Henry Seth Bennett

1842 - 1924  (81 years)

• Name	Henry Seth Bennett  [1]
  Birth	26 Jul 1842	Louisiana   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Jan 1924	Louisiana   [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 d. 28 Mar 1886, Time, Sabine County, Texas (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Mary Jane Elizabeth Harvey,   b. 17 Dec 1821, Louisiana d. 8 Mar 1901, Pine Hill, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	1 Aug 1839	West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana   [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

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Jul 1842 - Louisiana Death - 16 Jan 1924 - Louisiana  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972. [S743] Ancestry.com - Message Boards>Surnames, Bennet>Adam Jackson Bennett (Reliability: 3). [S743] Ancestry.com - Message Boards>Surnames, Bennett>Adam Jackson Bennett (Reliability: 3).