When Harriet Adeline Benham was born in 1841, her father, Ebenezer Benham, was 29 and her mother, Ann E Mathews, was 21. She died on 17 January 1842, at the age of 1, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
English: habitational name from Beenham, and perhaps also from Marsh Benham and Hoe Benham (all in Berkshire), or from Benhams in Horsham in Sussex.
History: John Benham was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
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