TWELFTH GENERATION

3059. Mary Etta SHAFER ^{(805) (6)(7) (8)} was born on 14 Aug 1868 in Warren County, Ohio. ^(12286) She died on 14 Dec 1947 in Bellevue, Kentucky. ^(12287) She was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Milford, Ohio. ^(12288) She was also known as "Etta". ^(12289)

She was married to Benjamin Leslie ATKINS on 23 May 1892 in Campbell County, Kentucky. ^(12290)
Mary Etta and probably L.B. were associated with the International Bible Students Association, now known as Jehovah's Whitnesses. Many of their descendants are Jehovah's Witnesses. Benjamin Leslie ATKINS ^{(12291)(805) (6)(7) (8)} was born on 17 Mar 1866 in Campbell County.^(12292) He died 22/23 March 1937.^(12293) He was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Milford, Ohio.^(12294) He was also known as "L.B".^(12295) He was known to all as "L.B." because he switch his name around to Leslie Ben. L.B. moved with his parents from Kentucky to a farm east of Milford and north of Perintown, Ohio, in 1878. He returned to the Bellevue area of northern Kentucky about 1890. He was musically inclined like his father, and worked as a piano tuner, even building pianos for Baldwin Piano Company. Mary Etta SHAFER and Benjamin Leslie ATKINS had the following children:

+4915 i. Elmis Luther ATKINS (Private).
+4916 ii. Hazel Lucille ATKINS^{(805) (6)(7) (8)} was born in Nov 1898 in Bellevue, Kentucky. ^(12296) She died on 22 Oct 1962 in Kentucky. ^(12297)
+4917 iii. Walter ATKINS^{(805) (6)(7) (8)} died about 1961/62.^(12298)
4918 iv. ATKINS^{(805) (6)(7) (8)} died between 1920 and 1923.^(12299) died at birth He (or she) died between 1920 and 1923. ^(12300) He (or she) Twin.^(12301)