Benjamin Northcutt
Helphinstine
Birth: July 3, 1823 in Kentucky
Died: Dec. 1, 1901 in Chico, Butte County, Calif.
Buried: Chico Cemetery as "Uncle Ben Helphinstine"
Emily Maxfield Veale
Birth: Feb. 22, 1832 in Washington,
Daviess County, Indiana
Died: Aug. 27, 1920 in Chico, Butte, Calif.
Benjamin and Emily Helphinstine
were married about 1845.
Ben Helphinstine was a brother of Rebecca McIntosh. He
and his wife Emily were living in Washington, Daviess County,
Indiana at the time that many of his relatives traveled by wagon
train to California in 1852. Emily Helphenstine was 5 months
pregnant with their first child, Florence, when his relatives
began the perilous journey. It would have been unwise to attempt
the three and a half month trip in her condition. So Florence
was born in Indiana, as was their son William in 1858. I don't
know the details of when, why or how but Ben's family did travel
to California but they were there by 1870.
When their daughter Florence was 22 she married John Jackson
Waste on Nov. 29, 1874 in Chico, Butte
County, Calif. Her husband had been married twice before to both
Margaret Helphinstine and Mary Catherine McIntosh, cousins of
Florence. Both Margaret and Mary had died.
According to the Butte County Great Register, in 1878 Benjamin
was a farmer at Nelson, near Chico in Butte County. |
Ben and Emily's children
Florence Maria Helphinstine, born Sept.
17, 1852 in Washington, Daviess County, Indiana. Florence married
John Jackson Waste on Nov. 29, 1874 in Chico, Butte County, Calif.
Flo and John had four children of their own. She died on Oct.
1, 1885 in Chico, Butte County, Calif. She outlived her husband
John Jackson Waste by three years. She was buried in the Chico
Cemetery next to her husband and children. |
William Veale Helphinstine, born
April 4, 1858, Washington, Daviess Co., Indiana. He married Virginia
Truxell on Oct. 1, 1879, in Clear Creek, Butte Co., Calif. They
had three sons: Otis Mason Helphenstine, Charles William Helphinstine
and Benjamin N. Helphinstine.
William died on Feb. 18, 1940 in
Chico at the age of 81. He was buried in the Chico Cemetery. |
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