Diana Emighy

1798 - 1898  (99 years)

• Name	Diana Emighy  [1]
  Birth	23 Nov 1798	Dutchess County, New York, USA
  Gender	Female
  Death	3 Oct 1898	Sandy Creek, Oswego Co, NY
  Burial	Sandy Creek, NY   [2, 3, 4]
  	Woodlawn Cemetary
  Person ID	I52546	Stewartsny
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

  Family	Stephen Bentley,   b. Abt 1800, Milton, Saratoga, New York, United States d. 17 Jul 1878, Sandy Creek, Oswego Co, NY (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	14 Jun 1820	Saratoga County, New York, USA   [3]
  Children	1. John Henry Bentley,   b. Mar 1821, Milton, Saratoga, New York d. 27 Sep 1906, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, USA (Age 85 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. George Bentley,   b. 1824, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, USA d. 26 Aug 1828, Sandy Creek, Oswego Co, NY (Age 4 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Matilda Ann Bentley,   b. 1829, Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, USA d. 8 Apr 1858, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, USA (Age 29 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Elias E. Bentley,   b. 1832, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States d. 17 Mar 1866, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States (Age 34 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Smith Bentley,   b. Abt 1839, Sandy Creek, Oswego Co, NY d. 2 Jan 1865, Point of Rocks, Virginia (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F23887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, October 12, 1898 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Death of a Centenarian - Mrs. Diana Bentley Passes Away in the Town of Sandy Creek - The oldest resident of the town of Sandy Creek, Mrs. Diana Bentley, passed to her rest last Sunday morning, having almost spanned a century of life. She was born on the 9th of November, 1798, and so would have shortly celebrated the centennial anniversary of her birth. The large number who were present at her funeral on Monday, attest to the wide circle of her friendships. With her husband, Stephen Bentley, who died in 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years, she came to this town from Saratoga County on the second of March, 1822, and settled in a partially finished log house on the farm now owned by Mrs. Noyes, of Pulaski, nearly opposite the home of Daniel Severance, on the bank of Blind Creek. Here they resided for nearly fifty years, rearing a family of four sons and one daughter, of whom one son alone survives, J. H. Bentley, of this village, with whom the mother resided. Their rude hut when they fust came to this town was only partially roofed, and without a floor other than the earth. They toiled here together, enduring hardships and clearing up the land, making a home for the family. Thus one by one the links that connect the early scenes in the history of the town with the present have been severed, until few now remain to remind the present of the past. Her pastor, Rev. C. L. Peck, of the M. E. church, of which she had been a member for the past half-century, officiated, and her remains were borne from her late home and laid at rest in the family plot in Woodlawn cemetery. -Sandy Creek News.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Tree. [S2] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;), Database online. Record for Smith Bentley [S2] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;), Database online. Record for Stephen Bentley http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=2006215460&indiv=try [S2] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;), Database online. Record for George Potor Eighmy http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=2005690806&indiv=try