to migrants to cross the river to Canada. It was necessacy to dismantle household goods and farm equipment for the passage. rowing against the strong currents of the river were made. garden seed and smaller possessions. Many crossings of arduous They also had to transport their farm and On the last trip, the cattle and horses forded the river tied to the rear of the boat, while smaller animals and poultcy were bolln.d a.pd carried in the boat. They were one of the County, Canada. first families to settle on the Niagara Peninsula in Bertie Township, Welland The interior was infested with Indians and wild animals. The first night they were encamped along the creek with plenty of pasture and water for the livestock. The next day, as there were only paths leading into the woods, they used the cattle and horses for transporting their equipment and supplies. They established a camp about a mile into the woods .. This necessita�ed someone guarding both rest moved the supplies inland, to prevent pilferage by wild animals and marauding Indians. They built a fire and camped for the night. Next morning, after traveling about a mile through the woods, they came to an open stretch of about three miles. As there was no forage in the woods they camps while the brought the livestock out first, so they could graze. Having settled the animals, they resumed hauling the remainder of the supplies. The next day, finding the soil vecy rich, and the location being ideal away from the woods, they decided to make their homestead here. The Crown granted only a right of occupation, until after the conflict, when they could return to the United States. Later, however, those who wanted to stay were given full title to land. Fortunately it was April when. they arrived, seeds, which gave them a bountiful harvest in the fall. the providing an opportunity to plant their fields and Now they tackled the next big job of building their home. They cut down suitable trees which were hewn with a big broacbJx, squaring off two sides, then knocking them together. After the home was completed wi� a big stone fireplace for warmth and cooking, a barn and storage buildings were constructed. Next a root cellar with stone walls, a fitted log ceiling, and an entrance at one end, Was built. over with ground and sod to control the extreme temperatures. dug a well and ·struck good They This was mounded �.--.--.... --..:.�,,.,..'- with ground and sod to control the extreme temperatures. They ug a we an derground springs. The well was walled up with fieldstones. This gave them an abundant supply of water for the home, livestock, and gardens. By using wood ashes mixed with other home products they produced their own water softener and soap for washing. They also built other necessary items, such as a stone pit where they poured in grain and pulverized it with a hard block attached to a pole. In this way they produced their meal and flour for cereal and bread. They were kept very busy after the construction was completed. When the harvesting was done they hli.d_ to cut and store firewood for the winter. Throughout the winter they split timbers into rails for fences. In the spring the fences were erected to keep in the livestock and keep out wildlife like deer, bear, wolf, lynx, and smaller game. At that time the lakes and streams abounded with fish and waterfowl by the thousands, providing food aplenty for the table. The Indians proved friendly and provided them with com and good advice. Most of their clothes were homespun. Mittens and socks were made from sheep's wool. As time went on they had a happy and prosperous life as old pioneers. At that time there were few settlers and no stores, �. �settlers in repairing their farm equipment and other home necessities. schools or churches. My great great grandfather had a blacksmith shop and workshop. He aided other -1 llittr last name) His son, Jacob B. Benner, My great grandfather, married his wife Sophia some years later. They built their home on whaJjs now known as Garrison Road. He also had his own blacksmith shop and workshop. There were three sons, William, Philip, and John. fThis home .stands at the time of this writing, but has had considerahle remodeling. It is about three miles from Fort Erie, across from a stone school house on the north side. By this time a school house was constructed. About a mile further west up the road a community church was erected ({" t� t'r Later, William H. Benner, my grandfather, married