Gerald Massie Bennett

Other Events:

• Residence: 1880, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States

Gerald married Anna Elizabeth Cramlet on 29 Oct 1897 in Madison, Iowa, United States. Anna (daughter of Private Isaac Beaird Cramlet and Martha Ellen Cornman) was born on 25 Dec 1880 in Madison, Iowa, United States; died on 15 Jul 1947 in Benson, Swift, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Florence Arzella Bennett was born on 19 Jun 1898 in Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States; died in Abt. 1980.
2. Vernes Raymond Bennett was born on 4 Feb 1900 in Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States.
3. Mary Ellen Bennett was born on 23 Feb 1901 in Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States; died on 09 Sep 1946; was buried in Benson Cemetery, Benson, Swift, Minnesota, United States.
4. Alvin Ben Bennett was born on 6 Jun 1902 in Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States; died on 27 Jun 1946 in Kimball, Stearns, Minnesota, United States.
5. Jessie Lucille Bennett was born on 1 Apr 1905 in Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States; died on 02 Apr 1969 in Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States.
6. Clarence Andrew Bennett was born on 9 Nov 1906 in Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States; died on 10 Dec 1969 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
7. Clyde Richard Bennett was born on 23 Oct 1908 in Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States.
8. Gerald Nelson Bennett
9. Walter Wayne Bennett was born on 14 Mar 1919 in Appleton, Swift, Minnesota, United States; died on 18 Dec 1977 in Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States.
10. Warren Isaac Bennett was born on 10 Nov 1920 in Benson, Swift, Minnesota, United States; died on 1 Mar 1993.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, Pike, Marion, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1856, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1860, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1870, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1880, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1895, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1900, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States

Notes:

Birth:
Notes on headstone pic list DOB as 22 Oct 1835

Andrew married Mary Elizabeth Gideon on 28 Feb 1860 in Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States. Mary (daughter of Henry Gideon and Nancy Anna Miller) was born on 24 Apr 1842 in Mad River, Champaign, Ohio, United States; died on 18 Jun 1935 in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States; was buried in Bennett Cemetery, Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, Sangamon, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1860, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1870, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1880, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1900, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1930, Adel, Dallas, Iowa, United States

Other Events:

• Residence: 1806, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
• Residence: 1809, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
• Residence: 1831, Marion, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 23 Oct 1834, Marion, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1840, Pike, Marion, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1850, Pike, Marion, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1856, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 16 Jun 1860, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 21 Aug 1870, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 8 Jul 1880, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States

Notes:

More information on Jacob can be found here:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bennett1/Musings%20and%20Speculations.htm

Possible lead on parentage:

1820, Luzerne, Fayette, PA: William Bennett, with 1 white male aged 16-25 in his household (along with others).

1810, Luzerne, Fayette, PA: Thomas Bennett.
1810, German, Fayette, PA: Amos Bennett
1810, German, Fayette, PA: George W Bennett

1800, German, Fayette, PA: Jacob Bennett, 2 white males under 10.

1790, Bullskin, Fayette, PA: Samuel Bennett.

Birth:
Tombstone says 1 Feb 1794

Fayette County reference is from The History of Madison County. This conflicts with other evidence regarding Jacob Bennett in Ashbridge, where Isaac Bennett's family was settled in Somerset County.

Jacob married Lydia Susannah Schaffer in Abt. 1820 in Indiana, United States. Lydia (daughter of Schaffer) was born on 15 Mar 1799 in Pennsylvania, United States; died on 29 May 1877 in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, Pike, Marion, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1860, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1870, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1880, Madison, Madison, Iowa, United States

Notes:

Brother Henry Schaffer living with them in 1880 census.

Birth:
Using tombstone math, the date should be 4 Oct 1803

Residence:
Only census to list her birthplace as Maryland. Parents listed as born in Maryland. Henry, her brother, is listed as having been born in Maryland and his parents match her parents' birthplace.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, Sangamon, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1870, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States
• Residence: 1880, Fort Calhoun, Washington, Nebraska, United States

Henry married Nancy Anna Miller on 27 Oct 1825 in Urbana, Champaign, Ohio, United States. Nancy (daughter of Valentine Miller and Sarah Conard) was born on 28 Sep 1806 in Loudoun, Virginia, United States; died on 05 Jul 1869 in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States; was buried in Bennett Cemetery, Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, Sangamon, Illinois, United States

Other Events:

• Residence: 1800, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States; Brothersvalley
• Residence: 1830, Ridgeway, Orleans, New York, United States
• Residence: 1834, Ridgeway, Orleans, New York, United States

Notes:

Life & times of Isaac Bennett after moving to New York from Pennsylvania.

He moved from Brothersvalley, Pennsylvania after 1804 and is found in Medina, New York in 1809.

Aquilla Bennett Sr. told to his grandson, George Albert Bennett that:

?As a young child, he boiled salt in kettles with his father, Isaac Bennett, in Medina Twp, Orleans Co., NY. ?

