ULM, Benjamin Robert 1874 - 1885

ULM

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:28

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, January 20, 1886
Page 3, Column 9

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

OBITUARY.

Bennie, youngest son of Edward and Lovinie ULM, sweetly fell asleep in the arms of Jesus on the morning of Nov. 18th, 1885. For nearly seven weeks he endured with saint like patience the keen pains of sciatic rheumatism, together with a strange and almost unheard of disease of the stomach and bowels, but his departure was peaceful and serene. Young as he was he trusted in Jesus. He told his sister not to weep for him and sweetly talked of heaven and those he expected to meet there. Precious Savior who hath enfolded the little lamb to thy bosom comfort the bereaved parents and send the Holy spirit to their hearts to draw them after thee, to teach them how to yield submission to thy will, to live lives of faith, of holy trust and willing obedience to all thy requirements, that when their earthly pilgrimage is ended, they may join their darling in the home of the pure and the blessed.

And yet another is taken home,
Another has gone to rest,
But, oh! how sad seems every place
Once by his presence blest.

And must we give him up?
O, Bennie, our darling son!
Help us, O Lord to say,
"Thy will, not mine, be done."

No more we hear his pleasant voice,
No more his cheerful face we'll see,
As home from school, or work, or play
He came with footsteps light and free.

Yes, he has gone to yonder sphere,
All pure and free from sin;
Sorrow, sickness, pain, or death,
Can no more come to him.

S. E. H.

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*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: On Ancestry.com, the database of Iowa, Select Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990, notes Bennie died on December 8, 1885. No reason for the three-week discrepancy between this resource and the date of death in his obituary was noted.