M. Bennett

M. Bennett is buried in Squires Cemetery in Madison Township. The stone reads: M. Bennett, age 83, died July 2, 1815, had 11 children, 68 grandchildren, and 71 great grandchildren. The age and death date would place M. Bennett as being born around 1732.

The many Bennetts of Madison and Harrison Townships appear to be descendants of the same pioneer family that located in the area in 1803, before Ohio was a state.

A Bennett researcher, Dee Morgan Mauk, suggests that Charles Bennett and Martha Collins Bennett were the parents of the Bennetts who were the early Scioto County pioneers. The stone in Squires Cemetery may well be that of Martha Collins Bennett, wife of Charles Bennett. No stone has ever been found for Charles Bennett.

A letter written by Henry Clay Lantz in 1941, lends credibility to Mr. Mauk's research. Mr. Lantz [1863-1866] writes that the "elder Mrs. Bennett died in the lowlands of the wilderness due to the rigors of the frontier wildness lowland." It is well documented that the Thaddeus Bennett and Joseph Bennett families tried to settle along the Little Scioto River in the area that is Sciotoville, but flooding and mosquitos made the lowlands undesirable.