Benjamin L Bennett was born in 1807, likely the son of William Joseph Bennett and Tabitha Lanier, based on DNA ties among his descendants and their associations in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Benjamin listed Virginia as his birth state on later census records, which is consistent with the Mecklenburg County, Virginia residence of William Joseph and Tabitha Lanier.
Benjamin L. Bennett married Mary Word on Dec 29, 1832 in Limestone County, Alabama, just west of Huntsville. The couple lived in Mooresville in the mid 1840's, per postal records. Benjamin worked as an overseer for the Peete family, who had substantial holdings near Mooresville at that time. He must have also had his own small farm, as the family owned four slaves, according to Limestone County slave schedule records.
Benjamin and Mary had three children that survived into adulthood:
Ann Catherine "Kate". (Shelton) (b. 1833 d. 1905)
Dr. Thomas J. (b. 1836 d. 1920),
Martha M. (Eubanks/Barnard) (b. 1839 d.1904).
A baby named William Bennett was attributed to the couple online, but doesn't appear in any records found thus far. If he died prior to a census, there is the possibility he is the son of Benjamin and Mary, as his birth year of 1837 fits into a gap between known and documented children in 1836 and 1839.
In the 1840 Limestone County Census, Benjamin Bennett lived just two families past his in-laws, William Word. The Bennett household contained the following:
1 male under 5 (Thomas, age 4)
1 male between 20 and 30 (Benjamin, age 33)
1 female under 5 (Martha, age 1)
1 female between 5 and 10 (Ann, age 7)
1 female between 30 and 40 (Mary, age 32).
The 1840 US census book has the handwritten note in the margin, "Benj. L. Bennett m. Mary Word, license Dec 29, 1832".
Mary died April 27, 1847 at age 39, probably of some contagious disease, as two of her siblings, James and Ann Word, also died within weeks of her. She is buried in the Peete family cemetery along with most of her Word family relations, not far from Mooresville, AL.
Benjamin remarried Margaret A. Hall a year after Mary's death, July 25, 1848, in Limestone County. Margaret was about 21 years old, Benjamin over 40. He and Margaret had two additional sons, John (born 1850) and Henry (born 1855).
In the 1850 US Census, Limestone County, Benjamin L. Bennett (age 43) worked as an overseer on the Peete Plantation and was head of household, with wife Margaret A. (age 23 of MD), daughter Ann C. (age 17 of AL), son Thomas J. (age 14 of AL), daughter Martha (age 9 of AL), son John S. (infant), and sister in law Mary Hall (age 18 of MD).
In The 1850 Census AG schedule for Limestone County, AL, Benjamin's holdings were listed as 673 acres (improved), 445 acres (unimproved), $18k farm value, $1.5k equipment, 14 horses, 9 mules, 8 cows, 10 oxen, 60 sheep, 230 pigs ($2.5k livestock), 35 bushels wheat, 6,000 bushels corn,
Shortly after 1850 they moved temporarily to Rutherford County, Tennessee, where Benjamin's Uncle Joseph and cousins lived. His son Henry W. Bennett was born there in 1855. The following year they moved to Warrenton, Marshall County, AL (just west of Guntersville), where Benjamin started a successful cotton farm.
In 1857 Benjamin "induced" his brother-in-law, Henry W. Hall, and his sister-in-law, Mary "Mollie" Hall, to move from Huntsville to Warrenton. (Guntersville Democrat Sep 1899)
Benjamin died of rheumatic fever in April 1860 after three days illness. Probate records found in Marshall county archives show he divided his estate between Margaret and all five of his children. Henry W. Hall (Margaret's brother), served as administrator of the estate.
Benjamin's estate in Marshall County was substantial, consisting of over 300 acres of farmland along Brown's Creek (just south of the town of Warrenton), eight city lots in Warrenton, and over $20,000 in assets. Unfortunately, among his assets were eight human beings, four men (Henry (30), Jerry (26), John (28), John B. (42), a girl Effy (11), and a woman Minta with two children, Vena and ?. The men were valued from $1,000 to $1,600 depending on age.
Heirs to his estate included his widow, Margaret A. Bennett, daughter Ann C. (Shelton) and her husband LW Shelton, son Thomas J. Bennett, daughter Martha M. Bennett, son John S. Bennett, and son Henry W. Bennett. Margaret's brother Henry Hall was the administrator of the estate. Son Thomas J. is mentioned as being in Virginia in the service of the CSA. Daughter Martha is mentioned as visiting her uncle in Mississippi for the past 12 months. The probate records also show a mason charged the estate $15 to repair two chimneys and $10 to "wall the grave of Benj. Bennett".
