BIO:  SHAKE, Benjamin S., s/o David & Artemisia (Blevins) Shake, Oldham &  Jefferson Co., KY

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3/26/99
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"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; 
TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED 
BROS. & CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884. SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA HADDON TWP. PAGE 757 

BENJAMIN S. SHAKE was born is Haddon Township April 7, 1832, one of fifteen children born to David 
and Artemisia (Blevins) Shake, natives of Kentucky, coming to Sullivan County in the fall of 1831, 
and dying here.  Subject has been a farmer all his life, and now owns 216 acres of good land under 
a high state of cultivation.  March 24,1859, he married Elizabeth Arnett, born January 4, 1837, 
daughter of Leven and Nancy Arnett, and to this union were born four children--William L., born 
March 20, 1860; James E., January 20, 1865;  Deborah J., April 7, 1871; and Margaret S., October 
13, 1873.  Mr. Shake and wife are members of the Christian Church at Paxton, and he is a Democrat. 
He was formerly a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and takes an active interest in all laudable 
enterprises.