George BENTON

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Excerpt from "Descendants of George Rowells" by Ann Moloney Lamb:

Obituary: Beaver Dam Argus, 21 Nov 1895, p. 3, col 6: "Deaths: George Benton, an inmate of the Dodge County Insane Asylum, died on Sunday Nov 17. His remains were taken to Waupun for interment." He never married, and lived in Waupun.

John married Mary ROWLES on 18 Jan 1859 in Fox Lake, (near Waupun) Dodge Co., Wisconsin. Mary (daughter of George ROWLES and Sarah GRIFFIN) was born about 1815 in Cloonteen, Cappamore, Co. Limerick,Ireland; died on 27 Jul 1898 in Waupun, Fond Du Lac County,Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Living in Waupun, Dodge Co., Wisconsin

Notes:

Excerpt from "Descendants of George Rowles" by Ann Moloney Lamb:

Mary's marriage to Thomas Carey/Cary took place before the Cappamore records began. She immigrated to America after her husband's death, probably after 1852 when her paretns and siblings emigrated, with her children John and Conn. (Cappamore, Co. Limerick, parish records show 5 Carys born to the same parents, two named Thomas. It is likely the second Thomas was born after the first one died.) Lizzie Rowles family history only mentions two boys and that Thomas Carey died and was buried in Ireland

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Excerpt from "Descendants of George Rowles" by Ann Moloney Lamb:

George Rowles and Sarah Griffin came to America from the townland of Cloonteen which was located at that time in the civil parish of Doon, which lies in the northeast corner of County Limerick, Ireland, right next to the Tipperary border......

George and Sarah came on a Norwegian ship from Dublin to New York in the fall of 1852 with their son John and daughter Margaret, and joined their sons Luke and George who had come there earlier with their wives. They were living and working on farms in Easton township, Washington County, which lies along the Hudson River near to the town of Schuylerville and about 35 miles north of Albany. Sarah died about three months after they arrived and in buried near some friends who also came from Cappamore with her. The rest of the Rowles family lived in New York about three and half years more before moving to Waupun, Wisconsin in about early 1856.

Only one Rowles family was left in Doon after they left, that of Michael Rowles and his wife Bridget Ryan. Michael and Bridget had 7 children between 1845 and 1861, named William, Edward, John, Mary, Alice, George and Bridget but since the family did not emigrate with the others and cannot be traced, we have no idea what became of them.

All of Rowles family moved to Wisconsin, probably at or near the same time. The most likely route would have been west along the Erie Canal from Albany to Buffalo. The Canal was built in about 1825 under Governor DeWitt Clinton and was called familiarly "Clinton's Ditch". From Burfalo they probably went by boat through the Great Lakes to Wisconsin.

George married Sarah GRIFFIN about 1814. Sarah was born about 1795 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland; died about Sep 1852 in Easton, Washington County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In June of 182 George and Sarah immigrated. She died at Luke's house in Easton, Washington Co., about three months after landing in American (abt. Sept 1852).

She is buried in Schuylerville, New York,near Eliza Bourk (sic) Benton and John Maher, with whom she came to America. Unfortunately ,the church is Schuylerville does not have information for that period.