Lydia Meador and John Best My search for the parents of Elizabeth Bess, my fourth-great-grandmother, started years ago when I built my first family tree. I had zero to go on. Family trees online were no help either, as none of them listed her parents. I truly started from scratch. Bess is a unique last …
William Bennett, of the Sycamore Mills area of Cheatham County, Tennessee, lived to be nearly 106 years old. We are lucky to have a few newspaper articles about his life that were written in the early 1900s when he was still alive. See 1) Wild Bill Bennett article and 2) Article transcriptions. If you carefully …
Here is a transcribed collection of newspaper articles about William Bennett, my fourth-great-grandfather. For the article, "Wild Bill Bennett", please click here. The Leaf-Chronicle, 06 Jan 1902, Mon, Page 6 HEALTHY And Able to Cultivate a Crop is William Bennett at the Age of 96 Years Mr. Wm. Bennett, of the Second District, was in …
The below article about my fourth-great-grandfather, William Bennett, has been transcribed word for word, including errors (grammatical or otherwise). William does tell his father's name: John! While the article gives A LOT of great information, I have not been able to prove much of it yet. I am working on a timeline of events according …
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This is the story of my third-great-grandmother as I know it. All information pulled from Ancestry.com records unless otherwise noted. Sarah Jane Watson, commonly called Jane, was born December 23, 1849 in Robertson County, Tennessee to Sarah Sally Frey and Talton Watson. By the 1860 census, the family of nine lived in Cheatham County, Tennessee …
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