Rossalyndia Rasey

Rossalyndia B. Rasey (1857-?) was the daughter of Edward Rasey Sr. and Mary Lamb, the sister of Francis, Norval, Mary, Edward Jr., Archibald, and Dora, the wife of Murray Benson, and the mother of John, Lucy, Edna, George, Charles, Fay, and Marjorie.

Biography
Rossalyndia was born in 1857 in New York to Edward Rasey Sr. and Mary Lamb. She had four older siblings named Francis, Norval, Mary, and Edward Jr., as well as two younger siblings named Archibald and Dora. Her family moved to Jasper Missouri between 1861 and 1871. Her father died in 1871 when Rossalyndia was fourteen years old.

She married Murray Benson, who was fifteen years older than her, in 1880 in Halstead, Kansas at the age of 22. The couple had seven children, including John (b. 1880), Lucy (b. 1881), Edna (b. 1885), George (b. 1888), Charles (b. 1896), Fay (b. 1898), and Marjorie (b. 1902). Sometime between 1888 and 1896, the family moved to Chautauqua, New York. Within a span of fourteen years, Rossalyndia lost four of her siblings (Dora, Edward, Mary, and Archibald).

After Murray's death in 1930, she moved to North East, Erie, Pennsylvania. Ten years later, Rossalyndia moved to Westfield, Chautauqua, New York. Her death date is unknown.