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Henry Seth Bennett

Male 1842 - 1924  (81 years)


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  • Name Henry Seth Bennett  [1
    Born 26 Jul 1842  Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died 16 Jan 1924  Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 
    • White and Toole show that he married Sallie COTTON in May 1873.
    Person ID I6833  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Adam Jackson Bennett,   b. 27 Jan 1815, Laurel Hill, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Mar 1886, Time, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Mary Jane Elizabeth Harvey,   b. 17 Dec 1821, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Mar 1901, Pine Hill, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 1 Aug 1839  West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Virgie Speights, in OLD TIMERS OF SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS, in a column about Pearl Chambers Lord Greer, dated January 30, 1964, wrote that "Adam Bennett and Mary Jane Elizabeth Harvey, came with their slaves from Louisiana, just ahead of the sheriff. He was chasing them to take away their slaves in connection with some sort of lien connected with the estate of Mrs. Bennett's mother. They barely made it to Texas and safety in time to camp in the 'sand field' now known as "Bennet Field," just on the Texas side of the Sabine. The Louisiana authorities camped on the opposite side of the river before frustratedly returning home the next day. Then Adam staked his claim atop a nearby hill with gently sloping fields towards the river. The place is still called the "Bennett Place." There is a family graveyard nearby. The elder Bennetts had come to East Feliciana Parish from Alabama, and his father, a silversmith, had come from Germany." In a later article, this one profiling Abbie Della Bennett Travis, January 27, 1966, she added that the lien was due to "a matter of a few unpaid debts. The slaves were to be confiscated, so the Bennett's, their two children, and Zelotus Margaret Ann Boyd Harvey raced to the Sabine River and safety which they attained just before dark."




    Family ID F844  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 26 Jul 1842 - Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 16 Jan 1924 - Louisiana Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972.

    2. [S743] Ancestry.com - Message Boards>Surnames, Bennet>Adam Jackson Bennett (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S743] Ancestry.com - Message Boards>Surnames, Bennett>Adam Jackson Bennett (Reliability: 3).