Ancestors

Nina Belle Niles

1884-1961 · Georgetown NY
Born 1884, Madison Co NY
Died 1961
Father: Louis Sherrill Niles
Mother: Anna Stewart
Children include Zar

Born May 4, 1884 in Madison County, New York, at Georgetown or Randallsville, daughter of Louis Sherrill Niles and Anna Stewart. She went by Belle. In 1900 she and her sisters Mable and Genevieve were living with their mother Anna, their father already gone west.

She was teaching school at Georgetown when she married Zar Benedict Sr. in July 1909. They farmed at Georgetown and raised four children there: Winifred, Marie, Edwin Jeril and Zar Jr. She was a member and treasurer of the Georgetown Baptist Church and belonged to the Women's Christian Temperance Union. When Zar registered for the draft in 1942 she was the person named as always knowing where he could be found.

Zar died in February 1958, and about a year later Belle moved to 55 West Main Street in Norwich, Chenango County. She died at Chenango Memorial Hospital in Norwich on June 2, 1961, after a long illness, aged seventy-seven. Her funeral was held at the Georgetown Baptist Church, and she was buried at Georgetown.

Parents

Louis Sherrill Niles (1850-1915)

Anna Stewart (1851-1930)

Children

Zar Benedict Jr. 1923-2003

Sources

United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, Fourth Registration, 1942, local board 441, Morrisville, New York; FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QKV7-7DNZ, image 3:1:3Q9M-CSS1-53KH-D
Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), 27 December 2003, recordonline.com story 50280865007
WikiTree image Benedict-606-11, "1917 Benedict Family Gathering", Benedict family collection
DeRuyter Gleaner, DeRuyter, Madison County NY, February 1958 (1958-1959 volume, p. 75), fultonhistory.com
Utica Observer-Dispatch, Utica NY, June 1961 (Utica Observer 1961 volume, p. 4668), fultonhistory.com
Madison County marriage register 1909, entry 420; 1900 census, Georgetown; World War II draft registration of Zar Benedict, 1942 (FamilySearch 1:1:QKV7-7DNZ); Find a Grave 118534129; FamilySearch tree LH5H-RCH; Find a Grave 32490949 and 32490947 (Denver); obituary, Utica Observer-Dispatch, June 1961 (Utica Observer 1961 volume, p. 4668), fultonhistory.com; DeRuyter Gleaner, January to March 1958 (1958-1959 volume, pp. 29, 79); WikiTree image Benedict-606-11, Benedict family collection

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