George W. BENNETT was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1838. Died Sept. 1, 1909, at his late residence in Taylor township, aged seventy-one years and twenty-one days. He was the last survivor of eight children born to McAfees and Eleanor BENNETT, one of them being the late W. C. BENNETT, well known in Greene county.
The subject of our sketch enlisted in the service of his country, June 7, 1861, in Company F, Fifteenth Ind. Vols., and served faithfully until June 25, 1864, having been promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was severely wounded in the heat at the battle of Mission Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863, from which wound he never fully recovered.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Scotland, and passed away with the hope of a blessed immortality.
Mr. Bennett was married March 14, 1867, to Nancy RILEY, in Jackson township, this county, and to this union there were born eleven children, one of whom died in infancy, but the other ten survive with their mother to mourn their loss.
The subject of our sketch enlisted in the service of his country, June 7, 1861, in Company F, Fifteenth Ind. Vols., and served faithfully until June 25, 1864, having been promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was severely wounded in the heat at the battle of Mission Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863, from which wound he never fully recovered.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Scotland, and passed away with the hope of a blessed immortality.
Mr. Bennett was married March 14, 1867, to Nancy RILEY, in Jackson township, this county, and to this union there were born eleven children, one of whom died in infancy, but the other ten survive with their mother to mourn their loss.
George W. BENNETT was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1838. Died Sept. 1, 1909, at his late residence in Taylor township, aged seventy-one years and twenty-one days. He was the last survivor of eight children born to McAfees and Eleanor BENNETT, one of them being the late W. C. BENNETT, well known in Greene county.
The subject of our sketch enlisted in the service of his country, June 7, 1861, in Company F, Fifteenth Ind. Vols., and served faithfully until June 25, 1864, having been promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was severely wounded in the heat at the battle of Mission Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863, from which wound he never fully recovered.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Scotland, and passed away with the hope of a blessed immortality.
Mr. Bennett was married March 14, 1867, to Nancy RILEY, in Jackson township, this county, and to this union there were born eleven children, one of whom died in infancy, but the other ten survive with their mother to mourn their loss.
The subject of our sketch enlisted in the service of his country, June 7, 1861, in Company F, Fifteenth Ind. Vols., and served faithfully until June 25, 1864, having been promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was severely wounded in the heat at the battle of Mission Ridge, Nov. 25, 1863, from which wound he never fully recovered.
He was a member of the M. E. church at Scotland, and passed away with the hope of a blessed immortality.
Mr. Bennett was married March 14, 1867, to Nancy RILEY, in Jackson township, this county, and to this union there were born eleven children, one of whom died in infancy, but the other ten survive with their mother to mourn their loss.
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