Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Benschoter, Oliver April 3, 1904
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Wednesday, April 6, 1904
In the death of Oliver Benschoter, who died at his home one half mile west of 
Weippert’s mill, last Sunday night, Sebewa loses one of the few remaining 
pioneers, who were instrumental in the development and progress of that 
resourceful township.  Mr. Benschoter by his long residence there is known to 
everyone living within a radius of many miles of his home, and we have yet to 
see one of his neighbors who would speak an ill word for this man.  This alone 
is a better tribute that we can give and goes to show that he was well liked 
and highly respected by all who have been fortunate enough to know him.  He 
was one of Sebewa’s well-to-do farmers and accumulated his fortune by honest 
toil which has extended over a period of about 40 years, he having settled in 
Sebewa in ’55 when Michigan was a vast wilderness, and here it was that he 
toiled day and night in those early days, to clear and settle the farm on 
which he lived and died.

During the past two years he has been ailing, and has had two or three hard 
attacks of sickness and his last illness together with his extreme age caused 
his death, which occurred with his loved ones grouped around his bedside as 
the spirit returned to the One who gave it.  

Mr. Benschoter was born in Seneca County, Ohio in July of 1833 and was married 
to Mary Morgan in Portland, August 18, 1861.  To this union were born three 
children two of whom, Ida of Sunfield and John of Sebewa, together with the 
wife, live to mourn his loss.

The funeral was held at the home this afternoon, under the auspices of the 
Sebewa lodge, I.O.O.F.  Interment was made in the Sebewa cemetery.



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