Son of Benjamin & Delilah (Cheshire) Slane, husband of Sarah Henry, m. Jan 6, 1853.
Thanks to FAG Contributor Ethel (48996541) • [email protected] for the following:
Source: Wyoming Post Herald, July 4, 1895
Died – At his residence in Wyoming, Ill., on Tuesday morning, July 9, 1895, Benjamin F. Slane, aged 70 years, 2 months and 10 days.
Benjamin Franklin Slane was born born at Cold Stream, Hampshire County, West Virginia, on the 29th day of April 1825; left there with his father’s family in 1830 and moved westward to Ohio, where they remained about a year and then journeyed to Illinois, arriving at “Fort Clark”, where the city of Peoria now stands, in the fall of 1831. Fort Clark was at that time a small Indian trading post, and many were the hardships and privations which those early pioneers, who blazed the way through the wilderness for the march of civilization, were called upon to endure. The Black Hawk war broke out the year following their arrival, and during its progress the Slane cabin was a sort of rendezvous for the Indian fighters of the settlement. Bullets were moulded there, and a small party was equipped under Capt. Stillman and sent out to do battle with Black Hawk’s braves. In the spring of 1833, the Slane family ventured away from the settlement into Richwoods and two years later to Kickapoo, where after hard labor they made a clearing in the forest and built a home along the narrow yet fertile bottoms of Kickapoo Creek. In 1840 they moved to Princeville, where in 1845 the subject of this sketch engaged n the business of burning kilns of lime, which he followed nine years, until he was able to buy a farm. He continued at farming until 1891, when having acquired a competency, he purchased a pleasant home in Wyoming and moved here with his family to pass his declining years in ease and quietude.
He was united in marriage at Princeville, January 6th, 1853, to Miss Sarah Henry, who with the family of six children survives him. The children are: Oliver C., of Peoria; Edgar P., of Princeville, Mrs. Elgie Ralston of Chicago; Odillon B., Ida and Mina at home.
Deceased was possessed of a robust physique, and during his long and busy life scarcely knew what it was to be sick until the appearance of his fatal ailment – dropsy and heart trouble – which grew out of an attack of lagrippe three years ago. He took to his bed June 16th, and from that time continued to fail gradually until the morning of Tuesday, the 8th inst., when at the hour of 7:35, the pulse stopped, as quietly and gently as a clock that had run down, and the spirit of the patient sufferer took its flight to the land of ceaseless sunshine, beyond the lifted veil, where “the golden years linger like on eternal June”.
Deceased was a man of strong individuality; he had a high sense of honor and integrity and despised sham and hypocrisy in whatever form. He was a good citizen, a true friend, a kind husband and father and though not a member of any church or society was a contributor to their support, and gave assurance in his last illness that he was “leaning on Unseen Hand.”
Brief funeral services were held at the home this (Thursday) morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. WH Jordan of Brimfield, officiating and Rev. Walters assisting, after which the remains were conveyed to Princeville Cemetery for interment.
Thanks to FAG Contributor Ethel (48996541) • [email protected] for the following:
Source: Wyoming Post Herald, July 4, 1895
Died – At his residence in Wyoming, Ill., on Tuesday morning, July 9, 1895, Benjamin F. Slane, aged 70 years, 2 months and 10 days.