His daughter Martha married Capt. Thomas Eubanks, a hero of Gettysburg, in 1863, only to become his widow after the Battle of Chickamauga. She remained in Marshall county the rest of her life.
Two of Benjamin and Mary's children, Thomas J. and Ann C., ended up moving back to Rutherford County, TN after the Civil War and remained there until they died.
In the 1870 US Census for Marshall county, there was an African American family with head of household Jerry Bennett living next to Margaret Bennett near Warrenton. This was no doubt their former slave Jerry. Jerry Bennett was 35 years old in 1870, listed as mulatto, with wife Emily (35) and children Westly (14), Mollia (12), Rosa (6), Rachel (2), and Richard (11). This Bennett family had moved away by the 1880 census.
Benjamin's land remained in the possession of John S. Bennett's descendants for many years. In 1935 his grandson Gus Bennett lived on the land, which totaled 380 acres. When the Tennessee Valley Authority proposed flooding the Tennessee River and Brown's Creek, a good portion of their land was flooded and Gus filled out a survey describing his property.
Gus died in 1951, a year after his son Washington was killed in the line of duty as a deputy sheriff. The final 79 acres of Benjamin's land went to Washington's widow and children, who sold it in 1962 to the local head of the TVA, L.C. Couch, for $13,000.
Research note:
DNA results in 2023 indicate a tie between one of Benjamin's direct male descendants and William Joseph Bennett of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Circumstantial evidence also point to this association. Benjamin Bennett lived in Rutherford County, TN in the mid 1850's. Two of Benjamin's children, Thomas and Ann, later settled in Rutherford County. William Joseph had a brother named Joseph who moved from Virginia to Rutherford County in 1838 "to be near his children" and was still in Rutherford Co as of the 1840 census, living in the household of his son Thomas. Benjamin's daughter, Ann C. (Shelton), is buried in Bennett cemetery at Rocky Fork, located on Thomas Bennett's land. A family association was always been suspected and the DNA tends to confirm it.
Benjamin listed Virginia as his birth state on later census records, which is consistent with the Mecklenburg County, Virginia residence of William Joseph and Tabitha Lanier.
Benjamin L. Bennett married Mary Word on Dec 29, 1832 in Limestone County, Alabama, just west of Huntsville. The couple lived in Mooresville in the mid 1840's, per postal records. Benjamin worked as an overseer for the Peete family, who had substantial holdings near Mooresville at that time. He must have also had his own small farm, as the family owned four slaves, according to Limestone County slave schedule records.
Benjamin and Mary had three children that survived into adulthood:
Ann Catherine "Kate". (Shelton) (b. 1833 d. 1905)
Dr. Thomas J. (b. 1836 d. 1920),
Martha M. (Eubanks/Barnard) (b. 1839 d.1904).
A baby named William Bennett was attributed to the couple online, but doesn't appear in any records found thus far. If he died prior to a census, there is the possibility he is the son of Benjamin and Mary, as his birth year of 1837 fits into a gap between known and documented children in 1836 and 1839.
In the 1840 Limestone County Census, Benjamin Bennett lived just two families past his in-laws, William Word. The Bennett household contained the following:
1 male under 5 (Thomas, age 4)
1 male between 20 and 30 (Benjamin, age 33)
1 female under 5 (Martha, age 1)
1 female between 5 and 10 (Ann, age 7)
1 female between 30 and 40 (Mary, age 32).
The 1840 US census book has the handwritten note in the margin, "Benj. L. Bennett m. Mary Word, license Dec 29, 1832".
Mary died April 27, 1847 at age 39, probably of some contagious disease, as two of her siblings, James and Ann Word, also died within weeks of her. She is buried in the Peete family cemetery along with most of her Word family relations, not far from Mooresville, AL.
Benjamin remarried Margaret A. Hall a year after Mary's death, July 25, 1848, in Limestone County. Margaret was about 21 years old, Benjamin over 40. He and Margaret had two additional sons, John (born 1850) and Henry (born 1855).
