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Sen. Willis Benson MACHEN
Margaret A. LYON
Eliza N. DOBBINS
Victoria T. MIMS
Husband:  Willis Benson MACHEN
Birth:  5 Apr 1810, Caldwell [now Lyon] Co., KY
Death:  29 Sep 1893, Hopkinsville, Christian Co., KY
Disposition:  buried Riverview Cemetery, Eddyville, Lyon Co., KY
Political Office:  1872-73, U.S. Senator from KY
Father:  Henry MACHEN
Mother:  Nancy TARRANT
Marriage-1:
Wife-1:  Margaret A. LYON
Father:  Chittenden LYON
Mother:  Nancy VAUGHN
Marriage-2:
Wife-2:  Eliza N. DOBBINS of Eddyville
Marriage-3:  10 Sep 1859
Wife-3:  Victoria Theresa MIMS
Birth:  26 Sep 1838, Eddyville, Caldwell [now Lyon] Co., KY
Death:  East Clay, Clinton Co., KY
Father:  Col. John Harrison MIMS
Mother:  Caroline Hanson CREASAP
Children with Margaret LYON:
at least two, who survived to 1887
Children with Eliza DOBBINS:
apparently none
Children with Victoria MIMS:
.  Frank P. MACHEN
.  Willis B. MACHEN
.  Charles V. MACHEN
.  Minnie MACHEN; m. A.D. SAYERS of AL
.  Marjorie MACHEN
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Sources:

1.  J.H. Battle, W.H. Perrin, & G.C. Kniffin.  1887. Kentucky, a History of the State.  F.A. Battey & Co., Louisville, KY (excerpts online at the Kentucky Biographies Project [link died]):