Madison County AlArchives Obituaries.....Steger, Benjamin F. October 1, 1881
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The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 5 October 1881
                           A Good Man Gone.
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BENJAMIN F. STEGER departed this life, Oct. 1, 1881.  He was born in the 
Eastern part of Madison Co., Ala., Sept. 1, 1833.  He was a consistent member 
of the M. E. Church, South, 18 years.  He was a noble, kind-hearted man.  The 
write, to whom he was a fast friend, knew him well, and can truthfully say that 
he has known none superior to him in those points of character that constitute 
the true gentleman.  From an incredible disease, he was, for years, a great 
suffered; but he bore it patiently, and even cheerfully, to the last.  He was 
one of the few men of the times, of whom it could be said, “His word was as 
good as his bond.”  In every relation of life in which he acted, he filled the 
measure of true manhood, whether as the devoted husband, the honored father, 
the true friend, or the public-spirited Christian gentleman.  He was a man of 
deep convictions and strong will – his mind being made up to a given course, he 
was unswerving in its pursuit.  In the loss of our noble friend, how palpably 
are we confronted with the saying, “The good die first.”
  The Republic has been in tears over its fallen President, and too eulogistic 
of the virtues of Mrs. Garfield.  Did the President possess a better heart 
than “Benjee” or a wife more devoted?  It is, indeed, a calamity to any 
neighborhood or people, to lose so good a man.  But we, his sorrowing friends, 
must bow to the stroke that deprives us of his genial presence, and turn for 
consolation to that Providence upon Whom he leaned with so much fidelity, 
during life, and in the hour of death.  May his four children and grief-
stricken widow find; in this moment of greatest bereavement, the consolation 
which God alone can give!
  The funeral was had, to-day, from his residence, and the remains deposited, 
with appropriate ceremonies by the Knights of Honor, in the family burying-
ground near by, amid a vast concourse of friends.  Peace to his ashes!  	
			W.  
Maysville, Al., Oct 2, 1881.


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