Bennett Family Cemetery Anderson County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails

Traditions and History of Anderson County by Louise Ayer Vandiver, pg 174 -175 

"Such a graveyard lies on the road from Anderson to Carpenter's Mill, a clump of trees across a cotton field. When the thicket is penetrated one finds four neat head stones bearing the name Bennett. Elisha Bennett died September 30th, 1833, age 66 years; Sarah Bennett died November 27th, 1828, age 54 years; Egloe Bennett died March, 1828 age 18 years; Mitchell Bennett died January 20th, 1827, age 10 years. Perfect strangers to the intruder, yet there speaks the sorrows of a long past day---a father and mother and two sons. The little boy died in January, 1827, his eighteen-year-old brother in March, 1828, and the mother unable to bear the double loss, follows them the next November. The father lingers a few years, and probably they were sad years, then he, too, is gone.

There was some one left, however, who did not forget. Those stones are distinctly modern, they have been put there in recent years. Lying on the ground not far from the graves, is a rough native rock, still bearing signs of having been inscribed, and "age 66 years" is still decipherable. Other graves there are in this old burying ground, but the rough boulders at their heads, if they ever bore any inscription, show no remains of it now. Sometimes there is not even the rude headstone, only a sunken place in the ground tells that once a human body was placed there. The Bennetts were early settlers, the name occurs every once in a while in the study of the county history, and after years, one accidentally stumbles on the fact that a member of the family went to New Orleans and got rich, and visited Anderson along in the 80s, that of course, was when he put up the stones in memory of his parents and his brothers. It is believed that one of the other graves may be that of a Revolutionary soldier, father of the Elisha Bennett whose grave is marked."

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