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Thomas Isaac Bendel

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Thomas Isaac Bendel

Birth
Bethlehem Center, Albany County, New York, USA
Death
30 Oct 1903 (aged 56)
Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
L: 73e Sec: C Gr: 5
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Thomas Isaac Bendel was born in June 1847 in The Town of Bethlehem in Albany County, New York to Henry Bendell and Mary Anker. He was the third of six children. His father died between 1860 and 1870. The details of his father's death are unknown.

His obituary was in the Democratic Banner in Mount Vernon, Ohio:

Thomas I. Bendel
________________________
Passed to His Rest Early Friday Evening
__________________________

Mr. Thomas Isaac Bendel, aged 54 years, died at his home on E. Vine street at 6:55 Friday evening of bronchial trouble. Mr Bendel suffering from several severe attacks during the week, and on Thursday was compelled to leave the Philadelphia store, where he had been employed since moving from Columbus four years ago. Mr. Bendel had been in frail health for a number of years, but on Thursday he suffered from a very severe attack of the disease and grew steadily weaker until death ensued.
He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Marie Baker, and five sons, Samuel, Max, Thomas, Isaac, and Hubert. (this is a mistake- Thomas and Isaac are the same person "Thomas Isaac") He was a native of Albany, N.Y., and was a member of the K. of P. and the Odd Fellows' lodges.
The funeral will occur Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock the Rev. W. A. Roush officiating. The interment will be in Mound View Cemetery.

After the death of his father, the Bendel family left New York. Thomas was not found on an 1870 census, but we assume that he moved to Kentucky, where he met Kate Bell Martin. His mother, Mary, moved to Columbus, Ohio to live with his sister, Sarah Aaron. Mary eventually moved to Kentucky to be near Joseph. Her grave is in the Jewish section of the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, KY. Thomas' sister, Susan and brother, Max also moved in with Sarah.
His brother Joseph moved to Lexington, Kentucky and Edward was living in Jeffersonville, Fayette Co., Ohio.
Thomas and Kate Martin were married on the 12 of Nov 1878. Their marriage story was found in the Winchester Sun Newspaper on the front page.

The most romantic story about Thomas and Kate's marriage was found on the front page of The Semi-Weekly Sun Newspaper in Winchester, Kentucky. It is as follows:

An Elopement Extraordinary

Winchester has had something out of the ordinary in the way of an elopement. Some months ago, Mr. Thomas I. Bendel, a Polish Jew, came here and set up a clothing establishment. In the course of a few weeks he met Miss Kate Martin, a beautiful young lady, whose family ranks as high as any in the county. Notwithstanding the difference in their religion and the disparity of their social relations, it was a case of true love at first sight, and it soon became patent to the most casual observers that matrimony would be the ultimatum of the affair. Of course Miss Kate's people were very much opposed to the whole affair, and tried every means in their power to prevent the young people from seeing each other. But "love laughs at locksmiths" and all such trifles, and Miss Martin and Mr. Bendel found means of communicating in spite of everything done to prevent it. Mr. Sam T. Martin, "the bride's father," had several very warm conferences with Bendel, but to no purpose, as it transpires. Last week Mr. Martin was caught on the jury, and he brought Miss Kate to town with him, where he could keep his eye upon her, as it were. Friday he concluded to send her home, and after dinner she started for her father's residence in a buggy , in the care of an old colored woman. Mr. Bendel was appraised of what was going on so he got into a buggy and started after her. He overtook her at Fox's toll-gate and took her vi et armis from her colored duenna, and made a break for Maysville by the way of Mt. Sterling, Sharpsburg and Flemingsburg. Mr. Bendel told a Sun reporter that at Flemingsburg he received intimations that Mr. Martin had been telegraphing to have him stopped, and that from that place to Maysville, a distance of seventeen miles, he "drove so fast that the wheels of the buggy didn't touch the ground but twice in the whold distance." They arrived at Maysville at midnight Friday night and immediately crossed over to Aberdeen and were married at 12:30 o'clock by Squire Beasley, the veteran coupler. Bendel's description of the marriage ceremony as performed by Squire Beasley is quite graphic. To-wit:

"Do you take this woman for better and for worse?"

" I do."
" Do you take this man for better and for worse?"
" I do."
" Man and wife. Sit down while I draw up the papers."

