Susan Francis Osmond, daughter of Caleb and Dollie Putt Osmond, was born August 28, 1834, at Royalton, Niagara county, N. Y. At the age of four years she moved with her family to Mansfield, O.
In the fall of 1856 the family came to Wisconsin making the trip by wagon. On March 10, 1857, she was united in marriage to George Bennett, taking up her residence on the farm on which she died. To them were born five sons, Thomas A., who died at the age of 3 years; Dr. Lewis F., who resides at Opportunity, Wash.; Dr. Orrin G., who died in Janesville July 28, 1899; Chester C., now a resident of Denver, Colo.; and James B., who lives on the old homestead.
Her husband preceded her to the better land July 4, 1913.
Besides her three sons she leaves two sisters, sixteen grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. E. L. Smith, pastor of the Free Baptist church, of which she was a member. Rev. Smith used the following texts: If a man die shall he live again? Job 14: 14 I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. John 11: 25, 26. Music was furnished by a quartet. The pall bearers were three grandsons and a nephew, Leslie, Willard, Harold and Will Bennett.
Among the friends from away present at the funeral were Messrs. and Mesdames Ed Babcock and H. R. Osborn and Mrs. Cartwright of Milton, Mrs. Spaulding and children and Miss Bertha Titus of Milton Junction, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Titus of Koshkonong, David Titus of Beloit and Mrs. J. Godfrey and son of North Lima.
