Benjamin Cable was born in 1891 and served in World War I. Parents were Robert P. Cable and Julia Lehman, grandfather was Samuel Cable, and grandmother Catherine Ream Thomas (mother of Julia Lehman). He was married to and divorced from Sadie Mae (also known as Mae) Blough Cable Galasha, mother of son, Clyde, and married to Mary Margaret Cousins/Cozzens (1909-1936), mother of Robert (died in infancy 1924 after a forceps birth), Shirley (Collins), Betty Lee ([adopted maiden name Samuel] Redding Michelman), Doris (Peruso), Ruthie (Spangler), John (Jack) and William (Bill). He and Mary eloped to Ohio in 1923 to be married where she stated she was 21 on their marriage certificate when she was actually 15. Ben was 32. He was a painter by profession and worked on the WPA project under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Preceded by his wife Mary's death (from complications of influenza, pneumonia and possible hunger) in 1936, he passed away at Aspinwall Hospital in 1945 from complications of rheumatoid arthritis from which he had suffered for many years. He is buried in Grandview Cemetary, Johnstown, Pennsylvania next to Mary in the Wentworth family plot. Hiram H. Wentworth was Mary's step-father and more Cable relations may be buried in the Wentworth plot.
Benjamin Cable was born in 1891 and served in World War I. Parents were Robert P. Cable and Julia Lehman, grandfather was Samuel Cable, and grandmother Catherine Ream Thomas (mother of Julia Lehman). He was married to and divorced from Sadie Mae (also known as Mae) Blough Cable Galasha, mother of son, Clyde, and married to Mary Margaret Cousins/Cozzens (1909-1936), mother of Robert (died in infancy 1924 after a forceps birth), Shirley (Collins), Betty Lee ([adopted maiden name Samuel] Redding Michelman), Doris (Peruso), Ruthie (Spangler), John (Jack) and William (Bill). He and Mary eloped to Ohio in 1923 to be married where she stated she was 21 on their marriage certificate when she was actually 15. Ben was 32. He was a painter by profession and worked on the WPA project under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Preceded by his wife Mary's death (from complications of influenza, pneumonia and possible hunger) in 1936, he passed away at Aspinwall Hospital in 1945 from complications of rheumatoid arthritis from which he had suffered for many years. He is buried in Grandview Cemetary, Johnstown, Pennsylvania next to Mary in the Wentworth family plot. Hiram H. Wentworth was Mary's step-father and more Cable relations may be buried in the Wentworth plot.
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