Hamilton Wayne Bennet

Hamilton Wayne Bennet

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• Birth: Aug 8 1854 - Hannibal, Ralls, Missouri, United States
• Death: July 21 1927 - Monument, El Paso, Colorado, United States
• Parents: JOHN BRADBURY BENNET, Susan Ann BENNET (born Pettyjohn)
• Spouses: Fannie Coit Bennet (born Elliot), Elizabeth Beatty Elliott
• Children: Edna Cook (born Bennet), Coit Jones (born Bennet), Helen Fulker (born Bennett)
• Siblings: Columbia Jane Shepherd (born Bennet), Washington Thorpe Bennet, Sabina Lois Bennet, Byron Lygurgus Bennet Sr, William Adams Bennet, Cadwell Ransom Bennet, Lizzie Shock (born Bennet)

Biography

Hamilton was born in 1854 and was one of 8 children. He attended public school and Otoe Universality in Missouri and then two years at a university in Ann Arbor Michigan. As a young man he obtained a job at the Denver Post Office under his uncle Hiram Bennet as a railway mail carrier. He then freighted ties out of the mountains to Leadville for the Rio Grande Rail Road. He also ran sheep on the plains of eastern Colorado. He married Fannie Elliott whose father was R. C. Elliott, one of the early pioneers of Monument who owned a store, a carriage and wagon repository on Front Street. Shortly after Fannie and Hamilton Bennet were married, they moved to Calvert County, Kansas to make their fortune raising wheat. They starved out and returned to Monument in 1896, shortly after the birth of their youngest daughter, Helen; They had two other daughters: Edna and Coit. Mr. Bennet bought the ranch from his father-in-law, R. C. Elliott where he lived the rest of his life. In 1909 his wife died. In 1913 he was elected to represent his district in the state congress. He married his sister-in-law, Elizabeth, in 1917. He passed away in 1927.

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bennet-872 cites
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKWP-13W : accessed 8 July 2017), Hamilton W Bennet, Greenland, Douglas, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 15, sheet 3B, family 53, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 114; FHL microfilm 1,374,127.
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=170822948&re...
• His obituary. I don't know what paper it was cut from. You can find a copy of it at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/113380....