MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BENSON, Erwin ****************************************************************** Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by: SSpradling@aol.com September 20, 1999 ****************************************************************** A History of Monroe County, West Virginia Oren F. Morton, B. Lit. Staunton, VA The McClure Company, Inc. 1916 p. 311-312 ERWIN BENSON Erwin (d. 1818) (Mary Black, d. 1852) owned Salt Sulphur. C: Eliza-beth (?John Hawkins, 1808)-Mary (Michael Alexander, 1801)-Nelly (William Clark, 1808)-Jane (Isaac Caruthers, 1816)-Margaret (Willjam Erskine, 1810)-Mathias (d. before 1818). C of Mathias: Ervin William (minor, 1796) son of Levin. The Bensons came from the Cowpasture.