Documentation for Benjamin Vining - Mary King


Census Data

  1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870
Benjamin Vining ? ? ? ? 70 79
[see note below]		 dead
Mary (King) Vining ? ? ? dead
    Reuben Vining ? ? ? ? [living? in separate household]
    Simeon Vining ? ? ? ? [living? in separate household]
    Albert Gallatin Vining ? ? married [and living in separate household]
    Cosby L. Vining ? ? ? married [and living in separate household?]
    Lewis Milton Vining ? ? ? 36
[see note below]		 ? ?
    Lucy Vining ? ? ? [living? in separate household]


1850 Cherokee County, Texas - dwelling 526, family 526. In 1850, Benjamin Vining was living in the household of son Lewis Milton Vining and wife Hester L.



1860 Rusk post office (Beat #2), Cherokee County, Texas - dwelling 258, family 258. In 1860, Benjamin Vining was living in the household of grandson Joseph W. Vining.




Biographical Notes

(from Cherokee County [Texas] History, publication date not given):
   “Benjamin lived successively in Jefferson County, Morgan County, Habersham County, during the Georgia gold rush, and then in Campbell County. He was a silversmith. In 1839 he and two sons, Cosby and Lewis Milton, emigrated to the Republic of Texas and obtained land in the part of Nacogdoches which became Cherokee County in 1846. Cosby Vining was a medical doctor, a Justice of the Inferior Court in Harris Co., Ga., in 1828–29, and the first Sheriff of Cherokee County in 1846. Lewis Milton and Cosby Vining were soldiers in the brief Creek War of 1836.” (p. 574.)