Lewis Green Bennett

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Lewis Green Bennett

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16 Jun 1916 (aged 80)
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Fruithurst, Cleburne County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Lewis Green Bennett was the third son of Marcus "Mark" Rowland Bennett, Sr. and Margery T. Brooke (or Brooks). The Bennetts moved from Hall Co., GA to Cleburne Co., AL circa 1827- 1833. Lewis G. married Eliza Jane Pounds, a daughter of Newman Madison Pounds and Mary "Polly" Albright, in Cleburne Co., AL. Lewis and Eliza had thirteen children:

Lewis Sherman
William Newman
Louvenia "Dixie"
Udoxie "Doxie" Winfred
Merriman Pounds
Richard Franklin "Frank" (Twin)
Roland Jackson "Jack" (Twin)
Ahasiah "Ahas" B.
Francis Alabama (Twin)
Emma "Emily" Georgia (Twin)
Maria V.
Grover Cleveland "Cleve"
Unknown - Per the 1900 US Census, Eliza was the mother of 13 children, with 12 children living.

Lewis G. Bennett enlisted in Company F, 25th Alabama Infantry of the CSA in October, 1861 and was discharged in June, 1862. He reenlisted in the CSA in March, 1863 for three months and later served in the Home Guards from August, 1863 to April, 1865. Lewis was listed as a prisoner of war and was paroled in 1865 in Talladega, AL. Eliza petitioned the government for several years regarding Lewis' military pension, but she never obtained it.

According to the Alabama Deaths, Lewis S. Bennett died on Feb. 01, 1916 in Cleburne Co., AL. However, no burial information has been found to date on Lewis Sherman Bennett, Maria V. Bennett, or the thirteenth unknown child.

Written by Sarah Joyce Gibbs Johnson.
Lewis Green Bennett was the third son of Marcus "Mark" Rowland Bennett, Sr. and Margery T. Brooke (or Brooks). The Bennetts moved from Hall Co., GA to Cleburne Co., AL circa 1827- 1833. Lewis G. married Eliza Jane Pounds, a daughter of Newman Madison Pounds and Mary "Polly" Albright, in Cleburne Co., AL. Lewis and Eliza had thirteen children:

Lewis Sherman
William Newman
Louvenia "Dixie"
Udoxie "Doxie" Winfred
Merriman Pounds
Richard Franklin "Frank" (Twin)
Roland Jackson "Jack" (Twin)
Ahasiah "Ahas" B.
Francis Alabama (Twin)
Emma "Emily" Georgia (Twin)
Maria V.
Grover Cleveland "Cleve"
Unknown - Per the 1900 US Census, Eliza was the mother of 13 children, with 12 children living.

Lewis G. Bennett enlisted in Company F, 25th Alabama Infantry of the CSA in October, 1861 and was discharged in June, 1862. He reenlisted in the CSA in March, 1863 for three months and later served in the Home Guards from August, 1863 to April, 1865. Lewis was listed as a prisoner of war and was paroled in 1865 in Talladega, AL. Eliza petitioned the government for several years regarding Lewis' military pension, but she never obtained it.

According to the Alabama Deaths, Lewis S. Bennett died on Feb. 01, 1916 in Cleburne Co., AL. However, no burial information has been found to date on Lewis Sherman Bennett, Maria V. Bennett, or the thirteenth unknown child.

Written by Sarah Joyce Gibbs Johnson.

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