History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 351-52.        [Bivinsville Precinct]

BENJAMIN F. CARNEAL was born in Todd County, November 16, 1855; his
parents are Joseph S. and Lucinda A. (Shemwell) Carneal, both natives of
Kentucky.  The father was a farmer, and served nine months in the
Twenty-fifth Kentucky Regiment, United States Army, during the late war;
he had the measles while in the army, and never recovered; his death was
caused from that disease; his death occurred June 11, 1883; he was a
member of the Baptist Church.  The mother is still living at the age of
sixty-eight, and makes her home with her son Benjamin.  She is a member of
the Baptist Church.  Of their four children only two survive.  Benjamin
has always lived on this farm and has come into possession of it; it is a
home-like residence, with about eighty-five acres of land, situated
about a mile from Clifty Postoffice.  He was married October 12, 1882, to
Miss Mary Groves, daughter of James and Jane Groves, of Todd County.
This union is blessed by the birth of one child--Eldred.  Both parents
are members of the Baptist Church.

Carneal Shemwell Groves
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