Submitted by Sandy (Whalen) Bauer
Sandy write: My grandparents, Rosco Vern Whalen and Maude Bly Butler and Maude's parents, Washington Webster Butler and Loucetta Bennett are in the photo as well as my father as a 6 year old. Many of the families were from Wayne Co.
If you have any information on this Bennett family, please email me. The actual reunion picture is about 36" wide and 8" tall. So, to be able to see the faces well, it has been broken into two pictures. I have added names to my family members. Since posting this photo, I have been contacted by others who have seen their family members in the photo. I hope to hear from more family members who can identify people in the photo. I also have 1929 and 1930 reunion photos which are posted on this site as well. (I have the original photos which I scanned for posting online).
We believe all the people in the photo descend from William and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Bennett. They married 19 Jul 1815 in New London, IN (now Saluda Twp, Jefferson Co, IN) and Elizabeth died in Scott Co, IN and William and sons migrated to IL. Andrew Wilson Bennett and brother John J. Bennett first moved to Davis Co, IA as young unmarried men and then returned home to Scott Co, IN where they married their wives. Andrew married Philena Jennings and their caughter Loucetta (Bennett) Butler wrote in a small tablet (which I have inherited), "We Bennetts came to Illinois in 1866". I also inherited two letters Philena (Jennings) Bennett wrote in 1863 and 1863. John Bennett later found more letters written in the 1860's between brothers, John J. and Andrew Wilson Bennett, and has scanned them and shared with me as well. I will be happy to share these with any other Bennett descendants.
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