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1855 - Yes, date unknown
1848 - 1932 (83 years)
Birth |
1 Dec 1848 |
Christian Co., Kentucky |
Died |
6 Oct 1932 |
McLennan County, Texas |
Buried |
White Rock Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas |
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Father |
Walter Wyatt Bennett, b. 28 Dec 1819, Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
Mother |
Mary Minerva Short, b. 7 Mar 1829, Tennessee |
Married |
10 Oct 1847 |
Williamson, Tennessee |
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Family 1 |
Rebecca Jane Conner, b. 27 Jul 1855, Vernon Co., Missouri [3] |
Married |
15 Jan 1874 |
West, McLennan Co., Texas |
Children |
| 1. Alonzo B. 'Lonnie' Bennett, b. 23 Feb 1875, West Texas |
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Family 2 |
Ellie West, b. 1869, Prob. Texas |
Married |
28 Mar 1888 |
Texas |
Children |
| 1. J. Lynn Bennett, b. 26 Dec 1888, Texas |
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Family 3 |
Ursula 'Sula' Frances Hill, b. 1 Sep 1871, Georgia |
Children |
| 1. Jesse Clyde Bennett, b. 21 Jun 1896, West, Texas |
| 2. Mary Frances Bennett, b. 26 Jun 1904 |
| 3. Ruby Bennett, b. 18 Jan 1895 |
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1875 - 1925 (49 years)
Birth |
23 Feb 1875 |
West Texas |
Died |
1925 |
Texas |
Buried |
White Rock Cemetery, McLennan County, Texas |
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Father |
John Thomas Bennett, b. 1 Dec 1848, Christian Co., Kentucky |
Mother |
Rebecca Jane Conner, b. 27 Jul 1855, Vernon Co., Missouri |
Married |
15 Jan 1874 |
West, McLennan Co., Texas |
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Family |
Elsie Dale Williams, b. 2 Sep 1889, Collinsville, Texas |
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Name |
Rebecca Jane Conner |
- Daughter of John N. Conner, (1819-1866) and Margaret Kendall (1821-1867)
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Born |
27 Jul 1855 |
Vernon Co., Missouri |
Gender |
Female |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
Person ID |
I5321 |
My Reynolds Line | Descendants of James Reynolds of Surry County, VA |
Last Modified |
9 Jan 2017 |
Family |
John Thomas Bennett, b. 1 Dec 1848, Christian Co., Kentucky , d. 6 Oct 1932, McLennan County, Texas (Age 83 years) |
Married |
15 Jan 1874 |
West, McLennan Co., Texas |
Children |
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Last Modified |
9 Jan 2017 |
Family ID |
F1981 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bennett&GSiman=1&GScid=7605&GRid=126726237&.
His mother was Rebecca Jane Conner, born 27 July 1855 in Vernon Co., Missouri.
Siblings:
Lonnie B. Bennett (1875 - 1925)
J. Lynn Bennett (1888 - 1907)
Ruby Bennett (1895 - 1895)
Jesse Clyde Bennett (1896 - 1971)
Mary Frances Bennett (1904 - 1922)
- [S160] Correspondence, Charles Doersch.
The entry for Lonnie B. Bennett is incorrect as to his mother. She was Rebecca Jane Conner, who married J. T. Bennett 14 Jan 1874 in West, McLennan Co., Texas. She was born 27 July 1855 in Vernon Co., Missouri, the daughter of John N. Conner (1819-1866) and Margret Kendall (1821-1867).
I just a moment ago sent off a message through this site asking about the death date of Rebecca Jane Conner. I realize now that the record on this site is mistaken. The death date and cemetery location corresponds to Elie West Bennett, J. T. Bennett's second wife. Rebecca Jane Conner, to my knowledge, is not buried at this cemetery, and her death date remains unknown.
Alas, I am searching for her. She took her son and left JT Bennett before the boy was 5 years old and moved back to the Nevada, Missouri, area initially (where I can find her in 1880). Then I find no trace of her until her son, Lonnie, begins appearing in records around 1911. His original name I believe was "Alonzo." But other than in 1880 where he appears as Alonzo in the Ft. Scott, Kansas, census, he apparently never used that name again.
Perhaps you already knew that Lonnie B. Bennett was an oil driller, in demand internationally. Here his mother was an orphan with little to her name and his father a farmer, but somehow Lonnie got the training and the opportunity and excelled.
In 1911 he and his wife went to Baku, in the Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) where he worked drilled wells. They returned to the US in 1913, then again left for Baku, where they were caught up in the difficulties with the outbreak of the WWI. They apparently took the US Consul's advice and took boat to cross from the Caspian Sea up the Volga River and down the Don River to Rovorossiysk on the Black Sea, and from there got a train to St. Petersburg. They made their way past the naval blockades to Liverpool, England, where they sailed to the US in December 1914. But the Russians needed oil, and US oilmen were a hot commodity, so they returned in 1916 and were in Russia until the Spring of 1917 -- when the Russian Revolution broke out. That put an end to the oil business for Americans, so they sailed to the Dutch East Indies (what later became Indonesia), and then in May sailed from there to San Francisco.
In 1921 they sailed to Trinidad in the Caribbean for oil drilling work, and intending to go on to Mexico to do the same. But they returned to the US in the summer of 1922.
[PS. Margaret Kendall, Rebecca Jane Conner's mother, lived from 1821-1867).
Best regards,
Charles Doersch
- [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bennett&GSiman=1&GScid=7605&GRid=126725986&.
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