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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JAMES BENAGH, Attorney-at-Law, Notary Public and Register in Chancery,
Athens, was born at Lynchburg, Va., February 23, 1828, and his parents were
James and Elizabeth (Richardson) Benagh, the first a native of Ireland and the
latter of Virginia. They lived and died at Lynchburg, the old gentleman in 1861
at the age of 74, and his widow in 1868 at the age of 68.

    The senior Mr. Benagh was a lawyer by profession, and was for many years
Clerk of the Court at Lynchburg and Master in Chancery. He came with his parents
to America in 1792.

    James Benagh was educated at Lynchburg, there studied law and was admitted
to the bar, but did not actively enter the practice. At the outbreak of the late
war, he was speculating and taking the world easy. He went into the army as
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General on General Kirby Smith's staff. He was in
the war from the beginning to the close, and is probably the last man that ever
received an order from the Confederate Government. At Washington, Wilkes County,
Ga., and on the day that President Davis and his Cabinet left that town, orders
came through Ouartermaster-General Lawton, to Captain Benagh, to take charge of
all stores accumulated at different depots and turn them over to the Georgia
Railway Company. This was for the purpose of enabling the road to run, that they
might carry paroled men toward their homes. The Captain was also ordered to see
to the delivery of certain silver coin then being sent in bags to a
distinguished ex-official. The orders were carried out as far as in Captain
Benagh's power lay. But the timid gentleman refused to receive it. and the
supposition is that the boys who had the silver bags in charge realized the
whole. After the war, Captain Benagh returned to Virginia, and later on to
Athens and followed planting in Limestone County up to 1875, since when he has
been engaged in the practice of law. He was appointed Register in Chancery, in
1886, by Hon. Thomas Cobbs. He was married in Baltimore, Md., in 1872, to a Miss
Ryan.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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