Benjamin Franklin Shannon
b. 21 February 1843, d. 25 March 1922
- Father: Jacob Montgomery Shannon b. 6 March 1804, d. 22 May 1878
- Mother: Catherine Yoakum b. 24 March 1802, d. 1 January 1892
- Benjamin Franklin Shannon was born on 21 February 1843 in Dobbin, Montgomery County, Texas.
- He was known as Frank.
- Jacob Montgomery Shannon and Catherine Yoakum appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Benjamin Franklin Shannon. Also in the household were children Jacob (age 21), Dicy Ann (18), Margaret (16), Julia (14) and Josephine (10).
- Jacob Montgomery Shannon and Catherine Yoakum appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery PO, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Benjamin Franklin Shannon. Also in the household was son Jacob (age 30).
- He was a farmer, according to the 1860 census.
- He served as a private in Company G, 20th (Elmore's) Texas Infantry Regiment, CSA.
- He married Mary E. Scott, daughter of John Newton Scott and Susan Elizabeth Womack, on 4 November 1868 in Montgomery County, Texas.
- Jacob Montgomery Shannon and Catherine Yoakum appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Montgomery Precinct, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Benjamin Franklin Shannon, Mary E. Scott and Annie Shannon. Also in the household were children Clifford (age 13) and Jacob (41) and (his daughter?) Mary (9.)
- Benjamin Franklin Shannon became a widower at the 16 December 1878 death of his wife Mary E. Scott.
- Catherine Yoakum appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Benjamin Franklin Shannon, Cornelia Shannon, Annie Shannon and John Frank Shannon. Granddaughter Nellie also is enumerated elsewhere in Montgomery County with her mother's parents.
- He was a farmer, according to the 1880 census.
- He married Anna Davidson Harbin circa 1882.
- Benjamin Franklin Shannon and Anna Davidson Harbin appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Montgomery County, Texas. Also in the household were children Belle (17), Cochran (13), Hattie (11), Morris (9), Stewart (7) and S. Robertson (3), as well as mother-in-law Jane Harbin (64) and sister-in-law Lizzie Harbin (17). They were enumerated next to son John and his wife Mary, and near the household of widower Matt Shannon, born in 1824, and his large family.
- He was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.
- Benjamin Franklin Shannon died on 25 March 1922 at age 79 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
- He was interred at Jacob Shannon Evergreen Cemetery, Montgomery County, Texas, near Dobbin. His daughter Lula Shannon applied to the War Department for a veteran's headstone on 22 August 1933.
- Last Edited: 24 Nov 2016
Family 1: Mary E. Scott b. 7 June 1848, d. 16 December 1878
- Annie Shannon b. 4 March 1870, d. 27 February 1939
- John Frank Shannon b. 3 May 1872, d. 20 October 1951
- Cornelia Shannon b. 11 March 1876, d. 19 November 1957
Family 2: Anna Davidson Harbin b. 20 January 1867, d. 25 April 1938
- Franklin Shannon+ b. 31 March 1901, d. 7 October 1975