#6 Bennett Cemetery

This cemetery is located in the Rover Quadrangle. Just east of Mt. Vernon on Highway 99. Turn left on Mt. Vernon Road, just on the left. Fenced and in good condition. Still being used, so there will always be new burials not listed here.

Photographed by Teresa Ghee Elliott
Generationgoneby@bellsouth.net

The cemetery as it looked when we photographed it.

Older stones in the cemetery

Replaced stone:
(Stephen and Sarah (Catherine) Brown Bennett are my Great Great Grandparents.)
(Drury and Elizabeth Manier Bennett are my 3rd Great Grandparents)

Venie S. (Smotherman) Bennett
1854
1922
Drewy B. Bennett (son of Stephen and Sarah Brown Bennett)
1856
1900

S. E. Bennett; (son of Drewry B and Venia Smotherman Bennett)
17 Feb 1877
24 Feb 1936
Bitha Bennett
18 Jul 1879
31 Jan 1958

Can’t read, sorry.

Fred N. Taylor
12 Feb 1908
14 May 1997
Maye B. Taylor
14 Dec 1911
Married 22 Feb 1931

Myrtle Bennett Fletcher
14 Jun 1909
18 Dec 1957

Dick Owen Bennett
05 May 1904
20 Sep 1945

Jimmy Shack Scott; (son of Louise B and Norman D. Scott)
02 Oct 1938
21 Jul 1940

Louise B. Scott; (Daughter of Shack and Bitha Bennett)
08 Sep 1920
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Norman D. Scott; (Son of Hugh and Clara Scott)
24 Dec 1916
29 Feb 1988

Children: Jimmy Shack , Ellie and Norma Scott

William Joseph Owen
31 Mar 1848
24 Nov 1920
Kezia Bennett; (daughter of Stephen and Sarah Catherine Brown Bennett)
(named after Keziah Gambill Brown, her grandmother)
07 Aug 1854
01 Jun 1894

William Carter Owen; (son of William Joseph and Kezia Bennett Owen)
1873
1875

Almira B. Ray; (daughter of Stephen and Sarah Catherine Brown Bennett)
1863
1957
Francis M. Ray; (son of Phillip and Rebecca E. Phillips Ray)
1853
1927

Howard Underwood
05 Mar 1949

Minos Edd Brown
1893
1972
Beulah Ray Brown; (daughter of Frances Marion and Almira Parthenia Bennett Ray)
1889
1979

Martha Owen Ray; (daughter of William Joseph and Kezia Elizabeth Bennett Owen)
10 Jun 1887
09 Jan 1915

Mary Neva Bennett; (daughter of William W. and Mary Frances Stevens Brown)
02 Dec 1871
21 Aug 1955
John Clark Bennett; (son of Stephen and Sarah Catherine Brown Bennett)
12 Apr 1869
02 Jul 1943

John Clayton Bennett
17 Jul 1901
19 Apr 1967

William T. Hayes Jr
SKT 2 US Navy
World War II
21 Jun 1924
25 Oct 1988

James Robert Bradley
06 Dec 1955
29 Jan 1956

Emma Mildred Scott
28 Feb 1923
18 May 1923

Mary Evelyn Scott
1898
1973

D. J. (Devraux Jarrett) Bennett; (son of Stephen and Sarah Catherine Brown Bennett)
19 Apr 1858
28 Jun 1939
Mollie (Mary E. Owen) Bennett
25 Dec 1879
14 Apr 1961

Alma W. Scott
21 Oct 1931
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Thomas L. Scott Sr.
03 Oct 1928
10 Mar 1997

Dub (Devraux Jarrett) Bennett; (son of Devraux Jarrett and Mary E. “Mollie” Owen Bennett)
06 Mar 1908
15 Oct 1951
Louise (Stem) Bennett
06 Mar 1910
———–

Lucy B. Lynch; (daughter of Hezzie Thompson and Lera Elizabeth Redmond Bennett)
1904
1994
Silder L. Lynch
1907
1967

Robert Garrett Bennett; (son of Hezzie Thompson and Lera Elizabeth Redmond Bennett)
PFC US Army
World War II
02 Sep 1918
09 Feb 1998

Buford D. Little
16 Mar 1907
05 Mar 1989
Mary B. Little
07 Jul 1907
14 Mar 1996

William T. Hayes Jr.
21 Jul 1924
25 Oct 1988
Katherine L. Hayes
18 Nov 1928
———–

Marshall E. Potter
13 Apr 1911
20 Jan 1980
Johnnie B. Potter
26 Oct 191
———-

Thurman V. Burris
24 Dec 1916
31 Oct 1974
Margaret B. Burris
29 Jan 1922
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Lera E. (Redmond) Bennett
28 Oct 1884
07 Jul 1949
Hezzie T. (Thompson) Bennett
27 Oct 1880
11 Aug 1960

Thomas M. Gregory
Tennesssee
CPL Co L 323 Inf 81 Div
World War I PH
01 Oct 1892
11 May 1966

Charles Owen Gregory
US Coast Guard
26 Jul 1930
06 Nov 1983

Ralph Edward Gould
TEC 5 US Army
World War II
09 Dec 1922
14 Oct 1990

Robert G. Bennett
02 Sep 1918
09 Feb 1998
Maggie V. Bennett
17 Aug 1910
05 Mar 1998

James Robert Young
17 Aug 1941
29 Nov 1985

Stephen R. King Jr.
22 Aug 1959
20 Feb 1977

Thomas L. Bennett
1905
1975

Stephen A. Bennett
1902
1970

William E. Bennett
06 Jun 1929
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Virginia L. Bennett
20 May 1935
————

Bettye Doris Bennett
10 Oct 1956
21 Jan 1961

Grady J. Scott
05 Jun 1911
28 Sep 1995

Maira Scott Deckelman
05 Jul 1913
18 Apr 2000
John Harrison Deckelman
08 Jan 1910
02 Feb 1991

Mary Evelyn Gregory Gould
1922
——
Ralph Edward Gould
1922
1990

Charles Owen Gregory
1930
1983

Robert (Jack) Scott
27 Dec 1908
30 Jul 1994

Estelle Scott Gregory
27 May 1900
27 Apr 1993
Thomas Morgan Gregory
01 Oct 1892
11 May 1966

Andrew A. Scott
12 Dec 1878
12 Noc 1955
Evelyn Owen Scott
28 Nov 1883
24 Oct 1973

Samuel Howard Scott
10 Nov 1903
06 Aug 1956
Lena May Scott
04 Jul 1910
30 Nov 1966

William Owen Scott
22 May 1906
08 May 1981
Josephine Kelly Scott
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————

Raymond L. Little
30 Dec 1913
19 Jun 1998
Married 26 May 1933
Mary V. Little
08 May 1914
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Clara R. Scott
29 Mar 1894
23 Nov 1982
Hugh Scott
12 May 1889
16 Oct 1970

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