CANTRELL GENERATION FOUR
26. BENJAMIN4 CANTRELL, (John3, Joseph2,
Richard1), b ca 1768.
Wolf Island Creek, Rockingham Co., NC d ca 1846, Sink Creek, DeKalb Co., TN m1st
Charity Legat m2nd Polly Magness m3rd Hannah Powell. Benjamin was a small boy
when his parents moved to Spartanburg Co., SC. At the time of the fighting in
Ninety-Six District during the Revolution, he was about 12 years old; and it is
said that while he was ploughing in the fields, that by lying with his ear to
the ground he could distinctly hear the roar of the cannon. He appears in the
census of 1790 in Spartanburg Co., NC as the head of household, and moved to
Warren (now DeKalb) Co., Tennessee, by 1809. They were probably charter
members of Bildad Baptist Church when it was organizaed in June 1809.
benjamin was a deacon, church treasurer, delegate to the association in 1815 and
1820, and he remained active in the church until his death in 1846. By 1814,
or earllier, he lived on what is now Sink Creek, DeKalb Co., TN. After
Charity's death, Benjamin married second about 1828, Polly Durham Magness, who
died by 1840; he then married third Hannah Powell. He probably had
thirteen children, all by the frirst wife. Benjamin Cantrell's family is
listed on pages 115, 116, and 117 of the 1908 Cantrell genealogy.
Benjamin in that book was assigned as a son of John Cantrell, but the South
Carolina court records show that to be in erro, as benjamin was actually a son
of Isaac Cantrell. At least three of Benjamin Cantrell's daughters
married Cantrells. Some of his descenants moved to Missouri and other
states, but a large number of them remained in DeKalb and Warren Counties in
Tennessee. Children of
Benjamin Cantrell and Charity Legat:
+ 33. i. Peter5 Cantrell m Elizabeth Davis.
+ 34. ii. James5 Cantrell m Kizzie Cantrell.
+ 35.iii. Rayburn5 Cantrell b SC m Nellie _______.
+ 36. iv. Benjamin5 Cantrell b Spartanburg Co., SC
m Frances Fowler.
+ 37. v. Elizabeth5 Cantrell b SC m Daniel Thomas.
+ 38. vi. Nancy5 Cantrell
+ 39. vii. Sarah5 Cantrell m Elijah Cantrell son of
Thomas Cantrell.
+ 40. viii. Mary5 Cantrell m Green Cantrell son of
Isaac Cantrell.
+ 41. ix. Matilda 5Cantrell b TN m John Cantrell
son of Abraham Cantrell.
+ 42. x. Martha5 Cantrell b TN m Jackson Forrester.
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