# Benjamin Risley
# Sex: M
# Birth: ABT. 1811 in IL
# Death: AFT. 1858
# Burial: Friend Cemetery, Ozark Co, MO (moved from Betsy Graham Graveyard due to construction of Bull Shoals Lake)
# Event: Census (1) 1850 Ozark Co, MO
# Note:
Was Ben Risley married prior to his marriage to Sarah?
"Some times when we captured a wolf alive we confined it and took off its hide. On one occasion when I [Elias Keesee] was a small boy my father caught a big wolf in a steel trap. It would show the animal too much mercy to slay it out right and we determined to punish it with the most cruel torture I could think of. Leaving the wolf fast in the trap, I sought the assistance of BEN RISLEY [emphasis added] and Levi Graham which was willingly given. With chains, ropes and stout thongs of dressed buck hide we tied the animal so secure that it could neither bite, kick or hardly move and with sharp knives we proceeded to remove its hide. This was horrible and was more like the work of savages, but we had been annoyed so much by them that we showed as little mercy toward wolves as the wild Indians did to white people living on the frontiers in the years gone by. The beast lived through the terrible ordeal and when we loosed it and turned it free it got on its feet and actually ran off out of sight. This was the last seen or heard of it. It is not reasonable that it went far or lived but a short length of time". [Source: "Torturing Wolves by Flaying Them Alive", Turnbo Manuscripts]
Father: Silas Risley b: BET. 1780 - 1785 in VA Territory
Mother: Catharine Adams b: BET. 1785 - 1790
Marriage 1 Sarah "Sally" Miller Brown
Married: ABT. 1842 in Ozark Co, MO
Children
1. Has No Children Catharine Risley b: ABT. 1844
2. Has Children Louranna Risley b: 12 AUG 1846 in Ozark Co, MO
3. Has Children Elizabeth Risley b: 27 JAN 1847
4. Has No Children Marinda Risley b: SEP 1849
5. Has Children Oliver L. Risley b: 22 APR 1852 in Ozark Co, MO
=====================================
Hettie Jones, 1825-1850, was buried in Friend Cemetery.
Her burial site was also flooded by the BULL SHOALS LAKE.
She is the wife of Hugh Jones a Hatter and Mill owner in the Big Creek area of
Ozark Co.
Steve Fowler
∼Benjamin was the son of Silas Risley and Catherine Adams.
Husband of Sarah Miller
Father of:
Lucinda, Catharine, Louranna , Elizabeth "Betsy", Oliver L., and Marinda Risley.
# Sex: M
# Birth: ABT. 1811 in IL
# Death: AFT. 1858
# Burial: Friend Cemetery, Ozark Co, MO (moved from Betsy Graham Graveyard due to construction of Bull Shoals Lake)
# Event: Census (1) 1850 Ozark Co, MO
# Note:
Was Ben Risley married prior to his marriage to Sarah?
"Some times when we captured a wolf alive we confined it and took off its hide. On one occasion when I [Elias Keesee] was a small boy my father caught a big wolf in a steel trap. It would show the animal too much mercy to slay it out right and we determined to punish it with the most cruel torture I could think of. Leaving the wolf fast in the trap, I sought the assistance of BEN RISLEY [emphasis added] and Levi Graham which was willingly given. With chains, ropes and stout thongs of dressed buck hide we tied the animal so secure that it could neither bite, kick or hardly move and with sharp knives we proceeded to remove its hide. This was horrible and was more like the work of savages, but we had been annoyed so much by them that we showed as little mercy toward wolves as the wild Indians did to white people living on the frontiers in the years gone by. The beast lived through the terrible ordeal and when we loosed it and turned it free it got on its feet and actually ran off out of sight. This was the last seen or heard of it. It is not reasonable that it went far or lived but a short length of time". [Source: "Torturing Wolves by Flaying Them Alive", Turnbo Manuscripts]
Father: Silas Risley b: BET. 1780 - 1785 in VA Territory
Mother: Catharine Adams b: BET. 1785 - 1790
Marriage 1 Sarah "Sally" Miller Brown
Married: ABT. 1842 in Ozark Co, MO
Children
1. Has No Children Catharine Risley b: ABT. 1844
2. Has Children Louranna Risley b: 12 AUG 1846 in Ozark Co, MO
3. Has Children Elizabeth Risley b: 27 JAN 1847
4. Has No Children Marinda Risley b: SEP 1849
5. Has Children Oliver L. Risley b: 22 APR 1852 in Ozark Co, MO
=====================================
Hettie Jones, 1825-1850, was buried in Friend Cemetery.
Her burial site was also flooded by the BULL SHOALS LAKE.
She is the wife of Hugh Jones a Hatter and Mill owner in the Big Creek area of
Ozark Co.
Steve Fowler
∼Benjamin was the son of Silas Risley and Catherine Adams.
Husband of Sarah Miller
Father of:
Lucinda, Catharine, Louranna , Elizabeth "Betsy", Oliver L., and Marinda Risley.
