Cora E. Benkelman

1876 - 1904  (27 years)

• Name	Cora E. Benkelman  [1, 2]
  Born	26 Jun 1876	Columbia County, Wisconsin   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	18 Jun 1904	Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin   [3]
  Notes	The 1900 census listed Cora a single. She was a school-teacher. Cass City Chronicle November 8, 1901 Local Mentions A farewell party was given at Mrs. J. Schwegler's Monday evening in honor of her brother, Leonard and his niece Miss Cora Benkelman, who left for their respective homes in Manitowoc and Portage, Wisconisn, Tuesday. Name: Cora E. Binkelman Gender: Female Burial Date: Burial Place: Death Date: 18 Jun 1904 Death Place: Portage, Columbia, Wisconsin Age: 28 Birth Date: 1876 Birthplace: Occupation: Race: Marital Status: Spouse's Name: Father's Name: John Binkelman Father's Birthplace: Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's Birthplace: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I08850-8 System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy Source Film Number: 1310176 Reference Number: p235 Collection: Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968 BonnieMargaret Jacobs wrote that Cora died in 1904 of sarcoma. (p. 111)
  Person ID	I12674	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Johannes "John" Benkelman,   b. 3 Apr 1836, Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany ,   d. 18 Jan 1917, Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jane Keech,   b. 24 Aug 1834, Pennsylvania ,   d. 28 Nov 1921, Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin  (Age 87 years)
  Married	7 Jun 1857	Emerald Grove, Rock County, Wisconsin   [1, 4, 5]
  	BonnieMargaret Jacobs writes that their first three children, Emma, George and Louisa, all died of fever (p. 107), Emma first, who was a few month past her fourth birthday, George died a month later, still just a baby, and then finally Louisa, some five months later, at age 3 and 1/2. BonnieMargaret also noted that "The Benkelmans of Portage are buried in Silver Lake Cemetery, but the only record of that is with the cemetery sexton. None of the graves bears a marker. (p. 112).
  Family ID	F5022	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 26 Jun 1876 - Columbia County, Wisconsin Died - 18 Jun 1904 - Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Benkelman, Cora, ca late 1890's or early 1900's Cora was a school teacher in Portage, Wisconsin. She died as a young woman after being diagnosed with a sarcoma. She was a daughter of Sarah Jane Keech and Johannes Benkelmann, one of ten Benkelmann siblings who immigrated from Germany to the US in the 1850s.

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 108 (Reliability: 3). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 111 (Reliability: 3). [S667] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, (The WorldConnect Project is a set of tools, which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their genealogy with other researchers. The program used to day has a genealogy of its own. RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November 10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project continues to grow, and as of January 2004 had more than 312 million records. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunications. It is a file format developed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). It provides a flexible and uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data, and allows you to share files with other researchers who may not use the same genealogy program.), Henderson, Harold (hhsh@earthlink.net) "Ancestor Exchange!" Versin 2009-05-20 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hendersonscholes (Reliability: 3). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 107, citing Civil War pension records #351090, Apirl 20, 1886, refiled Jan 24, 1917 for widow's benefits, petition #1091985, Certificate No. 830682. (Reliability: 3).