Obituary: Euel Bennett, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by  Robert Vernon, Jan. 2002

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The Amite Progress, February 26, 1942

Funeral Tuesday At Pine Hill Church

Funeral services for Euel Bennett were held at Pine Hill Methodist church near Greensburg 
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  The Rev. Sam R. Gordon, Amite Baptist pastor and the Rev. 
H.E. Williams, Roseland Baptist pastor conducted the services.

Pallbearers were five sons, Cicero, Virgil, Fayette, Elmo and Clifford Bennett and a nephew 
Elbert Bennett of Hillsdale, La.

Interment was in the cemetery adjoining the church.

Mr. Bennett was a lifelong resident of St. Helena parish.  He was a son of the late Sam Bennett 
and Mrs. Bell Williams Bennett.

He is survived by his widow Mrs. Mattie Dillon Bennett, the following six sons and five 
daughters: Mrs. Albert (Son) Alford of Wilmer; Mrs. Charles O'Brien of Greensburg; Cicero and 
Virgil Bennett both of Camp Blanding, Fla., Elmo Bennett of the Grangeville CCC camp; 
Clifford, Fayette, Willie Beatrice, Mattie Maude, Ruth and J.Y. Bennett; also by three brothers, 
Dallie Bennett, Amite; Curley Bennett, Greensburg; Fred Bennett, Roseland; two half brothers 
Sam Bennett, Krotz Springs; and Gill Bennett, Hillsdale.

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