Isaac's first attempt in the making of ?White Gold? (salt) was in 1813, but the enterprise was not sucessful. In 1818 he came into possesion of a unprofitable saltworks from the Holland Land Company. From 1818 to 1823, Isaac & family were in the business of salt production. Since Aquilla mentioned boiling the salt, it would make sense that Isaac's other son's, Jacob & Jesse also had a hand in this line of work. This saltworks was located on the east bank of Oak Orchard Creek in Oak Orchard village. Here he sunk a well 150 feet into the ground & found a good brine, which could be boiled down to get the salt.

He then contracted Israel & Seymour Murdock to furnish him with 64 kettles, which they acquired in Utica, NY and had shipped by lake, to the mouth of Oak Orchard creek. The Murdock boys then hired several teams to bring the heavy kettles to the works, arriving one day before Isaac's stipulated delivery date, once delivered they received their pay in gold. (By the end of this business venture Isaac had upwards of 70 kettles boiling.)

Making salt it seems was a labor intensive, dangerous & mundane job. After drawing the brine water to the surface it was emptied into the large boiling kettles, (some possibly set out in large bowls in the sun to evaporate). Men stood over the kettles, stirring the fetid smelling water with long wooden paddles. While this may sound like a hot job it was also very dangerous! Mention is made of men being severly scaled by the boiling brine and worse, falling in the huge kettles which ultimately led to their deaths.

Issac sold his salt for between $5-$10 a barrel ( $10 in 1825 had the same buying power as $217.90 current dollars) It appears then that Isaac was a fairly wealthy man, since it is stated about his saltworks: ?furnishing a large portion of all the salt used in this portion of the country.?

Isaac a wise businessman, could see the handwriting on the wall with the building of the Erie Canal. Once the Erie Canal was complete, salt could be shipped from Salina (now Syracuse) and purchased for a much cheaper price, which in turn would hurt his profits. He decided to sell his business in 1823 to Henry Boardman, who abandoned the business once the canal was completed.

There is much more to be found about Isaac Bennett. There is much documentation that shows he also amougst other ventures, made a pretty good living buying and selling very large tracts of land in Pennsylvania, West Virginia & New York. We think that he died around 1835 in New York....

Written by Lisa Hoffius. A huge Thanks goes to cousin David Sidney Bennett (Maryland) also a descendant of Isaac Bennett. After David's father passed away last year, he came into possesion of many notes written by his ancestors, leading to the discovery of where Isaac Bennett wandered off to after his years in Brothersvalley Twp., Somerset Co., PA.

Isaac married Hannah in Abt. 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Peter's Ancestor, Peter Heinrich Gideon
"Peter Heinrich Gideon of Bavaria in company with his wife and one year old son, Peter, started for the new world about 1749. The wife died en voyage but Peter Heinrich and his son, Peter, arrived safely at Philadelphia. Peter Heinrich Gideon remarried and had other children. Both father and son fought in the Revolutionary War. Peter Gideon located in Maryland but later removed to Loudoun County, Virginia where he followed farming until his death in 1844 at the age of 96 years. He had seven children, the oldest son being George."

"Peter Gideon, his wife and son, Peter, emigrated from Holland before the Revolutionary War and settled in Loudon County, Virginia. Mrs. Gideon died aboard ship. Both Peter and his son served in the Revolutionary War.

"The son, Peter, married Catherine McGlacoflin in 1755 [?] and they were the parents of ten children. Their son, George W. and wife moved to Ohio before 1820 settling in DeWill County [Dewitt County] before 1850."
- Clinton 1835-1985, Dewitt County, Illinois 1839-1985; IL (Dewitt) HIS 1985, pp.295-296; Bloomington-Normal Genealogical Society Library, 201 E. Grove St., Bloomington, IL 61701; submitted by Mary Robb Kolp

Peter married Mary Catherine Ernst in BEF. 1788 in Loudoun, Virginia, United States. Mary was born on 12 Jan 1774 in Bavaria, Germany; died on 13 Aug 1836 in Hillsboro, Loudoun, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"In the year 1817 several members of the Miller family emigrated from the vicinity of Harper's Ferry in Loudon County, Va., to Champaign County, Ohio. The emigrants consisted of Valentine Miller, his wife and some of his family including several sons-in-law. It was a sort of exodus of the Miller family since the father and mother resolved not to be left behind if the children came West.

"Valentine Miller was of German descent and followed the occupation of a miller continuing in it for years after coming to Ohio. He bought a tract of land in Champaign County and divided it among his children retaining a farm for himself. He and his wife are buried in a family burying ground on a part of the Miller estate near Millersville, Ohio, which took its name from this family.

"The wife of Valentine Miller was Sarah Conrad. She was of English and Welsh descent and came of that early Virginia colony which obtained its wives by paying for their passage with tobacco. ..." - The Clinton Register, Clinton, Illinois, 26 Jan 1912, excerpt from the obituary for Ann (Gideon) Parker
http://members.aol.com/rair/miller03.html

Valentine married Sarah Conard on 24 Jan 1789 in Loudoun, Virginia, United States. Sarah (daughter of John Conard and Elizabeth Potts) was born on 4 Jan 1768 in Hillsboro, Loudoun, Virginia, United States; died in in Champaign, Ohio, United States; was buried in Myrtle Tree Cemetery, Bellefontaine, Champaign, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]