Anna Goulding and built his home almost directly across from the church. The church had a long open front shed for a drive-in for church members ' horses and carriages. William Benner also hada blacksmith shop and workshop. A family by the name of Goulding came from England and located their homeStead on·what is now known as Gilmore Road. The upper part of Frenchman's Creek ran through their farm and wild rice grew along the banks. M.l grandmother used to gather this rice straw, steam it, then weave it into straw braid. She Would fonn and sew this overa mold to make wide rimmed straw hats for the men working in the hot sun of-the-fields, -or a narrower rim for dress�c There was a stone flour mill built along -Lake Erie, operated by a windmill attached to a long oak shaft. Attached to the shaft with wooden wedges were two heavy stone wheels or cylinders about three feet across and eight inches wide. These wheels fitted tight against other similar wheels on a locise shaft. Grain was poured in to pass between the opposite wheels, pulverizing it into flour. Fanners would leave home by horseback, with a pack horse loaded with two bags of-wheat early in the morning and return in the evening with the :finished flour or meal. At the time the Irish Finians crossed the Niagara River from Buflhlo into Canada, word spread from farm to farm that they were marching up the Garrison Road from Fort Erie. My grandparents had the children hide in the wheat field, taking with them smoked hams and other possessions. Upon arriving, the Finians ate all my grandmother's fresh baked bread and butter and drank all the buttermilk from the churning. My aunt owns a dresser which has markings where the Finians used bayonets to pry open the drawers. In a few days the militia and farmers defeated the Finians, driving them back aboard their ship anchored in the Niagara River. i had four sons and two daughters. One, my e, is still living today (11/11/64). sons were William A, my father, Jesse W., George L., and &fy,Vard (my fathers twin brother who died at the age of:five) : -; �; 't! � grandparents . The _ 11 My father married my mother, Anna E. Spedding. The Spe_ddin�.came from England and built a log house off Gilmore Road, not far from the Gouldings. My �tpdfather Spedding was born in 1806. His wife's name was Bedilia. They had one daughter, Maiy1and*ee sons, Leonard, James, and John R Spedding. John was my mother's father and he married Eliz.a W!il!s. Eliza Wilds was the daughter of John (Born 1802) and Anna (Born 1820). John Wilds was a gardener on the estate of the Rogers who was owner of the Rogers Silver Co. In Sheffield, England. He fell in love with and married Rogers daughter Anna. They were disowned and came to Canada, settling in Port Colborne, Ontario. Here they bought a fish shack, sold some of Anna's jewelry and went into the tailoring business. They were very happy aml prosperous. His son Henry was a ship captain on Lake Erie. At that time railroads were established and trains crossed the river on barges which docked at Porter Ave in Buflhlo and near the Old Fort Erie in Canada. The river was previously crossed by boat powered by horses on horsetreads. The old Ferguson general store was established in the town of Fort Erie. James was employed here and later established and became head of Kraft Cheese Co. His parents bought eir farm on the lake shore from my aunt Mmy and the brick house still stands. They had a large e /Vl,/!;-r{e,J,, c.1-i"'r/1& � &5e. Fr l:'c\ r 1 c ��wt· fiunily and were 'I'.>uiikiuds. The children were r . Will,�. George, Norm, Jo� '1 1"" went to school with Norm and John (the last preside · ol the company). 'f M(!not-11 [t:.5 ·- "' / / Ann, .3 and about three miles from Fort Erie. Monuments still stand, in the cemetery across the road with fiunily names from my great grandfather down to the present day. '\ About� miles up the Bowen Road from Fort Erie, just bofere crossing the Queen Elizabeth highway, is a f road on the north side which leads back about a mile to an old church and cemetery; In the cemetexy the monuments are inscnl>ed with the Spedding and Wilds names . The old church, now 125 years old, still '••··---stands. My mother and father married there is 1883. My parents bad a farm on the Bertie Road, I-< o b1,.-' 1 �_- re Iyf- I ') . • c1.. f f Lo,_,.· .