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David Chapin Bennet

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David Chapin Bennet

Birth
Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA
Death
8 Oct 1897 (aged 74)
Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA
Burial
Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 7, Lot 32
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cit: "The John Bennet Family of Stonington, CT"
marriage date: 7 June 1863 to Mary Winspear

Occupation: farmer
Assessor & Excise Commissioner Town of Cheektowaga

Left for California in 1850 during the Gold Rush with two of his brothers, meeting up with his cousins in Wisconsin and they all continued west together. D.C. returned to Cheektowaga in 1862 and married Mary Winspear on June 7, 1863. (Copies of several letters found at an estate sale that he wrote to her and others during this time are stored at the Cheektowaga Historical Museum)

-Buffalo Evening News 9 OCT 1897 death notice:
"DIED. BENNET-At Cheektowaga, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1897, David Chapin Bennet, aged 74 years, 9 months. Funeral from his late home at 3:30 P.M. Monday, Oct. 11."
-Amherst Bee 14 Oct 1897 death notice: "Cheektowaga Chat. Cheektowaga. October 13, 1897. Mr. D.C. Bennett died at his home here Friday morning at eight o'clock, after a short illness. He was interred at the Bennett cemetery. A widow and six children survive him, who have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement."
per Register of Deaths in the Town of Cheektowaga: recorded his age as 74 years, 9 months, 13 days. burial place: Bennet ground
cit: "The John Bennet Family of Stonington, CT"
marriage date: 7 June 1863 to Mary Winspear

Occupation: farmer
Assessor & Excise Commissioner Town of Cheektowaga

Left for California in 1850 during the Gold Rush with two of his brothers, meeting up with his cousins in Wisconsin and they all continued west together. D.C. returned to Cheektowaga in 1862 and married Mary Winspear on June 7, 1863. (Copies of several letters found at an estate sale that he wrote to her and others during this time are stored at the Cheektowaga Historical Museum)

-Buffalo Evening News 9 OCT 1897 death notice:
"DIED. BENNET-At Cheektowaga, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1897, David Chapin Bennet, aged 74 years, 9 months. Funeral from his late home at 3:30 P.M. Monday, Oct. 11."
-Amherst Bee 14 Oct 1897 death notice: "Cheektowaga Chat. Cheektowaga. October 13, 1897. Mr. D.C. Bennett died at his home here Friday morning at eight o'clock, after a short illness. He was interred at the Bennett cemetery. A widow and six children survive him, who have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement."
per Register of Deaths in the Town of Cheektowaga: recorded his age as 74 years, 9 months, 13 days. burial place: Bennet ground

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D. CHAPIN BENNET
Born
Dec. 25, 1822
Died
Oct. 8, 1897
Aged 74 yrs.

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