Hickory County, Missouri Biographies--William Y. Bennett

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Page 581

William Y. Bennett, stockman and farmer of Hickory County, Mo., and native of the same, 
was born in 1860, being a son of Ceborn and Lucy (Hollenbeck) Bennett, and grandson of 
Van Ransler Bennett, the latter a native of York State.  He was an early resident of 
Ohio and afterward moved to Iowa, but spent his declining years in Missouri; his death 
occurring two miles north of Wheatland, in 1884.  He was a carpenter by trade.  His wife 
was a Brandenberg, her grandfather having lived and died in Germany.  The maternal 
grandfather was born in York State, March 4, 1801, and died in Iowa in 1880.  Ceborn 
Bennett was born in Athens County, Ohio, October 14, 1835, and was there reared to 
manhood on a farm.  He located in Jefferson County, Iowa, near Fairfield, and was there 
married.  In 1859 he located in Hickory County, Mo., and resided here until his death, 
1876.  He was a Republican in politics, and during the Rebellion was a member of the 
Missouri State Militia.  His wife was born in Ohio, and is yet living.  William Y. Bennett 
is their only child, and was educated in the common schools of Hickory County.  He was 
married at the age of twenty years to Miss Cora Hickman, who was born in 1863, and by her 
has three children: Orlan, Zula and Earl.  Mr. Bennett has been engaged in merchandising, 
in partnership with E. T. Condley, at Cross Timbers, for four years, but since the fall of 
1888 has been occupied in farm labor.  He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South.  Mrs. Bennett is a daughter of William C. and Martha J. (Hicks) Hickman.

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