Children of Richard Banbury and Mary Cornish (married 1812): Charles, Mary A., Elizabeth, Richard, were born in Enland before 1832. John C and Hannah, were born in Knox County, Ohio.[1]
"BANBURY, CHARLES, Jefferson fownship, farmer, post office, Danville, oldest son of the aforesaid Richard Banbury, was born in Devonshire, England, October 17, 1815. He emigrated with his parents to America in 1832, who located in Jefferson township, Knox county, September 16, 1841. He married Miss Barbara Robeson, born in Union township, Knox county, Ohio, January 18, 1819, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Robeson. They settled in Jefferson township on a forty acre tract of land, where they lived a few years, when Mr. Banbury purchased and moved on a seventy acre lot of land in the same township, remaining five years."[1]
"In 1853 he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation. They raised a family of nine children, viz.: Sarah A., Solomon, JohnR., Mary E., Richard, Martin F., Martha F., Charles F., and Albert L. All are living. Solomon served three years and three month in the civil war. He enlisted in company A, Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in October, 1861, and was honorably discharged in January, 1865."[1]
Charles was living next door to Richard and family in the 1860 Census with a family of his own.
He died in 1896 age 81 [2]
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