-1 l- My father bad a blacksmith shop and workshop on the farm and a windmill which operated a gristmill, cornsheller, sawmill, lathe, and other equipment He worked all winter long grinding feed for the neighbors, repairing all farm. equipment, shoeing horses, and building furniture for. the home. My� mother's father lived with us on the farm and built and sold ladders to the stores. When her mother died, mother married the following year, making a hOme for her two sisters (6 and 11 years of.age).: The sisters died that year. Father bad a large farm and also operated another farm; with a neighbor, where the FOrt Erie Raceway is now located. The Queen Elizabeth highway now passes throughout the site of the old fairiL The old plank house stands on Spear Road near the throughway. We bad about fifteen acres of orchard and two large gardens. He raised horse, cattle, sheep, turkeys, pigs, and goats as well as such fowl as chickens, geese, guineas, bantams, and pigeons. Tame rabbits were also raised, the Belgian Hares. He dug a well with a permanent spring, beyond the barn, for .the livestock. He made a large artificial pond in the field We sawed vinegar barrels in half and bad tub races with the neighbors. Father was also a Reeve of Bertie Township. During a terrible thunderstorm my father was removing a bag of grist from the mill when it was struck by lightening. The lightening came down the shaft and he was killed I was five at the time. . This was the same year president McKinley was killed by an assassin at the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, 1901. My parents had four sons, Walter, Roy, William and Floyd At that time farm life was still a drudgexy for the women. They bad the fiunily to look after, meals to prepare, and large washings to do by hand. Children went barefoot throughout the summer. We wore cotton shirts and overalls, except on Sundays. Then they wore blouses, kneepants with suspenders, long stockings with garters, and high button shoes. Meals on the farm were of large variety. Breakfast was bacon or ham, eggs, homemade biscuits or toast (made by holding bread on a fork near the fire), johnny cake or buckwheat pancakes with niaple syrup. Lunch was in good siipply. Supper consisted of meat, and potatoes, several different vegetables, homemade bread, relishes, preserves, and pie, cake or canned frnit We always put down a big supply of food for winter use. Mother used to can about 400 quarts of frnits, preserves, jellies, relishes, and vegetables. We also stored dried com which was dried for days in a rack over the stove in the summer kitchen. We would take a load of wheat to the mills in Ridgeway, seven miles from home and return with the winters supply of flour for baking and bran for the livestock. Bushels and bushels of potatoes and a:PJ>les were stored·in the cellar along with root vegetables and other :frnits. We always bad a couple of barrels of sauerkraut, two barrels of salt pork and a :fi1kin of headcheese. _ fn the fall we would load up a double wagon box of windfall apples for cider and vinegar. would start before daybreak and drive to the Stevensville mill, seven miles from home. Many farmers arrived during the night and when got there it was a long line-up. I bad a lunch for myself and nosebags of oats for the horses. The cider was pressed out of the apples between layers of straw and burlap. You dumped your apples into a big hopper and rolled off your three empty barrels. Later, a hand operated elevator brought up the three barrels filled with cider. You rolled the barrels into your wagon (bungs up) and started home, arriving there about 2:00 in the morning. The next day we gathered several bushels of applesauce apples and that night the fiunily gathered into the summer kitchen. We peeled (with a machine) and cored and I I �quartered several washtubs full of apples. Next morning, before daylight, we hung a fifty gallon copper kettle on a pole supported on two crotches. We built a fire under the kettle and all day added wood to the fire. Cider, which had been boiled almost to syrup the day before, was put into the kettle and this was continually stirred until late in the evening, when we had delicious apple butter filling two fifteen gallon crocks for our winter supply. be scalded to remove the hair, then hung on long poles where they were cut open and disemboweled. In the workshop they were prepared for the winter. Hams and shoulders for the smokehouse, pork sausage, bacon, headcheese, and several kinds of lard were rendered out. We also slaughtered beef in the winter Later came the butchering season. We usually butchered