Martha Jane Bennett

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ACCUSED OF THE SHOOTING was Henderson Garten, a guerrila under Capt. Philip Thurmond of Oak Hill, and Jefferson (Jeff) Bennett a strong Southern sympathizer. This all came on March 2nd as we buried Boude Bennett in the Bennett graveyard several miles back of Jumping Branch. A kinsman of Jeffers9n Bennett pointed out the homesite of the old Secessionist and told how he met an untimely end. When the Civil War was over, the report runs, "Tuck" Richmond and others returned, went up to Jeff Bennett's house and avenged the death of Samuel Richmond, Tuck's father. This they did by killing Jeff Bennett and his dog. An old grave mound was pointed out as the tomb of secessionist Jeff Bennett there in the ancestral burial ground of the generations of Bennetts. Only a dornick marks the grave.

Robert married Nancy Elizabeth Adkins about 1838 in Mercer County, , , Virginia. Nancy was born in 1816 in , Brunswick County, Virginia Colony, ; died on 27 Sep 1901 in Mercer County, , , West Virginia; was buried in Bennett Cemetery, , Summers County, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Independent-Herald
Mrs. Nancy Bennett died at her home on Madam's Creek on last Thursday of the infirmities of old age. The deceased was over ninety years of age and had lived a widow for many years, her husband having been killed during the civil war. She was the mother of Messrs. Parker, Andrew and "Hi" Bennett, who live in this county. She was a consistent member of the Primitive Baptist Church.