The source of Jediah's middle name cannot be traced back through either the Hussey or Benbow lines. However, two of his aunts (Nancy and Mary) married into the Clark family. In fact, according to the Back Creek MM, John and Nancy Clark with children Judiah, Daniel, Alfred, Anna, Martha, Ann, and Thomas, were granted certificates to White Lick MM, 1832, 7, 27, basically the same time that Thomas (1832, 5, 30) and Agatha (1832, 7, 25) Hussey were granted theirs. It is almost certain there was a very close tie between the Hussey and Clark families.
Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, 1868, 4, 1. Plainfield MM Jediah received in membership.
Not much is know about Jediah (or Judiah as his descendants call him). From the above record it is evident that he was raised in the Quaker environment. However, none of his grandchildren recall that he was a Quaker. Since his mother died when he was nine and his father when he was 10, someone else had to have raised at least him and his younger sister, Rebecca.
Prior to 1880 Jediah married Louisa and over the next five years they had four children. Little is known about about this time in his life.
In his late thirties, he married Lucy Graham Capps, apparently in Wilbarger County, Texas, since they were there when Maggie Inez was born in 1886. The 1900 Oklahoma census indicates that Elmer, Mabel, Bernice, Franzel and Naomi were born in Arkansas between March 1888 and September 1898. When the family moved to Oklahoma, Lucy's older sister, Maggie C. Hollis came with them.
It was by sheer chance that I found the family in the 1900 census. I was scanning through the 1900 Oklahoma SOUNDEX (sound index) for Capps and found Elizabeth listed as being enumerated with "Gediah" Hussey. Without that lead I would never have found the entry since it was not under Jediah or Judiah where it should have been. (The soundex for a given set of surnames matching that sound pattern is sorted by first names, not by surnames.)
Here is a summary of the 1900 federal census. They were enumerated in Oklahoma County in the Cass township on 5 June. (Microfilm T623 Roll 1340.)
Name Relation Month Year Age Birth place Father's birth place Mother's birth place
Hussey, Gediah Head Mar 1848 58 IN NC NC Farmer, Rented farm Lucy Wife Feb 1862 48 AR SC MS Married 15 years Inez Daughter May 1886 14 TX IN AR Elmer Son Mar 1888 12 AR IN AR Mabel Daughter Jan 1890 10 AR IN AR Bernice Daughter Dec 1891 8 AR IN AR Franzl Son Oct 1894 5 AR IN AR Naomi Daughter Sep 1898 1 AR IN AR Capps, Elizabeth Mother- Jul 1863 63 MS MS GA in-Law
I could not find the family in the 1910 Soundex.
Here is a summary of the 1920 federal census. The family was enumerated in Beckham County in the Delhi township on 6 Jan. (Microfilm T625 Roll 1451.)
Name Relation Age Birth place Father's birth place Mother's birth place
Hussey, Judiah C. Head 71 IN NC NC Owned mortgaged farm Lucy G. Wife 69 AR AL MS Franzel T. Son 25 AR IN AR Naomi E. Daughter 21 AR IN AR Dorris, William Son-in-law 35 TX MS MS Renter Annie Granddaughter 12 OK TX AR Harvey C. Grandson 10 OK TX AR Wilma Granddaughter 8 OK TX AR Hollis, Maggie C. Sister-in-law 66 AR AL MS
(Notice that both Lucy and Maggie thought their father was born in Alabama. LDS records indicate he was born in South Carolina. He moved to Alabama as a young adult.)
A note of interest: Franzel T. Hussey was the ennumerator for the 1920 census for his district. This started a long series of involvement with the federal census. In 1930, Oscar Leggitt took census. In 1950 Clara and Jack Leggitt did. In 1990 Philip Leggitt, Jack's son, was a census taker.
Also, Maggie C. Hollis is very probably Margaret Catherine Capps who married John Howell Hollis in 1877 in Dorsey County, AR. Final observation - is Margaret the namesake of our Maggie Inez? (Yes, Naomi Hussey confirmed this in a letter to Patsy Meehan in 1968, shortly before Peggy Leggitt died. She said Inez was named for Aunt Maggie.)
Another little tidbit - at a family funeral in October, 1992, Jack Leggitt told me that family lore has it that Jediah died from accidentally eating rat poison. Apparently he awoke one night with indigestion and went to the kitchen to take some baking soda. Because of the shape of the box, he took rat poison instead
In a letter to Patsy Meehan in 1968, Naomi Hussey indicated "My parents at one time owned lots in what is now the cetral part of Oklahoma City."
In that letter, Naomi also said "Franzel also told me for sure where my Father was born, and I think I wrote you that. I had been told that my Mother was born in Kansas, but he said positively that she was born in Texas. She spent most of her life prior to their move to Oklahoma in Arkansas. I know that she always spoke of that as her home, and loved it, except for the chills and fever. Her oldest sister, Maggie Hollis live there until her death, and I am sure that some of her children or granchildren are there now. I had to look through the atlas to find the town whose name ran a bell with me, and I am sure it was Warren, some miles south of Pine Bluff. I just recall any of the Hollis children's names except one son, Buster, who came to Oklahoma and spend some time at our house. ... You know that I have been away from the family so long that about all I can recall are things that happened when I was quite young or that I heard spoken of then. I have to do some thinking to recall any of it. Inez was named for Aunt Maggie. Aunt Maggie also spent one winter at our house when I was a teenager. Gertrude recently got a death certificate for my Father, but I don't know hwere she sent for it, and I don't get very definite answers to questions I ask her. ..."
The LDS Ancestral File indicates Jediah died in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas. However, Mae Leggitt assures me he is buried next to his wife in Hext, Oklahoma. Mae thinks that he died at Hext, Oklahoma. She said that times were hard then and she cannot believe that they would not have buried him in Texas if he had died there.
In 1996 I visited the Pioneer Cemetery in Hext, Oklahoma and there is a very well maintained Hussey tombstone which identifies both Judiah and Lucy Hussey. While in Hext my mother pointed out the old Hussey farm house where both her grand parents lived. I took photographs of both locations.

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Source: Leggitt family records.
Birth: AFN:2J2J-48 indicates birth 1862 in Bradley, AK.
Birth: AF83-002949 indicates 1862 in Cleveland, AK. However, Cleveland County was formed from Bradley county in 1873.
In a letter to Mae Leggitt in 1963, Naomi Hussey said "Your own great-grandfather Capps was an accomplished violinist, called fiddler in the time and place in which he lived, and your grandmother Hussey played the organ by ear in here younger years. Both of them without musical education."
In 1992, Barbara Trammell provided many of the Leggitt family members a photograph of Lucy taken in the very early 1900s. I have a copy.