When Joseph James Joiner "Jim" Benson was born on 15 April 1845, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Robert Benson, was 49 and his mother, Nancy Wooten, was 41. He married Margaret L. "Maggie" Hewett on 11 March 1866, in Warren, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Ward, Allen, Louisiana, United States in 1880. He died on 21 February 1883, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke in 1856.
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
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