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- Her obituary from The Tennessee Baptist newspaper Vol. X dated September 24, 1853. The original is on microfilm at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives located in Nashville, Tennessee (Now on line 2019)
http://media2.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/tbarchive/1853/TB_1853_September_24.pdf
Mrs. Jane Benge
died of inflamation of the stomach in DeSoto Co., Miss., on the morning of the 12th of August, 1853, Mrs. Jane Benge in the 69th year of her age.
Sister Benge was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Hinshaw, formerly of Surry County, N. C.; born on the 8th day of Feb., 1785; was married to Brother Richared Benge on the 8th day of Jan., 1801; was the mother of 12 children all of whom who had professed religion, and 8 of whom, with the bereaved partner of her bosom, still survive to mourn her loss, but not mourn as those who have no hope. She made a public profession of religion near 30 years of age, and was baptised into the fellowship of the Shiloh Church, Franklin County, Tenn. by Reverend William Woods--She lived an exemplary member of the church, ever setting a true example of a true mother in Israel. For several years her health had been quite feeble, but she bore her infirmities and afflictions with becoming christian practice and resignation for the will of her heavenly Father. During her last sickness, she frequently said to her husband, "I shall not stay much longer with you." Three days before she died, she raised herself in bed, and sang:
"My soul's full of glory, it filleth my tongue; Could I meet with bright angeIs I'd sing them a song--
I'd sing of my Jesus, and tell of his charms, And bid them to bear me to His living arms."
She became very happy in her singing and meditating on the future glories that awaited her; and said that when she died, she should just begin to live. When dying, her son Martin approached her bedside, she turned her eyes towards him and said, "I am dying". He asked how all is with her; she replied,"I see my way clear, the Lord is with me;" and in a few moments her happy spirit took flight to the "spirit land". "And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write blessed are the dead; which die in the Lord from henceforth; vea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."
May all who now mourn their loss, like her be prepared, through faith in Christ, to triumph over the sting of death, and enter upon that rest which remaineth to the people of God.
Ira Townsend.
Como, Panola County, Miss, Sept. 1, '53
Note: Those alive were: Rebecca d. 1890s; Martin Lewis d. 1907 OK; Baxter Berry d. 1879 Logan Co. Ark; Presley G. 1860 Columbia Co. Ark.; James Benge d. 1863 in Civil War; Joel B. 1860 census Panola County, MS; Mary Adeline d. 1898 and Susan Jane d. 1855.
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