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Benjamin Vern Bisbee

Male 1920 - 1994  (73 years)

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  • Name Benjamin Vern Bisbee  [1, 2]
    Birth 22 Aug 1920  Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Gender Male
    Census 12 Apr 1930  Cambridge Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Death 15 Jun 1994  Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5, 10] 
    Burial Waterford, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Person ID I226  Bisbee
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

    Father Curtis Clark Bisbee,   b. 3 Sep 1883, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jan 1961, Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Mother Macie Ellen Drake,   b. 26 Apr 1889, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jun 1967, Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Marriage 31 Jan 1910  Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Family ID F104  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Ruth Larsen,   b. 5 Dec 1919, Copenhagen, , København, Denmark Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1985 (Age 65 years)
    Marriage 15 Dec 1945  Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 12] 
    • This family is from "Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle" by M. J. Bisbee, Erie, Pa, 1974, pp 44, 58-59.
    Children 
    +1. Verna Marie Bisbee,   b. 20 Sep 1946   d. 2014 (Age 67 years)
    +2. Thomas Blair Bisbee,   b. 23 Feb 1949   d. 29 Apr 2020 (Age 71 years)
    Family ID F186  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

    Family 2 Nancy Monroe   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F185  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 22 Aug 1920 - Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 12 Apr 1930 - Cambridge Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 15 Dec 1945 - Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 15 Jun 1994 - Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Waterford, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Benjamin enlisted in the National Guard Infantry on 17 Feb 1941 at Meadville. He was single and without dependents He stood 65" tall and weighed 125 lbs. His brother Levi joined at the same time. Benjamin Bisbee operated a gas station in Waterford, Pennsylvania. [9, 10, 12]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 131.

    2. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 26.

    3. [S1534] Social Security Death Index - Ancestry, (www.ancestry.com, 2007: Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File), entry for Benjamin Bisbee, 1994, SS no. 178-14-4104, acces s ed 9 Aug 2008.

      Last Residence: 16503 Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania
      Born: 22 Aug 1920
      Died: 15 Jun 1994
      State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951 )

    4. [S14] M. J. Bisbee, GRS, Bisbee, Ruth Larsen: Personal Records, (self published, Erie, PA 1974 Personal records of Ruth (Larsen Bisbee), submitted to Margaret J. Bisbee (deceased). Whereabouts of original records unknown, possibly destroyed around 1982.), 44.
      Note that Bisbee gives date of birth as 20 August 1920, while the Social Security Death Index has 22 August 1920.

    5. [S11] Bisbee, Benjamin Vern: Obit (Meadville), (Meadville, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1994).

    6. [S2519] Bisbee, Curtis Clark: Obit (Erie), (Erie, Pennsylvania, Saturday, January 28, 1961).

    7. [S1670] Bisbee, Macie Ellen Drake: Obit (Erie), (Erie, Pennsylvania, Friday, June 16, 1967).

    8. [S1676] Bisbee, Clarence Eugene (1910): Obit (Erie), (Erie, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1990).

    9. [S985] Ancestry.com , Bisbee, Benjamin Vern: WW2 Enlisted Record, (Subscription database on-line. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 [Archival Database]; World War II Army Enlistment Records; Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 64; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. Accessed 8/10/2006.).

    10. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 263.

    11. [S2498] Bisbee, Curtis Clark (I97): 1930 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2002): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T626, roll 2022; enumeration district (ED) 5, sheet 3A, page 126A, line 18, dwelling #, family 63; image accessed 12/21/2008.), 1930.PA.Crawford.Cambridge.5.5.

    12. [S14] M. J. Bisbee, GRS, Bisbee, Ruth Larsen: Personal Records, (self published, Erie, PA 1974 Personal records of Ruth (Larsen Bisbee), submitted to Margaret J. Bisbee (deceased). Whereabouts of original records unknown, possibly destroyed around 1982.), 44.