Donald + WALTERS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married BENHAM, Rose Vina about 1902. Rose (daughter of BENHAM, Edward H and KAVANAUGH, Mary Irene) was born about 1878 in New York; died on 5 Jan 1936 in Clifton Springs, Ontario County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Geneva NY Daily Times - 1/6/1936

Clifton Springs, Jan. 6-Mrs.
Vina Benham Walters, aged 58
years, wife of John M. Walters died
Sunday morning at the Clifton
Springs Sanitarium.
She is survived by her husband,
two daughter, Mrs. Donald Steinbaugh
of Canandaigua and Mrs.
Henry Hadley of Geneva; two
grandchildren. Richard and Mary
Jolene Steinbaugh; her mother,
Mrs. Mary Kavanaugh Benham of
this village; three sisters, Mrs.
Paul L. Webb of Syracuse, Miss
Jennie M. Benham of Clifton
Springs and Mrs. George R. Huested
of Mannsville, N. Y.
Funeral Wednesday at 9;30 O'clock
from St. Felix Roman Cathotic
Church, Rev. J. M. 0'Brien officiating.
Burial in Clifton Springs
Cemetery.

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Phelps NY Citizen - 10/2/1930

-Edward H. Benham.75, died at
Clifton. Springs Tuesday...Funeral
from the home at three o'clock Friday
afternoon. Mr. Benham waa a
brother-in-law of James Kavanaugh
of .this village,

Edward married KAVANAUGH, Mary Irene on 20 Jan 1874 in Clifton Springs, Ontario County, NY. Mary (daughter of KAVANAUGH, James and BURNS, Rose) was born on 26 May 1855 in Auburn, Cayuga County, NY; died on 12 Feb 1948 in Clifton Springs, Ontario County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Geneva NY Daily Times - 2/13/1948

Clifton Springs, Feb. 13-Mrs.
Mary Kavanaugh Benham, 92,
widow of Edward H. Benham,
died yesterday in her home on
Broad St.
Friends may call at Weld's
funeral home, 26 Main S t Services
will be held there Monday
at 9 a. m. and at 9:30 in St. Felix
Catholic church.
Rev. Emmett Dougherty will
officiate. Burial will be in Clifton
Springs cemetery.
Mrs. Benham had been in poor
health for the past four years
but up until her passing had retained
all her faculties.
She was the daughter of James
and Rose Burns Kavanaugh and
was born in Auburn, May 26,
1656, the oldest of a family of
six children, none of whom are
now living.
When she was two years old,
the family moved to Phelps
where Mrs. Benham lived until
her marriage.
On January 20, 1874. she was
married to Edward H. Benham
of Canandaigua by Rev. Patrick
Lee at the Catholic rectory in
Clifton Springs. Following their
marriage, Mr. Benham engaged
in farming for about one year
and then went to Clifton Springs
where she had since resided - a
period of about 73 years. I
Mrs. Benham had a wonderful
'memory and could recall all the
Interesting happenings in the history
of Clifton Springs - the
growth of the sanitarium was of
great interest to her.
She had a sympathetic interest
in people which won for her a
welcome in the homes of neighbors
and friends and in any
gathering. She was a great lover
of children and young people
and was called Grandma Benham
by both young and old.
Mrs. Benham was the mother
of five children, George S., who
died in 1017; Mrs. John N. (Vina)
Walters, who died in 1936; and
surviving, Mrs. Paul (Elizabeth;
Webb of Tully; Miss Jennie M.
Benham of Clifton Springs- and
Mrs. George R. (Edna) Huested
of Geneva, formerly of Mannsville.
Also surviving are six grandchildren:
Mrs. Herbert Smart of
Gasport; Mrs, Kenneth Hessel of
Middleport; Mrs. D. E. Steinbaught
of Canandaigua; Mrs.
Henry Hadley of Geneva; Charles
Edward Webb of Tully and Mrs.
Robert Langley and eight great
grandchildren: Francis Brown of
Gasport; Richard and Jolene
Steinbaugh of Canandaigua; Vina
Ann Hadley of Geneva; Paul,
Mary and Faustina Webb of
Tully and Virginia E. Hessell of
Middleport.

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Phelps NY Citizen - 1/24/1924

.-The 50th marriage anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Benham
was celebrated at their home in
Clifton Springs on. Sunday. Mr. Benham
and Mary Irene Kay an augh of
Phelps were married on January 20,
1874, by the Bev. P. Lee of the Catho-
Uc church. Mrs. Benham is a sister of
J. F. Kavanaugh and sister-in-law of
Frank Spray, both of this village,
the latter of whom was groomsman
at the wedding, and who also attended
the anniversary celebration, which
consisted of a family dinner at noon,
with covers laid for-eighteen. The
gueaia comprised their daughters and
huebanda and unmarried, daugh.
ter also', a brother of Mr. Benham
and his wife. During the afternoon
and evening calls'were received from
over a hundred friends and neighbors.
A purse of gold was presented to Mr.'
and Mrs. Benham by their children
and families.