Frances 'Fannie' Antoinette Simpson Benning was born 04 Oct 1826 in Washington, Wilkes County, GA, daughter of Robert Simpson (1785-1866) born in Wilkes Co. GA & Marie Louisa Laprestre Simpson (1796-1848), a French Huguenot born in Sainte Dominque, French Colony, Hispaniola (Haiti).Fannie's paternal grandfather Archibald Simpson, Jr., Revolutionary War veteran, fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek, GA. Fannie Simpson Benning had an original copy of her grandfather's "Archibald Simpson Sr. Family Tree" black ink drawing done on sheepskin hung on her home, which she inherited from her father Robert Simpson, son of Archibald Simpson Jr. In 1911 this Simpson Tree Drawing was given to to Fannie's daughter Louisa 'Loula' Malinda Benning Harris, where it remained in the Harris home in Waverly Hall, GA. until 1972 when Loula's youngest child, Augusta 'Gussie' Patterson Harris passed. Prior to her death Gussie Harris allowed great-niece Sandra Harris Carney to take the Drawing in its gilded frame and have a large photographs made.
Fannie's maternal grandfather Nicholas Le Prestre (c. 1765-1829), French Huguenot & merchant, escaped the Haiti slave uprising & brought Fannie's mother Louisa as a small child to Wilks Co. GA. Fannie was 4 years old in the 1830 Census. Sometime after 1830 & before 1843, her father Robert Simpson moved to Harris Co. GA. On 9 April 1843 Fannie Simpson married Richard Edwin 'Ed' Benning on her parent's plantation. Ed, born in Columbia Co. GA, was a son of Pleasant Moon Benning (1783-1845) & Malinda Lewis White Benning (1789-1864). They left Columbia Co & settled at Valley Plains,the northeastern corner of Harris Co. GA when Ed was a teenager. Fannie & Ed Benning had 12 children: Louisa 'Loula' Malinda Benning Harris (1845-1935)(hus. Elder Benjamin Richardson Harris; Pleasant Moon Benning (II)(1847-bef 1858); Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. (1849-1904); Caroline 'Carrie' Anulet Benning Carter (1851-aft 1921)(hus. James Hamilton Carter); Henry Lewis Benning (1853-aft 1878); Louisa Anna Benning (1855-aft 1870); Frances
'Fannie' Antoinette Benning (1856-aft 1910); Pleasant Edwin Benning (1858-1914)(wif. Lenora McConnell Benning); Robert Simpson Benning (1859-1896)(wif. Augusta Patterson Benning); Augusta 'Gusta' Benning (1860-aft 1890); Mary 'Molly' Ann Benning Harris (1865-c.1954)(hus. John Walker Harris). Ed & Fannie Benning appeared in the 1820, 1830, 1840 ,1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1920, & 1930 Census records. Ed Benning became a successful farmer with a 400-acre farm. Ed served valiantly in Anderson's Ga Militia, Co.'G,' CSA. Fannie managed the plantation with seven young children (ages 15-8 mo.) living on real estate valued at $8,000 & personal estate,$36,000. Ten years later in 1870, this real estate was worth $3,450, personal estate, $850. Ed & Frances Benning lived there with 11 Benning members & a family of 5 blacks. Fannie's husband Ed Benning died 21 Jun 1892 & was buried with Her parents Robert & Louisa Simpson. In 1898 Fannie divided the property into four 100-acre lots which she gave to her four children living there: Loula Benning Harris; Pleasant Edwin Benning; Mollie Ann Benning Harris; & Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. her unmarried son with whom Fannie made her final home. Fannie died 11 Jan 1911 at age 85. She was buried with her husband Ed and her Simpson parents in the Old Benning Family Cemetery in Harris Co.
NOTE: This 400 acre farm was located in Harris Co. GA about 4 miles north of Waverly Hall. GA State Highway 85, travels north from Columbus, passes through Shiloh & Waverly Hall to Atlanta, & cuts through the lower half of Benning's land. A few miles north sits Warm Springs, the vacation home of President Franklin Roosevelt, called "The Little White House." It is a national historic site.
