DIED.
BENNETT. At Carlisle, Ohio, on Christmas morning, Mrs. Josephine, wife
of Mr. Hampton Bennett, in the 34th year of her age.
Funeral services at the Christian Church on last Sabbath.
Mrs. B. was very ill of typhoid fever for some six weeks and a week ago her friends had hope of her recovery, but a relapse took place and the Angle of Death hovered over her until her spirit took its flight to a better world.
She was a most estimable and highly cultivated lady, a very successful educator whose loss in the prime of life is greatly deplored by our whole community. We deeply sympathies with her bereaved husband and two little daughters at their loss.
The funeral services of Mrs. Bennet, held at the Christian Chapel, on last Sabbath, were peculiarly solemn and impressive. The immense audience which poured in through the incessant storm of rain to fill that large Chapel, was but a fit expression of the high esteem in which she was held by this entire community. While we have no disposition to write the biography of one so dearly loved in life, and so highly honored in death; we cannot say less than that in the death of our lamented sister: the community has lost one of its most respected citizens, the public one of its most faithful and efficient teachers, and humanity one of those firm, yet sweet and gentle spirits whose short visit to earth was but a continued and blessed mission of mercy to all with whom it came in contact. But if our community has met with a mournfully sad loss, what must be the painful sadness of that widowed mother and heart sorrowing of that most affectionate husband and those two little motherless girls. But in the midst of their deep grief it must be a consolation to them to know that they no only have the sympathy of this entire community but more and infinitely better, - what is to them a loss, is to child, wife and mother an eternal gain.
“Ah, ‘tis in heaven, where Christ has gone,
Our friends with angels dwell:
Where we may hope to meet again,
Those here we loved so well.”
Source:
from unnamed paper found in the scrap book held by Kim
Richard
[Josephine Bennett died 25 Dec 1875]
Kim Richard
16 January 2007
R. H. BENNETT.
Unexpected Death of One of Mason's Most Prominent Citizens.
Mason, September 13. - Last Sunday night at 12 o'clock R. H. Bennett, one of our oldest and most respected citizens, died at his home in east Mason. He was sick only a few days but his sufferings were intense. The deceased was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1819, but migrated to Ohio at an early age. He was married to Miss Catherine Bennett, who has borne him three children, two of whom survive him. Mr. Bennett by his integrity and energy has amassed quite a fortune. He has been engaged in public business for a number of years and will be greatly missed. He was unassuming in disposition and was always liberal and willing to aid a worthy cause. SInce 1863 he has been justice of the peace and notary public, always discharging his duties to the entire satisfaction of all those whose interests were in his hands. The funeral took place at this late residence on Wednesday, Rev. Rankin officiating. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community.
Source: The Lebanon [Ohio] Gazette, Thursday 15 Sep
1892
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society,
406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036-2349, (513) 695-1144 - [email protected]
Arne H Trelvik
20 April 2008
for
Melissa Watson Padilla
Resolution.
The Mason horse ranger company
has adopted the following:
Whereas, Robert H. Bennett, in the fullness of years, has been called
from our midst by the decree of providence, and
Whereas, Robert H. Bennett was a member of the Mason horse ranger company
and served the company in the capacity of secretary for thirty-six years;
Resolved, That in the death of Robert H. Bennett the Mason horse ranger
company loses a worthy member and efficient official;
Resolved, That Deerfield township loses a public sprinted citizen, an
able counsellor, and a generous and kind neighbor, who was always ready
to lend a helping hand to the need,
Resolved, That the member of the Mason horse ranger company tender to
the family of Robert H. Bennett the expression of sincere sympathy in
the hour of their bereavement;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the minutes of
this meeting and be published in the county papers
J. W. Bowyer.
J. M. Ralston,
J. M. Denman,
Committee.
Source: The Lebanon [Ohio] Gazette, Thursday 22 Sep
1892
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society,
406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036-2349, (513) 695-1144 - [email protected]
Arne H Trelvik
20 April 2008
for
Melissa Watson Padilla
In speaking of the death of Squire Bennett, of Mason, the Times-Star says: "He came to Cincinnati in 1840 with but twenty-five cents in his pocket. He had but a penny left after paying for supper and lodging. He went bravely forth the next day to find employment and his courage won. After years of labor, in which offices of honor and trust were bestowed upon him, he departs to an eternity of peace."
Source: The Lebanon [Ohio] Gazette, Thursday 29 Sep
1892
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society,
406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036-2349, (513) 695-1144 - [email protected]
Arne H Trelvik
20 April 2008
for
Melissa Watson Padilla