Jacob Bennett, father of two prominent New Mexico sons
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Bennett as lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant-general of U.S. volunteers [1][2]. In early 1874, Bennett and his wife traveled by stage from Kansas City to Las Cruces, where they lived several months before moving to Silver City to visit their children [1][2]. After a two-year stay, they returned to their home in Marysville, Missouri, where Bennett died at age ninety-two [1][2].
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- Jacob Bennett, father of Judge Cā¦ (1891)Jacob Bennett, father of Judge C. Bennett and Col. J. F. Bennett of Las Cruces, recently died at his home in Marysville, Missouri, at the ripe old age of ninety-two years. The following short biography is cliā¦
- Silver City Enterprise ā 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) ā 1891-05-01 (1891)steer money that is put into Cadillacs would fence all of the early -day cemeteries that now look like trash piles. ā Rhea Kuykendall. H. I. Peck brought out a car load of brood hogs from Kansas, which haveā¦