Fannie's maternal grandfather Nicholas Le Prestre (c. 1765-1829), French Huguenot & merchant, escaped the Haiti slave uprising & brought Fannie's mother Louisa as a small child to Wilks Co. GA. Fannie was 4 years old in the 1830 Census. Sometime after 1830 & before 1843, her father Robert Simpson moved to Harris Co. GA. On 9 April 1843 Fannie Simpson married Richard Edwin 'Ed' Benning on her parent's plantation. Ed, born in Columbia Co. GA, was a son of Pleasant Moon Benning (1783-1845) & Malinda Lewis White Benning (1789-1864). They left Columbia Co & settled at Valley Plains,the northeastern corner of Harris Co. GA when Ed was a teenager. Fannie & Ed Benning had 12 children: Louisa 'Loula' Malinda Benning Harris (1845-1935)(hus. Elder Benjamin Richardson Harris; Pleasant Moon Benning (II)(1847-bef 1858); Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. (1849-1904); Caroline 'Carrie' Anulet Benning Carter (1851-aft 1921)(hus. James Hamilton Carter); Henry Lewis Benning (1853-aft 1878); Louisa Anna Benning (1855-aft 1870); Frances
'Fannie' Antoinette Benning (1856-aft 1910); Pleasant Edwin Benning (1858-1914)(wif. Lenora McConnell Benning); Robert Simpson Benning (1859-1896)(wif. Augusta Patterson Benning); Augusta 'Gusta' Benning (1860-aft 1890); Mary 'Molly' Ann Benning Harris (1865-c.1954)(hus. John Walker Harris). Ed & Fannie Benning appeared in the 1820, 1830, 1840 ,1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1920, & 1930 Census records. Ed Benning became a successful farmer with a 400-acre farm. Ed served valiantly in Anderson's Ga Militia, Co.'G,' CSA. Fannie managed the plantation with seven young children (ages 15-8 mo.) living on real estate valued at $8,000 & personal estate,$36,000. Ten years later in 1870, this real estate was worth $3,450, personal estate, $850. Ed & Frances Benning lived there with 11 Benning members & a family of 5 blacks. Fannie's husband Ed Benning died 21 Jun 1892 & was buried with Her parents Robert & Louisa Simpson. In 1898 Fannie divided the property into four 100-acre lots which she gave to her four children living there: Loula Benning Harris; Pleasant Edwin Benning; Mollie Ann Benning Harris; & Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. her unmarried son with whom Fannie made her final home. Fannie died 11 Jan 1911 at age 85. She was buried with her husband Ed and her Simpson parents in the Old Benning Family Cemetery in Harris Co.
NOTE: This 400 acre farm was located in Harris Co. GA about 4 miles north of Waverly Hall. GA State Highway 85, travels north from Columbus, passes through Shiloh & Waverly Hall to Atlanta, & cuts through the lower half of Benning's land. A few miles north sits Warm Springs, the vacation home of President Franklin Roosevelt, called "The Little White House." It is a national historic site.
Frances 'Fannie' Antoinette Simpson Benning was born 04 Oct 1826 in Washington, Wilkes County, GA, daughter of Robert Simpson (1785-1866) born in Wilkes Co. GA & Marie Louisa Laprestre Simpson (1796-1848), a French Huguenot born in Sainte Dominque, French Colony, Hispaniola (Haiti).Fannie's paternal grandfather Archibald Simpson, Jr., Revolutionary War veteran, fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek, GA. Fannie Simpson Benning had an original copy of her grandfather's "Archibald Simpson Sr. Family Tree" black ink drawing done on sheepskin hung on her home, which she inherited from her father Robert Simpson, son of Archibald Simpson Jr. In 1911 this Simpson Tree Drawing was given to to Fannie's daughter Louisa 'Loula' Malinda Benning Harris, where it remained in the Harris home in Waverly Hall, GA. until 1972 when Loula's youngest child, Augusta 'Gussie' Patterson Harris passed. Prior to her death Gussie Harris allowed great-niece Sandra Harris Carney to take the Drawing in its gilded frame and have a large photographs made.
Fannie's maternal grandfather Nicholas Le Prestre (c. 1765-1829), French Huguenot & merchant, escaped the Haiti slave uprising & brought Fannie's mother Louisa as a small child to Wilks Co. GA. Fannie was 4 years old in the 1830 Census. Sometime after 1830 & before 1843, her father Robert Simpson moved to Harris Co. GA. On 9 April 1843 Fannie Simpson married Richard Edwin 'Ed' Benning on her parent's plantation. Ed, born in Columbia Co. GA, was a son of Pleasant Moon Benning (1783-1845) & Malinda Lewis White Benning (1789-1864). They left Columbia Co & settled at Valley Plains,the northeastern corner of Harris Co. GA when Ed was a teenager. Fannie & Ed Benning had 12 children: Louisa 'Loula' Malinda Benning Harris (1845-1935)(hus. Elder Benjamin Richardson Harris; Pleasant Moon Benning (II)(1847-bef 1858); Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. (1849-1904); Caroline 'Carrie' Anulet Benning Carter (1851-aft 1921)(hus. James Hamilton Carter); Henry Lewis Benning (1853-aft 1878); Louisa Anna Benning (1855-aft 1870); Frances
'Fannie' Antoinette Benning (1856-aft 1910); Pleasant Edwin Benning (1858-1914)(wif. Lenora McConnell Benning); Robert Simpson Benning (1859-1896)(wif. Augusta Patterson Benning); Augusta 'Gusta' Benning (1860-aft 1890); Mary 'Molly' Ann Benning Harris (1865-c.1954)(hus. John Walker Harris). Ed & Fannie Benning appeared in the 1820, 1830, 1840 ,1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1920, & 1930 Census records. Ed Benning became a successful farmer with a 400-acre farm. Ed served valiantly in Anderson's Ga Militia, Co.'G,' CSA. Fannie managed the plantation with seven young children (ages 15-8 mo.) living on real estate valued at $8,000 & personal estate,$36,000. Ten years later in 1870, this real estate was worth $3,450, personal estate, $850. Ed & Frances Benning lived there with 11 Benning members & a family of 5 blacks. Fannie's husband Ed Benning died 21 Jun 1892 & was buried with Her parents Robert & Louisa Simpson. In 1898 Fannie divided the property into four 100-acre lots which she gave to her four children living there: Loula Benning Harris; Pleasant Edwin Benning; Mollie Ann Benning Harris; & Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. her unmarried son with whom Fannie made her final home. Fannie died 11 Jan 1911 at age 85. She was buried with her husband Ed and her Simpson parents in the Old Benning Family Cemetery in Harris Co.