The happy couple got back home Sunday evening and are at present boarding with Miss Lucy Winn.
A Sun reporter interviewed Mr. Bendel yesterday morning and elicited from him the foregoing statements. As the reporter started away Bendel shouted after him, " Now, don't go and put in anything hard."
The reporter explained with a good deal of grace that he would dwell lightly on the matter and went on his way rejoicing. We will here take occasion to congratulate the brave young couple, and we sincerely trust their love may continue to grow warmer and their happiness deeper and brighter as the years go by.

They are found in the 1880 census in Blue Ball, Clark County, Kentucky. Thomas is 34 yrs old and Kate B. is 21 yrs old. Their first child, Mary, born 2 Nov 1879, is 6 months old and the birth month is listed as November. He is listed as working in a cigar factory. They have a servant named Laina Quincebury living with them, along with her 8 year old son, Willis.
Thomas and Kate had four more children in the next 9 years. Samuel Herbert was born 9 June 1881 in Clark County, Kentucky. Max Edward was born 10 August 1883 in Clark County, Kentucky. Thomas Isaac was born 9 May 1886 in Clark County. Herbert Taylor was born 12 Feb 1889 or 1890 in Cincinatti, Ohio.
Thomas I. Bendel is listed in the Williams Cincinnati Directory in 1889:
Bendel, Thomas I. clk h. 213 Oliver

Thomas and Kate are both in the 1894 Zanesville City Official Directory in 1894:
Bendel Thos I [Kate B], clerk A E Starr & Co, res 55 Center

Thomas is found in the Zanesville City Official Directory in 1893:
Bendel Thos I, clerk A E Starr & Co, res 143 N Fourth

In the 1898-1900 Columbus City Directory, there are several of our Bendel's listed:
Bendel, Edward H. trav agt, h 802 E. Main
Bendel, Max E. clk, b 263 E Main.
Bendel Sarah, clk, b 802 E Main.
Bendel Thomas I, clk, h 263 E Main

In 1900, Thomas and Kate (who is listed as Catherine B) are renting a home at 374 E. Main St in Columbus, Ohio. They have Mary, Samuel, Max, Thomas, and Herbert living with them. He was listed as a Clothing Salesman.
Thomas passed away on 30 Oct 1903 of Bronchitis or Pneumonia in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. He is buried in Mound View Cemetery in Mount Vernon, Ohio. His lot:73e Sec:C Grave:5. The name on his stone is Thomas J Bendel, which is a transcription error, and it lists his birth year as 1847. The Cemetery Record states that he was born in Albany.



Thomas Isaac Bendel was born in June 1847 in The Town of Bethlehem in Albany County, New York to Henry Bendell and Mary Anker. He was the third of six children. His father died between 1860 and 1870. The details of his father's death are unknown.

His obituary was in the Democratic Banner in Mount Vernon, Ohio:

Thomas I. Bendel
________________________
Passed to His Rest Early Friday Evening
__________________________

Mr. Thomas Isaac Bendel, aged 54 years, died at his home on E. Vine street at 6:55 Friday evening of bronchial trouble. Mr Bendel suffering from several severe attacks during the week, and on Thursday was compelled to leave the Philadelphia store, where he had been employed since moving from Columbus four years ago. Mr. Bendel had been in frail health for a number of years, but on Thursday he suffered from a very severe attack of the disease and grew steadily weaker until death ensued.
He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Marie Baker, and five sons, Samuel, Max, Thomas, Isaac, and Hubert. (this is a mistake- Thomas and Isaac are the same person "Thomas Isaac") He was a native of Albany, N.Y., and was a member of the K. of P. and the Odd Fellows' lodges.
The funeral will occur Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock the Rev. W. A. Roush officiating. The interment will be in Mound View Cemetery.

After the death of his father, the Bendel family left New York. Thomas was not found on an 1870 census, but we assume that he moved to Kentucky, where he met Kate Bell Martin. His mother, Mary, moved to Columbus, Ohio to live with his sister, Sarah Aaron. Mary eventually moved to Kentucky to be near Joseph. Her grave is in the Jewish section of the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, KY. Thomas' sister, Susan and brother, Max also moved in with Sarah.
His brother Joseph moved to Lexington, Kentucky and Edward was living in Jeffersonville, Fayette Co., Ohio.
Thomas and Kate Martin were married on the 12 of Nov 1878. Their marriage story was found in the Winchester Sun Newspaper on the front page.

