Thanks, Frank. We can agree on her birthplace and parents, but finding the Elias Pratt family bible is important because there are lots of questions about the life of Benevolence Bancroft--including her husbands, marriage dates and children. Her place of death is also in doubt; she probably died further out west--possibly near Clinton, DeKalb, IL where she was living in 1860 or possibly in Sterling, Macomb, Michigan where her daughter was living.