OBIT: Mary (BRANSTETTER) BENTON, 1891, Newry, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARY BENTON.

  At the advanced age of 88 years Mrs. Mary Benton died at her home in 
Newry Sunday morning.  The cause of death was debility incident to old 
age.  She was the widow of Uriah Benton.  The funeral will take place 
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, the services being held in St. Patrick's 
Catholic church, of which she was a member.  Interment in St. Patrick's 
cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, February 2, 1891

A Venerable Lady's Death.

  Our Newry correspondent sends us the following:
  Mrs. Mary Benton, who died at the residence of her granddaughter, 
Mrs. William McCoy, in this place, Sunday morning at 5.30, was aged 88 
years and 2 months.  She was born in York, York county, Pa., on 
December 1, 1802.  At the age of 12 years, she, with her parents 
(Branstetter) moved to Morrison's Cove, where she remained until 1819, 
when she married Uriah Benton, after which they moved to the foot of 
the Allegheny mountain, and from there to this place, where they lived 
together in happiness until 1872, when it pleased God to call Mr. 
Benton home.  They were both consistent members of the Catholic church.  
The deceased was a good Christian, a good neighbor and an unusually 
good woman among the sick.  She would rise at the mid hour of night and 
travel through all kinds of weather if called upon by the sick.  Who 
can estimate or measure the worth and usefulness of such a person's 
untiring patience in a community?  A remarkable fact in the history of 
this old lady is the number of descendants, there being born to her 
twelve children, of whom eight were boys and four were girls.  Of those 
living Jonathan, of McKees; James, of Helena, Montana; Margaret, wife 
of Adam Lambertson, of Gosford, Armstrong county, Pa.; Frank, of 
Renovo, Clinton county, Pa.; Uriah W., of Newry, Pa.; Matilda, wife of 
Barnabas O'Connor, Altoona, Pa.; Jane, wife of George Sias, of 127 
Bansman, St. Knox Boro, Pittsburgh, and George, of Hollidaysburg, Pa.; 
John, Joseph and Thomas, also Amanda, widow of Alex McConnell, having 
been called away at an earlier period to that home beyond the sea of 
trouble and sorrowing.  Hence her entire descendants consist of twelve 
children, seventy-two grandchildren, seventy-four great-grandchildren 
and some four or five great-great-grandchildren, making 163 
descendants.  Funeral at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's church in this place 
Tuesday, the 3d inst.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, February 3, 1891