Ellis Milton Riley

Other Events:

• Residence: 1942, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States; Age: 58

Other Events:

• Residence: 1880, Bart Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Notes:

Birth:
Death Certificate lists his birthdate as 20 Dec 1842.

Benjamin married Amy A Kenard 2 Sep 1869, Oxford M. E. Church Parsonage, Oxford, Chester, PA. Amy (daughter of John Kennard and Rachel Bonder) was born 28 Jul 1847, Pennsylvania, United States; died 29 Nov 1910, Little Britain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States; was buried , Little Britain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, Spring Garden Ward 6, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Residence: 1880, Bart Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Other Events:

• Misc: 1836, Cecil County, Maryland; Birth of Elizabeth
• Residence: 1840, Cecil County, Maryland; Benjamin Gibson 1 male 30-40, 1 female 30-40 and 1 child (female) under the age of 5. There is a Charles Riley with a large family 4 entries up.
• Misc: Dec 1842, Cecil County, Maryland; Birth of Benjamin
• Residence: 1850, Rock Springs, Cecil, Maryland, United States; Benjamin Gibson 47, hotel keeper, $4,000 value of real estate, born in Pennsylvania and Elizabeth Gibson 13, born in Pennsylvania live with Ann Mitchell 49, Sarah A Tousow, 17 and Henry Stamer, 33, Saddler
• Misc: Jun 1852, Cecil County, Maryland; Mental instability
• Misc: 1853, Cecil County, Maryland; Committed in Philadelphia, PA

Notes:

Information from the Historical Society of Cecil County - 8/4/2014

We have had other researchers looking for your Benjamin Gibson. I was hoping we could find out more for you but we did not have much luck. There were two mentions of him in the newspaper, one of which was the one you saw. The other was the previous week and mentions only that he has been replaced as postmaster. It says nothing else.

We resorted to looking through the tax assessments. We started looking in the records beginning in 1850. He appears every year in the same location, and had a total assessment most years of $11, 015, which is quite good for the time. The last assessment year in which he appears that we have records for is 1864. We do not have records for 1865 and 1866, and he is not in the 1867 assessment. We could not find him in any of our tombstone records, but they are not complete. Also, Rock Springs is very close to the Pennsylvania line, so he could be buried in PA. I’m afraid that is all we could find.

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Information from the Cecil County Historical Society - 8/7/14:

I’ve been looking into your question about Mary Ann. She is not in our Riley family file. I cannot find her in the Cecil County marriage books, neither did I find Benjamin Gibson, which might mean he was married to the Ailes woman in Pennsylvania. I don’t see her in any of our tombstone listings, and I didn’t find her on Find A Grave. As you are no doubt aware, I found a family tree on Ancestry.com on which she appears. Using the date listed for her death, I checked the appropriate newspaper for an obituary, but did not find one. I took a look at the 1840 census you mentioned, and there is a female the right age living in his household. I checked the Md. State Archives death index using the death date from the Ancestry tree, and she does not appear there. It may be that she died elsewhere or had married so is under another name. That’s all I can find.

I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

Carol Donache
Librarian


Spoke to Stacey from the Archives of the Pennsylvania Hospital and she is unable to provide us with any information. All of the mental health records are locked down and not accessible.

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/

Here is a webpage that has a lot of historical information about Pennsylvania's hospitals.

Benjamin married Maryanne/ Mary Ann Riley. [Group Sheet]

John married Rachel Bonder. Rachel was born 1820; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]