Benjamin Franklin Slane was born born at Cold Stream, Hampshire County, West Virginia, on the 29th day of April 1825; left there with his father’s family in 1830 and moved westward to Ohio, where they remained about a year and then journeyed to Illinois, arriving at “Fort Clark”, where the city of Peoria now stands, in the fall of 1831. Fort Clark was at that time a small Indian trading post, and many were the hardships and privations which those early pioneers, who blazed the way through the wilderness for the march of civilization, were called upon to endure. The Black Hawk war broke out the year following their arrival, and during its progress the Slane cabin was a sort of rendezvous for the Indian fighters of the settlement. Bullets were moulded there, and a small party was equipped under Capt. Stillman and sent out to do battle with Black Hawk’s braves. In the spring of 1833, the Slane family ventured away from the settlement into Richwoods and two years later to Kickapoo, where after hard labor they made a clearing in the forest and built a home along the narrow yet fertile bottoms of Kickapoo Creek. In 1840 they moved to Princeville, where in 1845 the subject of this sketch engaged n the business of burning kilns of lime, which he followed nine years, until he was able to buy a farm. He continued at farming until 1891, when having acquired a competency, he purchased a pleasant home in Wyoming and moved here with his family to pass his declining years in ease and quietude.
He was united in marriage at Princeville, January 6th, 1853, to Miss Sarah Henry, who with the family of six children survives him. The children are: Oliver C., of Peoria; Edgar P., of Princeville, Mrs. Elgie Ralston of Chicago; Odillon B., Ida and Mina at home.
Deceased was possessed of a robust physique, and during his long and busy life scarcely knew what it was to be sick until the appearance of his fatal ailment – dropsy and heart trouble – which grew out of an attack of lagrippe three years ago. He took to his bed June 16th, and from that time continued to fail gradually until the morning of Tuesday, the 8th inst., when at the hour of 7:35, the pulse stopped, as quietly and gently as a clock that had run down, and the spirit of the patient sufferer took its flight to the land of ceaseless sunshine, beyond the lifted veil, where “the golden years linger like on eternal June”.
Deceased was a man of strong individuality; he had a high sense of honor and integrity and despised sham and hypocrisy in whatever form. He was a good citizen, a true friend, a kind husband and father and though not a member of any church or society was a contributor to their support, and gave assurance in his last illness that he was “leaning on Unseen Hand.”
Brief funeral services were held at the home this (Thursday) morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. WH Jordan of Brimfield, officiating and Rev. Walters assisting, after which the remains were conveyed to Princeville Cemetery for interment.
Son of Benjamin & Delilah (Cheshire) Slane, husband of Sarah Henry, m. Jan 6, 1853.
Thanks to FAG Contributor Ethel (48996541) • [email protected] for the following:
Source: Wyoming Post Herald, July 4, 1895
Died – At his residence in Wyoming, Ill., on Tuesday morning, July 9, 1895, Benjamin F. Slane, aged 70 years, 2 months and 10 days.
Benjamin Franklin Slane was born born at Cold Stream, Hampshire County, West Virginia, on the 29th day of April 1825; left there with his father’s family in 1830 and moved westward to Ohio, where they remained about a year and then journeyed to Illinois, arriving at “Fort Clark”, where the city of Peoria now stands, in the fall of 1831. Fort Clark was at that time a small Indian trading post, and many were the hardships and privations which those early pioneers, who blazed the way through the wilderness for the march of civilization, were called upon to endure. The Black Hawk war broke out the year following their arrival, and during its progress the Slane cabin was a sort of rendezvous for the Indian fighters of the settlement. Bullets were moulded there, and a small party was equipped under Capt. Stillman and sent out to do battle with Black Hawk’s braves. In the spring of 1833, the Slane family ventured away from the settlement into Richwoods and two years later to Kickapoo, where after hard labor they made a clearing in the forest and built a home along the narrow yet fertile bottoms of Kickapoo Creek. In 1840 they moved to Princeville, where in 1845 the subject of this sketch engaged n the business of burning kilns of lime, which he followed nine years, until he was able to buy a farm. He continued at farming until 1891, when having acquired a competency, he purchased a pleasant home in Wyoming and moved here with his family to pass his declining years in ease and quietude.
He was united in marriage at Princeville, January 6th, 1853, to Miss Sarah Henry, who with the family of six children survives him. The children are: Oliver C., of Peoria; Edgar P., of Princeville, Mrs. Elgie Ralston of Chicago; Odillon B., Ida and Mina at home.
