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Descendants List
Member: -- Name Restricted -- Nat'l #: 833860 Ancestor #: A111397
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The Said -- Name Restricted -- was the child of
William Owen Jones born on 26 - Aug - 1837 at Livingston Co KY
died at Livingston Co KY on 13 - Aug - 1927 and his ( 1st ) wife
Rebecca Jane Bennett born on 13 - Sep - 1831 at Alexander Co IL
died at Livingston Co KY on 15 - Mar - 1883 married on 27 - Oct - 1857
married at KY
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The Said Rebecca Jane Bennett was the child of
Alfred Bennett born on 7 - Feb - 1808 at KY ****
died at Livingston Co KY on 3 - Mar - 1888 and his ( 1st ) wife
Susan Stringer born on 27 - Apr - 1810 at GA ****
died at Livingston Co KY on 26 - Nov - 1904 married on 14 - Oct - 1830
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The Said Susan Stringer was the child of ****
Leonard Stringer born on - - 1760 at GA
died at Livingston Co KY on - Feb - 1843 and his ( 2nd ) wife
Dolly Ware Williams born on - - at _______________ ****
died at _______________ on 17 - Mar - 1828 married on - -
Associated Ancestor (Revolutionary) Record
STRINGER, LEONARD Ancestor #: A111397
Service: VIRGINIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 1760 GEORGIA
Death: 2-1-1843 LIVINGSTON CO KENTUCKY
Pension Number: R10267V
Service Source: R10267V
Service Description:
1) PROVIDED SERVICE AS WAGONEER;
2) ALSO SEAMAN ON PRIVATE ARMED VESSEL "POLLY HACKER," CAPT PARCELS
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Susan Stringer Bennett
Birth: 27 Apr 1810 Georgia, USA
Death: 26 Nov 1904 (aged 94) Livingston County, Kentucky, USA
Burial: Miller Cemetery, Newbern, Livingston County, Kentucky, USA
Memorial #: 33158656
Bio:
SUSAN STRINGER BENNETTMrs. Susan Bennett of Livingston County is 95 years of age and well preserved. Mrs. Susan Stringer Bennett of Livingston Co. Ky. enjoys the distinction of being the only surviving Daughter of the American Revolution in Kentucky, and one of the few and perhaps the oldest in the United States. Ms. Bennett is 95 years of age and resides in the place to which she came with her husband, a young bride, over 70 years age. Her home is six miles from Smithland and two and one half miles from the Tennessee River. It is a log house in the heart of the woods and has escaped, to a measure, the ravages of time. Mrs. Bennett has just been admitted to the D.A.R. Chapter of Paducah. A telegram from Mrs. August Danforth Greer, registar general at Washington, announcing that Mrs. Bennett's record had been verified and that she was eligible to be unrolled as a real Daughter of the Revolution, was recieved by the regent of the Paducah Chapter. Mrs. H.S. Wells while she was at the Kentucky State Society, D.A.R. Convention, in Louisville recently. She was elected by the national society Oct 5, 1904.Mrs. Bennett is the daughter of Leonard Stringer, who was born in Georgia in 1760, and entered the Revolutionary Army at about the age of 15. He drove a provision wagon until he was considered old enough to enter the regular service. A grant of land for his service was given him by Edward Telfair, captain, governor and commander-in-chief of Georgia and is now filed in the secretary of state's office. It is dated Jan 20,1786, and calls for 287 acres in Washington Co. Ga. Leonard Stringer was married three times and Mrs. Bennett is a daughter of his second marriage with Mrs. Dolly Ware Williams, a widow. She was born in 1810 in Georgia, but her earliest recollection is of living with her parents near Nashville,Tn. She says that her father and Andrew Jackson were intimate friends at that time and she remember to have frequently seen them riding horse-back together. Her father moved to Kentucky when she was about ten years of age. He settled in Livingston County, and after remaining there a year went to Southern Illinois, where his daughter stayed until her marriage, when she returned to Kentucky. Her husband was Alfred Bennett who was born in Livingston County in 1808. He, too went to Illinois when quite young but brought his wife to Kentucky a year after their marriage and passed the remainder of his life near his birthplace. He died about 17 years ago and was buried in Miller Cemetery near his widow's home. Leonard Stringer was a man of versatility. Besides being a soldier he was a doctor, a minister and a school teacher. He preached in the pulpit of the church John Wesley, the father of Methodism, established in Savannah,Ga. and got into a controversy with the followers of Wesley of the