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Emma Conaway Bennett

Birth
Anderson County, Texas, USA
Death
1884 (aged 15–16)
Elkhart, Anderson County, Texas, USA
Burial
Elkhart, Anderson County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Emma Conaway was born 1868 to Alfred Conaway and Martha Jane Kennedy Watts Conaway. Her father died 2 Dec 1868. She was left as an orphan at age 11, when her mother, Martha Kennedy Quarles died.

She had three siblings; Georgia C. Watts b. 1859, married
W. Monroe Bennett, (brother of Levi Bennett), both buried Pilgrim, unmarked graves.
William Franlklin "Willie" Watts, born Jan, 1862 buried in Gonzales, Texas., and Edwin Kennedy Quarles b. 1878, buried in Pilgrim also.

She was the granddaughter of Branson H. and Eliza Killion Kennedy.

She was raised by grandmother Eliza Kennedy and Uncle Gus and aunt Annie Quarles Kennedy.

She married Levi Bennett, son of Miles and Laura Jordan Bennett, on December 18, 1882.

Fannie Lee Bennett was born of this union on December 29, 1883. Fannie Bennett Walling is buried at Garden of Memories Cemetery, Elkhart Texas.

Emma was alive on April 24, 1884, per a deed of Land Record at And. Co. Courthouse. Death date unknown. Burial plot unknown. No known picture of her exists.

I have put her father Alfred H Conaway on Find A Grave with no known burial site. I did find her Grandfather James Conniway d. 1863 in Harrison Chapel Cemetery, Dew, Freestone County, Texas.

Emma Conaway was born 1868 to Alfred Conaway and Martha Jane Kennedy Watts Conaway. Her father died 2 Dec 1868. She was left as an orphan at age 11, when her mother, Martha Kennedy Quarles died.

She had three siblings; Georgia C. Watts b. 1859, married
W. Monroe Bennett, (brother of Levi Bennett), both buried Pilgrim, unmarked graves.
William Franlklin "Willie" Watts, born Jan, 1862 buried in Gonzales, Texas., and Edwin Kennedy Quarles b. 1878, buried in Pilgrim also.

She was the granddaughter of Branson H. and Eliza Killion Kennedy.

She was raised by grandmother Eliza Kennedy and Uncle Gus and aunt Annie Quarles Kennedy.

She married Levi Bennett, son of Miles and Laura Jordan Bennett, on December 18, 1882.

Fannie Lee Bennett was born of this union on December 29, 1883. Fannie Bennett Walling is buried at Garden of Memories Cemetery, Elkhart Texas.

Emma was alive on April 24, 1884, per a deed of Land Record at And. Co. Courthouse. Death date unknown. Burial plot unknown. No known picture of her exists.

I have put her father Alfred H Conaway on Find A Grave with no known burial site. I did find her Grandfather James Conniway d. 1863 in Harrison Chapel Cemetery, Dew, Freestone County, Texas.


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