Their son, Dr. Robert F. Benson, was born in De Soto Parish in 1853, and here his education was received. In 1872 he began the study of medicine with Dr. J. H. Mumford, and in 1881 graduated from the University of Louisiana since which time he has practiced in the neighborhood of his birthplace with the best of success. He is a member of the Louisiana State Medical Association, and belongs to Star Union Lodge of the Farmers' Alliance. Farmer, natives of Louisiana and Alabama, respectively. Mrs. Farmer died in Sabine Parish, where Capt.
Farmer now resides, a tiller of the soil.
Mrs. Benson was born in Do Soto Parish, and has borne the Doctor two children. Dr. Benson has spent all his life on the farm on which he is now residing, of which he is joint owner in connection with his father. His practice extends among the best families of this section, by whom he is kept very busy, while, with the medical fraternity, his reputation is by no means local, for he has made some remarkable cures. The other member of his father's family now living is Miss Etta, who was also reared and educated in De Soto Parish.