Source: "Family Histories of Monroe County, GA" Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth were the parents of eight children. Thomas Gideon was their first child. Some of their children were born in Monroe County, the remainder in Marshall County, Alabama. After moving to Marshall County, Alabama, Benjamin served in the Confederate Army in Darby's Co. Auburns Ala. H.G. He bought land in Alabama and was the inventor of two plows and a car coupling for boxcars. All these patents are recorded with the United States patent Office in Washington, DC
1907 Census of Confederate Soldiers, Marshall County, Alabama, p 5: Present Post Office address: Union Grove, Alabama; b June 23, 1837 at Oak Bowery, Al in Chambers Co; first entered the service as a private in 1862 at Loachapolka, AL in the Co A 55th AL Cav and continued until paroled at Freskugg, AL in 1865
