Descendants of THE BOOKOUT FAMILY 
 



			
A special "thank you" to James Robert Benham 
and Mary Bookout information.



THE BOOKOUT FAMILY 

The BENHAM family is connected to the BOOKOUT 
family by the marriage of Robert Benham 
to Elmira Louise Bookout in 1881.


 JOSEPH (1) BOOKOUT

JOSEPH (1) BOOKOUT is believed to be the first 
BOOKOUT to come to America. His wife's 
name is not known. His son was CHARLES BOOKOUT.

CHARLES and NANCY ANN (CAGLE) BOOKOUT

CHARLES BOOKOUT, son of JOSEPH (1) BOOKOUT, 
married NANCY ANN CAGLE. 
Their son was JOSEPH (2) BOOKOUT.

 JOSEPH (2) and POLLY (OVERSTREET) BOOKOUT

JOSEPH (2) BOOKOUT married POLLY OVERSTREET. 
Their son was JOHN BOOKOUT.

JOHN and MALINDA (JONES) BOOKOUT

JOHN BOOKOUT, son of JOSEPH and 
POLLY (OVERSTREET) BOOKOUT, was born 
about 1822, possibly in Alabama. At about 
age 18, on 9 July 1840, he married 
MALINDA JONES in DeKalb County, Alabama. 
MALINDA was born about 1820. It is believed 
they moved to Arkansas about 1845. 
During the Civil War, John enlisted as a 
Private with Company C, 4th Regiment 
Arkansas Union Cavalry, on 27 November 
1863 at Dardanelle, Arkansas.  He died 12 
April 1865, at about age 43, in "General Hospital",
as the result of wounds received during the War.

The children of JOHN and MALNDA (JONES) BOOKOUT

1. MARY ELIZABETH BOOKOUT was born 
about 1840 in Tennessee. She married 
BARON DEKALB HICKEY on 
13 November 1859 at Dover, 
Pope County, Arkansas. 
MARY ELIZABETH  named one of 
her daughters after her sister ELMIRA. 

BARON DEKALB HICKEY married 
MATTIE PEARSON on 18 August 1892 at 
Little River County, Arkansas, after ELISABETH"S death. 
His parents were JOHN and NANCY 
(GIBSON) HICKEY. It is not known
 what happened to MARY ELIZABETH.

2. JAMES HIRAM BOOKOUT was born 
about 1845 in Arkansas. He married 
SARA WEATHERS on 19 December 1859.

3. LEVISA BOOKOUT, called "VICEY" was 
born about 1849 in Arkansas. She married 
GEORGE A. KINCAID or KINCADE on 
26 August 1874 in Pope County, Arkansas.

4. JOSHUA BOOKOUT was born about 1850 in Arkansas.

5. LUCINDA BOOKOUT was born 25 December 1854 
in Arkansas. She married JAMES MC COY ON 20 
March 1873 at Pope County, Arkansas.
 JAMES MC COY and his brother in law 
BEN BOOKOUT were involved in the murder of WILLIAM 
MC ALISTER in Arkansas in 1874. James escaped, 
and he and Lucinda hid out in Texas under 
the names of MC ELROY, maybe MC CAULY, 
and KINCAID. James was captured in 1885 
and returned to Arkansas for trail. Lucinda 
died in route to Arkansas in 1885. It is believed 
ROBERT and ELMIRA BENHAM took in the 
MC COY's daughter ELLEN to raise. James' 
death sentence was reduced to 21 years in 
prison. It is believed he died in prison some years later.

6. BENJAMIN BOOKOUT was born 8 March 1856 in Arkansas. 
Ben Bookout and James McCoy killed William McAlister 
and wounded Mrs. McAlister in Dover, Pope County, 
Arkansas in 1874. The murder was so famous in 
Dover that a play was made up about it.  
What prompted the killing is not known. 
Two other men were involved, one was 
Sam Osborne, and someone else who 
never came in the house but handed in 
loaded guns. Both Kincaids and the 
Mc Coys were witnesses at the trial. 
Baron Hickey and his wife Mary Elizabeth 
(Bookout) Hickey both testified at the 
Mc Coy Trial. Before he could be sentenced, 
Ben Bookout fled from Arkansas.  Soon after, 
most of the Bookouts, Kincaids and Mc Coys
 leave Arkansas. Some of them appeared in
 Indian Territory and Texas near where
 Robert and Elmira (Bookout) Benham were living. 

7. ELMIRA LOUISE BOOKOUT was born 
10 January 1859 in Arkansas. 
MYRA was 6 years old when her father, 
JOHN BOOKOUT, died. She married 
Thomas J.E.B. DANIELS on 29 March 1880 
in Johnson County, Arkansas.  It is not 
known what happened to THOMAS DANIELS
On 22 May 1881, Elmira married 
ROBERT BENHAM in Denison, Grayson 
County, Texas.  Myra died 22 April 1899 
from measles that turned into pneumonia. 
She is buried near Kingston, Oklahoma. 
Her son, George William Benham, is buried next to her. 

8. MALINDA BOOKOUT was born about 1864.

Compiled by: JAMES ROBERT BENHAM, updated: 04/28/2000






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