Descendants of Benjamin Cave Milam

1. BENJAMIN CAVE⁵ MILAM (JOHN⁴, MOSES³, THOMAS², UNKNOWN FATHER OF THE VIRGINIA¹ MILAMS) was born July 01, 1821 in Franklin County, Kentucky, and died January 29, 1904 in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. He married MARTHA SHOCKLEY November 20, 1848 in Franklin County, Kentucky, daughter of THOMAS SHOCKLEY and ANN STEPHENS. She was born June 17, 1826 in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, and died December 13, 1885 in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky.

Notes for BENJAMIN CAVE MILAM:
This source sounds like a Goodspeed biography, date unknown:
Ben C. remained on the farm until he was fourteen years of age, when he became an apprentice in the watchmaking business, under Beverly Noel, and served eight years. In 1847 he began the manufacture of the B. C. Milam (Frankfort, Ky.), fishing reel, and has been engaged in this business ever since and has a world wide reputation on his reels, which are worth from $13 up, and are sold principally to dealers in Chicago, Cleveland, New York and the principal cities of the United States. He and son, John W., do a good business in this line.

June 9, 1846, Mr. Milam volunteered in the Mexican War as Captain of Company C, of the First Regiment Kentucky Cavalry, commanded by Col. Humphrey Marshall, and participated in the battle of Buena Vista. The most of the men were from Franklin; Joseph McKee was his first lieutenant, Richard Holland, second, and George R. Davidson, third. They were mustered out in June, 1847, and Ben Utterback, William M. Robb, of Fayette; Cyrus Calvert, of Franklin, Stewart Gale, of Henderson; Daniel Hancock, of Franklin; Wick Holman, of Louisville; Frank M. Milam, of California; Ambrose McDowell, of Franklin; Alfred B. Reed, of Franklin and John Reddish, of Franklin are the only ones living from a total of seventy-two.

Children of BENJAMIN MILAM and MARTHA SHOCKLEY are:

i. ANNA MILAM, b. September 15, 1850, Kentucky; d. October 25, 1900, Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky; m. UMBERTO KEENAN; b. November 30, 1839, Kentucky; d. October 16, 1920, Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky.

ii. JOHN W. MILAM, b. July 12, 1859; d. March 27, 1929, Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky; m. MARY M. VAN DER VEER, September 12, 1888, Hamilton, Ohio; b. November 28, 1868; d. June 29, 1922, Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky.

Notes for JOHN W. MILAM: commissioned Captain of the State Militia in 1883