about six hogs, which after slaughtering had to for table use. We took lard, eggs, butter, poultry, apples, potatoes, and other products to the store. Some of these we exchanged for kerosene (used in the lamps and lanterns) and other household needs. We killed and dressed · . over a hundred turkeys, and several chickens and ducks, which. we sold . to the butchers at Christmas time. We had about fifty hives of bees, for which my father built· the hives. In the winters he constructed the frames and waxed on the combing for the following summer and swarming of the bees. If we were up in the field harvesting and saw a white sheet hanging in the old cherry tree, it was hung there by mother to inform us the bees were swarming. We would go back to the house and don heavy clothing, gloves, and a wide brimmed hat with netting over it to prevent the bees from stinging us. The bees swarm and when the queen lands on a limb the others all gather in a bunch around her in a mass the size of a water pail. We lay a white sheet on the ground under the tree and placed a beehive on this with the front tilted so the bees would go in easily. We attached a pail to a clothes pole, slipped this over the cluster of bees, and dumped it in front of the hive, then threw the sheet over and around it. The bees would enter the hive and if they liked it they stayed. If not, they flew off to the woods and built their nest in a hollow tree. Our mothers, with their many chores of making clothing for the family, washing dishes, baking, churning, cleaning house, cooking, attending garden, separating the milk and cream, making cottage cheese and smearcase, canning , preparing provisions for winter, getting produce ready for the market, and in their spare time knitting socks and mittens, cutting and sewing strips for rag rugs, preparing goose feathers for pillows and ticking, quilting quilts for the bed. They found little time for loafing or leisure. Father, from early spring to late fall was busy harvesting crops, sometimes cutting hay with a lantern attached to the mower at night. Then the spreading of manure, fall plowing, and planting of winter wheat. Next the threshing season, when hired machines came through and threshed the grain. Threshing consisted of a large water tank on wheels, threshing machines, and a wood fired steam engine for power. Wood was supplied by the farmer. During the threshing season neighbors would reciprocate back and forth to help out. Some hauled in the sheaves of grain cut and shocked in the field Others fed the sheaves into the machine from the stacks and haylofts, others handled storage of the grain in the granary. Loose straw was stacked for winter bedding for the animals. Mother prepared breakfast for the family and the m:in who traveled with the threshing machines. For dinner and supper she was assisted by neighbor women, since there were usually about twenty men to be fed. In our boyhood days from the age ·of eight to sixteen we assisted with the farm chores every morning. Arise at 1!:00 am, do the chores, have breakfast, and then go to school, which was about one mile from home. This same school was previously attended by my grandfather and father. It is still attended by the present generation with a large addition added. The other school I attended was three miles from home, with deep snow and blizzard s in the winter time. From late March to October we were absent from school during planting, fruit picking, and harvesting seasons. �I We carried bmch and fruit and when you went lunch bucket you mlght find it had been pilfered by other boys. During the winter one boy cam qui away by dogsled.. Another arrived with a sleigh and er an ther drove a po goat, with its own private odor. In $e ulling a wicker cart. Bicycles were . and bought one fr scarce. I saved up my money for three.e 'jf:l my cousin for two dollars. A friend of my mother's bought me a Lord FoltI!ei'oy waist With sleeves and collar trimmed in starched lace. With my chest out and my chin high I rode my bicycle to Sunday school. As I came in front of the church the kids said, "Gee Benner has a �(cycle". At that point the front tire, which was puncture proofed with milk and molasses, was cut with a,piece of glass. The stinky solution squirted all over me and my lace waist I said not a word, but picked up my bike and carried it back home. A year later I had enough saved peddling milk to a neighbor at three cents a quart to buy a new tire. y�· · � � I could