"The Knightstown (IN) Banner, Friday, February 14, 1908
. . .Enos Benbow, who died late Tuesday evening aged about 70 years at the home of his son-in-law, Bert Byrket, after an illness of four weeks from heart trouble. Mr. Benbow leaves [a] wife and four daughters. Funeral occurred yesterday morning from the Friends' church. Burial at Glencove."
"The Knightstown (IN) Banner, Friday, March 13, 1908
IN MEMORY OF ENOS BENBOW
'There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his Cycle keen
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.'
Enos Benbow, eldest son of Catherine Elliott and Aaron Benbow, was born in Marion, Grant County, Ind., seventh month, eighteenth day, 1838. He was the eldest of a family of twelve children, consisting of twelve children, consisting of ten girls and two boys. Eight sisters survive.
In his young manhood he made an earnest effort to secure an education and after completing the course in the public schools he attended what was then known as Marion College.
On the fifth of the ninth month, 1861, he was united in marriage to Mary, daughter of Dillon and Elizabeth Modlin, and they settled near Marion. Twenty-eight years ago they came to Henry county, where they have since lived.
To this union five children were born--four daughters and one son. The four daughters, Emma Palmer, of Wabash; Ella Pickering, of near Kennard; and Josie Walls and Dossie Byrket, of this city, and the widow, survive. Also eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The son, a bright and promising lad, passed from this life eighth month, twenty-third, 1882, at the age of twelve years. The death of this only son was a blow from which the father never fully recovered.
Enos Benbow was a birthright member of the Friends' church, and when about thirty years of age he was converted and lived a consistent Christian life for the remainder of his days. In his home he was a tender and affectionate husband and father, always carefully instructing his children in the Bible and Sunday morning always found him with his family in the house of the Lord. He was active in church work and for many years he was superintendent or teacher in the Sunday school.
For the past two years declining health and advancing age had made it impossible for him to attend the church services, but his faith in God never faltered.
His last sickness and intense suffering was borne with the cheerful, patience so characteristic of his life, and often was he heard to break out in songs of triumph and upon one occasion his voice rose clear and strong in the following words of an old hymn--
'I'll suffer out my three score years,
Till my deliverer comes
To wipe away his servant's tears,
And take his exile home.'
On the eleventh of the second month, 1908, the earthly period of the life of Enos Benbow was ended and his patient spirit passed into the great and peaceful beyond.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown,
They shine for evermore.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread,
And bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them 'dead.'
And ever near us, though, unseen,
The dear immortal spirit's tread;
For all the boundless universe,
Is life--there is no death!"
. . .Enos Benbow, who died late Tuesday evening aged about 70 years at the home of his son-in-law, Bert Byrket, after an illness of four weeks from heart trouble. Mr. Benbow leaves [a] wife and four daughters. Funeral occurred yesterday morning from the Friends' church. Burial at Glencove."
"The Knightstown (IN) Banner, Friday, March 13, 1908
IN MEMORY OF ENOS BENBOW
'There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his Cycle keen
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.'
Enos Benbow, eldest son of Catherine Elliott and Aaron Benbow, was born in Marion, Grant County, Ind., seventh month, eighteenth day, 1838. He was the eldest of a family of twelve children, consisting of twelve children, consisting of ten girls and two boys. Eight sisters survive.
In his young manhood he made an earnest effort to secure an education and after completing the course in the public schools he attended what was then known as Marion College.
On the fifth of the ninth month, 1861, he was united in marriage to Mary, daughter of Dillon and Elizabeth Modlin, and they settled near Marion. Twenty-eight years ago they came to Henry county, where they have since lived.
To this union five children were born--four daughters and one son. The four daughters, Emma Palmer, of Wabash; Ella Pickering, of near Kennard; and Josie Walls and Dossie Byrket, of this city, and the widow, survive. Also eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The son, a bright and promising lad, passed from this life eighth month, twenty-third, 1882, at the age of twelve years. The death of this only son was a blow from which the father never fully recovered.
Enos Benbow was a birthright member of the Friends' church, and when about thirty years of age he was converted and lived a consistent Christian life for the remainder of his days. In his home he was a tender and affectionate husband and father, always carefully instructing his children in the Bible and Sunday morning always found him with his family in the house of the Lord. He was active in church work and for many years he was superintendent or teacher in the Sunday school.
For the past two years declining health and advancing age had made it impossible for him to attend the church services, but his faith in God never faltered.
His last sickness and intense suffering was borne with the cheerful, patience so characteristic of his life, and often was he heard to break out in songs of triumph and upon one occasion his voice rose clear and strong in the following words of an old hymn--
'I'll suffer out my three score years,
Till my deliverer comes
To wipe away his servant's tears,
And take his exile home.'
On the eleventh of the second month, 1908, the earthly period of the life of Enos Benbow was ended and his patient spirit passed into the great and peaceful beyond.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown,
They shine for evermore.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread,
And bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them 'dead.'
And ever near us, though, unseen,
The dear immortal spirit's tread;
For all the boundless universe,
Is life--there is no death!"
