Watertown, Jefferson Co. NY
The New York reformer
October 4, 1864, pg. 1
BENEDICT--At Kenosha, Wisconsin, Stephen Benedict, formerly of Rutland, N.Y., aged 85 years.
His remains were removed to Rutland for interment.
Mr. Benedict was born in the town of South Salem, (now Lewisboro) Westchester county. At the age of 16 he removed to Paterson (then Dutchess, now of Putnam county). In 1807 he removed to the town of Rutland, with his wife and two children. In 1824 he united himself to the Congregational church of that place by profession of faith, of which he has always been an esteemed and consistent member. As a father he was devoted to the welfare, moral and spiritual, especially, of his children, and reaped the inexpressibly precious reward of his fidelity and prayers, in the gathering of his whole family into the church of Christ, and in seeing an only son consecrated to the holy ministry.
As a neighbor he was just, kind and peaceful; ever ready to do and to contribute according to his ability for the promotion of every enterprise, religious and educational, that tended to advance the well being of the community. As a citizen he always gave his influence to the cause of justice, liberty and humanity.
In 1851 he lost the amiable and noble companion of his days: a woman whose praise is in the church of her fellowship and whose high worth commanded the esteem and affection of all who knew her. From that period he felt most forcibly that he was "but a pilgrim and sojourner here, as his fathers were," and longingly yet patiently awaited the call from earth and the reunion above. It has come. He has entered the gates of the New Jerusalem, where he shall go no more out forever.
The New York reformer
October 4, 1864, pg. 1
BENEDICT--At Kenosha, Wisconsin, Stephen Benedict, formerly of Rutland, N.Y., aged 85 years.
His remains were removed to Rutland for interment.
Mr. Benedict was born in the town of South Salem, (now Lewisboro) Westchester county. At the age of 16 he removed to Paterson (then Dutchess, now of Putnam county). In 1807 he removed to the town of Rutland, with his wife and two children. In 1824 he united himself to the Congregational church of that place by profession of faith, of which he has always been an esteemed and consistent member. As a father he was devoted to the welfare, moral and spiritual, especially, of his children, and reaped the inexpressibly precious reward of his fidelity and prayers, in the gathering of his whole family into the church of Christ, and in seeing an only son consecrated to the holy ministry.
As a neighbor he was just, kind and peaceful; ever ready to do and to contribute according to his ability for the promotion of every enterprise, religious and educational, that tended to advance the well being of the community. As a citizen he always gave his influence to the cause of justice, liberty and humanity.
In 1851 he lost the amiable and noble companion of his days: a woman whose praise is in the church of her fellowship and whose high worth commanded the esteem and affection of all who knew her. From that period he felt most forcibly that he was "but a pilgrim and sojourner here, as his fathers were," and longingly yet patiently awaited the call from earth and the reunion above. It has come. He has entered the gates of the New Jerusalem, where he shall go no more out forever.
Watertown, Jefferson Co. NY
The New York reformer
October 4, 1864, pg. 1
BENEDICT--At Kenosha, Wisconsin, Stephen Benedict, formerly of Rutland, N.Y., aged 85 years.
His remains were removed to Rutland for interment.
Mr. Benedict was born in the town of South Salem, (now Lewisboro) Westchester county. At the age of 16 he removed to Paterson (then Dutchess, now of Putnam county). In 1807 he removed to the town of Rutland, with his wife and two children. In 1824 he united himself to the Congregational church of that place by profession of faith, of which he has always been an esteemed and consistent member. As a father he was devoted to the welfare, moral and spiritual, especially, of his children, and reaped the inexpressibly precious reward of his fidelity and prayers, in the gathering of his whole family into the church of Christ, and in seeing an only son consecrated to the holy ministry.
As a neighbor he was just, kind and peaceful; ever ready to do and to contribute according to his ability for the promotion of every enterprise, religious and educational, that tended to advance the well being of the community. As a citizen he always gave his influence to the cause of justice, liberty and humanity.
In 1851 he lost the amiable and noble companion of his days: a woman whose praise is in the church of her fellowship and whose high worth commanded the esteem and affection of all who knew her. From that period he felt most forcibly that he was "but a pilgrim and sojourner here, as his fathers were," and longingly yet patiently awaited the call from earth and the reunion above. It has come. He has entered the gates of the New Jerusalem, where he shall go no more out forever.
The New York reformer
October 4, 1864, pg. 1
BENEDICT--At Kenosha, Wisconsin, Stephen Benedict, formerly of Rutland, N.Y., aged 85 years.
His remains were removed to Rutland for interment.
Mr. Benedict was born in the town of South Salem, (now Lewisboro) Westchester county. At the age of 16 he removed to Paterson (then Dutchess, now of Putnam county). In 1807 he removed to the town of Rutland, with his wife and two children. In 1824 he united himself to the Congregational church of that place by profession of faith, of which he has always been an esteemed and consistent member. As a father he was devoted to the welfare, moral and spiritual, especially, of his children, and reaped the inexpressibly precious reward of his fidelity and prayers, in the gathering of his whole family into the church of Christ, and in seeing an only son consecrated to the holy ministry.
As a neighbor he was just, kind and peaceful; ever ready to do and to contribute according to his ability for the promotion of every enterprise, religious and educational, that tended to advance the well being of the community. As a citizen he always gave his influence to the cause of justice, liberty and humanity.
In 1851 he lost the amiable and noble companion of his days: a woman whose praise is in the church of her fellowship and whose high worth commanded the esteem and affection of all who knew her. From that period he felt most forcibly that he was "but a pilgrim and sojourner here, as his fathers were," and longingly yet patiently awaited the call from earth and the reunion above. It has come. He has entered the gates of the New Jerusalem, where he shall go no more out forever.
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