Benjamin Franklin Rawls

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ID: I763
Last: Rawls
First: Benjamin
Middle: Franklin
Birth: 7 Oct 1830 at South Carolina 1
Death: 28 Sep 1845 at Columbia, Richland Co., South Carolina 2 3
Burial: Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Columbia, Richland Co., South Carolina 4
Sex: M
Notes: Benjamin Franklin Rawls, eldest son of John and Anne E. Rawls, was named for his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Rawls, a prominent man in Columbia, South Carolina.

Young Benjamin's death just 10 days before his 15th birthday must have been a great tragedy for the family. His elder sister, Maria Louisa Rawls, died only a few years later.
 
Mother: Anna Elizabeth Geiger b: 17 Oct 1810 d: 11 Aug 1852
Father: John Ivy Rawls b: 31 Mar 1800 d: 8 Jul 1869
 
Sources:
1 Title: SCMAR - Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina, Newspapers, 1838-1860.
Author: Holcomb, Brent Howard.
Publication: 1988. SCMAR (South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research), Columbia, South Carolina.
Page: p. 241
Text:
[Columbia Newspapers: the South-Carolinian - p.177]
[Columbia Newspapers: SOUTH-CAROLINA TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE - p.241]
[Issue of October 2, 1845]
Died, in this place, on Sunday evening, 28th ult., after a brief illness, Benjamin Franklin Rawls, eldest son of John J. and Anne E. Rawls, aged 14 yeas, 11 months and 20 days.Â…
 
2 Title: SCMAR - Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina, Newspapers, 1838-1860.
Author: Holcomb, Brent Howard.
Publication: 1988. SCMAR (South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research), Columbia, South Carolina.
Date: 2 Oct 1845
Page: p. 241
Text:
[Columbia Newspapers: the South-Carolinian - p.177]
[Columbia Newspapers: SOUTH-CAROLINA TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE - p.241]
[Issue of October 2, 1845]
Died, in this place, on Sunday evening, 28th ult., after a brief illness, Benjamin Franklin Rawls, eldest son of John J. and Anne E. Rawls, aged 14 yeas, 11 months and 20 days.…
 
3 Title: Internet
Note:
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1301 Richland Street, Columbia, South Carolina.
Church was founded about 1830. Church has records of burials of those with unmarked graves.
List of tombstones by Helen Skipper (copyright 2000) http://sciway3.net/clark/richland/cemebenezerlutheran.html
Text:
Benjamin Franklin Rawls / Died 9-28-1845
 
4 Title: Internet
Note:
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1301 Richland Street, Columbia, South Carolina.
Church was founded about 1830. Church has records of burials of those with unmarked graves.
List of tombstones by Helen Skipper (copyright 2000) http://sciway3.net/clark/richland/cemebenezerlutheran.html
Text:
Benjamin Franklin Rawls / Died 9-28-1845
Mary Cecille Rawls / Died 8-20-1846 Age 3 mo.
William H. Rawls / 5-9-1839 - 7-4-1842
 


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