Benjamin Sr. in Rev War.
Benjamin Close Sr. was a soldier in the American Revolution and lived about 40 miles from Buffalo, NY. and is decended from a long line of sterling ancestors. The first one being one Benjamin Close, along with his 2 brothers who came here from England in the early colonial days.
Among his children.....was one Benjamin Close Jr. who married Elizabeth Gale. They lived in Ashland co. Ohio. Among their childen was a son named Samuel,who married Mary Foote and theyhad a son named Benjamin,who married Emma Shumaker and they had a son named Maurice........who was Eric Close the actor's grandfather.
Benjamin, son of Samuel went to Minnesota and graduated from Garden City ,MN high school, farmed and then moved back to Indiana.
A sister of Samuel, her name was Lucy, was my gg grandmother.
I am looking for any decendants of Benjamin Close JR and Elizabeth Gale. I need some "Close" cousins.
Thanks in advance.
Mary
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