Looking for information on family of Dr. Benjamin Earle from Earlington, KY married to Mary R. He died 30 April, 1918. Mary died shortly before on 25 Mar 1918. Both in Hopkins County.

Terry Robbins

I can help you a lot. My great great grandmother was Rhoda Ann Earle, was a half sister to Dr. Ben Earle. I have the history of the Earle family in book form that goes all the way back to The Earles of England, which includes the Earles of Virginia and Kentucky.
Dr. Benjamin Prince Earle born April 02, 1846 in Robertson Co., Tennessee, and died April 30, 1918 in Charleston, Hopkins Co., Ky. He married Mary Ann Roberts on April 22, 1875. She was born November 27, 1857 and died March 25, 1918.They had nine children, ILa who married W. T. Fowler, Lula who married A.C. King, Ezias Robert who married Elize Wright, Georgia Isabella, Irby Benjamin who married Frances McKenna, Dora, Thomas Evans who married Elinor Southgate, Dudley Herndon who married Addie Morgan and Amma Nell.

He was the son of Ezias W. Earle, born February 06, 1800 in Greenville, S.C. He was a minister. He married four times. 1) Sallie H. Clark 2) Rebecca W. Clark 3) Isabella Haydon, mother of Dr. Ben 4) Elizabeth Montgomery

I have much more information with all the birth and most death dates, marriages and some detail. I have a huge file in my data base on the Earle family, but I have not posted all of the information that I have. I would be please to share with you.

Thank you so much. This is exactly the information that I was looking for and is a great help. I can be reached via email at terry@webriver.net and would be very interested in further Earle family info. I am trying to work my way backwards.

Terry

This may help as well.
BENJAMIN CLARK EARLE, son of John EARLE and Nancy Holland Burns, was born in April, 1816, after his parents had migrated to Mississippi. He married, first, about 1840, a Miss Lucas, and was living in Winston County, Miss., when his only son was born, Charles W. Earle of Dodd City, Texas (1843). He soon after moved to Pontotoc County, where he made his home until his death. He was clerk of the county for a number of years, and during part of the time was Tax Collector, till the Yankees made a raid into Pontotoc County. He then went to Texas and bought cotton and stored it away in different places. At the close of the war, it was all taken by some one not known (so said those who had charge of it), and he never got a pound of it or a cent of money for it.
His first wife died prior to 1848, and he married Mrs. Newsom, a native of England, whose maiden name was Howell. She had two sons by her first Marriage, R. B. and W. H. Newsom.
Benjamin Earle’s mother, Nancy Holland Burns, made her home; with him after her husband’s death, till she succumbed to cancer in 1848.
Benjamin C. Earle was considered a man of some means. He owned a good deal of land, mostly in Pontotoc County, and was able to give his son and two stepsons a quarter section of land each, after the war. He owned about twenty slaves. It was told as a sort of family joke that when Nancy Burns EARLE went to live with her son, the others, who knew that as a pioneer woman, she always wore homespun of her own making, asked how she intended to dress when she lived with Ben, who wore broadcloth every day. The old lady answered with a good deal of spirit: “If I hadn’t worn homespun and worked hard, he wouldn’t have so much now, and I intend to dress in my own way.”
Mr. Earle died of cancer, at the home of his niece, Mrs. E. L. Rouzee, in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Feb. 4, 1868. His second wife survived him nearly twenty years, dying in 1887.

Thank you for your post. I hope that this is a good address. I have a book that was given to my grandfather, William Leman Nichols in 1943 by Ila Earle Fowler (Mrs. W. T. Fowler) after William Thomas Fowler died.

I have been trying to find out who his parents were. I have recently come across information that says that they were Daniel Ephraim and Mary Catherine Eison Fowler, which is almost as much of a blind alley as not knowing.

I would really love to hear from you. I need all the help I can get!

Virginia in Seattle

I have the Earle book, but the name, Earlington is throwing me. Would this be the name of a town or city?
Tell me exactly what you would like to know and I will see if it is in the book or my files.
I can give you information on Dr. Benjamin Earle. I have letters from Ila Earle Fowler to my Great Grandfather and Grandmother, Samuel Baylis "Lee" and Rhoda Ann Earle Williams. They do not say much, but they are from her.

Earlington was a small town soemwhere near Dawson Springs.

Virginia

Earlington is a small town just south of Madisonville on Hwy 41-A, and just a few miles north of Mortons Gap. Today the Madisonville city limits join the Earlington City limits.

If you have ancestors in Earlington you'll want to visit the Earlington page on the Hopkins County KyGenWeb website frequently. I'll be adding new photos over the weekend.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyhopkin/towns/earlington/index.htm...
Regards,

nt

Does this help?

