Mary Jane Bennett

Notes:

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Name: Mary J. Ferguson
Death Date: 18 Sep 1946
Death Place: Victoria, Victoria, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: w
Death Age:
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 15 Jan 1877
Birthplace: Sabine County, Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Bertice Bennett
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Name: Mary Chambers
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Victoria, Victoria, Texas
Cemetery:
Burial Place: Ft. Worth, Texas
Burial Date: 19 Sep 1946
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2218424
Digital Film Number: 4030535
Image Number: 441
Reference Number: 43220
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Notes:

His middle name is shown by some as Chamberlain. The transcription of the New Hope Cemetery simply shows him as B. G. Bennett. On the 1870 census, he is shown as B. C. Bennett.



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Census Listings:

1870 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Beat No. 2, PO Sabine Town
Enumerated 23 July 1870
Page 4
335-335
Bennett B C 25 M W Farmer 300 600 Tx
Bennett, Mary 27 F W Keeping House Ga
Bennett, Lee A 1 M W Tx

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Precinct 5
Enumerated 6 and 7 July 1880
Page 28 SD 1 ED 86
244-244
Bennett, Burtis W M 30 Farmer Tx La SC
Bennett, Mary W F 30 Wf Keeps House Ga Ga Ga
Bennett, Lee W M 11 Son Works of Farm Tx Tx Ga
Bennett, Henry W M 9 Son Tx Tx Ga
Bennett, Willie W M 7 Son Tx Tx Ga
Bennett, Mary J W F 3 Dtr Tx Tx Ga
Mathews, John Mu M 20 Servant Works on Farm Tx Miss Miss

1900 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Precinct 5
Enumerated 14 Jun 1900
SD 8 ED 72 Sheet 15B
205-205
Bennett, Burtis Head W M Apr 1845 55 Wd Tx La La Farmer
Bennett, Mary J Mother W F Jan 1823 77 Wd La --- NC

Burtis married Mary Chambers on 4 Jul 1867. Mary (daughter of Allen Chambers and Mary "Polly" Dixon) was born on 25 Oct 1842 in Georgia; died on 8 Jan 1893 in Texas; was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"2nd Lieut. in Co. K in the Mexican War." SABINE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL RECORDS by White and Toole

Kay Parker McCary, in the transcription of the tombstone, writes that he was Born in West Feliciana Parish, LA, Removed to Texas Dec 1842

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Sabine District
Enumerated 30 Oct 1850
Stamped 320
146-146
Adam J Bennett 35 M Farmer $400 La
Mary J. E. Bennett 24 F La
Mary Ann Benett 9 F La
Henry L. Bennett 8 M La
Burtus C. Bennett 6 M Texas
Sarah Jane Bennett 4 F Texas
William H Bennett 3/12 M Texas

1860 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Patroon Beat No. 5. P. O. Box Milam
Page 30 Stamped 333
225-225
A. J. Bennett 46 M Farmer $1600 $3190 La
Mary J. Bennett 37 F La
Mary A. Bennett 20 F La
Henry Bennett 18 M La
Bertis C. Bennett 15 M Tx
Sarah J. Bennett 12 F Tx
William Bennett 10 M Tx
A. J. Bennett 7 M Tx
Robert Bennett 5 M Tx
Major A. Bennett 1 M Tx


1880 Census
Adam J. Bennett Self M M W 65 La Farmer La La
Mary J. Bennett Wf M F W 58 SC Keeps House SC SC
Arch Bennett Son S M W 16 Tx Wks on Farm La SC
Alva Bennett Son S M W 11 Tx Wks on Farm La SC

Texas, Sabine, Precinct 5
FHL Film # 125535 NA Film # T9-1325 Page # 250C

Adam married Mary Jane Elizabeth Harvey on 1 Aug 1839 in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Mary (daughter of Seth Harvey and Zelotus Margaret Ann Boyd) was born on 17 Dec 1821 in Louisiana; died on 8 Mar 1901 in Pine Hill, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Bennett Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kay Parker McCary, in the transcription of the tombstone, writes that she was Born in Pitt Co., North Carolina, Moved to Texas Dec 1842 (Mary Jane Elizabeth Harvey - Daughter of Seth Harvey & Zelotus Margaret Ann Boyd - Married 1 Aug 1839 h Adam Jackson Bennett, Sr.) The 1880 census shows her state of birth as South Carolina, and early census records instead show her as being born in Louisiana.

