Horace Nelson Benfield ^{3 4 5 6}

   FamilySearch ID: LZK9-D7T.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. ⁷ Note: This may not be a match, in which case his date of birth is not May 1883. Needs confirmation.
This census listing shows a Horace Benfield, age 17, born May 1883, single, living in Ward 19 in Philadelphia. He was a boarder in the household of Thomas Davison at 160 Dauphine. Both his parents are listed as being born in Pennsylvania.

2. Occupation: painter and paper hanger on 13 Jun 1905 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ²

3. Residence: 1226 Gordon St., Allentown, PA on 13 Jun 1905 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ²

4. Census in 1910 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ¹ Horace N. Benfield, age 27, occupation house painter, is listed living at 229 West Street in Allentown in the 1910 Census in enumeration district 0160 as visit 0151. Living with him is his wife, Helen, age 24, whose birthplace is listed as Germany and 1885 as the year she immigrated, which is her year of birth. She was married to Horace for 4 years at in 1910 had no children born. Her marital status is listed as M2, which appears to indicate this was her second marriage -- Horace is listed as M1. Also in the household is brother-in-law Frank H. Bury, age 23, single, bookkeeper in a cement mill; sister-in-law Violet P. Bury, age 17, single, stitchery in a shoe factory; and brother-in-law Martin H. Bury, age 11, single. Horace and his parents were born in Pennsylvania. Frank, Violet, and Martin were born in Pennsylvania with both parents born in Germany.
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5. Occupation: paper hanger at H. Goldberg, 206 New St., South Bethlehem, PA in Sep 1918 in South Bethlehem, Northampton, PA. ⁶

6. Residence: 232 North St. Cloud St., Allentown, PA in Sep 1918 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ⁶

7. Residence: 938 Hamilton St., Allentown, PA in 1920. ⁸

8. Census in 1920 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ⁹ The 1920 Census shows that renting a home at 938 Hamilton Street in Allentown was the household of Horace N. Benfield, age 37, paper hanger, living with wife Helen C., age 34. Living with them are Martin H. Bury, brother in law, 21, a purchasing agent in a steel works; and Helen B. Hale, age 6 [Helen's neice who is the daughter of Violet P. Bury]. Helen's parents were both born in Germany, as was she, and he date of immigration is listed as 1887 [although it really was 1885.].

9. Residence: in 1930 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. The 1930 census recorded renting at 938 Hamilton St: Horace M. Benfield, paper hanger and painter, 47, living with wife Helen C., 44; and Helen's niece, Helen B. Hale, 16. Helen C. and her parents were born in Germany, the others in Pennsylvania.

10. Cause of Death: neuro tabes dorsalis, 29 Oct 1938, Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ⁵

11. Occupation: paper hanger and painter on 29 Oct 1938 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ⁵

12. Residence: 127 N Franklin St., Allentown, PA on 29 Oct 1938 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ⁵

13. Obituary: on 1 Nov 1938 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. ⁴ Horace N. Benfield
Funeral Will Be Held This Afternoon at 1.30

Funeral services for Horace N. Benfield of 127 N. Franklin St., Allentown, who died at his home Saturday morning, will be held in St. Paul's Lutheran church today at 1:30 p.m. Rev. George A. Greiss, D.D., will officiate. Interment will be made in the West End cemetery.

Mr. Benfield, 56, was a paperhanger and painter for the Allentown National bank in its service department. Born in Clayton, Berks county, he was the son of John and Emma, nee Nuss, Benfield. He was a resident of this city practically all his life and was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church.

Surviving in addition to his parents are his wife, Helen, nee Bury; a niece, Helen Hale; two brothers, Edgar of Emmaus and Wilbur of Ohio; four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Rabenold, Mrs. Ella Bittner, Sadie and Emma of this city.

Horace married Helen Katherine Bury, daughter of Hubert Bury and Martha Alwine Sophie Papenkuhl, on 13 Jun 1905 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA.^{1 2} (Helen Katherine Bury was born on 30 Apr 1885 in Lennep, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, DEU ^{2 10 11 12 13}, christened in +,¹¹ died on 25 Oct 1973 in Quakertown, Bucks, PA ^{10 11 12 14} and was buried on 27 Oct 1973 in Emmaus: Moravian Cemetery, Lehigh, PA ¹².)