Jeptha Mahlon Bennett

   Cause of his death was nephritis.

  General Notes:

Jeptha and Ann got their start in the lumber woods; Jeptha as teamster; Ann "kept shanty". Last job at Paradox,NY.Following this Jeptha and Ann lived then at The Gables (also referred to as The Davis Place) which was a farm located on Davis Road, off Valentine Pond Rd. Later they bought a farm in Horicon (where Alta Burns Bean resided until her death) on Al Bean Road off Pease Hill Rd on the back [north] side of the lake. It is where Arthur Ivan Moore and Mary Moore O'Connor were born.
Jeptha and Ann then moved to a farm house owned by the Untermeyers on the Rt 8 side of the lake. The Mr. Untemeyer was a lawyer from New York who owned a considerable amount of property in Brant lake and summered there.The farm, separate from the family home built right on the lake, was located on land across the highway. Its location is adjacent to where Sunset Mtn. Lodge is now.
Mary Moore O'Connor visited her grandparents there when she was age 6. The farm house is gone, replaced by a modern ranch house. ( Photo of farm house in papers of Jane Foster) After living here Jeptha and Ann moved to the Lambert Cottage (just east of BobGene log house) on the back side of the lake and then to the Bennett cottage nearby where both died. Ann died of complications of diabetes. Jeptha, a patient in July 1918 in the Albany Memorial Hospital (known then as Homeopathic Hospital) died the following month of Bright's Disease (chronic inflamation of the kidneys).
I have his work journal which I deciphered. He could neither read nor write and so his daughter Agnes kept it for him. It consists of work related items and contains many local names of interest.
Jeptha was a twin to Mabel who died in infancy.

1860 census (Horicon) Royal C. enumerated ($275.00 to $200.00) with wife and children Jane ae 11; Edwin G. ae 9; Jeptha ae 3; Lucretia ae 3 and Judson M. ae 1; also in household were Asa Smith ae 28, farm laborer - John Smith ae 14 farm laborer and Elvira Smith ae 16," grandaughter".
1865 census (Horicon) - Royal - farmer (frame house $40.00) with son-in-law and dau Caleb and Jane A. Smith also Edwin ae 14; Jeptha ae 11; Lucretia ae 8; Judson ae 6 and John ae 4
1870 census (Horicon)- Royal ae 45; Alvira ae 39; Edwin ae 18; Jeptha ae 17; Lucretia ae 12; Judson ae 6; Nellie ae 4 and Stephen ae 2
1880 Horicon - Jeptha; Ann; Hiram and Uncle John Underwood.
1892 Horicon - Jeptha 37; Ann 30 with ch: Hiram; Herbert; Rose; Agnes and May
1900 Horicon - Jeptha; Ann; Herbert; Rose; Agnes and May
1905 Horicoc - Jepthaw; Ann; Agnes; Mae; Rose and Mildred
1910 Horicon, Warren County, NY -Jeptha Bennett age 56;Ann R. age 56;Ida M. age 19

Obituary of Jeptha Mahlon Bennett:
"Jeptha Bennett an old and respected citizen, passed away in Albany, Sunday night of Bright's disease. He went to Albany about three weeks ago for treatment in the hospital. The remains were brought here Tuesday afternoon for the funeral in the Episcopal church. Rev. C. B. Alford officiated Wednesday. Interment was in the Elbo (sic) Cemetery. Besides his widow, Mrs Agnes Bennett (MY NOTE:The obituary errs in naming Agnes as his wife) he leaves five children, Mrs John Moore, Mrs B.J. Starbuck and Miss Ida Bennett; Herbert and George of Albany; also three brothers, John Bennett of this place, Will of Graphite and Clayton of Ticonderoga.

Sources: Recollections of Mary Moore O'Connor (grand daughter); Chester Town records; IGI research of Richard Donald Baker (grandson of Eva Caroline Baker and great grandson of William Henry Bennett who was brother to Jeptha.); cemetery headstone; newspaper obituary

Jeptha's great grandson purchased The Farm in 2014... Ted Schaap

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Jeptha married Ann Rebecca Hemenway, daughter of Lorenzo S. Hemenway and Rosanna Underwood, on 30 Aug 1874 in Unknown. (Ann Rebecca Hemenway was born on 17 Jul 1853 in Horicon, Warren County, New York, died on 1 Dec 1918 in Horicon, Warren County, New York and was buried in Brant Lake Cemetery in Horicon, New York.). The cause of her death was diabetes.