John "Jack" Percy Benton

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World War I Draft Registration Card

John Percy Benton County: Oklahoma State: Oklahoma Birthplace: Kentucky;United States of America Birth Date: 28 Mar 1894 Race: Caucasian (White) FHL Roll Number: 1852062 DraftBoard: 1

At the time he completed his draft registration form, he was still single, and working as a clerk for a gas company in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and a resident of Britton, Oklahoma.

At the time of the 1920 census, he was living in the boarding home of Elmer and Mamie Parnell in King Township, Stephens County, Oklahoma. He was listed as a Scout in the Oil Business. Living with him were his wife, Ethel, and eight month old daughter, Mary Ethel. He and his family moved to Oklahoma City prior to the 1930 census, where he was listed as a broker of oil leases. A second daughter, Jean, had been born.

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Census Listings:

1930 Census
Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma City, Ward 1
ED 55-32- SD 5 Sheet 8B
West 22nd Street
917-194-204
Benton, John Hd M W 36 m24 Ky Ky Ky Broker Oil Lease
Benton, Ethel Wf F W 32 m19 Ok Ky Tx
Benton, Mary Dtr F W 10 S Ok Ky Ok
Benton, Jean B Dtgr F W 9 S Ok Ky Ok

John married Mary Ethel Payne on 8 Jun 1918 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. Mary (daughter of Walter Winkle Payne and Permelia Gertrude Gentry) was born on 13 Sep 1898 in Stephens County, Indian Territory; died on 23 Apr 1948 in Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Vol. 5, Stephens County Marriage Book:, Lic. # 157
(Mary) Ethyl Payne to John P Benton, on 6-8-1918

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