Benjamin Belt

Title

Benjamin Belt

Aliases

None listed

Date

6 November 1889-18 May 1922

Description

Regiment: 79th United States Colored Troops
Company: H
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 16 November 1863 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 1 October 1865 in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Camden, Arkansas, United States; Ozark, Arkansas, United States
Comrades mentioned: Colonel Williams; George Hawkins

Name(s) of spouse(s): Elvira Elizabeth James
Children: Willie Belt (23 July 1875); Bennie Belt (1 February 1880); Charles Belt (23 May 1883); Alva Belt (23 May 1885)

Veteran’s birth date and place: ~December 1842 in Franklin County, Arkansas, United States
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslaver(s): Dodson Belt

Parents of veterans: Not listed
Other listed family members: Not listed

Wife's date and place of birth: ~1850
Wife’s date of death: 9 March 1922 in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas, United States
Wife’s plantation: Not listed
Wife’s enslaver: Not listed
Wife’s parents: Not listed
Other listed family members: Not listed

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Record Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.