Deceased was possessed of a robust physique, and during his long and busy life scarcely knew what it was to be sick until the appearance of his fatal ailment – dropsy and heart trouble – which grew out of an attack of lagrippe three years ago. He took to his bed June 16th, and from that time continued to fail gradually until the morning of Tuesday, the 8th inst., when at the hour of 7:35, the pulse stopped, as quietly and gently as a clock that had run down, and the spirit of the patient sufferer took its flight to the land of ceaseless sunshine, beyond the lifted veil, where “the golden years linger like on eternal June”.
Deceased was a man of strong individuality; he had a high sense of honor and integrity and despised sham and hypocrisy in whatever form. He was a good citizen, a true friend, a kind husband and father and though not a member of any church or society was a contributor to their support, and gave assurance in his last illness that he was “leaning on Unseen Hand.”
Brief funeral services were held at the home this (Thursday) morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. WH Jordan of Brimfield, officiating and Rev. Walters assisting, after which the remains were conveyed to Princeville Cemetery for interment.
Thanks to FAG Contributor Ethel (48996541) • [email protected] for the following:
Source: Wyoming Post Herald, July 4, 1895
Died – At his residence in Wyoming, Ill., on Tuesday morning, July 9, 1895, Benjamin F. Slane, aged 70 years, 2 months and 10 days.
Benjamin Franklin Slane was born born at Cold Stream, Hampshire County, West Virginia, on the 29th day of April 1825; left there with his father’s family in 1830 and moved westward to Ohio, where they remained about a year and then journeyed to Illinois, arriving at “Fort Clark”, where the city of Peoria now stands, in the fall of 1831. Fort Clark was at that time a small Indian trading post, and many were the hardships and privations which those early pioneers, who blazed the way through the wilderness for the march of civilization, were called upon to endure. The Black Hawk war broke out the year following their arrival, and during its progress the Slane cabin was a sort of rendezvous for the Indian fighters of the settlement. Bullets were moulded there, and a small party was equipped under Capt. Stillman and sent out to do battle with Black Hawk’s braves. In the spring of 1833, the Slane family ventured away from the settlement into Richwoods and two years later to Kickapoo, where after hard labor they made a clearing in the forest and built a home along the narrow yet fertile bottoms of Kickapoo Creek. In 1840 they moved to Princeville, where in 1845 the subject of this sketch engaged n the business of burning kilns of lime, which he followed nine years, until he was able to buy a farm. He continued at farming until 1891, when having acquired a competency, he purchased a pleasant home in Wyoming and moved here with his family to pass his declining years in ease and quietude.
He was united in marriage at Princeville, January 6th, 1853, to Miss Sarah Henry, who with the family of six children survives him. The children are: Oliver C., of Peoria; Edgar P., of Princeville, Mrs. Elgie Ralston of Chicago; Odillon B., Ida and Mina at home.
Deceased was possessed of a robust physique, and during his long and busy life scarcely knew what it was to be sick until the appearance of his fatal ailment – dropsy and heart trouble – which grew out of an attack of lagrippe three years ago. He took to his bed June 16th, and from that time continued to fail gradually until the morning of Tuesday, the 8th inst., when at the hour of 7:35, the pulse stopped, as quietly and gently as a clock that had run down, and the spirit of the patient sufferer took its flight to the land of ceaseless sunshine, beyond the lifted veil, where “the golden years linger like on eternal June”.
Deceased was a man of strong individuality; he had a high sense of honor and integrity and despised sham and hypocrisy in whatever form. He was a good citizen, a true friend, a kind husband and father and though not a member of any church or society was a contributor to their support, and gave assurance in his last illness that he was “leaning on Unseen Hand.”
Brief funeral services were held at the home this (Thursday) morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. WH Jordan of Brimfield, officiating and Rev. Walters assisting, after which the remains were conveyed to Princeville Cemetery for interment.
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