Maj. Benjamin
Allston Munnerlyn
( May 1835 - 28 May 1908)
Benjamin Allston Munnerlyn was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, May 1835, a son of James Keene Munnerlyn, Sr. and Amelia Danials. Benjamin served in the Confederate Army during the Civil war in Hampton’s Calvary under Col. A. C. Haskell, achieving the rank of Major. Benjamin was married to Anna Jane Wilson. Major Munnerlyn had founded and successfully conducted for many years a steamboat agency. He also established an insurance firm "B. A. Munnerlyn and Company" which was in the business of providing fire and marine insurance. Before the advent of the railroad in Georgetown, Major Munnerlyn business flourished where had been for many years an agent of the famous old Accommodation Line, whose steamers worked between Charleston and Georgetown and up the waters of the Santee, Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers. Major Munnerlyn became the agent when the Baltimore and Carolina Steamship Company established its line of steamers operating between Baltimore, Wilmington, Georgetown and Charleston. During his later years when his health began to fail, he and his son William Wilson, formed a co-partnership with the firm. After his death the firm was carried on by his son William W., and it retained the name B. A. Munnerlyn and Company. Maj. Benjamin and Anna Jane had the following children; Benjamin (1867), William Wilson (1869), Haskell (1871), Anna Jane (1873). Benjamin Allston died 28 May 1908 and is buried Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church Cemetery, Georgetown, Georgetown Co., South Carolina.
Descendant Relation:
James Sr.>Capt. John>William>James K. Sr.>Benjamin
Allston MUNNERLYN
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