Wesley C. Bennett, of Johnsburg, North Creek & Sauquoit, NY. The son of Charles & Margaret Hannah (Morehouse) Bennett was born at his Grandfather Bennett's home near Garnet in Johnsburg. Still in grade school, Wesley had to come home and work full time on the farm due to his father's invalid condition.
married 1908 Alice Pearl Bates. Wesley had 1 brother Harlon John Bennett. He was a farmer and general laborer. Soon after his marriage he and his bride worked as cooks at a logging camp in the Adirondack Mountains (their native area) he was in a logging accident where logs rolled over his legs leaving him laim and over time his legs worsened where he graduated from a cane, to two canes to crutches. His passion was horses. He and Alice lived with their daughter Iva Kilbourne's family (farm) for many years, the last 27 in Sauquoit, NY. They were married for 64 years, and he died at the Faxton Hospital in Utica, after a brief illness, he was 88 years 100 days old. A much beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather of many and a family patriarch.
You are loved beyond words missed beyond measure
Your life was a blessing your memory a treasure
married 1908 Alice Pearl Bates. Wesley had 1 brother Harlon John Bennett. He was a farmer and general laborer. Soon after his marriage he and his bride worked as cooks at a logging camp in the Adirondack Mountains (their native area) he was in a logging accident where logs rolled over his legs leaving him laim and over time his legs worsened where he graduated from a cane, to two canes to crutches. His passion was horses. He and Alice lived with their daughter Iva Kilbourne's family (farm) for many years, the last 27 in Sauquoit, NY. They were married for 64 years, and he died at the Faxton Hospital in Utica, after a brief illness, he was 88 years 100 days old. A much beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather of many and a family patriarch.
You are loved beyond words missed beyond measure
Your life was a blessing your memory a treasure
Wesley C. Bennett, of Johnsburg, North Creek & Sauquoit, NY. The son of Charles & Margaret Hannah (Morehouse) Bennett was born at his Grandfather Bennett's home near Garnet in Johnsburg. Still in grade school, Wesley had to come home and work full time on the farm due to his father's invalid condition.
married 1908 Alice Pearl Bates. Wesley had 1 brother Harlon John Bennett. He was a farmer and general laborer. Soon after his marriage he and his bride worked as cooks at a logging camp in the Adirondack Mountains (their native area) he was in a logging accident where logs rolled over his legs leaving him laim and over time his legs worsened where he graduated from a cane, to two canes to crutches. His passion was horses. He and Alice lived with their daughter Iva Kilbourne's family (farm) for many years, the last 27 in Sauquoit, NY. They were married for 64 years, and he died at the Faxton Hospital in Utica, after a brief illness, he was 88 years 100 days old. A much beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather of many and a family patriarch.
You are loved beyond words missed beyond measure
Your life was a blessing your memory a treasure
married 1908 Alice Pearl Bates. Wesley had 1 brother Harlon John Bennett. He was a farmer and general laborer. Soon after his marriage he and his bride worked as cooks at a logging camp in the Adirondack Mountains (their native area) he was in a logging accident where logs rolled over his legs leaving him laim and over time his legs worsened where he graduated from a cane, to two canes to crutches. His passion was horses. He and Alice lived with their daughter Iva Kilbourne's family (farm) for many years, the last 27 in Sauquoit, NY. They were married for 64 years, and he died at the Faxton Hospital in Utica, after a brief illness, he was 88 years 100 days old. A much beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather of many and a family patriarch.
You are loved beyond words missed beyond measure
Your life was a blessing your memory a treasure
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