Benjamin
Monroe
Franks
Born about in Mississippi
Ancestors 
Son of Benjamin F Franks
and Levicy (Raudon) Franks
Husband of
Harriet Poe (Darby) Franks
— married
30 Dec 1875 in Grimes, Texas, United States
Father of
Arthur Benjamin Franks
Died
at about age 53
in Arcadia, Galveston County, Texas
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Aug 2013
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Biography
Benjamin Monroe Franks was born about 1851 in Mississippi, in the vicinity of Pontotoc. He and his parents, Benjamin and Levicy, moved to Texas after the Civil War, settling in Bedias, Grimes County, Texas. By 1900, he was living in Galveston County, where he died in 1904.
Birth
- Birth:
- Date: 1851
Death
- Date: 1904
Burial
- Place: Arcadia Cemetery, Arcadia, Galveston, Texxas
Sources
- Year: 1860; Census Place: Pontotoc, Mississippi; Roll: M653_590; Page: 801; Family History Library Film: 803590
- Year: 1880; Census Place: Grimes, Texas; Roll: 1307; Page: 105D; Enumeration District: 062
- Year: 1900; Census Place: Justice Precinct 4, Galveston, Texas; Page: 5; Enumeration District: 0144; FHL microfilm: 1241637
- Ancestry.com. Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40188619, photo by Ken Donahue
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Becky Santos for creating WikiTree profile Franks-1100 through the import of Crouch Family.ged on Jul 29, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Becky and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
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~6.25%
Leslie Franks
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A139073 [compare], Ancestry member LESLIEJF192
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~1.56%
~12.50%
Pete Weldon :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SD6762608 [compare]
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Robin (Weldon) Hildebrand :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XU7511784 [compare], Ancestry member ChrisandRobinHildebrand
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