Married December 3rd 1849
in Bristol, Ontario County, New York.

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Ontario County Chronicle
Septermber 2 1903

Died - In Canandaigua, Aug. 27, Orville Bentley of Bristol, aged 74 years.

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Bently, Orville, Bristol, was born in Richmond, Ontario county, July 24, 1830. He is the youngest son of Isaac Bently , a son of George Bently, a son of Tillinghast Bently, whose father, James Bently, was the first of the family in America. Isaac Bently, father of the subject, was born in Dutchess county in 1788, and went to Saratoga county with his parents. His wife was Hannah Dubois who bore him seven sons and five daughters. Mr. Bently served in the War of 1812 . In 1816 he came to Richmond, and purchased sixty acres of land. He held minor town offices, and with his family attended the Universalist church. Mr. Bently died in 1863, and his wife in 1855. Orville Bently was reared on a farm, and January 1, 1850, married in Bristol Marcia S. Wheeler, born in Livonia, Livingston county, born October 31, 1831, daughter of Sylvester Wheeler. They have had three children; Sidney A., born September 20, 1851, and educated in East Bloomfield and Canandaigua Academies, and died in 1869; Murray S., born July 13, 1873, married May Wickham, daughter of William and Jenett (Francis) Wickham, of Bristol, and is a farmer; Nettie M., born December 23, 1874, is the wife of Fred Buell. They have one son. Orville Bently, in 1856, came to Bristol and purchased 100 acres of land, where he has since resided and carried on general farming. He is a Republican, a member of Bristol Grange, and he and family attend the Universalist church.

History of Ontario County
compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich
edited by George S. Conover
1893

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