Three years later, he married Miss Minnie Moslete Coats. It happened on Sunday, 23 October at 4 PM, the ceremony was led by Judge McKnight. Minnie was born on 23 August 1874 in Nacogdoches, TX. The bride was the daughter of Mr. Daniel Franklin Coats and Miss Harriett Burrows.
At first, Ben was a farmer, and also a teamster in the summer. In 1915 he bought his first truck he started his own trucking company. He drove his hauling truck from Mason to Llano. Then he bought another truck - those were the first trucks in Mason. Ben hired Mr.Jesse Schmidt as a driver and they also drove to Brady. Benjamin Franklin's retirement day came in 1946.
He and Minnie had seven children, two died when they were little. Other children were
Leon Franklin,
Lenora Odelia who married Mr. Martin Behrens,
Wenona Mae who married Mr. Frank Polk,
Audrey Beatrice who married Mr. Walter Grobe,
and John Ervin.
Ben passed due to endocarditis, on 23 August 1935. The man died in his home at 104 Schmidt Str. in Mason (1).
Ben's parents were Mr. Benjamin Manning Mayo (b. 16 March 1835 in Washington, Georgia/d. 3 June 1906, Mason, Mason, TX), who was a farmer, and Miss Mary Jane Hogues (b. 30 June 1842/d. 2 March 1930, Marion County, TX).
The couple had eleven children. Two died when they were infants. The ones who lived till adulthood were: sons
Ervin James, Silas, Ben, Newton
and daughters
Almeda, Larissa, Caroline, and Lillie.
Silas was once Mason House Livery Stable manager and a tax collector of McCulloch County.
In In 1870 the family lived in Beat No. 3, Navarro, TX (2). Ten years later, they were registered during the census in Precinct No. 4, Navarro County (3). In 1900 Ben rented a farm at Mason Township, Mason County, where he lived together with his wife Mary, four sons, and a granddaughter (4).
The family line goes from Benjamin Franklin Mayo to Andrew Morgan Gant - our 2nd cousin twice removed - grandson of our great-great-grandfather's brother (see below)
Ben F Mayo
⇒ his father Ben Manning Mayo
⇒ his brother Christopher Columbus Mayo (b. 15 July 1851, Georgia/d. 21 Sept 1921, Voca, McCulloch, TX)
⇒ his wife Mary Elizabeth (Leddy) Mayo (21 July 1861, Jerseyville, Illinois/d. 21 Oct. 1931, Sipe Springs, Comanche, TX)
⇒ her mother Miriam Burban (Anderson) Leddy (b. 4 Oct 1842, Sumner, TN/d. 18 August 1923, Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma)
⇒ her brother John Austin Anderson (b. 8 Oct. 1826, Sumner, TN/d. 26 Dec 1871, Portland, Sumner, TN)
⇒ his daughter Johnnie Isabella (Anderson) Gant (b. 8 May 1872, Sumner, TN/d. 30 Jan 1952, Dallas, Dallas, TX)
⇒ her husband Lucillious Lee Gant (b. 6 March 1868, Sumner, TN/d. 26 Feb. 1928, Wylie, Collin, TX)
⇒ his brother Andrew Morgan Gant - our 2nd cousin twice removed
⇒ his father James Abram Gant
⇒ his father Benjamin Thomas Gant
⇒ his brother Jacob Rippy Gant - our great-great-grandfather
Sources:
2. "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXGW-YM7 : 18 March 2020), B M Mayo, 1870.
3. "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFNZ-ZYH : 15 July 2017), Benjamin M Mayo, Precinct 4, Freestone, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 54, sheet 537D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,304.
4. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3P2-M7B: accessed 22 July 2020), BM Mayo, Mason Township Mason, Mason, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 53, sheet 12B, family 229, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,658.
- Mason County Historical Book, Mason County Historical Society, Mason County Historical Commission, 1976.
- Findagrave.com
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