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[HYPERLINK: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cafamilies/thomas/benton.html ] Benton was a teamster, with a wagon and renowned team of 6 mules. He hauled tanbark to Westport on the coast, lumber to the Abbott Mine, east of Clearlake Oaks, mercury out the mine to the railroad, steel for the bridge crossing Kelsey creek, grain to the railroad in Cloverdale, turtles to gourmet restaurants in San Francisco, water from the famed Bartlett Springs and food to Lake county.
HYPERLINK: [ http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/gardline/html/nti00153.htm ]BY Narda Jane [Gard] McNally. "Ed. Dispatch:-- On the night of Monday, May 22nd, while Mr. Charles Gard, of this place, was camped out with his team about three miles this side of Knoxville, near the lake county line, one of his horses stepped on his breast while he was fast asleep and so injured him internally that he died the following evening, after lingering in great agony for about twenty-four hours. Mr. Gard was a very industrious man and had the confidence and respect of the community in which he lived. Deceased leaves a wife and eight children--mostly small-- to mourn his untimely death. The whole community sympathized deepley with the bereaved family in this their great loss.
Kelseyville, June 2, 1876."