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Personal data Jonas Preston Benton 

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Notes about Jonas Preston Benton

!Birth: Headstone
!Death: Headstone
Notes:
1. Obituary appeared in The News Reporter, Whiteville, NC Feb 26, 1973
2. Served in the Navy in WW II.
3. Obituary courtesy of Virginia Anders. Obit and headstone lists this man
as Jones P. Benton. Original funeral marker in 1993 listed his first
name as Jonas. This makes more sense as he was probably named after his
grandfather Preston Jonas Benton.
4. Died following an accident at Georgetown, SC on the Thursday prior to Feb
26 1973. Funeral rites were conducted at the home of his sister, Daisy
Benton Nelson.

Military: S1 US Navy WWI

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jonas Preston Benton

Preston Jonas Benton
1839-1921
Anna Amanda McDowell
1837-1903
Jonas Wilson
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Mary Eliza Frink
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Jonas Preston Benton
1921-1973


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Sources

  1. Bill Bland
  2. "Evans Zellers Family Tree" on Rootsweb WorldConnect, Evans
  3. Cemetery Records or Gravestone Inscription, Burial location

Historical events

Birthday December 24, 1921

  • The temperature on December 24, 1921 was between -1.2 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
    • February 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
    • February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
    • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
    • June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
    • August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
    • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

Day of death February 22, 1973

  • The temperature on February 22, 1973 was between 3.4 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
    • April 30 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
    • May 8 » A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
    • October 6 » Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
    • October 20 » "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
    • October 31 » Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
    • November 25 » Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.


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