Benson, Roy, Jr. / 2008-07-01 00:00:00

EBOOK, THE BIOGRAPHY OF A RABBIT ***


The Biography of a Rabbit
by Roy Benson Jr.

Introduction
This is the story of a young man, my uncle "Bunny", growing up in
Canandaigua, New York, including his joining the Army, training to
fly, and flying a P51 on missions over Germany. He was ultimately
shot down, taken prisoner and liberated about a year later. The story
concludes with clips from his return to a normal life back in
Canandaigua. Bunny knew that he had Colon and liver cancer when he he
decided to write this book and he died shortly after its completion. I
hope the story will be of interest to other students of history. Roy
(Bunny) Benson was my mother's youngest brother. Burr Cook

Chapter 1 Background
My father, Roy Benson, was born in 1879 in Centerfield, New York, and
my mother, Frances Lorraine Gulvin, was born in 1880 in Sittingbourne,
England which is about fifty miles southeast of London. Sittingbourne
is approximately thirty miles from Rochester, England. She came to the
United States with her parents when she was three years old and
settled on a farm in Seneca Castle (which is thirty miles from
Rochester, New York).
When my father was courting my mother he would walk to Canandaigua
from Centerfield and rent a horse and buggy from a livery stable on
the corner of Chapin and Main Streets.
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