CHARLES N. BENNETT was born in this county, June 23,
1811, and is the eldest of five children born to Samuel and Lucretia (Barnett) Bennett.
Samuel Bennett came from near Baltimore, Md., when a boy, with his father's
(John Bennett's) family, to Ohio County, Ky., in 1798. He was a well-to-do
farmer, and died May 11, 1837; his widow died November 15, 1854. Charles N. received
the early training common to pioneer life. December 24, 1835, he married Miss
Martha Lindley, daughter of Daniel and Sallie Lindley, of Ohio County, and
settled on his present farm, then all timber, which he has largely cleared and
improved, and now has 355 acres with cottage residence, and all surrounding
conveniences, the result of his personal energy and frugality. Mrs. Bennett
died March 23, 1883. She was a member of the Methodist Church South, of which
Mr. Bennett is also a member. They were blessed with five children, four now
living: Lucretia M. (wife of E. "Virgil), D. D., Stevens (farming), Amanda
E. (at home), and Robert D., a Methodist minister. Mr. Bennett is a temperance
Democrat.
Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G.
C. KNIFFIN 1895
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