This is a link to a 23 Feb 2012 article in the Reading, Pennsylvania newspaper about Dr. George DeBenneville
I suspect that probably in the next 3-9 months that the article will no longer be gone.
I even suggest you look at the comments. (or at least how they were when i wrote the recommendation)
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=366772
His connection with southern Universalism is two
1) his friendship with Ellahanan Winchester (admittedly after EW had left the south)
2) his connection with the German Baptist universalist community near him, that did indeed
move south to the Carolinas and then west and midwest.