Benjamin Cobb Homer 1777-1890
Benjamin Cobb Homer was born on June 24, 1777. He was the son of Captain Thomas Homer and Elizabeth Sears Homer of Massachusetts.
Benjamin began going to sea when he was a mere boy, but was obliged to quit on account of his health. He then went to the western part of the State of New York, to take up farming. There he met and married Anna Warner of Erie, New York. Her great-grandmother was a princess of the Cherokee Indian nation,* so Anna Warner had one-eighth Indian blood, a fact of which father Homer was very proud. They were married in 1805, and settled on a piece of timber land in Onondaga County, New York. On this land they built their home in the wilderness and began to rear a family.
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Benjamin began going to sea when he was a mere boy, but was obliged to quit on account of his health. He then went to the western part of the State of New York, to take up farming. There he met and married Anna Warner of Erie, New York. Her great-grandmother was a princess of the Cherokee Indian nation,* so Anna Warner had one-eighth Indian blood, a fact of which father Homer was very proud. They were married in 1805, and settled on a piece of timber land in Onondaga County, New York. On this land they built their home in the wilderness and began to rear a family.
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