Benjamin John Franklin “Pete” GantAge: 58 years1867–1926
- Name
- Benjamin John Franklin “Pete” Gant
- Given names
- Benjamin John Franklin
- Surname
- Gant
- Nickname
- Pete
 Birth | November 25, 1867 |
 Marriage | Gillie Annis Gorrell — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 13 months)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 10 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 30 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Clesa Franklin Gant June 30, 1903 (Age 35 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 49 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 50 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Marriage of a child | Warden Owens Hall — Clesa Franklin Gant — View this family about 1923 (Age 55 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Ina Geraldine Hall January 16, 1925 (Age 57 years) |
 Death | May 12, 1926 (Age 58 years) |
| Family with Gillie Annis Gorrell |
| himself |
Benjamin John Franklin “Pete” Gant Birth: November 25, 1867 — Todd, Kentucky, United States Death: May 12, 1926 — Elkton, Todd, Kentucky, United States |
| wife |
Gillie Annis Gorrell Birth: October 13, 1872 — Kentucky, United States Death: July 4, 1940 — Todd, Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| daughter |
Clesa Franklin Gant Birth: June 30, 1903 35 30 — Todd, Kentucky, United States Death: July 8, 1981 — Christian, Kentucky, United States |