Volume 9 , Issue 6

Evelyn Benefiel Stout

"Evelyn Benefiel Stout was married to James Willard Stout, called Willard. Evelyn was a teacher and once taught at Dacoma for a year or so. It was around thirty years ago that I met them. Actually, the Benefiel farm they lived on was really nearer to Lambert than anywhere. According to the Woods Co. 'Footprints' book, she and Willard were high school sweethearts. However, there are no accounts of a Stout family in that book, so I would assume that the family was a later arrival in the Woods Co. I never heard of Evelyn until I received my copy of that book It had an account of my g-g grandfather James C. McCary under her name, and I wondered who in the world this person was who was writing about him. Evelyn writes of the McCarys, Benefiels, and Schwennesens therein.

My contact with Evelyn cemented my interest in genealogy/family history. It was to bloom into a hobby, and ultimately an obsession, as is so common with genealogists. She and Willard were real salt of the earth people. The path Evelyn set me on led to tracing branches of the McCary ancestry to the 1620's in Jamestown, Virginia Colony in the 1620's, and I was able to share that with her." -- Charlie
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