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Nancy <I>Riley</I> Bennett

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Nancy Riley Bennett

Birth
Ohio, USA
Death
17 Jul 1931 (aged 82)
Doans, Greene County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Doans, Greene County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Last Friday evening at 7 o’clock after seven weeks’ illness and suffering from a fractured hip joint, which she sustained when she accidentally fell from the porch at her residence in the Doans neighborhood, Mrs. Nancy BENNETT, widow of the late deceased George W. BENNETT, passed to her heavenly reward.

She was the mother of ten children and was a faithful wife and neighbor and a Christian mother.

Her husband was a soldier in the Civil War and was for many years a teacher in the public school and had been associated as a farmer and nurseryman with his brother, William C. BENNETT, who for a number of years conducted the Rose Hill Nursery.

The deceased was aged eighty-two years and three months.

Her children were William, deceased in youth; the other children are Mrs. Anna (Newton) BAKER, of Bloomfield; Mrs. Nellie EMERY, at home; Mrs. Fannie GAINEY, of Illinois; Mrs., Minnie HARRIS, of Chicago; Ernest BENNETT of Koleen; Oran BENNETT, of Odon; Homer and Clyde BENNETT, at home. She is survived by a large circle of relatives and grandchildren, besides her immediate relatives and friends.

The funeral and interment occurred at Kentucky Ridge Church, east of Doans, in Jackson Township, last Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The services were conducted by Rev. H. A. BAILIFF, of Bloomington. The CORBIN quartette of Owensburg sang several appropriate selections.

CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Jackson Township, Kentucky /Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Page 119, Column 2: BENNETT, Nancy, 17 Apr 1849—17 Jul 1931; BENNETT, George W., 11 Aug 1838—1 Sep 1909, CO F 15TH REG IND INF (Civil War).
Last Friday evening at 7 o’clock after seven weeks’ illness and suffering from a fractured hip joint, which she sustained when she accidentally fell from the porch at her residence in the Doans neighborhood, Mrs. Nancy BENNETT, widow of the late deceased George W. BENNETT, passed to her heavenly reward.

She was the mother of ten children and was a faithful wife and neighbor and a Christian mother.

Her husband was a soldier in the Civil War and was for many years a teacher in the public school and had been associated as a farmer and nurseryman with his brother, William C. BENNETT, who for a number of years conducted the Rose Hill Nursery.

The deceased was aged eighty-two years and three months.

Her children were William, deceased in youth; the other children are Mrs. Anna (Newton) BAKER, of Bloomfield; Mrs. Nellie EMERY, at home; Mrs. Fannie GAINEY, of Illinois; Mrs., Minnie HARRIS, of Chicago; Ernest BENNETT of Koleen; Oran BENNETT, of Odon; Homer and Clyde BENNETT, at home. She is survived by a large circle of relatives and grandchildren, besides her immediate relatives and friends.

The funeral and interment occurred at Kentucky Ridge Church, east of Doans, in Jackson Township, last Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The services were conducted by Rev. H. A. BAILIFF, of Bloomington. The CORBIN quartette of Owensburg sang several appropriate selections.

CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 1994, G.C.H.S., Jackson Township, Kentucky /Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Page 119, Column 2: BENNETT, Nancy, 17 Apr 1849—17 Jul 1931; BENNETT, George W., 11 Aug 1838—1 Sep 1909, CO F 15TH REG IND INF (Civil War).


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