In the 1850 US Census, Limestone County, Benjamin L. Bennett (age 43) worked as an overseer on the Peete Plantation and was head of household, with wife Margaret A. (age 23 of MD), daughter Ann C. (age 17 of AL), son Thomas J. (age 14 of AL), daughter Martha (age 9 of AL), son John S. (infant), and sister in law Mary Hall (age 18 of MD).
In The 1850 Census AG schedule for Limestone County, AL, Benjamin's holdings were listed as 673 acres (improved), 445 acres (unimproved), $18k farm value, $1.5k equipment, 14 horses, 9 mules, 8 cows, 10 oxen, 60 sheep, 230 pigs ($2.5k livestock), 35 bushels wheat, 6,000 bushels corn,
Shortly after 1850 they moved temporarily to Rutherford County, Tennessee, where Benjamin's Uncle Joseph and cousins lived. His son Henry W. Bennett was born there in 1855. The following year they moved to Warrenton, Marshall County, AL (just west of Guntersville), where Benjamin started a successful cotton farm.
In 1857 Benjamin "induced" his brother-in-law, Henry W. Hall, and his sister-in-law, Mary "Mollie" Hall, to move from Huntsville to Warrenton. (Guntersville Democrat Sep 1899)
Benjamin died of rheumatic fever in April 1860 after three days illness. Probate records found in Marshall county archives show he divided his estate between Margaret and all five of his children. Henry W. Hall (Margaret's brother), served as administrator of the estate.
Benjamin's estate in Marshall County was substantial, consisting of over 300 acres of farmland along Brown's Creek (just south of the town of Warrenton), eight city lots in Warrenton, and over $20,000 in assets. Unfortunately, among his assets were eight human beings, four men (Henry (30), Jerry (26), John (28), John B. (42), a girl Effy (11), and a woman Minta with two children, Vena and ?. The men were valued from $1,000 to $1,600 depending on age.
Heirs to his estate included his widow, Margaret A. Bennett, daughter Ann C. (Shelton) and her husband LW Shelton, son Thomas J. Bennett, daughter Martha M. Bennett, son John S. Bennett, and son Henry W. Bennett. Margaret's brother Henry Hall was the administrator of the estate. Son Thomas J. is mentioned as being in Virginia in the service of the CSA. Daughter Martha is mentioned as visiting her uncle in Mississippi for the past 12 months. The probate records also show a mason charged the estate $15 to repair two chimneys and $10 to "wall the grave of Benj. Bennett".
His daughter Martha married Capt. Thomas Eubanks, a hero of Gettysburg, in 1863, only to become his widow after the Battle of Chickamauga. She remained in Marshall county the rest of her life.
Two of Benjamin and Mary's children, Thomas J. and Ann C., ended up moving back to Rutherford County, TN after the Civil War and remained there until they died.
In the 1870 US Census for Marshall county, there was an African American family with head of household Jerry Bennett living next to Margaret Bennett near Warrenton. This was no doubt their former slave Jerry. Jerry Bennett was 35 years old in 1870, listed as mulatto, with wife Emily (35) and children Westly (14), Mollia (12), Rosa (6), Rachel (2), and Richard (11). This Bennett family had moved away by the 1880 census.
Benjamin's land remained in the possession of John S. Bennett's descendants for many years. In 1935 his grandson Gus Bennett lived on the land, which totaled 380 acres. When the Tennessee Valley Authority proposed flooding the Tennessee River and Brown's Creek, a good portion of their land was flooded and Gus filled out a survey describing his property.
Gus died in 1951, a year after his son Washington was killed in the line of duty as a deputy sheriff. The final 79 acres of Benjamin's land went to Washington's widow and children, who sold it in 1962 to the local head of the TVA, L.C. Couch, for $13,000.
Research note:
DNA results in 2023 indicate a tie between one of Benjamin's direct male descendants and William Joseph Bennett of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Circumstantial evidence also point to this association. Benjamin Bennett lived in Rutherford County, TN in the mid 1850's. Two of Benjamin's children, Thomas and Ann, later settled in Rutherford County. William Joseph had a brother named Joseph who moved from Virginia to Rutherford County in 1838 "to be near his children" and was still in Rutherford Co as of the 1840 census, living in the household of his son Thomas. Benjamin's daughter, Ann C. (Shelton), is buried in Bennett cemetery at Rocky Fork, located on Thomas Bennett's land. A family association was always been suspected and the DNA tends to confirm it.
