This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SMB.2ACI/1377.1 Message Board Post: There are no civil Benton County birth records before 1910 except for a few kept haphazardly 1883-1890. What were your ancestor and parents' names, and what military record listed Benton County? 1835 is the year the county was established, and the area was sparsley settled.