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Friday, December 22, 2023

Benjamin Mayfield

Benjamin Mayfield (1831–187?) was a cowboy and a miner who killed the outlaw John Mason.

Benjamin Mayfield, the second son of American pioneer farmer William Mayfield and his first wife, was born in Illinois in 1831. His father moved the family to Texas in 1837, where he and his older brother John grew up in Washington County and his brother Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was born in 1843. There his mother died sometime before his father was married to his second wife Mary Ann Curd on March 16, 1848.

1 comment:

  1. No relation to the folks who make my favorite ice cream in Athens, Tennessee.

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