subject of baptism. Mr. Stringer being an ardent Baptist. Mrs. Bennett is remarkably well preserved and delights to talk of other days. When I called to see her, she was propped up in an old four poster bedstead, which must have been at least 100 years old. She wore a black lace cap over her scant grey locks, and her small black eyes beamed with intelligence and interest in all around her. It took little encouragement to get her to talk of her recollections. Yes, my father was in the Revolutionary War. I often heard him tell about it. He knew George Washington very well. He was in prison once or in some sort of a barricade. The prisoners were not given enough to eat, just a morsel of bread and a morsel of meat. A lot of parsley grew inside the prison walls and the prisoners thougth of putting it in a pot ans cooking it with their bits of meat. He was in prison when Cornwallis was taken to Yorktown. Leonard Stringer came to live wioth his daughter after her marriage since his last wife was dead. He lived in Livingston County and is buried in the same old cemetery in which others of Mrs. bennett's family are laid to rest. His death occurred in 1843. Mrs. Bennett is a very devout church woman and is the only living memver os the original ones of Friendship Baptist Church within a mile of her home. It was established in 1840 and she and her husband were the first people baptized between Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers at the point where she lives. A flax wheel over 100 years old has been preserved in the Bennett household; she also has a large platter and an old sugar blowl of blue china which are a century or more old. Mrs. Bennett was perfectly active until 17 years ago, when she had a fall, which injured her hip. And she has never since left home. She stays in bed most of the time, but occasionally walks around her room and sits in a chair. She will be 95 next April. Two high poster beds, a mahogany fresser and a fine walnut corner cupboard of hers were owned by a granddaughter, Angie Robertson, of Iuka.The children of Susan Stinger and Alfred Bennett were: Rebecca,1831, married Owen Jones; Dorothy, 1833, married Tom Leech; Nathan, 1835, married Vitula Hurley; John,1837, died in battle, CSA; William, 1839, married Ann Dycus(She later married Owen Jones); Lucinda, 1840, married Owen Jones; Serena, 1843, married J.W. Walker-second Thomas Jones,Benton,Ky.; Amanda 1845, married Thomas Moore,Caldwell Co Ky.;Alfred Rolan,1849, married Almina Aydelotte, second-Mary Ellen Jones, daughter of Colin Jones and Sarah HopperSource: History & Families 1796-1990, pg 136, submitted by Alfred Bennett, source-Paducah Sun Democrat-1904, family Bible"REAL DAUGHTER OF REVOLUTION, DEAD, MRS SUSAN STRINGER BENNETT OF SMITHLAND EXPIRES AT AGE 65, IS OF DISTINGUISHED ANCESTRY"Mrs. Bennett, the only real daughter of Revolution, died in her home in Livingston County, six miles from Smithland, Saturday from infirmities of old age. Mrs. Bennett would have been 95 if she had only lived until next April. She was born in Ga. in 1810. Her father was Leonard Stringer, who fought in the Revolution under Col. Elijah Clark. Mrs. Bennett was admitted to the Paducah Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution on Oct 5th.She was remarkably well preserved and retained possession of her facilities until her illness, which lasted only one day. She became ill Friday morning and her grandson Zed Bennett of Smithland, who was in Paducah to attend the First Distric Association was summoned to her bedside. She was unconsious when he reached her and remained so until her death. Another grandson, W.R. Jones, of this city was also with her when she died.Mrs. Bennett was extremely bright and interesting as well as sweet and gentle. A sketch of her was published in the News-Democrat.She left three children, Mrs Serena Walker, who resides in Benton, Ky. age 61; Mrs. Amanda Moore, who resides near Princeton, age 57; and Roland Bennett of Livingston Co., age 54. She was the special charge of two grandsons whom she had reared, Zed Bennett of Smithland and Bryant Bennett who lived with his grandmother. She also was the grandmother of W.R. Jones, T.A. Jones and Frank Bennett of Bridge Street, Paducah. A number of grandchildren survive her.The funeral will take place today and the burial will be at Miller Cemetery, near Mrs. Bennett's home where her father and other loved ones are buried. The funeral services will be from the Friendship Baptist Church of which she was a charter member 64 years ago.Source: Sun Democrat, December 1904, Echoes of Yesteryear, by Leslie McDonald.