Benjamin L Bennett was born in 1807, likely the son of William Joseph Bennett and Tabitha Lanier, based on DNA ties among his descendants and their associations in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Benjamin listed Virginia as his birth state on later census records, which is consistent with the Mecklenburg County, Virginia residence of William Joseph and Tabitha Lanier.
Benjamin L. Bennett married Mary Word on Dec 29, 1832 in Limestone County, Alabama, just west of Huntsville. The couple lived in Mooresville in the mid 1840's, per postal records. Benjamin worked as an overseer for the Peete family, who had substantial holdings near Mooresville at that time. He must have also had his own small farm, as the family owned four slaves, according to Limestone County slave schedule records.
Benjamin and Mary had three children that survived into adulthood:
Ann Catherine "Kate". (Shelton) (b. 1833 d. 1905)
Dr. Thomas J. (b. 1836 d. 1920),
Martha M. (Eubanks/Barnard) (b. 1839 d.1904).
A baby named William Bennett was attributed to the couple online, but doesn't appear in any records found thus far. If he died prior to a census, there is the possibility he is the son of Benjamin and Mary, as his birth year of 1837 fits into a gap between known and documented children in 1836 and 1839.
In the 1840 Limestone County Census, Benjamin Bennett lived just two families past his in-laws, William Word. The Bennett household contained the following:
1 male under 5 (Thomas, age 4)
1 male between 20 and 30 (Benjamin, age 33)
1 female under 5 (Martha, age 1)
1 female between 5 and 10 (Ann, age 7)
1 female between 30 and 40 (Mary, age 32).
The 1840 US census book has the handwritten note in the margin, "Benj. L. Bennett m. Mary Word, license Dec 29, 1832".
Mary died April 27, 1847 at age 39, probably of some contagious disease, as two of her siblings, James and Ann Word, also died within weeks of her. She is buried in the Peete family cemetery along with most of her Word family relations, not far from Mooresville, AL.
Benjamin remarried Margaret A. Hall a year after Mary's death, July 25, 1848, in Limestone County. Margaret was about 21 years old, Benjamin over 40. He and Margaret had two additional sons, John (born 1850) and Henry (born 1855).
In the 1850 US Census, Limestone County, Benjamin L. Bennett (age 43) worked as an overseer on the Peete Plantation and was head of household, with wife Margaret A. (age 23 of MD), daughter Ann C. (age 17 of AL), son Thomas J. (age 14 of AL), daughter Martha (age 9 of AL), son John S. (infant), and sister in law Mary Hall (age 18 of MD).
In The 1850 Census AG schedule for Limestone County, AL, Benjamin's holdings were listed as 673 acres (improved), 445 acres (unimproved), $18k farm value, $1.5k equipment, 14 horses, 9 mules, 8 cows, 10 oxen, 60 sheep, 230 pigs ($2.5k livestock), 35 bushels wheat, 6,000 bushels corn,
Shortly after 1850 they moved temporarily to Rutherford County, Tennessee, where Benjamin's Uncle Joseph and cousins lived. His son Henry W. Bennett was born there in 1855. The following year they moved to Warrenton, Marshall County, AL (just west of Guntersville), where Benjamin started a successful cotton farm.
In 1857 Benjamin "induced" his brother-in-law, Henry W. Hall, and his sister-in-law, Mary "Mollie" Hall, to move from Huntsville to Warrenton. (Guntersville Democrat Sep 1899)
Benjamin died of rheumatic fever in April 1860 after three days illness. Probate records found in Marshall county archives show he divided his estate between Margaret and all five of his children. Henry W. Hall (Margaret's brother), served as administrator of the estate.
Benjamin's estate in Marshall County was substantial, consisting of over 300 acres of farmland along Brown's Creek (just south of the town of Warrenton), eight city lots in Warrenton, and over $20,000 in assets. Unfortunately, among his assets were eight human beings, four men (Henry (30), Jerry (26), John (28), John B. (42), a girl Effy (11), and a woman Minta with two children, Vena and ?. The men were valued from $1,000 to $1,600 depending on age.
Heirs to his estate included his widow, Margaret A. Bennett, daughter Ann C. (Shelton) and her husband LW Shelton, son Thomas J. Bennett, daughter Martha M. Bennett, son John S. Bennett, and son Henry W. Bennett. Margaret's brother Henry Hall was the administrator of the estate. Son Thomas J. is mentioned as being in Virginia in the service of the CSA. Daughter Martha is mentioned as visiting her uncle in Mississippi for the past 12 months. The probate records also show a mason charged the estate $15 to repair two chimneys and $10 to "wall the grave of Benj. Bennett".
