BIO: BENNETT, George, s/o William & Rebecca (Pittman) Bennett

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com    (Diana Flynn)

BENNETT   PITTMAN   GRIMES   

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA"  
GOODSPEED BROS.1884

GEORGE BENNETT was born in Harrison County, Ind., May 17, 1827.  In a family
of eleven he is the sixth.  His parents were WILLIAM and REBECCA (PITTMAN)
BENNETT, who were natives of Kentucky, where they were married.  From that
State they came to Indiana, locating first in Harrison County, whence they
came to Orange County some time prior to 1833.  Here they spent the balance
of their lives and at their deaths were buried in Providence Cemetery.
George Bennett received in his boyhood an ordinary education such as the
early schools afforded.  He was raised to a farmer's life by his parents,
with whom he remained until twenty-two years old.  At that age he was
married, July 10, 1849, to Miss NANCY GRIMES, who has borne him a family of
nine children, named JAMES, DICE E., SAMUEL, REBECCA, ALONZO T., GEORGE W.,
JOHN L., ABRAHAM F. and ISAAC L.  Farming is the almost exclusive occupation
of Mr. Bennett and he owns a farm of 160 acres well improved and cultivated.
As members of the Baptist Church he and wife have been prominent for more
than twenty years in their community (Greenfield Township).  He belongs to
the fraternity of Odd Fellows and is a stanch Democrat in politics.
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