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- Samuel Day Bentley Sr. - August 6, 1835 - February 5, 1883. Plot B-213. Son of Elias and Sarah Seymour Bentley. Husband of Susan E. Clark Bentley.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, February 8, 1883 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - February 3, 1883, Samuel D. Bentley. of Bright's disease of the kidneys, aged 47 years. Samuel Day Bentley was born August 6, 1835, in the town of Sandy Creek. Beside the ordinary advantages of the common school in the district where his parents resided. he received academic instruction in Belleville Academy for several terms and taught district school for three winters. At the age of twenty-two he engaged in the mercantile business in company with William Beecher, of Orwell. Successful in this business for about seven years, he left it, however. for another engagement with his oldest brother in New York City as general salesman for five years. He then entered into partnership with his brothers in the business of selling tea at wholesale for a period of five years. Since that time he has been engaged as a traveling salesman. He was married May 4, 1864, to Miss Susan E. Clark Two sons were born to them. the eldest of whom died December 5, 1874. The deceased was reared in a Christian home and at the age of eighteen avowed his determination to endeavor to lead a Christian life at the age of twenty-two received the ordinance of baptism, but made no further public profession of religion. He met his last end with a composure and resignation, a hopefulness and trust that almost surprised those who did not know of his proclaimed religious experience, a religious experience veiled over to most by a habit of cheerful jocoseness, which manifested itself even in his last sufferings, for even then the expression of suffering was followed by some word of pleasantry. His trust was radiant and cheerful to the last, exhorting his nearest and dearest friends, his wife and child to shed no tears of sorrow, but trust in a Heavenly Father who ever orders all for the best, leaving that it would yet be revealed that infinite goodness had appointed all. Possessing a cheerful, genial and sympathetic nature, he has been especially affectionate and devoted is a son, a brother, a husband and a father, and no less as a friend, leaving in his departure a pleasant memory behind him.
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1835 - 1883 (47 years)