Individual Details

Family tradition has it that Benager Spell had a brother named Benjamin who came to Louisiana with him from Mississippi. This brother never married, according to family lore.

Mrs. C. D. Spell wrote that Benager lived in South Carolina and moved to Mississippi before going to Indian Bayou, Vermilion Parish, La.

Bill Gee states: Susan was the oldest, followed by Sterling and Lucinda was the youngest child of Benager Spell.

These comments from "Descendants of Benager Spell & Dorethea Foreman" [Everett Campbell]

St. Landry Census of 1813 shows Bena Spell; 2 males under age of 45; 4 males under age of 16;
2 females. [In the Louisiana Genealogical Register of June 1967, the "St. Landry Census of 1813 - Territory of Louis Carriere" ](David Hoffpauir).

Birth	Bet 1765 and 1784	Natchez, Adam County, MS
Marriage	Abt 1804	Dorethea "Dorothy" Foreman
Death	Bet 1840 and 1850

Spouse	Dorethea "Dorothy" Foreman (1784 - 1860)
Child	Suzanne "Susan" Spell (1803 - 1884)
Child	David Spell (1804 - )
Child	Sterling Spell (1806 - 1876)
Child	Joseph Spell (1808 - 1860)
Child	Lucinda Spell (1814 - 1883)
Child	Daniel Spell (1815 - )
Child	Benager Spell II (1815 - 1903)
Child	Elijah Spell (1820 - 1880)

Father	Sterling Spell ( - )
Mother	Benton Susana ( - )