Sure enough, Henry Benz was enumerated in La Crosse with his second wife, Nettie, son Clarence, and a Byron Benz who is also listed as his son, but is not in fact his son. I think I got a rundown on some of the other Benz relatives, but don't remember who this one is. The birthplace of Henry's parents is given as Illinois though both Mary Hoffman and Ambrose Benz were born in Switzerland.
Here is the page with the Benz family down at number 183:
I am looking for information about my grandmother's half sister's family. She married a Henry Benz and had one son named Clarence, who had three daughters. She died in 1900 in Chicago and her body was sent back to Savannah, Illinois. Her son was quite young and her husband remarried. Her maiden name was Mary Alice Fopper, and was born in Wisconsin to parents from Switzerland.
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