History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley, by Merton Edwin Krug, Publ. February 1929 by the author. Printed by Democrat Printing Company, Madison, Wis., Page 458-459

MR. AND MRS. LEO DARRENOUGUE. As a member of the Reedsburg military company, Company A, Wisconsin National Guard, over a period of twenty years, the name of Lee DARRENOUGUE is one of the most widely known of all the men connected with the military life of the city. He was born in Reedsburg, February 16, 1877, son of Augustus and Josephine (HESS) DARRENOUGUE. His grandparents, John and Mary (LASSALLETTE) DARRENOUGUE, natives of Lower Pyrenees, France, lived and died in that country, and his father was born at Estialisq, that place, born Jan. 3, 1841, and grew to manhood there. Augustus DARRENOUGUE spent five years in the French Army, of miscellaneous employment, he in 1873 opened a Barber Shop on Main Street. His wife, whom he married July 23, 1973, was Josephine HESS, and was, like himself, of French extraction.

Mr. Leo DARRENOUGUE grew to manhood in Reedsburg, and for many years was the leading barber in the city. At an early date he became interested in the military company, and after spending a number of years in lower offices, came into the rank of captain, and was retired from the company in that rank, Jan. 12, 1918, when, owing to heart trouble, it was found that he was not able to lead his company across the seas and on the battlefields of France. Shortly after his honorable discharge he became connected with the American Appraisal Company of Milwaukee. His work took him all over the United States and Canada. While on one of his trips to the west coast, on Thursday, Dec. 20, 1928, at a hotel in Stockton, California, he was stricken with heart trouble and death followed in a few minutes.

On April 2, 1899, he was united in marriage to Ella May BENEDICT. This lady, who has been a continual resident of Reedsburg, represents a number of very ancient families of Colonial America. Her people have been especially distinguished in this city as members of the vanguard of pioneer settlers.

