"Horatio Gates' Bent {Samuel,^ Joel,^ Elijah,* Hopestill,^
Peter, ^ John) was born in Wendell, Mass., Nov. 22, 1807 ; died
in Bloomington, Ill., July 31, 1863, ae. 55 ; buried at Batavia, Ill.
He lived for four or five years in the family of his relative. Rev.
Joseph Kilburn, who educated him. When about seventeen, he
left Massachusetts for the South, and after a time went into business
for himself, first in Atlanta, Ga., and afterwards in Charleston,
S. C, Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La. In the latter place, he
became a very successful commission merchant. Prior to the war
(1859) realizing that the conflict must come, he disposed of his in-
terests and moved to Bloomington, Ill, where the few remaining
years of his life were spent. In New Orleans, he was offered the
presidency of one of the leading banks, but ill health obliged him
to decline the offer. He was a man of much intelligence and re-
finement, as well as business ability. He married, Sept. 24, 1856,
Lucinda Grimes of Batavia, Ill., born in Bethany, N. Y., Aug.
12, 1823, died in Bloomington, Ill., March 12, 1898, ^. 74.
Children of Horatio G. and Lucinda :
377, i. Horatio Grimes ^ b. Nov. 22, 1857.
ii. Nellie, b. March 25, 1860 ; m. Aug. 11, 1884, James S. Neville
(b. March 11, 1851), a prominent lawyer in Bloomington, Ill.,
where they still live. One child, Edith,^ b. Aug. 29, 1885.
Mrs. Neville is a member of the Ill. Soc. Daughters of the
Revolution."