# Benjamin Risley
# Sex: M
# Birth: ABT. 1811 in IL
# Death: AFT. 1858
# Burial: Friend Cemetery, Ozark Co, MO (moved from Betsy Graham Graveyard due to construction of Bull Shoals Lake)
# Event: Census (1) 1850 Ozark Co, MO
# Note:
Was Ben Risley married prior to his marriage to Sarah?
"Some times when we captured a wolf alive we confined it and took off its hide. On one occasion when I [Elias Keesee] was a small boy my father caught a big wolf in a steel trap. It would show the animal too much mercy to slay it out right and we determined to punish it with the most cruel torture I could think of. Leaving the wolf fast in the trap, I sought the assistance of BEN RISLEY [emphasis added] and Levi Graham which was willingly given. With chains, ropes and stout thongs of dressed buck hide we tied the animal so secure that it could neither bite, kick or hardly move and with sharp knives we proceeded to remove its hide. This was horrible and was more like the work of savages, but we had been annoyed so much by them that we showed as little mercy toward wolves as the wild Indians did to white people living on the frontiers in the years gone by. The beast lived through the terrible ordeal and when we loosed it and turned it free it got on its feet and actually ran off out of sight. This was the last seen or heard of it. It is not reasonable that it went far or lived but a short length of time". [Source: "Torturing Wolves by Flaying Them Alive", Turnbo Manuscripts]
Father: Silas Risley b: BET. 1780 - 1785 in VA Territory
Mother: Catharine Adams b: BET. 1785 - 1790
Marriage 1 Sarah "Sally" Miller Brown
Married: ABT. 1842 in Ozark Co, MO
Children
1. Has No Children Catharine Risley b: ABT. 1844
2. Has Children Louranna Risley b: 12 AUG 1846 in Ozark Co, MO
3. Has Children Elizabeth Risley b: 27 JAN 1847
4. Has No Children Marinda Risley b: SEP 1849
5. Has Children Oliver L. Risley b: 22 APR 1852 in Ozark Co, MO
=====================================
Hettie Jones, 1825-1850, was buried in Friend Cemetery.
Her burial site was also flooded by the BULL SHOALS LAKE.
She is the wife of Hugh Jones a Hatter and Mill owner in the Big Creek area of
Ozark Co.
Steve Fowler
∼Benjamin was the son of Silas Risley and Catherine Adams.
Husband of Sarah Miller
Father of:
Lucinda, Catharine, Louranna , Elizabeth "Betsy", Oliver L., and Marinda Risley.
# Sex: M
# Birth: ABT. 1811 in IL
# Death: AFT. 1858
# Burial: Friend Cemetery, Ozark Co, MO (moved from Betsy Graham Graveyard due to construction of Bull Shoals Lake)
# Event: Census (1) 1850 Ozark Co, MO
# Note:
Was Ben Risley married prior to his marriage to Sarah?
"Some times when we captured a wolf alive we confined it and took off its hide. On one occasion when I [Elias Keesee] was a small boy my father caught a big wolf in a steel trap. It would show the animal too much mercy to slay it out right and we determined to punish it with the most cruel torture I could think of. Leaving the wolf fast in the trap, I sought the assistance of BEN RISLEY [emphasis added] and Levi Graham which was willingly given. With chains, ropes and stout thongs of dressed buck hide we tied the animal so secure that it could neither bite, kick or hardly move and with sharp knives we proceeded to remove its hide. This was horrible and was more like the work of savages, but we had been annoyed so much by them that we showed as little mercy toward wolves as the wild Indians did to white people living on the frontiers in the years gone by. The beast lived through the terrible ordeal and when we loosed it and turned it free it got on its feet and actually ran off out of sight. This was the last seen or heard of it. It is not reasonable that it went far or lived but a short length of time". [Source: "Torturing Wolves by Flaying Them Alive", Turnbo Manuscripts]
Father: Silas Risley b: BET. 1780 - 1785 in VA Territory
Mother: Catharine Adams b: BET. 1785 - 1790
Marriage 1 Sarah "Sally" Miller Brown
Married: ABT. 1842 in Ozark Co, MO
Children
1. Has No Children Catharine Risley b: ABT. 1844
2. Has Children Louranna Risley b: 12 AUG 1846 in Ozark Co, MO
3. Has Children Elizabeth Risley b: 27 JAN 1847
4. Has No Children Marinda Risley b: SEP 1849
5. Has Children Oliver L. Risley b: 22 APR 1852 in Ozark Co, MO
=====================================
Hettie Jones, 1825-1850, was buried in Friend Cemetery.
Her burial site was also flooded by the BULL SHOALS LAKE.
She is the wife of Hugh Jones a Hatter and Mill owner in the Big Creek area of
Ozark Co.
Steve Fowler
∼Benjamin was the son of Silas Risley and Catherine Adams.
Husband of Sarah Miller
Father of:
Lucinda, Catharine, Louranna , Elizabeth "Betsy", Oliver L., and Marinda Risley.
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