Elkhart County IN Archives Obituaries.....Cripe, Benjamin C October 4, 1909
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Goshen News,  4 Oct 1909
Death of Benj. C. Cripe - Benjamin C. Cripe died this morning at 12:30 at his 
residence about three miles east of Goshen on the Fish Lake road, aged 89 
years.  He is survived by six children, all of whom were at his bedside at the 
time of his death.  Mary E. Kauffman of Williston, N. D.; Amos S. of Near Emma 
LaGrange county; John D., Jacob R. and Martin V of Clinton township and Allen 
F. of Goshen.  There are twenty-four grand children and forty-seven great 
grandchildren.  He was the oldest of a family of seventeen children, eight of 
whom survive him, four brothers and four sisters.  They are Jacob and Solomon 
of Clinton township, Noah and Tobias of Gosshen, Mrs. Fanny Werner, Mrs. John 
Hoovens and Mrs. Adam Keifer, also of Goshen, and Mrs. Martin Boone of Etna 
Green, Ind.  Deceased came to this county from Montgomery county, Ohio, at the 
age of ten years.  He married at the age of 20, and had resided on the farm 
where he died for the past seventy years.  The funeral will be conducted from 
the Berkey church in West Goshen, Wednesday morning at 10:30, leaving the 
house at 9:30 o'clock.

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