Bennett.Susan.Stringer.1904.Livingston.OBIT

Susan Stringer Bennett 1 Dec 1904
  Crittenden Record-Press 2 Dec 1904

       Real Daughter of Revolution

Smithland, KY.  Nov. 28 - Mrs. Susan Stringer Bennett, the
last Daughter of American Revolution in Kentucky, and one of 
the few in the country, died at her home five miles from here
yesterday.  She was 94 years old last April, and until a few
years ago, when she sustained severe injuries from a fall, was in
splendid health and very active.  Mrs. Bennett's father,
Leonard Stringer, was born in Georgia in 1760, and entered the 
Revolutionary army, and drove a provision wagon until old enough
to enter regular service.  A grant of land of 287 acres in
Washington County, Ga., was given him for his services by Edward
Telfair, Captain, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Georgia.

Mrs. Bennett claimed her father was intimately acquainted with 
George Washington, and that she had often seen him riding with 
Andrew Jackson.  She remembered well when her half-brother and
stepbrother returned from the War of 1812.  The bed in which she
spent the last few months of her life is over a century old, and 
the old log cabin in which she resided had been her home since she
entered it as a bride over 70 years ago.  Mrs. Bennett was the
grandmother of Zed A. Bennett, County Superintendent of Schools of
Livingston Co.



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