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Benajah Wilks + Rachel Walker

1 child
Birth: about 1828 24 23 — Georgia, USA
Marriage:
Census: October 22, 1840 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Census: October 23, 1850 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Death: 1855 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Unique identifier: 87583AEB40D7AC2F4CF50CA0B0A104A2
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Mary Wilks
1828–1855
Birth: about 1828 24 23 — Georgia, USA
Death: 1855 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Birth: 1804 42 39 — Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
Civil marriage: September 28, 1824 — Jasper, Georgia, USA
Family census: October 22, 1840 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Family census: October 23, 1850 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Death:
Unique identifier: D343B033B7F589AF4EAC86D175EA50FF
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Benajah Wilks
1804–
Birth: 1804 42 39 — Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
Death:
Birth: 1762 27 22 — Loudoun, Virginia, USA
Marriage: December 23, 1783 — Bedford, Virginia, USA
Occupation: petitioned to build a grist mill on Crab Orchard Creek — 1790 — Bedford, Virginia, USA
Immigration: before February 21, 1793 — Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
Family census: 1800 — Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
Death: 1808 — Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
Unique identifier: 8F7473C8FF5B91E246BFFB719C9DC398
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Benjamin Wilks
1762–1808
Birth: 1762 27 22 — Loudoun, Virginia, USA
Death: 1808 — Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
Birth: about 1765
Marriage: December 23, 1783 — Bedford, Virginia, USA
Family census: 1800 — Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
Death:
Unique identifier: 8F7473C8FF5B91E246BFFB719C9DC398
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Sarah Osborn
1765–
Birth: about 1765
Death:
Birth: October 12, 1804 — Georgia, USA
Civil marriage: September 28, 1824 — Jasper, Georgia, USA
Family census: October 22, 1840 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Family census: October 23, 1850 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Death: 1855 — Coosa, Alabama, USA
Unique identifier: D343B033B7F589AF4EAC86D175EA50FF
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Rachel Walker
1804–1855
Birth: October 12, 1804 — Georgia, USA
Death: 1855 — Coosa, Alabama, USA

Facts and events
Civil marriage
September 28, 1824
Jasper, Georgia, USA
Address: Jasper County, Georgia, USA
Quality of data: record image
Citation details: page 49 - Film# 158442, Folder# 2454949, Image# 199
Note: Georgia: Jasper County: I certify that Benajah Wilkes and Rachel Walker were duly joined in matrimony by me this 28th day of September 1824. ss/ Jesse Loyall J.P. Registered 30th September 1824 ss: I. C. Gibson, C. C. A.
Family census
October 22, 1840
Coosa, Alabama, USA
Address: Sockopartoy Precinct, Coosa County, Alabama, USA
Citation details: Page 285, Reel 0002, Page 234 & 235
Text:

Enumerator: Ivir D. Patterson

Quality of data: census images
Note: on line 24 as Benajah Wilkes - 1 male 30-40; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 30-40; Slaves: 2 males 0-10; 1 male, 36-55; 1 female 0-10; 2 females 10-24, 2 females 24-36. 11 total, 5 in agriculture.
Family census
October 23, 1850
Coosa, Alabama, USA
Address: Coosa District, Coosa County, Alabama, USA
Citation details: Page 63
Text:

Enumerator: Spencer I. McMorris

Quality of data: census image
Note: in hh 865-865 as Benajah Wilkes, Age: 46, Male, Farmer, $400 GA; Rachel Age: 45, Female, GA; Mary, Age: 22, GA.
Unique identifier
D343B033B7F589AF4EAC86D175EA50FF
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