Benjamin Franklin Mabie [32451]

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Death Notes:

of brain disease

  Noted events in his life were:

• Obituary. ⁶⁵³¹ Benjamin F. Mabie was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada
on October 9, 1846, the eldest son of John S. Mabie and
Elizabeth Purvis. About 1847 the family immigrated to the
United States, settling at first in Wisconsin, and then moving
to Minnesota by the early 1850's. It was here that Benjamin
grew to manhood.
On September 23, 1864, just a few weeks shy of being eighteen
years old, Benjamin enlisted and was mustered into the army as
a Private in Battery B of the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery.
Private Mabie was quickly promoted to Corporal on October 14th.
After its organization, this one-year regiment was ordered to
Chattanooga, Tennessee in the winter of 1864-1865. It was
placed in charge of the heavy guns and forts there, a
responsible position, as it was thought that Gen. John Bell
Hood would endeavor to retake the city. The regiment remained
at Chattanooga until discharged at the close of the war.
Corporal Mabie was mustered out on June 17, 1865.
Family tradition states that Benjamin Mabie was shot at the
battle of Second Manassas (August 29-30, 1862) and that he lay
on the battlefield for three days, suffering from heat stroke.
He never fully recovered from this ordeal, which later led to
his early demise.
No evidence has been found to substantiate this family story.
Mabie would have only been fifteen years old at the time of the
battle, and his name is not borne on the rolls of any regiments
present at the battle. It is possible however that he served as
a paid substitute or enlisted under an assumed name.
Shortly after the war, Benjamin married his first wife, Sarah.
Her maiden name is unknown. In 1870 they were living near his
parents in Lincoln Township, Caldwell County, Missouri. This
union produced one daughter, Abbie Laura Mabie, who died young.
Unfortunately, the mother did not long survive the child and
died young as well.
Benjamin F. Mabie later remarried, choosing as his wife Miss
Laura Anna Lovett, daughter of Alfred Langdon Lovett and Julia
Ann Jordan. The 1880 census finds the family back in Minnesota
where they were living with Laura's parents at Elk River in
Sherburne County. Here Benjamin carried on work as a farmer.
His marriage to Laura produced four children, namely: Raymond
Langdon Mabie, Carl Kendall Mabie, Wayne Benjamin Mabie, and
Irving Dorr Mabie.
At this time, Benjamin's parents were living in California, and
there is evidence that he lived there for a short time during
the early 1880's, but shortly returned to Minnesota. However,
California's draw was too much and the family returned to
settle in Santa Clara County about 1894.
Benjamin F. Mabie was an active member of the Grand Army of the
Republic (GAR), both in Minnesota and in California where he
belonged to the E. O. C. Ord Post, No. 82 of Los Gatos. He was
also a Grand Master with the Masonic Lodge.
He died on November 16, 1897 of "brain disease," the symptoms
of which are similar to Parkinson's Disease or lead poisoning.
This may lend some credence to story of being wounded at Second
Manassas. Benjamin was buried in the Los Gatos Cemetery, not
far from the GAR plot. His widow, Laura, who died in the late
1930's, was a member of the Women's Relief Corps and three of
his sons were members and officers of the Gen. John Logan Camp
No. 20, SUVCW of Los Gatos.

• No Name, 1850, Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin, USA. ¹¹⁶ Benjamin Franklin Mabie appeared on the census of 1850 in the
household of John Synder Maybee and Elizabeth Purvis Stevens
Point, Portage County, Wisconsin

• No Name, 7 Jul 1860, Nininger City, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA. ⁶⁵²⁷ Benjamin Franklin Mabie appeared on the census of 07 Jul 1860
in the household of John Synder Maybee and Elizabeth Purvis
Nininger City, Dakota County, Minnesota

• No Name, 11 Jul 1860, Nininger Township, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA. ⁶⁵³² Benjamin Franklin Mabie appeared on the census of 11 Jul 1860
in the household of Nancy Ann Maybee Nininger Township, Dakota
County, Minnesota

• Milit-Beg, 23 Sep 1864. ^487,6523 enlisted as a Private in Company B, First Minnesota Heavy
Artillery. Promoted to Full Corporal on 14 October 1864

• Milit-End, 17 Jun 1865. ⁴⁸⁷ mustered out

• No Name, 1880, Elk River, Sherburne County, Minnesota, USA. ⁶⁵¹⁶ Benjamin Franklin Mabie appeared on the census of 1880 in the
household of Alfred Langdon Lovett and Julia Ann Jordan Elk
River, Sherburne County, Minnesota

• Emigration, 1894, Minnesota, USA. ⁵²⁰⁴ to California

• No Name, 1894, Minnesota, USA. ⁵²⁰⁴ Benjamin Franklin Mabie and Laura Ann Lovett emigrated 1894
from Minnesota

Benjamin married Laura Ann Lovett [32447] [MRIN: 551607587], daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 25 Sep 1876 in Sherburne County, Minnesota, USA ⁶⁵²³.^,6524 (Laura Ann Lovett [32447] was born on 19 Jun 1856 in Lincoln, Montana, USA,⁵²⁰⁴ died on 9 Dec 1938 in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA ⁵²⁰⁴ and was buried on 12 Dec 1938 in Los Gatos Cemetery, Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California, USA ⁵²⁰⁴.)

Benjamin next married Sandra M. Wiley [31783] [MRIN: 551607588] on 20 Oct 1869 in Dakota County, Minnesota, USA.⁵⁸⁰⁰ (Sandra M. Wiley [31783] was born on 20 Mar 1849 in Maine,^5800,5801 died on 12 Nov 1871 in Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA ⁵⁸⁰⁰ and was buried in Pine Bend Cemetery, Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA ⁵⁸⁰².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1870, Lincoln Township, Caldwell County, Missouri, USA. ⁵⁸⁰¹ Benjamin F. Mabee, 24, M, Farmer, 140, -, Canada
Sarah Mabee, 21, F, Keeping House, Maine