Mrs. Pearl Hamilton was the mother to Roy Hamilton. After the death of her first husband Roy Reece Hamilton she married John Armstrong, then she married Elmer Roy Benton, they had 5 children: Thomas Hudson Benton, Velma Lucille Benton, Evelyn Bernice Benton, Elmer Roy Benton Jr., and Donald Eugene Benton. Friday, 16 August, 1918, Vol 32, No 18--Elmer Roy Benton and Mrs. Pearl Hamilton, both of this place, were married in Moberly on the 7th by Judge Warwick McCanne.