His daughter Martha married Capt. Thomas Eubanks, a hero of Gettysburg, in 1863, only to become his widow after the Battle of Chickamauga. She remained in Marshall county the rest of her life.
Two of Benjamin and Mary's children, Thomas J. and Ann C., ended up moving back to Rutherford County, TN after the Civil War and remained there until they died.
In the 1870 US Census for Marshall county, there was an African American family with head of household Jerry Bennett living next to Margaret Bennett near Warrenton. This was no doubt their former slave Jerry. Jerry Bennett was 35 years old in 1870, listed as mulatto, with wife Emily (35) and children Westly (14), Mollia (12), Rosa (6), Rachel (2), and Richard (11). This Bennett family had moved away by the 1880 census.
Benjamin's land remained in the possession of John S. Bennett's descendants for many years. In 1935 his grandson Gus Bennett lived on the land, which totaled 380 acres. When the Tennessee Valley Authority proposed flooding the Tennessee River and Brown's Creek, a good portion of their land was flooded and Gus filled out a survey describing his property.
Gus died in 1951, a year after his son Washington was killed in the line of duty as a deputy sheriff. The final 79 acres of Benjamin's land went to Washington's widow and children, who sold it in 1962 to the local head of the TVA, L.C. Couch, for $13,000.
Research note:
DNA results in 2023 indicate a tie between one of Benjamin's direct male descendants and William Joseph Bennett of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Circumstantial evidence also point to this association. Benjamin Bennett lived in Rutherford County, TN in the mid 1850's. Two of Benjamin's children, Thomas and Ann, later settled in Rutherford County. William Joseph had a brother named Joseph who moved from Virginia to Rutherford County in 1838 "to be near his children" and was still in Rutherford Co as of the 1840 census, living in the household of his son Thomas. Benjamin's daughter, Ann C. (Shelton), is buried in Bennett cemetery at Rocky Fork, located on Thomas Bennett's land. A family association was always been suspected and the DNA tends to confirm it.
Benjamin listed Virginia as his birth state on later census records, which is consistent with the Mecklenburg County, Virginia residence of William Joseph and Tabitha Lanier.
Benjamin L. Bennett married Mary Word on Dec 29, 1832 in Limestone County, Alabama, just west of Huntsville. The couple lived in Mooresville in the mid 1840's, per postal records. Benjamin worked as an overseer for the Peete family, who had substantial holdings near Mooresville at that time. He must have also had his own small farm, as the family owned four slaves, according to Limestone County slave schedule records.
Benjamin and Mary had three children that survived into adulthood:
Ann Catherine "Kate". (Shelton) (b. 1833 d. 1905)
Dr. Thomas J. (b. 1836 d. 1920),
Martha M. (Eubanks/Barnard) (b. 1839 d.1904).
A baby named William Bennett was attributed to the couple online, but doesn't appear in any records found thus far. If he died prior to a census, there is the possibility he is the son of Benjamin and Mary, as his birth year of 1837 fits into a gap between known and documented children in 1836 and 1839.
In the 1840 Limestone County Census, Benjamin Bennett lived just two families past his in-laws, William Word. The Bennett household contained the following:
1 male under 5 (Thomas, age 4)
1 male between 20 and 30 (Benjamin, age 33)
1 female under 5 (Martha, age 1)
1 female between 5 and 10 (Ann, age 7)
1 female between 30 and 40 (Mary, age 32).
The 1840 US census book has the handwritten note in the margin, "Benj. L. Bennett m. Mary Word, license Dec 29, 1832".
Mary died April 27, 1847 at age 39, probably of some contagious disease, as two of her siblings, James and Ann Word, also died within weeks of her. She is buried in the Peete family cemetery along with most of her Word family relations, not far from Mooresville, AL.
Benjamin remarried Margaret A. Hall a year after Mary's death, July 25, 1848, in Limestone County. Margaret was about 21 years old, Benjamin over 40. He and Margaret had two additional sons, John (born 1850) and Henry (born 1855).
