It was the excitement and mystery of J.B. Toney, Sr.'s story of the family leaving South Carolina, shortly after buring his father in Aiken, South Carolina, and arriving in Rapides Parish, Louisiana with nothing but the homespun clothing they wore. At the time, my family's known history began with J. B. Toney, Sr. and Katherine Estelle Voorhies.
J.B. Toney died of pancreatic cancer at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. He knew he was sick, possibly had be diagnosed with cancer, and had gone to New Orleans to see what could be done as this was the foremost hospital in Louisiana at this time. He died three days after he was operated on and closed back up, with the declaration that nothing further could be done. The family did not have the money to bring his body back from New Orleans, Louisiana and resorted to borrowing money from a Kinsman by marriage, Oliver Peart.
James Benjamin Toney, Sr. and his wife Katherine Estelle Voorhies Toney are buried at Pine Grove Cemetery, Ruby, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
Obituary- taken from the Alexandria Daily Town Talk
Toney- At Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Feb. 20, 1915 at 10;30 P.M., James Benjamin Toney died, aged fifty-eight years. J. B. Toney was an old and valuable citizen of Rapides parish.
Born in Barnwell county, South Carolina, Jan. 22, 1857, he came to this parish at fifteen years of age and settled in the Poland community where he has lived all these long years, a worthy and respected citizen.
His first wife was Mary Taylor, by whom he had two children, both dead and she dying in 1882, in 1884 he was married to Miss Katherine E. Voorhies, by whom he had nine children, five living.
He was a member of the Baptist Church, also a member of the Woodmen of the World.
The parish has lost a good man, the Poland community has lost a quiet, peaceable citizen, and his family a faithful husband and a loving, devoted father.
His form was laid to rest in the quiet Pine Grove cemetery, attended by his faithful comrades of the Woodmen and by a very large circle of neighbors and friends.
A Friend.
James Benjamin Toney Sr. was born in 1857. James Benjamin Toney Sr. was born on 22. Jan. 1857 at Barnwell County, South Carolina. He was the son of
George Toney and
Elizabeth Johnson. James Benjamin Toney Sr. married
Katherine Estelle Voorhies, daughter of
Daniel Gordon Voorhies and
Mary Higgins, on 8. Apr. 1884 at Rapides Parish, Louisiana. James Benjamin Toney Sr. died on 21. Feb. 1915 at New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, at age 58.

He was buried at Pinegrove Cemetery, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.