Benjamin Franklin MEANS
1872 - 1931 (58 years)-
Name Benjamin Franklin MEANS Born 30 Jul 1872 Elm Creek, Marshall Co, KS 
Gender Male Died 8 Feb 1931 Stillwater, Payne Co, OK Buried 8 Feb 1931 Fairlawn Cemetery - Stillwater, Payne Co, OK Person ID I10681 Williams Genealogy Last Modified 7 Apr 2013
Father John Wiley MEANS, b. 6 Dec 1835, Ray Co, MO , d. 21 Sep 1912, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Age 76 years) Mother Lucinda Frances RILEY, b. 5 Aug 1839, Boone Co, MO , d. 15 May 1919, Yale, Payne Co, MO (Age 79 years) Married 16 Dec 1856 Stillwater, Payne Co, OK Family ID F13241 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Clara A. SHORT, b. Apr 1869, IA Married 7 May 1895 Children 1. Lester MEANS 2. Richard Vernon MEANS, b. 28 Aug 1897, Stillwater, Payne Co, OK , d. 3 Mar 1976, Bartlesville, Washington Co, OK (Age 78 years)3. Joseph Emery MEANS, b. Nov 1898, OK 4. Vera MEANS, b. 1902, OK 5. Helen MEANS Last Modified 13 May 2010 Family ID F13271 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 30 Jul 1872 - Elm Creek, Marshall Co, KS 
Died - 8 Feb 1931 - Stillwater, Payne Co, OK 
Buried - 8 Feb 1931 - Fairlawn Cemetery - Stillwater, Payne Co, OK = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - In 1889 Charles, Benjamin and Edgar accompanied their parents to Arkansas City, Kansas, for the opening of the Oklahoma District. Only Charles and his younger brother, Benjamin, actually make the homestead run. Benjamin thought he had succeeded. Having set his stake in a chosen plot, he bedded down for the night. The next morning he went over the Knoll to find water and found, instead, a Kansas school teacher named Clara Short. Clara and Benjamin had staked the same plot. To resolve the dispute, they rode together to the 'Claims Court' in Guthrie. Clara won the court hearing but Ben graciously helped her register her claim. She was seven years older than Benjamin, but they fell in love and were married several months later. They settled, and lived for years, on her homestead near Pawnee, Oklahoma.
[Michael Grandison Means, Napa, CA]
- In 1889 Charles, Benjamin and Edgar accompanied their parents to Arkansas City, Kansas, for the opening of the Oklahoma District. Only Charles and his younger brother, Benjamin, actually make the homestead run. Benjamin thought he had succeeded. Having set his stake in a chosen plot, he bedded down for the night. The next morning he went over the Knoll to find water and found, instead, a Kansas school teacher named Clara Short. Clara and Benjamin had staked the same plot. To resolve the dispute, they rode together to the 'Claims Court' in Guthrie. Clara won the court hearing but Ben graciously helped her register her claim. She was seven years older than Benjamin, but they fell in love and were married several months later. They settled, and lived for years, on her homestead near Pawnee, Oklahoma.