Family Members
Parents
Leonard Stringer 1761-1843
Spouse
Alfred Bennett 1808-1888
Siblings
Joseph Stringer 1788-1858
Leonard Stringer 1794-1866
Roland Ware Stringer 1819-1881
Children
Rebecca Jane Bennett Jones 1831-1883
Lucinda Bennett Jones 1840-1891
Serena Bennett Walker 1843-1919
Alfred Roland Bennett 1849-1926
Created by: Karyn Dorsey Schronski (46482346)
Added: 22 Jan 2009
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33158656
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 02 November 2019), memorial page for Susan Stringer Bennett (27 Apr 181026 Nov 1904), Find A Grave Memorial no. 33158656, citing Miller Cemetery, Newbern, Livingston County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Karyn Dorsey Schronski (contributor 46482346)
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Susan Stringer Bennett
Birth: Apr. 27, 1810
Georgia, USA
Death: Nov. 26, 1904
Livingston County
Kentucky, USA
SUSAN STRINGER BENNETT
Mrs. Susan Bennett of Livingston County is 95 years of age and well preserved.
Mrs. Susan Stringer Bennett of Livingston Co. Ky. enjoys the distinction of being the only surviving Daughter of the American Revolution in Kentucky, and one of the few and perhaps the oldest in the United States. Ms. Bennett is 95 years of age and resides in the place to which she came with her husband, a young bride, over 70 years age. Her home is six miles from Smithland and two and one half miles from the Tennessee River. It is a log house in the heart of the woods and has escaped, to a measure, the ravages of time.
Mrs. Bennett has just been admitted to the D.A.R. Chapter of Paducah. A telegram from Mrs. August Danforth Greer, registar general at Washington, announcing that Mrs. Bennett's record had been verified and that she was eligible to be unrolled as a real Daughter of the Revolution, was recieved by the regent of the Paducah Chapter. Mrs. H.S. Wells while she was at the Kentucky State Society, D.A.R. Convention, in Louisville recently. She was elected by the national society Oct 5, 1904.
Mrs. Bennett is the daughter of Leonard Stringer, who was born in Georgia in 1760, and entered the Revolutionary Army at about the age of 15. He drove a provision wagon until he was considered old enough to enter the regular service. A grant of land for his service was given him by Edward Telfair, captain, governor and commander-in-chief of Georgia and is now filed in the secretary of state's office. It is dated Jan 20,1786, and calls for 287 acres in Washington Co. Ga.
Leonard Stringer was married three times and Mrs. Bennett is a daughter of his second marriage with Mrs. Dolly Ware Williams, a widow. She was born in 1810 in Georgia, but her earliest recollection is of living with her parents near Nashville,Tn. She says that her father and Andrew Jackson were intimate friends at that time and she remember to have frequently seen them riding horse-back together.
Her father moved to Kentucky when she was about ten years of age. He settled in Livingston County, and after remaining there a year went to Southern Illinois, where his daughter stayed until her marriage, when she returned to Kentucky. Her husband was Alfred Bennett who was born in Livingston County in 1808. He, too went to Illinois when quite young but brought his wife to Kentucky a year after their marriage and passed the remainder of his life near his birthplace. He died about 17 years ago and was buried in Miller Cemetery near his widow's home.
Leonard Stringer was a man of versatility. Besides being a soldier he was a doctor, a minister and a school teacher. He preached in the pulpit of the church John Wesley, the father of Methodism, established in Savannah,Ga. and got into a controversy with the followers of Wesley of the subject of baptism. Mr. Stringer being an ardent Baptist.
Mrs. Bennett is remarkably well preserved and delights to talk of other days.
When I called to see her, she was propped up in an old four poster bedstead, which must have been at least 100 years old. She wore a black lace cap over her scant grey locks, and her small black eyes beamed with intelligence and interest in all around her.
It took little encouragement to get her to talk of her recollections.