The most romantic story about Thomas and Kate's marriage was found on the front page of The Semi-Weekly Sun Newspaper in Winchester, Kentucky. It is as follows:

An Elopement Extraordinary

Winchester has had something out of the ordinary in the way of an elopement. Some months ago, Mr. Thomas I. Bendel, a Polish Jew, came here and set up a clothing establishment. In the course of a few weeks he met Miss Kate Martin, a beautiful young lady, whose family ranks as high as any in the county. Notwithstanding the difference in their religion and the disparity of their social relations, it was a case of true love at first sight, and it soon became patent to the most casual observers that matrimony would be the ultimatum of the affair. Of course Miss Kate's people were very much opposed to the whole affair, and tried every means in their power to prevent the young people from seeing each other. But "love laughs at locksmiths" and all such trifles, and Miss Martin and Mr. Bendel found means of communicating in spite of everything done to prevent it. Mr. Sam T. Martin, "the bride's father," had several very warm conferences with Bendel, but to no purpose, as it transpires. Last week Mr. Martin was caught on the jury, and he brought Miss Kate to town with him, where he could keep his eye upon her, as it were. Friday he concluded to send her home, and after dinner she started for her father's residence in a buggy , in the care of an old colored woman. Mr. Bendel was appraised of what was going on so he got into a buggy and started after her. He overtook her at Fox's toll-gate and took her vi et armis from her colored duenna, and made a break for Maysville by the way of Mt. Sterling, Sharpsburg and Flemingsburg. Mr. Bendel told a Sun reporter that at Flemingsburg he received intimations that Mr. Martin had been telegraphing to have him stopped, and that from that place to Maysville, a distance of seventeen miles, he "drove so fast that the wheels of the buggy didn't touch the ground but twice in the whold distance." They arrived at Maysville at midnight Friday night and immediately crossed over to Aberdeen and were married at 12:30 o'clock by Squire Beasley, the veteran coupler. Bendel's description of the marriage ceremony as performed by Squire Beasley is quite graphic. To-wit:

"Do you take this woman for better and for worse?"

" I do."
" Do you take this man for better and for worse?"
" I do."
" Man and wife. Sit down while I draw up the papers."

The happy couple got back home Sunday evening and are at present boarding with Miss Lucy Winn.
A Sun reporter interviewed Mr. Bendel yesterday morning and elicited from him the foregoing statements. As the reporter started away Bendel shouted after him, " Now, don't go and put in anything hard."
The reporter explained with a good deal of grace that he would dwell lightly on the matter and went on his way rejoicing. We will here take occasion to congratulate the brave young couple, and we sincerely trust their love may continue to grow warmer and their happiness deeper and brighter as the years go by.

They are found in the 1880 census in Blue Ball, Clark County, Kentucky. Thomas is 34 yrs old and Kate B. is 21 yrs old. Their first child, Mary, born 2 Nov 1879, is 6 months old and the birth month is listed as November. He is listed as working in a cigar factory. They have a servant named Laina Quincebury living with them, along with her 8 year old son, Willis.
Thomas and Kate had four more children in the next 9 years. Samuel Herbert was born 9 June 1881 in Clark County, Kentucky. Max Edward was born 10 August 1883 in Clark County, Kentucky. Thomas Isaac was born 9 May 1886 in Clark County. Herbert Taylor was born 12 Feb 1889 or 1890 in Cincinatti, Ohio.
Thomas I. Bendel is listed in the Williams Cincinnati Directory in 1889:
Bendel, Thomas I. clk h. 213 Oliver

Thomas and Kate are both in the 1894 Zanesville City Official Directory in 1894:
Bendel Thos I [Kate B], clerk A E Starr & Co, res 55 Center

Thomas is found in the Zanesville City Official Directory in 1893:
Bendel Thos I, clerk A E Starr & Co, res 143 N Fourth

In the 1898-1900 Columbus City Directory, there are several of our Bendel's listed:
Bendel, Edward H. trav agt, h 802 E. Main
Bendel, Max E. clk, b 263 E Main.
Bendel Sarah, clk, b 802 E Main.
Bendel Thomas I, clk, h 263 E Main

In 1900, Thomas and Kate (who is listed as Catherine B) are renting a home at 374 E. Main St in Columbus, Ohio. They have Mary, Samuel, Max, Thomas, and Herbert living with them. He was listed as a Clothing Salesman.
Thomas passed away on 30 Oct 1903 of Bronchitis or Pneumonia in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. He is buried in Mound View Cemetery in Mount Vernon, Ohio. His lot:73e Sec:C Grave:5. The name on his stone is Thomas J Bendel, which is a transcription error, and it lists his birth year as 1847. The Cemetery Record states that he was born in Albany.





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