The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 18, No 24, p 95, June 12, 1862.

In Janesville, Wis., May 16, 1862, at the residence of her husband, Mrs. Deborah L. Bennett, wife of Daniel Bennett, aged 70 years, 1 month, and 1 day. Sister Bennett was born in the town of Groton, Conn., April 15, 1792. She was converted to Christ at the age of seventeen, and united with the Free Communion Baptist Church of Plainfield, N. Y. In 1806, she removed, with her husband, to Jefferson Co., N. Y., and in 1849 they embraced the Bible Sabbath, and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Hounsfield. In 1851, they removed to Wisconsin, and united with the Walworth Church, and on removing to Janesville, in 1854, united with the Milton Church, where she remained a living member until called to her rest, leaving a stricken husband and nine children, to mourn their great loss. From her obituary notice in the Janesville Gazette we quote the following: "She was a woman of excellent sense and great energy, possessing a disposition eminently social, and a heart overflowing with Christian kindness and charity toward her fellow creatures. She was a most firm believer in the doctrines of the sacred Scriptures, adopting their precepts as her guide, and finding her greatest happiness in their constant practice. Her disease was dropsy, from which she has suffered greatly for the last two years, and for the last two weeks she had to endure the severest pain; but she bore her sufferings with Christian fortitude, saying to her children by whom she was surrounded, 'I feel to thank God for every pain. They are his messengers sent to bring me home.' Her trust in her divine Master sustained her to the very last. She spoke of the great change that she knew was surely and rapidly approaching, with calmness and cheerfulness, like one who was soon to remove to a country possessing milder skies, and many abounding and permanent sources of enjoyment, illustrating most beautifully the language of the Saviour in whom she believed: 'I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.' Funeral service was held in the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Milton. Text selected by herself from Psa. 28: 4.