Benjamin Bryant (died 1884)

BRYANT

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 9/15/2009 at 16:11:41

Sabula Gazette, Sabula, Jackson County, Iowa, May 17, 1884, reprinted in the Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, May 22, 1884.

DIED-

Mr. Benjamin Bryant

At his late residence in Iowa Township, on Friday, May 9th, of senile gangrene, Mr. Benjamin Bryant, in the 59th year of his age.

Benjamin Bryant was born in Sommersetshire, England, January 29th, 1826. He came to America in 1850 and in the same year he settled upon the farm where he died. In 1854 he was married to Miss Lucy Gibson who survives him. He did not expect to recover and often told his attendants that he should certainly die. He suffered but little pain during the last two weeks of the illness of his life, and death came to him like sleep to a tired child. Though poor when he first reached Jackson County, some 34 years ago, Mr. Bryant was at the time of his death, the owner of a large and valuable farm, upon which he resided, and which is thoroughly improved and stocked-eloquently testifying to the industry and frugality of its late owner.