John Benizette Aylworth

Notes:

John B. Aylworth, who lived with his daughter, Miss Jeannette Aylworth in the Williams block on Kalamazoo street near Eagle, was taken suddenly ill at 9 o’clock last night with convulsions becoming at once unconscious. Drs. Mater and Young were summoned who succeeded after a time in checking them, but the ailment, chronic Bright’s disease, was too deep seated for medical aid to cure and about midnight he had another attack which ended in death a few minutes later.

He had had some disturbance of the kidneys but did not consider it of sufficient importance to necessitate treatment and had not taken treatment of any kind for several months; his death therefore comes with as great a shock to his family as to those who were only acquaintances.

Mr. Aylworth was born in Paterson, N. J., in 1826, at the time of his death being 78 years of age. He was engaged for a number of years as a stock dealer in Buffalo, N. Y., and during the civil war had several large contracts with the government, supplying the army with meat.

In 1871 he removed to Cleveland and engaged in the mercantile business which he followed until 1887, when he closed out and came to South Haven. During the greater part of the time since coming here he lived on the farm of his son south of town, and was engaged in fruit raising, but for some time past has been living with his daughter in the Williams block.

Mr. Aylworth was twice married. In 1847 he married Miss Hannah J. Warner, in Hampden, O., to whom was born his only son, D. W. Aylworth, now manager and a large stockholder of the Michigan Anchor Fence company. His wife died in 1861 and about the time of his removal to Cleveland he married Miss Mary J. Rose, to whom was born his only daughter, Miss Jeannette, who is a teacher of stenography and typewriting, and has been her father’s housekeeper since the death of his wife in September, 1901. Both son and daughter were with him at the time of his death.


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John married Mary Jeanette Rose about 1871. Mary (daughter of Thomas Rose and Huldah Wilmarth) was born on 22 May 1833 in Victor, Ontario County, New York; died on 17 Sep 1901 in South Haven, Van Buren County, Michigan; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery South Haven, Van Buren County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]