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Birth name
Benjamin Franklin Fulkerson
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Place of Birth
Lee County, Virginia
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Place of Death
Grundy County, Missouri
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Burial Place
Edinburg IOOF Cemetery, Edinburg, Missouri
Benjamin Franklin Fulkerson was born on March 22, 1798, in Lee, Virginia, to Margaret and Peter Fulkerson. He married Mary Jane Ewing on Aug. 28, 1825, in Bath County, Kentucky. They had 13 children between 1828 and 1855. Census documents in 1840 and 1860 also show that he enslaved people. Benjamin died on Feb. 27, 1862, in Grundy County, Missouri.