ramble on page after page as I recall my boyhood life on the farm, but I must come to an end. Winters we went hunting rabbit, squirrel, skiink, coon, grouse, and prairie-hen . In spring we hunted muskrat We made a seine of burlap, sewed together with binder twine pulled out of the straw stack. A rope at the top with wooden floats and metal and stone weights at the bottom completed it. We would go -------- �down to Frenchman's Creek in earl y morning, with frost on the giound Olir band wagon would be loaded with a bottle of water, lunch, and apples. The net was piled on top. . At sundown we returned with a load of pickerel pike, wet tired, muddy, and hungiy. We had our chores to do, fish to clean, then supper and to bed. Spring evenings we walked out to Lake Erie (f�ur miles) with a lantern to attract the fish and � speared fish. This was always a big catch. In winter we had a steep snowbank near the house. We would make a sleigh track, pour water in to freeze, then ride down this, across a ten acre field of ice, turn around, and hold up a blanket. The wind took us back to go again. Fields flooded in winter and became a glare of ice. Neighbors would come with a pole and lantern, punch a hole into the ice for the pole, and attach the lantem We skated on the ice at night and played games. Each week some neighbor would take their � at their home entertaining the visiting neighbors. Men and women played euchre and pedro, or exchanged the latest gossip while the teenagC1'$ and children played old games like postoftice. At Christmas time we tacked up a list of what we wanted Santa tO bring, but w e got only,o.ne or nvo small itemS. My brother Bill and I used tO go dOwn to watch the races at Fort Erie Racetrack. W e also watched the auto races when Christie and Barney Oldfield were there: In 1910 we saw Beachy make the first plane flights in the area, sitting-On the center edge of the wing with his feet ilanging down when he took off. The engine hung in the rear of the plane: 'My brother built a runner in the front fork of his motorcycle in place of the wheel. added a sleigh side car, and rode it through the snow all winter. He also built a long bobsled which we rode down the Fort Erie hill. About 11:00 we hauled it the two miles back home. Today there are many changes in all walks of life. But both mentally and physically. as we go through life we adjust to the changes, Floyd E. Benner Sr., 11/11/64 Postlog 1965 Walter Benner, living in F,ort Erie, had three children: Earl (living in Fort Erie), Gordon and Robert (deceased). Robert bad three children. Roy E. (in California), Benner, Sr. (Born 1888, Died 1980), Married Elizabeth Drysdale Glen, (Born 1893, Died 1950)( � lived in Kenmore, had two children: · · Jr., �ed Marjorie E. Gamble (Living in Florida) Children: :Severly Elizabeth, Born 8Giancolil, Born: 7-19- , Sheree Lyn, Bora 3-29-57, Roy Edward 25-1951. Kevin Roy, Born 3-1-54, married Sandy married Ku Castano, Born: 3-22-1952. v Bruce married Geri Simmons (living in Buffalo) Children: Greg, Born 7-31-54, married Suzanne Van . Wie, Born 12-21-1950. Ronald, Bora: 9-14-1956, married Leslie VanLoan, Bora: 2-10-1957. Children: Ronald, Jr., Born: 9-14-1977, Kathleen, Born: 12-18-1979, Brian, Born: 9-25-1984. Patricia, Born: 1022-1958, married Donald Schneggenburger, Bora: 1-25-1957. Children: Andrew, Born: 7-26-1987, Todd, Born: 9-14-1990, Ryan, Born: 7-23-1992. Paul, Born: 10-25-1965 married Lynn Militello, Bora: 3�31-1969, no children. William Benner, living in Buffalo, had one son William Jr. (Living near his lather). He has two children. Floyd Benner, living in Buffalo, bad two children: Floyd Jr. (Living in Ohio) and Richard (living in Florida)). Floyd Jr. Has three children ail.d Richard has four. At this writing in 1965 my lather's sister is still living in Buffalo, is nearly 90 years old, and has over 100 children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Postlog Feb. 1971 by F.E. Benner Jr. I/ \ · • V this · Floyd Sr. Lives in Florida, near I get a real joy out of reading it Today (4 sons and one daughter). I and my en childr five have now Pat wife his and as (D:m :Di:� !; : W/ilmington, Del We have three Noel live in wife · lse it � i:C:, ��:� :i�0�5;:X: s know. sons. • history. What a find the time and patience to add to this brief so very long you not That's . years hundred a for ined mainta �re � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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