Coffee County GaArchives Photo person.....Bani  J. ( Bench)  Vining Abt. 1898
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Kathy Pecina kpecina@hotmail.com February 15, 2004, 11:45 pm

Source: grandaughter - Lillie Mae Vining Parker
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  Bani Vining was born in 1853 in Washington County, Georgia. He came with his 
parents Owen Vining and Eadyan Ivey Vining to Coffee County Georgia abt. 1855. 
His family settled in the Axson area which at that time was in the County of 
Coffee. His siblings names were: Rev. James Vining b. 1845, Thomas Vining b: 
1848, Ellen Vining b. 1850, Mary Vining b. 1861, Vincent Vining b. 1863, and 
John Vining b. 1866.
  Bani married Martha Frances Crosby in 1874. They had these children: Agnes, 
Ida, Alice, Edgar, Verjal, and Tessica(?). He married his second wife Frances 
Jane Gillis abt. 1891, dau. of Murdock Gillis and Charity Eubanks. They had 
these children: Oscar, Olen, Eula, Lillie, Ellen and Melinda. Bani was a farmer 
and lived most all his life in the Axson area. He moved his family to Tifton 
Georgia to work in the cotton mills a few years before his death. He died in 
1922. Bani is buried at New River Cemetery in Tift County in an unmarked grave.

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