Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Bentley, Ruth Ann nee McMillan - November 13, 1914
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
December 26, 1914, page 2


Mrs. Ruth Ann Bentley. - The following is copied from the Salem, O., Republican-
Era of the 8th inst.:

Mrs. Ruth Ann Bentley, nee McMillan, died November 13, 1914, at the home of her 
only surviving son, Linden E. Bentley, in New Orleans, La. Mrs. Bentley was a 
native of Harrison county, Ohio, where she was born September 8, 1827. She was 
the widow of Dr. Thomas M. Bentley, and the sister of the late Joel McMillan, of 
Salem.

The Bentleys left Salem in 1857 and located in Jefferson, Wis., where Dr. 
Bentley practiced his profession until the breaking out of the civil war, when 
he enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment. The family made their home in 
Louisiana immediately following the war, but in 1867 the husband and father died 
of yellow fever in New Orleans, where-upon Mrs. Bentley and the youngest of her 
three sons returned to Ohio, the other two sons remaining in Louisiana, where 
the eldest, Emerson Bentley, died in 1889. The youngest son, Milan Bentley, 
subsequently became a resident of Philadelphia, where he was interested in the 
well known drug house of Smith, Kline & Co., and died there in 1895. The mother 
lived for more than thirty years at the old Bentley homestead, Green Hill, near 
Kensington, in this county, and for several years afterwards resided at Salem, 
leaving here in the winter of 1908 to spend her remaining days with her son, a 
deputy collector of customs for the port of New Orleans.

Three years ago Mrs. Bentley had a fall which fractured her hip, and from that 
time she was confined to her bed, but she was patient, cheerful and in full 
possession of her faculties up to the time of her last illness, which lasted 
only a few days. Besides her son, nine grandchildren survive her, seven in 
Louisiana and two in Detroit, Mich., and she leaves a number of relatives in 
Salem, Columbiana county and other parts of Ohio. Her remains were laid to rest 
in Greenwood cemetery, New Orleans, where those of her husband were interred 
forty-seven years before.


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