NOTE: This 400 acre farm was located in Harris Co. GA about 4 miles north of Waverly Hall. GA State Highway 85, travels north from Columbus, passes through Shiloh & Waverly Hall to Atlanta, & cuts through the lower half of Benning's land. A few miles north sits Warm Springs, the vacation home of President Franklin Roosevelt, called "The Little White House." It is a national historic site.
Fannie's maternal grandfather Nicholas Le Prestre (c. 1765-1829), French Huguenot & merchant, escaped the Haiti slave uprising & brought Fannie's mother Louisa as a small child to Wilks Co. GA. Fannie was 4 years old in the 1830 Census. Sometime after 1830 & before 1843, her father Robert Simpson moved to Harris Co. GA. On 9 April 1843 Fannie Simpson married Richard Edwin 'Ed' Benning on her parent's plantation. Ed, born in Columbia Co. GA, was a son of Pleasant Moon Benning (1783-1845) & Malinda Lewis White Benning (1789-1864). They left Columbia Co & settled at Valley Plains,the northeastern corner of Harris Co. GA when Ed was a teenager. Fannie & Ed Benning had 12 children: Louisa 'Loula' Malinda Benning Harris (1845-1935)(hus. Elder Benjamin Richardson Harris; Pleasant Moon Benning (II)(1847-bef 1858); Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. (1849-1904); Caroline 'Carrie' Anulet Benning Carter (1851-aft 1921)(hus. James Hamilton Carter); Henry Lewis Benning (1853-aft 1878); Louisa Anna Benning (1855-aft 1870); Frances
'Fannie' Antoinette Benning (1856-aft 1910); Pleasant Edwin Benning (1858-1914)(wif. Lenora McConnell Benning); Robert Simpson Benning (1859-1896)(wif. Augusta Patterson Benning); Augusta 'Gusta' Benning (1860-aft 1890); Mary 'Molly' Ann Benning Harris (1865-c.1954)(hus. John Walker Harris). Ed & Fannie Benning appeared in the 1820, 1830, 1840 ,1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1920, & 1930 Census records. Ed Benning became a successful farmer with a 400-acre farm. Ed served valiantly in Anderson's Ga Militia, Co.'G,' CSA. Fannie managed the plantation with seven young children (ages 15-8 mo.) living on real estate valued at $8,000 & personal estate,$36,000. Ten years later in 1870, this real estate was worth $3,450, personal estate, $850. Ed & Frances Benning lived there with 11 Benning members & a family of 5 blacks. Fannie's husband Ed Benning died 21 Jun 1892 & was buried with Her parents Robert & Louisa Simpson. In 1898 Fannie divided the property into four 100-acre lots which she gave to her four children living there: Loula Benning Harris; Pleasant Edwin Benning; Mollie Ann Benning Harris; & Richard Edwin Benning, Jr. her unmarried son with whom Fannie made her final home. Fannie died 11 Jan 1911 at age 85. She was buried with her husband Ed and her Simpson parents in the Old Benning Family Cemetery in Harris Co.
NOTE: This 400 acre farm was located in Harris Co. GA about 4 miles north of Waverly Hall. GA State Highway 85, travels north from Columbus, passes through Shiloh & Waverly Hall to Atlanta, & cuts through the lower half of Benning's land. A few miles north sits Warm Springs, the vacation home of President Franklin Roosevelt, called "The Little White House." It is a national historic site.
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FRANCES A. BENNING
b. October 4, 1826
d. January 11, 1911
WIFE