Mrs. DARRENOUGUE, prominent member of D.A.R., furnished her genealogy: (1) Ella BENIDICT was born Oct. 26, 1869, in Reedsburg, married April 2, 1899, Leo DARRENOUGUE (son of Augustus and Josephine (HESS) DARRENOUGUE); was a daughter of: (2) George BENIDICT. He was born Nov. 24, 1840, son of Eber BENIDICT his wife, Harriet SKIDMORE. (3) Eber BENIDICT was born in December, 1800, Fairfield, Ct.; married Dec. 6, 1837, and died Nov. 24, 1877. (4) Harriet SKIDMORE, wife of (3) was born Sept. 27, 1814; died May 24, 1902; was a daughter of Ammon SKIDMORE and wife, Naomi TERRILL (b) Dec. 24, 1773, d. Sept. 26, 1849. (5) Ammon SKIDMORE was born June 27, 1768; died Nov. 20, 1849; was a son of John SKIDMORE and wife, Mary PRINDEL (12) (6) John SKIDMORE was born Jan. 16, 1726; died 1790; son of Lieut. Thomas SKIDMORE and his wife, Martha _____. She was born in 1694, and died Dec. 23, 1774. (7) Lieut. Thomas SKIDMORE was born in 1683; married in 1717; died July 21, 1761; was a son of John SKIDMORE and wife Mary _____. Mary was born in 1665, and was buried Nov. 28, 1748. (8) John SKIDMORE was born in 1653, and was buried Jan. 22, 1740; was son of John SKIDMORE and wife Susannah _______. Susannah died about 1675. (9) John SKIDMORE was born April 11, 1643; married 1634; died in 1680; son of Thomas SKIDMORE and wife Ellen ______. (10) Thomas SKIDMORE was born in 1600, in Herfordshire, Eng., and was a descendant of Holme LACY of that shire. In April 1635, he sailed with Gov. John Winthrop, Jr., and his company for New England. Thomas SKIDMORE settled at Cambridge, on the Charles River in Massachusetts. In 1640 he sent back to England for his wife and children. His son John (9) was born at Cambridge, Mass. Thomas SKIDMORE served in King Phillip's War, in 1675, and died in 1680. (11) Mary PRINDLE (see No. 5) was born Oct. 24, 1727; died April 24, 1807; was daughter of Joseph PRINDLE and wife, Sarah Kimberly (15). (12) Joseph PRINDLE was born in June 1703; died Nov. 11, 1772; married Sarah, his 2nd wife, in 1726; was a son of Ebenezer PRINDLE and his wife, Elizabeth HUBBY. (13) Ebenezer PRINDLE was born on Sept. 10, 1661; died 1740; son of William PRINDLE and wife Mary DESEBOROUGH (D. 1700). (14) William PRINDLE, a native of Scotland, settled in New Haven, Ct., where he took the oath of fidelity to the New Haven Jurisdiction, April 4, 1654. He died in 1690. (15) Sarah Kimberly (see No. 11) was born in 1708; died Sept. 22, 1758, daughter of Abraham KIMBERLY and wife Abigail FITCH. (16) Abraham KIMBERLY was born March 14, 1674; died March 20, 1728; married May 11, 1696; was son of Abraham KIMBERLY and wife Hannah _____. (17) Abraham KIMBERLY was son of Thomas KIMBERLY and wife Alice _____. (18) Thomas KIMBERLY, and immigrant ancestor, came from London and was one of the founders of the New Haven Colony. He was in Dorchester, Mass., as early as 1635, and had a wife Alice, with whom he moved to New haven in 1638 or '9. She died in 1659. He married, went to Stratford, Ct., and died in January 1671 or '2. George BENIDICT (2) married May 10, 1867. (19) Cornelia BARSTOW. She was born July 20, 1848; is now living, in Reedsburg, Wis., 1928, at the home of Mrs. DARRENOUGUE; was a daughter of William BARSTOW and wife Eleanora KINGSLAND (21). (20) William BARSTOW was born in 1823, Franklin Co., N.Y.; married July 13, 1844, in Lisbon, N.Y.; and died March 9, 1883; was a son of Job BARSTOW and wife Rebecca PERRY. (21) Eleanora KINGSLAND (see No. 19) was born June 24, 1825; died Sept. 29, 1877, Lawrence Co., N.Y.; daughter of Phillip and Martha (BOWERS) KINGSLAND. (22) Phillip KINGSLAND was born Dec. 19, 1781; married March 10, 1805; of Isaac KINGSLAND and Johannes SCHUYLER, of the noble Dutch SCHUYLER family of Old New York. (23) Isaac KINGSLAND was born Aug. 8, 1719, son of Ormund KINGSLAND; was a minuteman in the Revolutionary War. He married his wife, Johannes SCHUYLER, June 24, 1741. (24) Johannes SCHUYLER was born Sept. 2, 1713, daughter of Phillip SCHUYLER and wife Hester KINGSLAND. Hester KINGSLAND and Ormund KINGSLAND were kin, children of Isaac KINGSLAND the First. This makes Isaac KINGSLAND (23) and Johannes SCHUYLER (24) first cousins. (25) Phillip SCHUYLER (father of Johannes No. 24) was baptized in 1687; and died about 1764; was a son of Arent SCHUYLER and wife Jenehe TELLER. (26) Arent SCHUYLER was born June 25, 1662; married about 1684; died about 1764; was a son of Phillip Pieterse SCHUYLER and wife Margereta ______. (27) Phillip Pieterse SCHUYLER was born in 1628, of Holland ancestors; he married Dec. 12, 1650. (28) Margereta (see No. 26) was a daughter of Herr Brant VAN SCHLENTENHORST, was born in 1624. Her father came to American soil in 1647, as manager of the Colony of Patroon Van Renselear. Margereta and Phillip were respectively twenty-two years old at the time of their marriage, in Nieuwkerk in Gelderland.

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