Capt. William Bennett and Mary Ann Turner

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Husband Capt. William Bennett ¹

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           Born: 30 Aug 1813 - Westry-Black Auton, Devonshire, England 1
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         Father: Capt. John Bennett (1788-1871) 1
         Mother: Jane Coade (1792-1861) 1

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       Marriage: 28 Jun 1848 1

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Wife Mary Ann Turner ¹

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         Father: George Turner (Abt 1791-1886) 1 2
         Mother: Lucy Wilkinson (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Lucy J. Bennett ³

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           Born: 29 Mar 1850 3
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         Spouse: John Johnson (      -      ) 3

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2 M William E. Bennett ³

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           Born: 19 May 1852 3
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3 M Thomas Bennett ³

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           Born: 22 Feb 1854 3
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4 M Harry Bennett ³

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           Born: 15 Mar 1855 3
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5 F Priscilla P. Bennett ³

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           Born: 15 Nov 1856 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M James Edwin Bennett ³

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           Born: 13 Dec 1857 3
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7 M George W. Bennett ³

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           Born: 13 Jun 1859 3
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8 M Robert Anderson Bennett ³

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           Born: 2 Dec 1861 3
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9 M Lincoln Bennett ^{3 4}

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           Born: 17 Mar 1866 - near Hillside, Westmoreland Co, PA 3 4
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         Spouse: Lizzie Bley (1871-      ) 4
           Marr: 1889 4

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. William Bennett

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He was reared on a farm in a rural district of the county of Devonshire, England, and attended some of the best private schools of England then in existence. At fifteen years of age he came with his parents to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he was successfully engaged in farming for several years. When the Pennsylvania canal was opened in 1835 he rented his farm and purchased several canal boats, which he ran and commanded until the canal was abandoned. In 1853, when the railroad was finished as far as Johnstown he carried the Adams express from there to Pittsburgh by boat until the road was finished and the canal abandoned. Having become well acquainted with Thomas A. Scott when a boy in the collector's office at Hollidaysburg, was appointed by him as first train dispatcher in Pittsburgh in 1853; while there he became acquainted with Andrew Carnegie, who was then a boy in Scott's office. After some time he purchased a boat and left Pittsburgh for Wabash, Indiana, where he lost his boat and several horses and contracted fever and ague. He then returned to Westmoreland County and was engaged in farming near Blairsville until 1865, when he bought a farm near Hillside. This farm contained two hundred and eighty-five acres of good farming land, which was well-improved and underlaid with coal. In 1876 he purchased a beautiful as well as valuable plantation within nine miles of the city of Richmond, Virginia. He then spent the most of his time for over fourteen years on this Virginia plantation, which contained one thousand one hundred and forty acres and on which he harvested as much as five thousand bushels of wheat per year.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 426.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 372.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 427.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 229.