Sources used in compiling information about Benjamin Modlin, his wife Mary Chase Child and their descendents include: 1850 - 1880 Clay Co. Census, Cemetery Inscriptions of Clay Co. (Tanner), Clay Co. Marriages, Clay Co. Deaths, History of the Songer Family by Agnes Songer Rawlings,
The Bellows Genealogy (Peck, 1898), and Civil War pension and military records on Samuel A. Kennedy, Benjamin Modlin and James Modlin. In addition, research was obtained from Virginia Parmenter, Don Greenwalt, Loren Eade , Robert Longwell, Frederick Gain, Jeanne Doogs, and John Burdick.