I6288: Thomas BENNETT (22 Sep 1805

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Mrs. J. P. Morris of Kentwood, La. examined, copied and submitted this record. She states that the original entries were apparently made in 1864. Abel W. Hodges, born 1831 is an 18 year old son in the 1850 census of St. Helena Parish, in the household numbered 136, that of John Hodges, 67, born in S. C. Thomas Bennett, she says is probably the son of Reuben, Jr. (See Thru The Years, by Morris, p. 54.)

Thomas Bennett born 22 Sept. 1805, married 11 March 1824 Nancy Sinks, born 25 March 1808. Their children:

Amanda Melvina Bennett b. 25 Jan. 1827 m. 5 June 1851 John M. Loflin who died in Peace 9 Sept. 1853 aged 27 years one month.

Amanda M. Loflin married second 22 Oct. 1857 Willie J. Whittington, of whom the record says, "Killed at Battle of Sharpsburg in Maryland on the 17th day Sept. 1862. He volunteered in the service of his country on the 7th of July 1861 in the 9th Regt. La. Vol. and was one of Stonewall Jackson's men and was with him in the many battles fought up to the time of his death. He was 27 years 5 months and 7 days old. He died true to his country and true to his God."

William James Bennett b. 4 June 1829, married 6 Oct. 1864 Celia Ann Matthews.

Thomas Pendleton Bennett b. 30 Oct. 1831; died 20 Jan. 1834.

Mary Ann Bennett b. 14 Apr. 1835 m. 7 June 1855 Abel W. Hodges, b. 28 Dec.1831. (The first four of these children in original handwriting, the last two added later.)

a. Thomas Juan Hodges b. 16 May 1856 (other records give his wife as Mary Symantha Mack.)
b. Eliza Nancy Hodges b. 19 May 1858.
c. John Sinks Hodges b. 28 Nov. l860; d. 3 Dec. 1863; 3 yrs. 4 da. We cannot bring him back but we can go to him.
d. Mary Melvina Hodges b. 25 Sept. 1864.
e. Emma Elizabeth Jane Hodges b. 4 Apr. 1867.
f. Silas Jefferson Hodges b. 2 July 1870.

Jesse Thomas Bennett b. 16 Aug. 1837; d. 28 Sept. 1841.

Martha Davidson Bennett b. 7 Mar. 1840 m. "thury" Dec. 1865 William Jasper Trotter.
a. Samuella Eliza Trotter b. 9 July 1867.
b. Mary Ophelia Elizabeth Trotter b. 16 Sept. 1869.

Samuel Jacob Watson Bennett b. 9 Aug. m. 30 Jan. 1868 Amanda Jane Brown; d. 30 Jan. 1923.
a. Jessie Catherine Bennett b. 21 July 1867.
b. Thomas Jehu Bennett b. 28 July 1870.

Emily Catherine Bennett b. 16 June 1845; m. 20 Feb. 1868 Thomas A. Baasfield
(?). a. Emmit Eugene Brassfield (?) (handwriting not clear as to spelling) b. 18 Dec 1868.
Ora Elizabeth Green Bennett b. 20 Dec. 1847; d. 24 Sept. 1868; m. 12 Mar. 1868 George H. Brakefield (?).

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"Capt. Louis Augustus Whilden, one of five brothers to serve the Confederacy, was wounded 139 years ago in the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Va., and died three months later in a hospital on the outskirts of Richmond.

Whilden's local descendants had assumed he was buried somewhere in Virginia. Then, in 1998, someone digging through files in Columbia discovered an obituary from the Charleston Daily Courier saying Whilden had been laid to rest in the family plot at Wappetaw Cemetery, one of East Cooper's oldest graveyards. The researcher passed along the word.

Last fall, Whilden's descendants in McClellanville started working on securing a gravestone for the cemetery, though they don't know exactly where he is buried.

