"Grandmother Benton died at Father's house at the age of eighty-five.H er maiden name was Womack. She and her husband and children livedin S outh Carolina in time of the Revolutionary War. After the war,they st arted to move to Kentucky, and, in crossing a river, herhusband and al l the children were drowned except a boy, Wellman, anda girl, Elizabet h. She herself, was washed down the river and caughtsome bushes until s he was rescued. After she got to Kentucky, shelater married David Ben ton."