"The Knightstown (IN) Banner, Friday, February 14, 1908
. . .Enos Benbow, who died late Tuesday evening aged about 70 years at the home of his son-in-law, Bert Byrket, after an illness of four weeks from heart trouble. Mr. Benbow leaves [a] wife and four daughters. Funeral occurred yesterday morning from the Friends' church. Burial at Glencove."
"The Knightstown (IN) Banner, Friday, March 13, 1908
IN MEMORY OF ENOS BENBOW
'There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his Cycle keen
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.'
Enos Benbow, eldest son of Catherine Elliott and Aaron Benbow, was born in Marion, Grant County, Ind., seventh month, eighteenth day, 1838. He was the eldest of a family of twelve children, consisting of twelve children, consisting of ten girls and two boys. Eight sisters survive.
In his young manhood he made an earnest effort to secure an education and after completing the course in the public schools he attended what was then known as Marion College.
On the fifth of the ninth month, 1861, he was united in marriage to Mary, daughter of Dillon and Elizabeth Modlin, and they settled near Marion. Twenty-eight years ago they came to Henry county, where they have since lived.
To this union five children were born--four daughters and one son. The four daughters, Emma Palmer, of Wabash; Ella Pickering, of near Kennard; and Josie Walls and Dossie Byrket, of this city, and the widow, survive. Also eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The son, a bright and promising lad, passed from this life eighth month, twenty-third, 1882, at the age of twelve years. The death of this only son was a blow from which the father never fully recovered.
Enos Benbow was a birthright member of the Friends' church, and when about thirty years of age he was converted and lived a consistent Christian life for the remainder of his days. In his home he was a tender and affectionate husband and father, always carefully instructing his children in the Bible and Sunday morning always found him with his family in the house of the Lord. He was active in church work and for many years he was superintendent or teacher in the Sunday school.
For the past two years declining health and advancing age had made it impossible for him to attend the church services, but his faith in God never faltered.
His last sickness and intense suffering was borne with the cheerful, patience so characteristic of his life, and often was he heard to break out in songs of triumph and upon one occasion his voice rose clear and strong in the following words of an old hymn--
'I'll suffer out my three score years,
Till my deliverer comes
To wipe away his servant's tears,
And take his exile home.'
On the eleventh of the second month, 1908, the earthly period of the life of Enos Benbow was ended and his patient spirit passed into the great and peaceful beyond.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown,
They shine for evermore.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread,
And bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them 'dead.'
And ever near us, though, unseen,
The dear immortal spirit's tread;
For all the boundless universe,
Is life--there is no death!"
. . .Enos Benbow, who died late Tuesday evening aged about 70 years at the home of his son-in-law, Bert Byrket, after an illness of four weeks from heart trouble. Mr. Benbow leaves [a] wife and four daughters. Funeral occurred yesterday morning from the Friends' church. Burial at Glencove."
"The Knightstown (IN) Banner, Friday, March 13, 1908
IN MEMORY OF ENOS BENBOW
'There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his Cycle keen
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.'
Enos Benbow, eldest son of Catherine Elliott and Aaron Benbow, was born in Marion, Grant County, Ind., seventh month, eighteenth day, 1838. He was the eldest of a family of twelve children, consisting of twelve children, consisting of ten girls and two boys. Eight sisters survive.
In his young manhood he made an earnest effort to secure an education and after completing the course in the public schools he attended what was then known as Marion College.
On the fifth of the ninth month, 1861, he was united in marriage to Mary, daughter of Dillon and Elizabeth Modlin, and they settled near Marion. Twenty-eight years ago they came to Henry county, where they have since lived.
To this union five children were born--four daughters and one son. The four daughters, Emma Palmer, of Wabash; Ella Pickering, of near Kennard; and Josie Walls and Dossie Byrket, of this city, and the widow, survive. Also eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The son, a bright and promising lad, passed from this life eighth month, twenty-third, 1882, at the age of twelve years. The death of this only son was a blow from which the father never fully recovered.
Enos Benbow was a birthright member of the Friends' church, and when about thirty years of age he was converted and lived a consistent Christian life for the remainder of his days. In his home he was a tender and affectionate husband and father, always carefully instructing his children in the Bible and Sunday morning always found him with his family in the house of the Lord. He was active in church work and for many years he was superintendent or teacher in the Sunday school.
For the past two years declining health and advancing age had made it impossible for him to attend the church services, but his faith in God never faltered.
His last sickness and intense suffering was borne with the cheerful, patience so characteristic of his life, and often was he heard to break out in songs of triumph and upon one occasion his voice rose clear and strong in the following words of an old hymn--
'I'll suffer out my three score years,
Till my deliverer comes
To wipe away his servant's tears,
And take his exile home.'
On the eleventh of the second month, 1908, the earthly period of the life of Enos Benbow was ended and his patient spirit passed into the great and peaceful beyond.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown,
They shine for evermore.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread,
And bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them 'dead.'
And ever near us, though, unseen,
The dear immortal spirit's tread;
For all the boundless universe,
Is life--there is no death!"
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