BlankI have inserted the obituary of Jonathan Benjamin. There may have been more then one obituary for Jonathan, this particular one was written in Goshen, New York where he lived in his earlier days. It was passed on to me by a distant relative and friend. Jonathan was the brother of my g.g. grandmother's, Rebecca Benjamin, grandfather. C. R. Geach OBITUARY The Independent-Republican Goshen, New York Vol. 5, No. 17 November 26, 1841 DIED Revolutionary Soldier, -Died in Union Township, Licking Co., Ohio, August 26, 1841, Jonathan Benjamin, in the 103rd year of his age. Father Benjamin was born in Goshen, N. Y., October 14, 1738. AT the age of 16 he enlisted in the army and served his time as a soldier true to his country. Was married March 10, 1759 to Margaret Brown, moved to Pennsylvania in 1774 or 75. In May, 1777, the Indians broke in upon his family and family connections, and killed and took prisoner three entire families, his only son escaping to the fort. Among the prisoners taken by the Indians, was his brother-in-law, Ezekiel Brown, late of Delaware Co., Ohio. After being driven from place to place by those savage tribes, and enduring extreme suffering for some 5 months, he removed to Maryland in the fall of 1779, thence to Pennsylvania in 1782, thence to Maryland in 1897, (should be 1797) thence to Western Virginia in 1799, thence to Licking, then to Fairfield co., Ohio in 1804, where he resided unt! il his death. In 1810 he joined the M. E. Church , and remained an acceptable member ever since. In 1835 he lost his amiable wife, with whom he had lived through all the sufferings and privations of a piety life, for the almost unprecedented period of 70 years. He was the father of ten children, and is known to have 77 grandchildren. He lived to see and embrace a child of the fifth generation, and that a descendent of his seventh daughter. For the last 30 years, Father Benjamin has sustained a good religious character, and in his last years took much pleasure in telling his bright prospect of happiness beyond the grave. After an illness of five days, he departed this life without a struggle or a groan. -Newark, Gazette.