1850 KY census: Living in Pike Co. aged 27 living two houses from father-in-law, Wm Ramey, with Anna 21 and kids: Janny 4; Elizabeth 2; Mary 2/12. (SV-714)
1860 KY Census (Ancestry.com): Ben Bentley Jr, aged 36, living in Dist. 1, Pike Co. with wife, Annie (31) and kids: Virginia (14); Elizabeth (12); Polly A. (10); Sol C. (8); Wm R. P. (5); A. V. (4) and Josephine (5/12).
1870 KY Census (Ancestry.com): Benjamin Bentley, aged 49, living in Ash Camp, Pike Co. with wife, Annie (46) and kids: Polly A. (20); Solomon C. (17); William P. (15); John V. (13); Josephine (11); Benjamin McC (9) and Orvaline D. (2).
Joyce Wallace says he died in 1880. (SV-1588.7)