Obituary of Timothy D. Benton
Brown County Democrat Saturday, March 6, 1880
Died at Ripley, Feb. 29th, 1880 of Lung fever, Timothy D. Benton, in the 48th
year of his age.
T. D. Benton was a native of Brown County, having been born at Ripley and
spending the greater part of his life in the immediate vicinity of his birth.
He leaves a family of four children to mourn his departure, his wife having
proceeded him eight years. His bereaved children have the heart felt
sympathy of the entire community in this their sad hour. Timothy D. Benton
will be remembered by us as a man who made few professions and lived true to
all he made, as a friend he was always worthy; as a father he was a model,
his love for and sense of duty to his children being one of the marked
characteristics of the man. He has gone to his reward which cannot be
otherwise than glorious.