Indicated as buried in Oakridge Cemetary in "Trailways to Albany 2000" by Helen M. Hansen, M & D Printing, Henry, IL, 1999

"Mrs. Elizabeth A. (Bennett) Slocumb was born March 23, 1830 in Cazenovia, Madison Co NY. She is the oldest daughter of Lyman and Susan E. (Latham) Bennett. Her father was born Nov. 8, 1802, in Ludlow, Hampden Co., Mass., of English parentage. He went to Cazenovia, where he was married Oct. 31, 1827. Susan Elizabeth Latham who became his wife, wsa born in Norwich, Conn., in September 1808, and while yet young went to Madison County with her aunts. In the fall of 1835 the family set out for Whiteside County, traveling in the primitive method then in vogue. They had an ox team as a motive power and went to Buffalo, where they embarked on a steamboat for Detroit, their team coming across the lakes by the same boat; and it was again brought into requisition in the journey from the City of the Straits to Whiteside County. The family brought all their personal possessions, and they camped and cooked their food while on the way to their destination.

Mr. Bennett entered a claim on the north bank of Rock River, opposie Portland, where he built a log cabin, and resided about four years. At the end of that time Mr. Bennett went to what is now the township of Newton. He entered a claim, built a log dwelling, and fenced and otherwise improved 40 acres of land, on which he was a resident until 1859, the year in which he located in Albany Township.

A few years later he moved to the village of Albany which was his home until his death, which transpired March 3, 1884. His wife died April 9, 1873. Their children included two sons and eight daughters, and all but one lived to reach maturity; Elizabeth was married to C.H. Slocumb, Oct. 23, 1848; Helen M. is the wife of David C.Hanks, and lives in Albany; Harriet A. is the wife of A.t. Jenks, of Stillwater, Minn.; Lewis D. is a resident of Lyons, Iowa; Alice married J.F. Hopper, and is a resident of Albany; Irene is the wife of Charles Paddock and lives at Albany; Emily Jane and Sophronia are deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Slocumb now living are; Lyman C., Samuel Chester, Sylvester B., Grandus H., Robert D. and Mabel Azelma; four children are not living."

From "Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois", by Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1883