LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

William Bennett Operated Hardware Store and Preached During 1885

WILLIAM BENNETT was born in Muhlenberg County, January 23, 1821,
and is the seventh of eleven children - four boys and seven girls
- born to Philip and Nancy (Forster) Bennett, natives of North
Carolina.  Philip Bennett is the son of Francis and Lydia
(Dossett) Bennett, of Ireland and North Carolina, respectively;
the latter of English descent.  He came to the United States
about 18__ [in original]; was superintendent of a plantation in
South Carolina.  The father of our subject came to Muhlenberg
County from Tennessee, about 1815, and settled on Pond River.
The mother of our subject was a daughter of Edmond Foster, who
was born in North Carolina, and came to Muhlenberg County about
1812 or 1815.  He was a farmer.  William Bennett received a
limited common school education and lived with his parents on a
farm till he was twenty years old, when he married America Lewis,
of Muhlenberg County, a native of Christian County, and a
daughter of Liston and D. (Fuller) Lewis, natives of Virginia and
of Irish descent.  No children were boren to this union.  After
his marriage Mr. Bennett engaged in raising and canning fruit.
In 1872 he sold and moved to South Carrollton, where he purchased
twenty acres and cultivated fruits till 1878, when he engaged in
real estate business for three years.  He then engaged in the
tinning business.  In June, 1884, he bought a hardware store in
which he is now engaged.  He and wife are members of the Baptist
Church, in which he was ordained to preach in 1947. [sic]

Bennett, Forster, Dossett, Foster, Lewis, Fuller
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NC, Ireland, SC, TN, Christian, VA

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