TINER, Bennett - Bennett Tiner died Friday night July 14th at his home 2 1/2 miles east of Brightwater. The funeral services were conducted Sunday by Elder W.J. Taylor and he was buried in the Liberty cemetery. Mr. Tiner was the father of Mrs. James Pollock of this city and as he was one of the oldest settlers in this part of the country he had a large circle of friends and was well liked by those who knew him. The following obituary was written by Geo. Williams: Uncle Bennett Tiner was born in Washington Co., Ark., near Cane Hill, Jan. 9, 1826. His father moved to Arkansas river and when Bennett was five years old settled on Little Sugar Creek, 2 1/2 miles east of Brightwater. On this farm Uncle Bennett was raised and lived continuously for 80 years. He was probably the oldest real Arkansas in the state. On March 3, 1853 he was married to Polly Mitchell and to this union was born thirteen children, eleven of whom are living: A.P. and J.T. Tiner of Garfield; J.L. Tiner, and employee of the Frisco railroad; Mrs. Lucinda Ruddick, Mrs. Nannie Parker, Miss Edna Tiner of Garfield; Mrs. Dea Lawrence of Seward, Kan.; Mrs. Polly Pollock of Rogers; Mrs. Bettie Roberts of Mountain,Mo.; W.C. Tiner of Artesia, Calif. and S.B. Tiner of Wichita, Kan. In 1881 Uncle Bennett professed a hope in Christ and joined the Freewill Baptist church with which body he lived a faithful and devoted Christian life until death called him July 14th, 1911, having reached the ripe old age of 85 years, 6 months and 5 days. He was a man with no veneering on his life but lived the simple, plain country life that was in that character of the early settlers of our state. His contribution to the moral frame of not only his own neighborhood but to the country at large was of the very highest type. The state has lost a great pioneer, the children an honorable, attentive father. But they have a life left to them worth patterning from. [Rogers Democrat - Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas - July 20, 1911]

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