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Benton, Nellie E. died 1862

BENTON

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 11/1/2024 at 15:40:52

DIED - On Saturday, 5th Inst., Nellie E. Benton, daughter of W.A. and Anna M. Benton, aged three years, ten months and 25 days.

We remember Nelie as a beautiful, bright-eyed, healthy, affectionate child, intelligent beyond her years, and apparently destined long to mae glad the hearts of her parents. Her good constitution, the skill of an excellent physician, the tender care of parental hearts, all, however, failed to baffle the dreaded Diptheria, which now numbers Nellie among its choicest victims.

~Weekly North Iowa Times, Wednesday, April 2, 1862; pg 2

Notes:
-The 1860 US census, Mendon twp. enumerated W.A. Benton, age 30, Gardner, born NY; Marian, age 29, born NY and Nellie, age 2, born Iowa.
-Nellie is possibly buried in Pleasant Grove cemetery, where her parents, Willard & Anna M. and brother Elmer are all buried. If so, a gravestone for little Nellie is not extant.


 

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