The following obituary has been contributed by Margaret Kelley

From the Home Journal, Winchester, Tennessee, Thursday, April 18, 1878: Death notice of Luvinia Featherston Parks Bennett.

"We are very sorry to announce the death of a very estimable lady of our town. Mrs. Lou Bennett, wife of J.K. Bennett who died yesterday (Sabbath) morning at about 2 o'clock after a brief illness of typhoid pneumonia. Mrs. Bennett was the daughter of R.W. Featherston, deceased, and was married to Mr. Bennett fr. 1873. She was a devoted wife, a kind and affectionate mother and stepmother, and a consistent member of the Christian Church. She leaves a husband, two children and many friends to mourn her loss. Her remains will be interred in the cemetery at this place. Mrs. Bennett was in the forty-first year of her age."

The blurb was written on Monday the 15th, and the paper was published/dated on the following Thursday. I went back to the Decherd City Cemetery, which is across from the location of the JK Bennett house at that time. (the house was demolished in the mid 40s to allow the new road to be reconfigured). There is room in the Bennett plot for other graves, and perhaps she was buried there, which would have been logical and sound like the intention. But there is no stone with her name on it. - Margaret Kelley.

From the Home Journal, Winchester, Thursday, October 21, 1875, pg 3:Death notice of John M. Bennett.

“Mr. John M. Bennett one of the oldest citizens of Franklin County died last Sunday night at this residence near Hockerville. He was over eighty years old.

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