Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bennett, Delilah W. (Tanner) 1909
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Ionia Standard 6/4/1909
   IONIA STANDARD, 6-4-1909:  "Mrs. Ira Bennett, died at the home in Berlin,
Wednesday evening.  Her maiden name was Delia W. Tanner and she was born in the
state of New York, May, 1838.  She married in that state in 1856, came to
Michigan in 1857, having been a resident here for over half a century.  The
husband survives and there are no children."
   Per undated newspaper obituary:  Death of Mrs. Ira Bennett.  Delilah Bennett,
wife of Ira Bennett of Berlin, died at 8 o'clock last night (Wednesday, June 2).
 Deceased was 71 years old, May 17, 1906.
   The funeral was held at 10:30 on Saturday, at the home and at 1-- o'clock at
the church.  Burial in the Balcom cemtery.  Mrs. Bennett was married to the
husband who survives her in Lockport, N. Y. fifty-three years ago next October.
 They came to Berlin the next year (1857) and have lived on the farm where she
died ever since.  They have never had any children but three brothers and a
sister survive.  The house is on section 14, one mile west of the Bellevue road.
   The aged couple celebrated their golden "wedding" three years ago, an account
of which was published in the Sentinel at the time, together with their
portraits which are here reproduced.
   Mrs. Bennett's maiden name was Delia Tanner.  She was a member of the
Wesleyan Methodist Church, as is her husband.
   The most remarkable part of this remarkable record is, perhaps that they
lived on the one farm where they started, during the entire period of their
married life, except the first year.  Golden anniversaries are rare but golden
celebrations of the occupancy of one home are rarer still."


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