She was raised in the Kirby's Mill area of Jackson County. She married James Stockton Benson and they had three children, but have no living descendents. Their children were:
Comer Earl Benson, born February 21, 1907 and died February 14, 1913. This child is buried beside Pogue and Molly Benson in Langston Cemetery.
Mary Benson Bloker, born in 1915. Mary was educated as a cook at Cordon Bleu school in Paris, where she survived French with the help of her classmate Julia Child. She married Oho Bloker and cooked fabulous dinners all her life, traveled widely, and wrote cookbooks and articles. The couple had no children.
James Stockton” Jimmy” Benson Jr., born in 1921 and died in 1939 from an infection caused by a fever blister.
Her husband was postmaster, editor of the Progressive Age newspaper, and probate judge. They lived their lives in Scottsboro in the rock house on the corner of Laurel and South Hamilton street.
After Jim Benson's death may 4, 1943, she married the Reverend Dr. D. Pinkney Galloway, a widower with a number of children. He died in 1962 and is buried with his first wife in Hopewell Cemetery in DeKalb County.
Ethel lived 23 years longer than her first husband and 4 years longer than her second. She is buried with her first husband and children Jimmy and Mary in Cedar Hill.
She was raised in the Kirby's Mill area of Jackson County. She married James Stockton Benson and they had three children, but have no living descendents. Their children were:
Comer Earl Benson, born February 21, 1907 and died February 14, 1913. This child is buried beside Pogue and Molly Benson in Langston Cemetery.
Mary Benson Bloker, born in 1915. Mary was educated as a cook at Cordon Bleu school in Paris, where she survived French with the help of her classmate Julia Child. She married Oho Bloker and cooked fabulous dinners all her life, traveled widely, and wrote cookbooks and articles. The couple had no children.
James Stockton” Jimmy” Benson Jr., born in 1921 and died in 1939 from an infection caused by a fever blister.
Her husband was postmaster, editor of the Progressive Age newspaper, and probate judge. They lived their lives in Scottsboro in the rock house on the corner of Laurel and South Hamilton street.
After Jim Benson's death may 4, 1943, she married the Reverend Dr. D. Pinkney Galloway, a widower with a number of children. He died in 1962 and is buried with his first wife in Hopewell Cemetery in DeKalb County.
Ethel lived 23 years longer than her first husband and 4 years longer than her second. She is buried with her first husband and children Jimmy and Mary in Cedar Hill.
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John Oscar Downey
1874–1902
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Lena Annie Downey Mason
1876–1948
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George Walter Downey
1878–1939
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Dr Fredrick Emmett Downey
1881–1905
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Dr Ernest Atkins Downey
1884–1940
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Kittie Virginia Downey Webb
1886–1968
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Lillian Myrtle Downey Denton Boerwinkle
1890–1977
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Frances Blanche "Fannie" Downey Berry
1893–1965
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Stella Spencer Downey Lynn
1896–1973
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