Benjamin Vandergrift and Sarah Hoffman

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Husband Benjamin Vandergrift ^{1 2}

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           Born: 29 Jul 1833 2
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           Died: 5 Nov 1862 - Cairo, Alexander Co, IL 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: William K. Vandergrift (1805-1877) 2 3
         Mother: Sophia Sarver (1804-1895) 2 3

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       Marriage: 25 Dec 1861 2

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Wife Sarah Hoffman ²

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           Born: 30 Sep 1841 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: 5 May 1909 2
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 F Sophia Vandergrift ²

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           Born: 2 Nov 1862 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
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         Spouse: Harry Thomas Densmore (1864-1912) 4
           Marr: 2 Nov 1882 4

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Vandergrift

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He was a captain on a river boat, and died a year after his marriage from the effects of yellow fever, contracted while in the South.

He died of swamp-fever contracted at Cairo, Illinois, in 1862-63, while in the service of the United States as commander of the steamboat Red Fox.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 301.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 621.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 300.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 620.