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Descendants of Gideon Cummings

7. Benjamin Sidney² Cummings (Gideon¹) was born February 22, 1828 in GA, and died January 25, 1902 in Farmersville, TX. He married Mary Taylor Lokey January 25, 1853 in Muscogee Co., GA, by Thomas Miles, M. G.. She was born March 14, 1833 in Macon, Bibb Co, GA, and died August 31, 1903 in Farmersville, Collin Co, TX.

Notes for Benjamin Sidney Cummings:
[John Hamer Bladen County, N.C..FTW]

Benjamin and Mary Cummings are in the 1860 Muscogee Co. Census page 350:
Ben S. Cummings 31 GA
Mary T. 27 GA
Margaret A. 06 GA
Emma T. 04 GA
John G. 02 GA
Eliza C. 3/12 GA

Sarah Jane Whatley wrote in her journal about visiting Ben and Mary Cummings (her sister) in July and August of 1894.
They are listed in the following census:
TX 1900 Cass Co., Vol 17, ED 26, Sheet 2, Line 37, Atlanta
Cumming, Ben S. Feb., 1828 72 married 47 years
Mary T. Mar., 1833 67 GA GA GA

More About Benjamin Sidney Cummings:
Burial: Unknown, Pleasant Grove Cem, near Farmersville, Collin Co., TX

Children of Benjamin Cummings and Mary Lokey are:

	44	i.		Margaret A.³ Cummings, born May 14, 1854 in Muscogee Co., GA; died December 10, 1937. She married Samuel Madison Griffin December 19, 1875; died Unknown.
	45	ii.		Emma Frances Cummings, born May 06, 1856 in Muscogee Co., GA; died April 04, 1910. She married William Plato Birmingham January 06, 1875 in Cass Co., TX; born September 21, 1843 in TN; died September 15, 1908.

Notes for William Plato Birmingham:
William Plato Birmingham is in the following censuses:
1880 Cass County, TX, Vol 16, E.D. 13, Sheet 50, Line 24
Birmingham, W. P. 36 TN NC SC married one year
E. F. 24 GA GA GA married one year
G. A. (dt) 12 TX TN GA
Eula 10 TX TN GA

1900 Cass County, TX, Vol 17, E.D. 26, Sheet 3, Line 8, Pct 4
Burmingham, William 56 Sep 1843 TN NC SC
Emma 44 Feb 1856 GA GA GA
(Notice mispelling of Birmingham.)
In this census, Emma stated that she had no children, living or dead.
She also stated that they had been married 25 years, which doesn't match up with the information in the 1880 census.
They had a servant and a boarder living with them.[John Hamer Bladen County, N.C..FTW]

iii.

John Gideon Cummings, born December 1857; died October 16, 1870.

Notes for John Gideon Cummings:
[John Hamer Bladen County, N.C..FTW]

Family Bible of John T. and Nancy Lokey stated that John G. Cummings son of B. S. and Mary T.
Cummings and grandson of John T. and Nancy Anthony Lokey, departed this life October 16, 1870, from a fall from a tree, aged 12 years and 10 months.

+	47	iv.	Elizabeth Carrie Cummings, born March 25, 1860 in Muscogee Co., GA; died September 10, 1919 in Antioch, Cass Co., TX.
+	48	v.	Benjamin Franklin Cummings, Sr, born 1862; died 1957 in Gotebo, Kiowa Co., OK.
	49	vi.	Mary Elizabeth Cummings, born December 20, 1863; died July 07, 1939. She married Solomon Long December 29, 1890; died Unknown.
	50	vii.	James Thomas Cummings, born 1864; died Unknown. He married Beadie May Carter September 28, 1885; died Unknown.
	51	viii.	Zachariah Gordon Cummings, born April 10, 1868; died December 15, 1932. He married Lizzie Upchurch December 23, 1893; died Unknown.
	52	ix.	Beulah Jane Cummings, born December 27, 1870; died December 14, 1922. She married W. A. Powell October 03, 1888; died Unknown.
	53	x.	Albert Sidney Cummings, born April 22, 1873; died September 02, 1958. He married Susie Eugene Griffin December 29, 1895; died Unknown.
	54	xi.	Sarah Angeline Cummings, born November 09, 1875 in Douglasville, TX; died February 02, 1958. She married Charlie Powell May 03, 1895; died Unknown.

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