Yes, my father was in the Revolutionary War. I often heard him tell about it. He knew George Washington very well. He was in prison once or in some sort of a barricade. The prisoners were not given enough to eat, just a morsel of bread and a morsel of meat. A lot of parsley grew inside the prison walls and the prisoners thougth of putting it in a pot ans cooking it with their bits of meat.
He was in prison when Cornwallis was taken to Yorktown.
Leonard Stringer came to live wioth his daughter after her marriage since his last wife was dead. He lived in Livingston County and is buried in the same old cemetery in which others of Mrs. bennett's family are laid to rest. His death occurred in 1843. Mrs. Bennett is a very devout church woman and is the only living memver os the original ones of Friendship Baptist Church within a mile of her home. It was established in 1840 and she and her husband were the first people baptized between Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers at the point where she lives.
A flax wheel over 100 years old has been preserved in the Bennett household; she also has a large platter and an old sugar blowl of blue china which are a century or more old.
Mrs. Bennett was perfectly active until 17 years ago, when she had a fall, which injured her hip. And she has never since left home. She stays in bed most of the time, but occasionally walks around her room and sits in a chair. She will be 95 next April.
Two high poster beds, a mahogany fresser and a fine walnut corner cupboard of hers were owned by a granddaughter, Angie Robertson, of Iuka.
The children of Susan Stinger and Alfred Bennett were: Rebecca,1831, married Owen Jones; Dorothy, 1833, married Tom Leech; Nathan, 1835, married Vitula Hurley; John,1837, died in battle, CSA; William, 1839, married Ann Dycus(She later married Owen Jones); Lucinda, 1840, married Owen Jones; Serena, 1843, married J.W. Walker-second Thomas Jones,Benton,Ky.; Amanda 1845, married Thomas Moore,Caldwell Co Ky.;Alfred Rolan,1849, married Almina Aydelotte, second-Mary Ellen Jones, daughter of Colin Jones and Sarah Hopper
Source: History & Families 1796-1990, pg 136, submitted by Alfred Bennett, source-Paducah Sun Democrat-1904, family Bible
"REAL DAUGHTER OF REVOLUTION, DEAD, MRS SUSAN STRINGER BENNETT OF SMITHLAND EXPIRES AT AGE 65, IS OF DISTINGUISHED ANCESTRY"
Mrs. Bennett, the only real daughter of Revolution, died in her home in Livingston County, six miles from Smithland, Saturday from infirmities of old age. Mrs. Bennett would have been 95 if she had only lived until next April. She was born in Ga. in 1810. Her father was Leonard Stringer, who fought in the Revolution under Col. Elijah Clark. Mrs. Bennett was admitted to the Paducah Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution on Oct 5th.
She was remarkably well preserved and retained possession of her facilities until her illness, which lasted only one day. She became ill Friday morning and her grandson Zed Bennett of Smithland, who was in Paducah to attend the First Distric Association was summoned to her bedside. She was unconsious when he reached her and remained so until her death. Another grandson, W.R. Jones, of this city was also with her when she died.
Mrs. Bennett was extremely bright and interesting as well as sweet and gentle. A sketch of her was published in the News-Democrat.
She left three children, Mrs Serena Walker, who resides in Benton, Ky. age 61; Mrs. Amanda Moore, who resides near Princeton, age 57; and Roland Bennett of Livingston Co., age 54. She was the special charge of two grandsons whom she had reared, Zed Bennett of Smithland and Bryant Bennett who lived with his grandmother. She also was the grandmother of W.R. Jones, T.A. Jones and Frank Bennett of Bridge Street, Paducah. A number of grandchildren survive her.
The funeral will take place today and the burial will be at Miller Cemetery, near Mrs. Bennett's home where her father and other loved ones are buried. The funeral services will be from the Friendship Baptist Church of which she was a charter member 64 years ago.
Source: Sun Democrat, December 1904, Echoes of Yesteryear, by Leslie McDonald.
Family links:
Parents:
Leonard Stringer (1761 - 1843)
Spouse:
Alfred Bennett (1808 - 1888)*
Children:
Alfred Rolan Bennett (1849 - 1926)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Miller Cemetery
Newbern
Livingston County
Kentucky, USA
Created by: Karyn Dorsey Schronski
Record added: Jan 22, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 33158656
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