Dr. Benjamin Prince Earle (H-39)

Dr. Benjamin Prince Earle, son of Rev. Ezias Earle (G-25) and Isabella Herndon (daughter of George Herndon and Frances Rogers Herndon, of Va. And N.C.), of Logan County, Kentucky, was born near Barren Plains, Robertson County, Tennessee, April 22, 1846; died at Charleston, Hopkins County, Kentucky, April 30, 1918. The family moved to Hopkins County near Morton’s Gap in the winter of 1848-49, and to Missouri in 1857-8, returning in 1866. He acquired his education in the common schools, and for four months was a pupil of ;the Hon. Polk Laffoon of Madisonville, Kentucky. With him he acquired a taste for the classics, and he added materially to his stock of knowledge by home study and by the assiduous assistance he gave his own children in their school work.

His father, after the War Between the States, was ruined financially, and was unable to assist him in his ambition to become a physician. It was due to his own efforts that he was successful in his studies and his practice. In his youth and early manhood, his health was very poor, his weigh never being one hundred pounds until after he was 23 years old.

But, to a frail body was joined a courageous and determined spirit. On April 1, 1866, he began the study of medicine with Dr. Peter J. Bailey, his brother-in-Law, at Keysburg, Logan County; thence to Madisonville, where he stayed from March to September, 1868, studying with Dr. Eldred Glover Davis, his cousin, and Dr. John W. Pritchett. He also worked in a drug store and boarded with his sister, Amma Earle Nance, at “The Old Noel Place”, on North Main Street.

In the fall of 1868 he sold what was left of his mother’s land in Missouri for three hundred dollars (the negroes had been freed there and he never saw them again, though he was much attached to their memory, and often referred to their love for him). This amount, added to a small sum he had accumulated by rigid economy, constituted all of his worldly effects. He used this in matriculating at the University of Louisville and studied one term, which was the requirement at that time. At the close of the session his cash on hand amounted to one-twentieth of a dollar, and he purchased a horse on time; and in April, 1869, located at Charleston, Ky. His father and step-mother lived there with him until they died (1877), and he married in 1875. For more than 49 yeas he lived at the same place, serving the people of a large territory with a devotion (much of his labor being without money and without price), known only to be the old time “Country Doctor”. He truly lived “in a house by the side of the road” and was “a friend to man”. In the summer of 1880 he built a new house, which lasted until his death. This house was burned, with all the trees and shrubbery he had planted, on the 27th of July, 1920, after it was sold as a part of his estate, so that what was a home is now only a memory.

Mrs. Mary Roberts Earle was born near Charleston, November 26, 1857, died March 25, 1918, after one week’s illness of pneumonia. All her life was spent here, her heart centering in her home and children, her days glided on uneventful “like rivers that water the woodland”, until the peaceful close. Services were conducted by Elder D. R. Turner of Cerulean Springs; the sons and sons-in-law were pall-bearers when the body was laid to rest in the Young Cemetery, where, five weeks later, her husband was laid beside her.

Dr. Earle took unusually high rank in his profession. He was the Nestor of the County Medical Society, and the younger members delighted to honor him. He served five years as its President. He was repeatedly elected a delegate to the State Society. About 1893 he was president of the Southern Kentucky Medical Association. He was a member of the State Medical Society, and a Fellow of the American Medical Association. He joined the Southwestern Medical Association about 1890, was elected junior vice president in 1906, and senior vice president in 1902 and 1912. He wrote many excellent papers for these organizations and always took an active part in the discussions.

Dr. Earle became a Christian at the age of fourteen, but only united with the Primitive Baptist Church in May 1890. He was church clerk, also clerk of the Highland Association for many years. His seat was never vacant when he could be there. His house was a home for the Baptists, by whom he was greatly beloved, both at home and abroad.

His church and his professional brothers honored him, but the greatest tribute to his worth, his character and his service was the grief of the great concourse of his neighbors, friends and the people he had served so loyally who gathered to do him honor at this burial. Many compliments and much praise was lavished on his life and by the various papers of his profession and the press of western Kentucky, but the simple Bible quotation on his monument better tells the eloquent story: Ben P. Earle – “the beloved physician”.
1846-1918

Virginia, I have just returned from a month trip collecting genealogy information on my family line. I spend several days in Hopkinsville, Crofton, Mannington, Old St. Petersburg, Earlington and Madisonville, Kentucky. I collected much informaton while there. As soon as I sort all of it out, I will be back in touch with you. I have a lot of other information which includes the Earle Book which goes back to the 8th or 9th Century. I will do all that I can to help.