Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation11. Loren DeWitt HANCHETT was born on 13 September 1834 in Strongsville, Cuyahoga County, OH.1,2,3,4 (The Oak Grove Cemetery records list his birth year as 1834.) He appeared in the census in 1880 in La Grange Township, Monroe County, WI.2 He appeared in the census in 1900 in La Grange Township, Monroe County, WI.3 Loren died on 7 November 1911 at the age of 77 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.1,5 He was buried in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.5 in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Loren DeWitt HANCHETT and Sarah Mae BENJAMIN were married on 31 December 1853 in Cuyahoga County, OH.1,6 Sarah Mae BENJAMIN, daughter of Jacob Russell BENJAMIN and Mary DURRIN, was born on 24 November 1832 in Ohio.2,3,5,7 She died on 23 September 1911 at the age of 78 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.1,5,7 (Her obituary mentions two additional grandchildren that survived her: Mrs Myrtle Campbell and Mrs Maude Jennings. They were not listed as children of her son Charles, so they may have been children of her daughter Elizabeth. It is not known why they would have had the surname Hanchett, unless Lizzie never married.). She was buried in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.5 in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Loren DeWitt HANCHETT and Sarah Mae BENJAMIN had the following children:
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