Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Benedict, Thomas B. 1874
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Ionia Sentinel, 6 Mar 1874

Dr. T. B. Benedict died at his home, in this city, on Sunday last.  He came to 
this place immediately after graduating, about the year 1862.  In Ionia and 
within a circle of country tributary to it, there were then three families who 
believed in the virtues of his school of practice, and it required a faithful, 
self reliant, persistent character to overcome the violent prejudices with 
which his theories were regarded.  Many men, of equal skill, would never have 
succeeded; but beneath a quiet exterior, there existed in his breast a 
determined spirit and a calm confidence in himself, that after many years of 
ill repaid toil and weary waiting, was at last rewarded with a practice so 
extensive that he could not attend to all the calls made upon him, and second 
probably to no other in the county.  He had a faculty of placing himself in 
sympathy with his patients and of gaining their confidence and esteem to an 
unusual degree, which made him a near friend to all whom he served by his 
skill.  The funeral services, at the Disciples church, on Tuesday p.m., were 
very largely attended, in spite of the storm, and it was truly an assemblage of 
mourners.  The Rev. Mr. Gault, in his sermon, paid a feeling and just tribute 
to his character.


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