In the 1850 US Census, Limestone County, Benjamin L. Bennett (age 43) worked as an overseer on the Peete Plantation and was head of household, with wife Margaret A. (age 23 of MD), daughter Ann C. (age 17 of AL), son Thomas J. (age 14 of AL), daughter Martha (age 9 of AL), son John S. (infant), and sister in law Mary Hall (age 18 of MD).
In The 1850 Census AG schedule for Limestone County, AL, Benjamin's holdings were listed as 673 acres (improved), 445 acres (unimproved), $18k farm value, $1.5k equipment, 14 horses, 9 mules, 8 cows, 10 oxen, 60 sheep, 230 pigs ($2.5k livestock), 35 bushels wheat, 6,000 bushels corn,
Shortly after 1850 they moved temporarily to Rutherford County, Tennessee, where Benjamin's Uncle Joseph and cousins lived. His son Henry W. Bennett was born there in 1855. The following year they moved to Warrenton, Marshall County, AL (just west of Guntersville), where Benjamin started a successful cotton farm.
In 1857 Benjamin "induced" his brother-in-law, Henry W. Hall, and his sister-in-law, Mary "Mollie" Hall, to move from Huntsville to Warrenton. (Guntersville Democrat Sep 1899)
Benjamin died of rheumatic fever in April 1860 after three days illness. Probate records found in Marshall county archives show he divided his estate between Margaret and all five of his children. Henry W. Hall (Margaret's brother), served as administrator of the estate.
Benjamin's estate in Marshall County was substantial, consisting of over 300 acres of farmland along Brown's Creek (just south of the town of Warrenton), eight city lots in Warrenton, and over $20,000 in assets. Unfortunately, among his assets were eight human beings, four men (Henry (30), Jerry (26), John (28), John B. (42), a girl Effy (11), and a woman Minta with two children, Vena and ?. The men were valued from $1,000 to $1,600 depending on age.
Heirs to his estate included his widow, Margaret A. Bennett, daughter Ann C. (Shelton) and her husband LW Shelton, son Thomas J. Bennett, daughter Martha M. Bennett, son John S. Bennett, and son Henry W. Bennett. Margaret's brother Henry Hall was the administrator of the estate. Son Thomas J. is mentioned as being in Virginia in the service of the CSA. Daughter Martha is mentioned as visiting her uncle in Mississippi for the past 12 months. The probate records also show a mason charged the estate $15 to repair two chimneys and $10 to "wall the grave of Benj. Bennett".
His daughter Martha married Capt. Thomas Eubanks, a hero of Gettysburg, in 1863, only to become his widow after the Battle of Chickamauga. She remained in Marshall county the rest of her life.
Two of Benjamin and Mary's children, Thomas J. and Ann C., ended up moving back to Rutherford County, TN after the Civil War and remained there until they died.
In the 1870 US Census for Marshall county, there was an African American family with head of household Jerry Bennett living next to Margaret Bennett near Warrenton. This was no doubt their former slave Jerry. Jerry Bennett was 35 years old in 1870, listed as mulatto, with wife Emily (35) and children Westly (14), Mollia (12), Rosa (6), Rachel (2), and Richard (11). This Bennett family had moved away by the 1880 census.
Benjamin's land remained in the possession of John S. Bennett's descendants for many years. In 1935 his grandson Gus Bennett lived on the land, which totaled 380 acres. When the Tennessee Valley Authority proposed flooding the Tennessee River and Brown's Creek, a good portion of their land was flooded and Gus filled out a survey describing his property.
Gus died in 1951, a year after his son Washington was killed in the line of duty as a deputy sheriff. The final 79 acres of Benjamin's land went to Washington's widow and children, who sold it in 1962 to the local head of the TVA, L.C. Couch, for $13,000.
Research note:
DNA results in 2023 indicate a tie between one of Benjamin's direct male descendants and William Joseph Bennett of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Circumstantial evidence also point to this association. Benjamin Bennett lived in Rutherford County, TN in the mid 1850's. Two of Benjamin's children, Thomas and Ann, later settled in Rutherford County. William Joseph had a brother named Joseph who moved from Virginia to Rutherford County in 1838 "to be near his children" and was still in Rutherford Co as of the 1840 census, living in the household of his son Thomas. Benjamin's daughter, Ann C. (Shelton), is buried in Bennett cemetery at Rocky Fork, located on Thomas Bennett's land. A family association was always been suspected and the DNA tends to confirm it.
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