On Saturday, they and others dedicated a gravestone and Confederate iron cross marker at the cemetery in a ceremony that featured a riderless horse, a symbol of Whilden's cavalry service, in addition to some re-enactors, a musket salute and the singing of the hymn "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand." Whilden reportedly asked for the hymn to be sung to him while on his deathbed.

The ceremony underscored, to a degree, a much greater story of a family whose roots are embedded in the sandy soil and salty creeks and marshes of the area once known as the parishes of Christ Church and St. James Santee.

The Whildens were among a group of 52 Congregationalists who fled Massachusetts in 1696. Their ship wrecked near Cape Fear, N.C., and the Indians who rescued them led them to the area near the Wando River and Seewee Bay.

The group founded Wappetaw Congregational Church on the grounds where Wappetaw Cemetery is located, near See Wee restaurant on U.S. Highway 17. The church was the precursor of Mount Pleasant Presbyterian and McClellanville's New Wappetaw Presbyterian Church.

The Whildens, who mixed with local French Huguenots, had a hand in settling the villages of Mount Pleasant and McClellanville.

Elias Whilden was one of the founders of Mount Pleasant Academy in 1809, and in 1837 helped Andrew Hibben, Joshua Toomer and Samuel Venning lay out the villages of Mount Pleasant and Greenwich, both of which now constitute the area known as the Old Village.

Elias Whilden Jr. served as mayor, then called "intendant," of Mount Pleasant just before the Civil War. His sons became Confederate soldiers, perhaps the most famous being Maj. John "Johnnie" Whilden. He was among The Citadel cadets who fired on the Union steamship Star of the West and Fort Sumter in January and April, respectively, of 1861. He was killed Sept. 6, 1862 in the second Battle of Manassas.

Louis Augustus Whilden joined the Confederacy on April 15, 1861, at age 28, as a second lieutenant in Capt. Thomas Pinckney's Company of Independent Mounted Rifleman, S.C. Volunteers.
He later joined the fifth S.C. Cavalry Regiment and was a captain when he got shot May 16, 1864, in a battle in which Confederate forces kept a Union force from moving up the James River in an attempt to attack Richmond.

The effort to put up a marker for Louis Augustus Whilden started last fall with 92-year-old J.O. McClellan Jr. of McClellanville. He is Whilden's great-grandson.

"All my life, I assumed he was buried in Virginia," said McClellan, who vividly recalls visits during his boyhood by Whilden's widow, Sarah Claudia Morrison. "When I found out he was buried there (in Wappetaw Cemetery), I thought about (getting the gravestone) a few years, but never did anything about it."

McClellan told his daughter Wilhelmina McClellan Couch that he wanted to get a gravestone for Whilden. Couch, a member of United Daughters of the Confederacy, pulled together the documentation for an official marker and submitted it to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bud Hill, the director of the Village Museum in McClellanville, said the gravestone is overdue for a man whose family contributed greatly to the community.

"These were the movers and shakers of early Mount Pleasant and McClellanville," Hill said."

My Southern Family

Thomas BENNETT

22 Sep 1805 - ____

ID Number: I6288

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Mary Ann BUCKHOLTS

ABT 1790 - ____

ID Number: I23753

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Joseph Calloway HODGES

30 Sep 1843 - 24 Mar 1910

ID Number: I27074

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Anne LANE

ABT 1650 - ____

ID Number: I52278

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Robert "Pops" MASON

ABT 1900 - ____

ID Number: I14470

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David D. MOTLEY

ABT 1810 - ____

ID Number: I67816

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Thomas STONE

ABT 1680 - ____

ID Number: I19837

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Niles C. SWARTZ

30 Jun 1866 - 9 Feb 1881

ID Number: I36357

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Exonia "Exoney" TURNER

5 Jun 1771 - 1825

ID Number: I71732

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Jonathan WHILDEN Sr.

1688 - ABT 1737

ID Number: I75053

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