- OBITUARY.
DEACON NATHANIEL BENEDICT.
"Died in Norwalk, Connecticut, on the morning of the 2d of April, 1806, after a shock of the palsy, with which he lingered about 12 days, in the 90th year of his age. On the 3d his remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of friends and relatives, among whom were his 12 surviving children, and many of his more remote posterity. He has left 91 grandchildren and 88 great-grandchildren, the whole number of his descendants now living being (191) one hundred and ninety-one.
"For about 32 years he sustained the office of Deacon of the First Congregational Church in that town. Deacon Benedict was one of those venerable personages by whom what remains of the pions habits of our forefathers, have been eminently exemplary, and years to come will feel its happy influence. Every morning and evening witnessed his devotion. His Sabbaths were faithfully appropriated to public worship and religious family instructions. An amiable, cheerful disposition, a sound mind, improved by a good degree of reading and much reflection, and adorned with a bright constellation of Christian graces, comprised his character. At his funeral an appropriate sermon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Burnett from Prov. xiv., 32d. 'The wicked is driven away in his wickedness; but the righteous hath hope in his death.'"
(Manuscript at the time of his death, and Hy. Norwal k, Conn., 316, 317, 318.)
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1716 - 1806 (90 years)
