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- William Henry Bentley - June 14, 1833 - June 25, 1921. Plot B-213. Son of Elias and Sarah Seymour Bentley. Husband of Caroline Estelle Woods Bentley. Married June 7, 1865.
Newspaper Article - Thursday, April 18, 1889 Sandy Creek News - Sandy Creek, New York - Oswego County Notes - William H. Bentley, ex-deputy sheriff, and for thirty-four years a resident of Pulaski, has decided to locate at Toronto, Canada, where he will engage in the Mercantile business. - W. H. Weed of Mexico, one of the leading Republicans of the county and a man of more than ordinary business ability, died in Albany, Tuesday, of inflammation of the stomach. Mr. Weed was one of the best-known men in this neighborhood. When the old Midland railroad began operations under the Littlejohn management he was given a place in the offices, but soon rose to the responsible position of general passenger agent and was with the road in that capacity a number of years, afterwards having charge of the telegraph construction along the line. He became interested in the construction of telegraph and telephone lines and because of his intimate knowledge of telephone matters was appointed clerk of the assembly telephone investigating committee, of which Mr. Ainsworth was chairman. - Lamont Hoff and Thomas McGowan, farm laborers, fell, while intoxicated, Friday evening from two planks which lead from the new iron bridge across Salmon river at Pulaski to the solid ground beyond. They struck on a stone pile twenty feet below. Hoff was terribly bruised about the head and shoulders and died Sunday. Hope is entertained for McGowan’s recovery. Both men are about forty years old. - Samuel G. Merriam, one of the pioneers of Oswego county, died at his home in New Haven, Saturday, aged 89 years. He was one of the most prominent farmers in the county and was at one time treasurer of the Oswego county agricultural society. For thirty years he was postmaster at New Haven and had a large business interests at that place. He leaves a wife, three sons and two daughters. Two of the sons, Samuel and George Merriam, live in Oswego city. His death was caused by pneumonia.
Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, June 29, 1921 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - William Henry Bentley - William Henry Bentley passed away at the family home, Woodlawn, Pulaski, Saturday evening, June 25, 1921, aged 88 years. As the sun went down and a beautiful day closed, ended a long and useful life. He was born in the town of Sandy Creek, Oswego county, New York on the 14th day of June, 1833, the son of Elias Bentley and Sarah Seymour Bentley. His parents had some years previously moved from Saratoga county to make their new home on a farm in Oswego county. The deceased was one of nine children. He received his education in the district school, near his home, and later at Belleville Academy. At the age of seventeen he commenced teaching school and in a few years became principal of the Academy at Waterford, New York. From there he went to Albany Law School, from which institution he received the degree of LLB and was admitted to practice law in New York State. The death of his father just as he completed his law course, necessitated a change in his plans. It became necessary for him to enter business in order to support himself and assist in the support and care of a widowed mother and a large family of younger brothers and sisters. He moved his father's family from the Sandy Creek farm to Pulaski, where he entered into a business partnership with the late Bronson Meacham. A few years later he became associated with the firm of Bentley, Hollis & Company, of which the late Col. H. H. Lyman was a member. In the late sixties, Mr. Bentley went to New York where he engaged in the wholesale grocery business with the firm of Bentley Brothers & Company. About 1875 this firm was dissolved and Mr. Bentley returned to Pulaski and entered business in his home town in association with his brother-in-law the late C. C. Woods. Their business was burned out in the big fire of 1881, and soon after Mr. Bentley became deputy sheriff and jailer at Pulaski. From 1889 to 1895 he resided at Toronto, where with his brother-in-law, the late C. C. Woods, he conducted the "American Fair" in that city. In 1895 he retired from the mercantile business and upon the death of his father-in-law, the late Gilbert A. Woods, he took charge of and has since conducted the farms known as Woodlawn and Wood Lake Farm. From early youth the deceased had been a devout member of the Pulaski Congregational church. In 1865 Mr. Bentley was married to Carrie Estelle Woods. He is survived by one son, Attorney Norman S. Bentley, of Oswego, and three daughters, Carrie W. Bentley and Mary F. Bentley, of this village and Helen E. Bentley, a teacher in the Lincoln High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, and one sister, Mrs. Malcolm L. Hollis, of this village. The funeral will be held at Woodlawn on Wednesday afternoon, June 29th at two o'clock (standard time.) Interment will be in the Pulaski cemetery.
Ramona Bentley Flewelling's Uncle William His woods became Selkirk Shores State Park
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1833 - 1921 (88 years)