Individual Details

"Benjamin Cantrell went with his parents to Tennessee, where he married Frances Fowler. He was a remarkably strong man and many stories are told regarding his power of endurance. At one time he lifted eleven hundred pounds of copper in a square box. This feat was published far and wide in the newspapers and a challenge sent out for a competition in lifting heavy weights, but no one was found who could compete with him." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908 by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 117.)

"Benjamin died in 1846, and his family left DeKalb County, Tennessee in the 1850's. It is thought that they probably moved to Illinois, as one son had a child born in Illinois in 1861. With the exception of the one son, no other record of Benjamin's family has been found." (CANTRELL - CANTRILL, 1972 by Horace Elbert Cantrell, page 406U.)

Birth	Abt, 1805	Spartanburg County, South Carolina
Marriage	Abt, 1825	Warren County, Tennessee - Frances Fowler
Death	Abt, 1846	DeKalb County, Tennessee

Spouse	Frances Fowler ( - )
Child	daughter Cantrell (1827 - )
Child	Elias Cantrell (1829 - )
Child	Benjamin Cantrell (1830 - )
Child	Allen Cantrell (1832 - )
Child	Anderson Cantrell (1833 - )
Child	Hannah Matilda Cantrell (1846 - )
Child	E. L. Taylor Cantrell (1844 - )
Child	Mary Cantrell (1835 - )

Father	Benjamin Cantrell (1768 - 1843)
Mother	Charity Legat (1770 - 1835)
Sibling	James Cantrell (1789 - 1850)
Sibling	Elizabeth Cantrell (1792 - )
Sibling	Sarah Cantrell (1794 - 1850)
Sibling	Nancy Cantrell (1794 - )
Sibling	Rayburn Cantrell (1800 - 1855)
Sibling	Peter Cantrell (1802 - 1871)
Sibling	Matilda Talitha Cantrell (1807 - )
Sibling	Mary E. "Polly" Cantrell (1808 - 1888)
Sibling	Martha Cantrell (1810 - )