Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-07-20
GOES HOME TO WEAR
HER CROWN OF GLORY
Spirit of Miss Belle II. Bennett
Called To Rest After Life of
Love and Work for Master

oCcpSSl SlOOlIl, llS SplIll Cl MIS-
Belle H. Bennett entered into tn
eternal sunlight tr2t surround
the throne of the Master sh,
loved so well and served SO Ions
and devotedly. She died at th'
home of her niece, Mrs. Thoma
H. Collins, on Lancaster avenue
This announcement will bring
great mourning and deep and sin
cere sorrow, due to the potent
influence which she has for many
years exerted in her own com
munity, her own state, through
cut our country and in foreign
lands. Through her great work
for humanity she was a woman
of national reputation, and was
one OF our country's greatest ed
uCators along missionary lines.
Although her illness extended
over a period of several months,
giving to her family and friends
an opportunity to extend to her
every tenderness and attention
which love and devotion could
suggest, she may be said to have
continued her activities to the
end The multitude OF letters
which reached her during her i'll
ness bore testimony OF her far
reaching influence and her inspir-
alton to many lives.
Isabel Harris Bennett was born
December 3, 1882, and was one Of
eight children OF the late Samuel
Bennett and his wife, Elizabeth
Chenault, OF whom only one sur
wives, Mr.. Waller Bennett, OF
Richmond, Ky. She grew into
lovely young womanhood at
"Homelands," the home OF her
parents at White Hall, near Rich
mond, Madison county, Ky, SUI
rounded by every comfort that
afluence could give. She was
the JOY Of the grand old mansion
of c-bellum days, where all
elegant and bountiful hospitality
was dispensed through many
years. Hers was family that
valued education, the sons taking
their degrees from Yale, Centre
College, old Pennsylvania, and
ether universities and the dauoh
terS receiving their training at
the best private schools of the
day.
Miss Bennett received her ear
ly education from DR.. Robert l..
BreCk, an eminent Presbyterian
divine, and one of the notable
scholars OF her day, where she
became proficient in bellies lettres
and the classics. She later at
tended a private school at College
Hill, Ohio, which ranked at that
time as the best school for the
training OF young women i'll the
West. She was later sent to
Nazareth, Catholic school near
Bardstown, Ky. Endowed by
nature with splendid ability and
many noble traits Of character, !
she carried in her presence dig
nifty and graciousness and that !
personal magnetism which drew |
the most cultured and favored to :;
her wherever she went. All thei
graces Of Southern womanhoodl
were hers. She was also possess-l
ed of those qualities that made
her ever the center of devoted !
family circle. Her closest friends
were those of a lifetime.
Any reference to this unusual
life would be scarcely complete
without mentioning those from
whom she descended, whose quail
ties of leadership were, many of
them, embodied in her character
and career. She numbered among
her ancestors those who were
among the earliest at the found.
ing of Jamestown; members Of
the House of Burgesses of the
Colony of Virginia, those who led
their troops in the Colonial wars;
and those who aided in the de-
fense of Fort Bocnesborcugh and
in the founding OF the Common
wealth of Kentucky. In the CEN
fury and half, which have eiaps-
ed since pioneer days, many of
her connections have served in
legislative bodies; in two instanc-l
es as Governors of states and
members of the United States
Senate; An uncle on the distaff
side helped to frame the Constitu-
ton OF Kentucky in 1849. The
Hon. John Bennett, a brother,
was for many years an able law
yer at the Kentucky Bar, and a
member of the State Senate of
Kentucky. In every war in which
our country has been involved {
her kith and kin have borne their
rrrt. II was under her kinsman..
Col. Waller Chenault, that the
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