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Precinct 5
Enumerated 14 Jun 1900
SD 8 ED 72 Sheet 15B
205-205
Bennett, Burtis Head W M Apr 1845 55 Wd Tx La La Farmer
Bennett, Mary J Mother W F Jan 1823 77 Wd La --- NC

Notes:

Married:
Virgie Speights, in OLD TIMERS OF SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS, in a column about Pearl Chambers Lord Greer, dated January 30, 1964, wrote that "Adam Bennett and Mary Jane Elizabeth Harvey, came with their slaves from Louisiana, just ahead of the sheriff. He was chasing them to take away their slaves in connection with some sort of lien connected with the estate of Mrs. Bennett's mother. They barely made it to Texas and safety in time to camp in the 'sand field' now known as "Bennet Field," just on the Texas side of the Sabine. The Louisiana authorities camped on the opposite side of the river before frustratedly returning home the next day. Then Adam staked his claim atop a nearby hill with gently sloping fields towards the river. The place is still called the "Bennett Place." There is a family graveyard nearby. The elder Bennetts had come to East Feliciana Parish from Alabama, and his father, a silversmith, had come from Germany." In a later article, this one profiling Abbie Della Bennett Travis, January 27, 1966, she added that the lien was due to "a matter of a few unpaid debts. The slaves were to be confiscated, so the Bennett's, their two children, and Zelotus Margaret Ann Boyd Harvey raced to the Sabine River and safety which they attained just before dark."

Notes:

"Allen Chamber's father was Henry (d 1842, the son of Wm Chambers, Amer Rev Veteran who rec'd a land grant in Warren Co, Ga. He d ca 1832, in Wilkinson Co Ga, leaving his widow Martha* who was on the 1850 census. The Allen Chambers family came to Sabine County in 1860, where he died Feb 5, 1884. His wife died Apr 29, 1878. Both are buried in the New Hope cemetery." White & Toole, SABINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SKETCHES AND GENEALOGICAL RECORDS. Virgie Speights wrote that the Chambers came from Georgia in the middle 1800's and settled on Chambers Hill, north of Milam, where they built a log cabin, in which they lived until they moved a mile or so further north, and built another cabin. Eventually they built a new huge, handhewn, square logged house, which was still standing when she wrote of it in the mid 1960's, and was owned by Elzie Chambers, who used the original home as a corn crib.

*Martha Chambers on 1850 Wilkinson Co Ga census is widow of Henry Chambers, and NOT the widow of his father William (Sr) Chambers. Martha, Henry's widow, lived until 1873. (Email from Earl Scott Chambers).

Earl Scott Chamber's line of descent follows:

-William Chambers and Elizabeth Patton

-William Chambers and Rebecca Stuckey (likely to be his 2d wife) (Henry, Joel and others descend from Williams first wife.....)

-William Chambers and Isabell Jane Garrett

-Lewis Morgan Chambers and Lillie Louise McCorkle

-Jessie Robert Chambers and Ella Horne

-Johnie Hue Chambers and Sadie Morris

-Earl Scott Chambers.

