BENNETT FAMILY CEMETERY, Anderson County, SC
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CEMETERY LOCATION:
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Four miles SE of Anderson

Latitude N 34 28.656 x Longitude W 82 34.899


CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY:
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TRADITIONS and HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY author Mrs. Louise Ayer Vandiver 
states...after some thoughts about rivers and springs, etc. 

"No place is fit for human habitation unless it is well watered, hence the 
interest in springs and rivers and creeks, they must accompany the homes of 
people. There is another necessity near to human habitations, and that is a 
place to bury the dead; a place to live and a place for a grave must go 
together. Our ancestors lived closer to their dead than we do, every farm had 
its family graveyard in the first days, then followed community cemeteries. The 
traveler along the hgihways may not realize that often the clump of trees which 
he admires at a little distance from the road conceals one of those old burying 
grounds. If the traveler happens to be of an investigating turn of mind, and 
dismounts, turning aside to see what is hidden by the trees, he is sometimes 
startled at being confronted with grave stones, often moulded and broken.

Such a graveyard lies on the road from Anderson to Carpenter's Mill, a clump of 
trees across a cotton field. When the thicket is penetrated one finds four neat 
head stones bearing the name Bennett. Elisha Bennett died September 30th, 1833, 
age 66 years; Sarah Bennett died November 27th, 1828, age 54 years; Egloe 
Bennett died March, 1828 age 18 years; Mitchell Bennett died January 20th, 1827, 
age 10 years. Perfect strangers to the intruder, yet there speaks the sorrows of 
a long past day---a father and mother and two sons. The little boy died in 
January, 1827, his eighteen-year-old brother in March, 1828, and the mother 
unable to bear the double loss, follows them the next November. The father 
lingers a few years, and probably they were sad years, then he, too, is gone. 
There was some one left, however, who did not forget. Those stones are 
distinctly modern, they have been put there in recent years. Lying on the ground 
not far from the graves, is a rough native rock, still bearing signs of having 
been inscribed, and "age 66 years" is still decipherable. Other graves there are 
in this old burying ground, but the rough boulders at their heads, if they ever 
bore any inscription, show no remains of it now. Sometimes there is not even the
rude headstone, only a sunken place in the ground tells that once a human body 
was placed there. The Bennetts were early settlers, the name occurs every once 
in a while in the study of the county history, and after years, one accidentally
stumbles on the fact that a member of the family went to New Orleans and got 
rich, and visited Anderson along in the 80s, that of course, was when he put up 
the stones in memory of his parents and his brothers. It is believed that one of 
the other graves may be that of a Revolutionary soldier, father of the Elisha 
Bennett whose grave is marked."


TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES:
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a. = age at death
b. = date-of-birth
d. = date-of-death
h. = husband
m. = married
p. = parents
w. = wife


BENNETT, Egloe, b. c1810, d. __-Mar-1828
BENNETT, Elisha, b. c1767, d. 30-Sep-1833
BENNETT, Mitchell, b. c1817, d. 10-Jan-1827
BENNETT, Sarah, b. c1774, d. 27-Nov-1828