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Benjamin F. Dewees was the third of the five known sons of Joseph Dewees and Phebe Brodhead, who had moved to the Grayson County, Kentucky area by 1787 from Berks County, Pennsylvania. Ben and his four brothers, Daniel, Edward, James B(rodhead) and John W., were raised in what began as Nelson County in 1785, became Hardin County in 1792 and then Ohio County in 1798 before the area where they lived eventually became Grayson County on January 25, 1810. Benjamin was born on March 6, 1780 in Old Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He married first wife Anna Anderson on June 25, 1802 in Ohio County, Kentucky. They were the parents of Catherine "Kitty", Leonard, Daniel II, Stephen W., Farmer, Wilkins, Benjamin Anderson and Anna. After his wife Anna's death about 1818, he married Pharaba Roberts about 1819 in Grayson County. They were the parents of Lurana, Joseph, Rebecca, William Roberts, Phebe, Martha Jane and Commadore Perry. Many of the descendants of Phebe Brodhead Dewees are buried in this Old Dewees Cemetery near Post, Grayson County, Kentucky on the top of a hill by Bennett's Fork on land that was purchased by Benjamin Dewees on April 7, 1841. His mother, Phebe Brodhead Dewees, the daughter of Revolutionary War Brig. Gen. Daniel Brodhead and his first wife Elizabeth DePui, was the first one buried in this old pioneer cemetery. His brothers Edward Dewees and Daniel Dewees are also buried here with their wives. All the burials in this old pioneer cemetery spell the name as Dewees. No one with the spelling of Deweese is buried in this cemetery.
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