More about the Chambers family can be found here:

http://www.fogleman.net/Lord-Fogleman/documents/Greenberry-Lord-Family.pdf





(Research):
Census Listings:

1850 Census
Georgia, Wilkinson County, The Ninety Third Subdivision
Enumerated 28 Aug 1850
53-53
Martha Chambers and Children, born NC
54-54
John and Rebecca Chambers and children, born Ga
55-55
Allen Chambers 34 M Farmer 1000 Ga
Mary Chambers 30 F Ga
Thomas Chambers 12 M Ga
Martha Chambers 12 F Ga
Henry Chambers 11 M Ga
William Chambers 10 M Ga
Louellu Chambers 9 M Ga
Mary Chambers 7 F Ga
Lousan Chambers 5 F Ga
George W Chambers 4 M Ga
Frances E Chambers 3 F Ga
Levi Chambers 1 M Ga
Mary Davidson 70 F SC

1860 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Patroon Beat No. 5, PO Milam
Enumerated 1 July 1860
Pages 27 and 28 Stamped 332
Allen Chambers 49 M Farmer $--- $6035 Ga
Mary Chambers 45 F Ga
William Chambers 20 M Ga
L A Chamber 19 M Ga
Mary Chambers 17 F Ga
L A Chambers 14 F Ga
George Chambers 13 M Ga
Levi Chambers 12 M Ga
Winey Cambers 9 F Ga
Nathaniel D Chambers 6 M Ga
J. D. Chambers 4 M Ga

1870 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Beat No. 2, PO Sabine Town
Enumerated 23 July 1870
Page 4
334-334
Chambers, Allen 60 M W Farmer 3000 1000 Ga
Chambers, Mary 53 F W Keeping House Ga
Chambers, Levy 21 M W Ga
Chambers, Nathan 17 M W Ga
Chambers, Dillomortan 19 M W Ga
Chambers, Pickard A 18 f W Keeping House Tn
Chambers, Thomas 12 M W Ala

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Fourth Precinct
Enumerated 22 and 23 Jun 1880
Pg 12D SD 1 ED 86
104-104
Chambers, Allen W M 66 Farmer Ga NC NC
105-105
Levi Chambers W M 30 Farmer Ga Ga Ga
Rosa Chambers W F 27 Wf Keeping House Ga Ga Ga
Ira Chambers W M 6 Son Tx Ga Ga
Allen Chambers W M 4 Son Tx Ga Ga
Rush Chambers W M 2 Son Tx Ga Ga
Babe Chambers W M 4/12 Feb Son Tx Ga Ga
106-106
Chambers John W M W 24 Tx Ga Ga
Chambers, Mollie W F 20 Wf Tx Ga Ga
Chambers, Celie W F 4 Tx Tx Tx
Chambers, Joseph W M 1 Tx Tx Tx

Allen married Mary "Polly" Dixon on 18 Dec 1834 in Wilkinson County, Georgia. Mary was born on 20 Feb 1817 in Georgia; died on 29 Apr 1878 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Henry Bennett of Wilkinson Co, Mississippi m Polly Palmer, dau of Archilbald Palmer. Henry fought in the War of 1812, 10th and 20th Regt. of La. He d in 1833, leaving minor children: Adam Jackson Bennett, Chamberlain, Margaret, and Sarah Jane." SABINE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL RECORDS by White and Toole

Henry married Mary "Polly" Palmer. Mary was born before 1799; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said by White and Toole to be a daughter of Archibald Palmer and Hanna Carter (dob 25 Dec 1764, married 14 Nov 1782), and a granddaughter of Nehemiah Carter (born New Jersey, died 1814) and Rachel Parsons.

Notes:

Married:
White and Toole show that Henry and Mary were the parents of James Chamberlain Bennett, Margaret Bennett, Sarah Jane Bennett and Adam Jackson Bennett.

Seth married Zelotus Margaret Ann Boyd. Zelotus was born about 1801 in North Carolina; died on 21 Jun 1865 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Harvey Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her Headstone was engraved Z M A Smith, Died 1865,

Inscription:
"Age 64 years ? Rest mother rest in quiet sleep while friends in sorrow over thee weep"

Per photo and transcription at FindAGrave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64877207

(Research):
Census Listings:

1860 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Patroon Beat No 5, PO Milam
Enumerated 6 July 1860
Pages 29 and 30
224-224
ZMA Smith 59 F Farmer 400 671 NC
Margaret Allen 34 F La
W.H. Harvey 21 M Farmer LA
ZMA Smith 8 F Tx
MAA " 5 F Tx
Mary E. Allen 1 F Tx